Preschool Accountability Goes High Stakes
Over the last couple weeks, the education policy world have been busy including Waiting for Superman, the President talking about education on a new show, NBC launching its take on education, processing the DC Mayoral election, the release of a performance pay evaluation. Given all of this, it is not surprising that an important federal policy change proposal flew in under the radar.
Hopefully this post will help bring it the K-12 community’s attention. A while ago, I was comparing preschool and charter school research and writing about the lack of compelling research supporting generic preschool programs, specifically the lack of research supporting the Head Start program. It looks like the Dept of
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Looking for a new job with a cool title? Here it is. You could be the Director of Knowledge Innovation. Now that is a title that could be challenging to live up to. The Stupski Foundation has started a fascinating partnership to support state level innovation. It has created an Innovation Lab Network – a consortium of 6 states – to build state level R&D capacity. The project will develop a sector-wide