Help Wanted: Four Intriguing Edu-Jobs
by Frederick M. Hess • Sep 3, 2010 at 8:44 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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Despite the nation's tough job market, the news is brighter for those in the education sector. In the last week or so, I've gotten word of four terrific edu-jobs--Dean of the Hunter College School of Education, a program officer with the Walton Family Foundation, a researcher focused on innovation at the Gates Foundation, and a director of research and evaluation at Teach For America (and this doesn't even include the new hiring taking place at Fordham, Bellwether, and Brookings). Check it out:
Hunter College is looking for a Dean of the School of Education to fill the huge shoes that the dashing David Steiner left behind when he became New York's commissioner of education. The Dean oversees 73 tenured or tenure-track faculty and more than 200 other faculty. Particularly appealing about this job is the chance to build upon the heralded Teacher U program launched under Steiner and headed up by all-world CEO Norman Atkins. For my money, Teacher U, product of a path breaking collaboration with KIPP, Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, and TFA, is one of the most intriguing teacher ed efforts going. Hunter is looking for an academic,
