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Alan Blankstein on the national scene

July 1st, 2009 2 Comments

SAN DIEGO— On July 2, Alan Blankstein, president of the HOPE Foundation and award winning author of Failure Is Not an Option, will be the featured speaker following Education Secretary Duncan at the National Education Association’s (NEA) 2009 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in San Diego, Calif.  
 
HOPE—Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education—has documented success [...]

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What does school reform look like when the NEA agrees with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce??

June 2nd, 2009 No Comments

When the nation’s largest union agrees to join the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in their recommendations for school reform, you know things are getting hard to sort out. 
I find the following news release and the report from The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce to  be curious.
On March 10th, two of the [...]

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