Gates pushes district-charter compacts - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The Gates Foundation is making a pitch to Santa Clara County and Sacramento to join the next round of 12 to 15 school districts and high-performing charter schools nationwide that agreeing formally to collaborate. The Foundation is offering $100,000 in negotiations money, plus the possibility of receiving several million dollars to carry out the terms [...]
Teach For America at 20: Add a year of training to the model - by Megan Hopkins
This year marks Teach For America’s 20th anniversary. The nonprofit serves as one of the most prominent educational innovations in the last two decades, recruiting graduates from top universities and placing them for two years in classrooms across urban and rural communities in the United States. I was one such recruit. After five weeks of intensive [...]
