02 Dec How using big data can drive big value… to economic opportunity
Google CEO Eric Schmidt estimates that humans now create as much information every two days as we did from the beginning of civilization up until 2003. With every hour of...
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21 Nov Sequestration 101
Introduction Sequestration is an across the board cut to federal discretionary spending set to occur on January 2, 2013. It could negatively affect every major federal discretionary spending program and fundamentally change...
15 Nov Measuring Student Growth Means More Than Measuring Student Growth: Teacher Voice Helping Administrators Better Understand a Teacher’s Role.
In most states across the country, work is underway to incorporate student growth measures into a teacher’s evaluation. In concept, it’s hard to argue that this shouldn’t happen. In application,...
05 Oct Unintended Consequences of Education Reform
“The law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.” My Great...
20 Aug Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow Secures Passage of Groundbreaking Fine Arts Assessment in Tennessee
Monday, August 20th, 2012 Hope Street Group, a national bipartisan organization whose mission is to convene the best leaders and practitioners across political aisles and collaborate with them to drive economic...
15 Aug Hope Street Group Adds Vice President of Education
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 Hope Street Group is pleased to announce Daniel Cruce as the new Vice President of Education. Mr. Cruce is the former Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff...