Thursday, June 17, 2010

Blogs | Alliance for Excellent Education

Blogs | Alliance for Excellent Education

Alliance for Excellent Education Kicks Off Digital Media Strategy
Featuring New Blog, Facebook Page, and Twitter Account
Washington, DC – The Alliance for Excellent Education has launched a new blog as part of a comprehensive digital media effort. The blog, High School Soup, will cover news and policy information related to the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, theCommon Core State Standards Initiative, Race to the Top, teacher preparation, literacy, the nation’s lowest performing high schools, and a number of other issues tied to the Alliance’s mission.
“The Alliance is proud to have become one of the go-to-resources for high school policy information and we aim to share our wealth of knowledge with others so that we can all work together to help every child be a successful high school graduate,” said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance and former governor of West Virginia. “With this new blog we hope to provide up-to-date information on the challenges and opportunities facing today’s secondary schools in a way that is easy to understand and to-the-point.”
High School Soup is a collaborative effort among members of the Alliance staff and will feature analyses of policy issues, relevant news updates at the national and state levels, guest bloggers, interviews with policy and education experts, and videos and photographs from recent events and initiatives.
In addition to the launch of the new blog, the Alliance has also created a Facebook® page and a Twitter® account to better connect with its audiences.
· To read the Alliance’s blog, High School Soup, go to www.all4ed.org/blog.
· To become a fan of the Alliance’s Facebook® page, go to http://bit.ly/b2nUuH.
· To follow the Alliance on Twitter®, go to http://twitter.com/All4Ed.
“Through these efforts, the Alliance hopes to connect and interact with a much larger and more diverse audience in order to build support for federal high school reform and to work together for the betterment of all students,” said Wise. “We hope to generate a persistent two-way conversation and look forward to hearing our audiences’ questions, views, and feedback.”