September 2011
UPCOMING EVENT
Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement
On September 27, The Hamilton Project will host a forum in Washington, DC highlighting new policy ideas and perspectives on how to improve student performance in K-12 education. As part of the event, the Project will release three new policy proposals by outside experts focusing on the use of incentives in education, opportunities for organizational changes to improve performance, and a new approach to accountability for teachers and students. The program will conclude with a discussion on the path forward in education reform with Teach for America Founder and CEO Wendy Kopp and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, moderated by David Leonhardt, D.C. bureau chief of the New York Times.
AZ Lawmakers Try to Ban Undocumented Students from Public School
Written by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona lawmakers are considering two bills that would block undocumented immigrants’ access to education to an even greater degree than current state law. SB 1611 — sponsored by state Senate President Russell Pearce (R) — bans undocumented students from enrolling in Kindergarten through 12th grade and attending community [...]
Pay Teachers More
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF From the debates in Wisconsin and elsewhere about public sector unions, you might get the impression that we’re going bust because teachers are overpaid. That’s a pernicious fallacy. A basic educational challenge is not that teachers are raking it in, but that they are underpaid. If we want to compete with [...]