Monthly Archives: August 2008
Raise Your Hand Texas Sends Enthusiastic Educators to PPE
By Jill Anderson 08/27/2008 01:03 pm | Add a CommentThis summer, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT) — an education coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional Education. Read More…
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The Global Achievement Gap
By Kevin Conlon 08/20/2008 01:06 pm | Add a CommentThe Global Achievement Gap, a new book by Tony Wagner, codirector of the Change Leadership Group, examines the U.S. education system in the 21st century, considers why American students are falling behind their international peers, and proposes methods to begin to correct the downward slide. Read More…
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Remembering Kalpna Mistry, Ed.M.’07
By admin 08/15/2008 01:13 pm | Add a CommentAlthough it had been a year since Kalpna Mistry, Ed.M.’07, left Appian Way — her enthusiasm, thoughtfulness, and dedication to education made a lasting impression on the HGSE community. On August 3, Mistry died while participating in a Fulbright-Hayes study tour in the Philippines Read More…
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Willie Presents at the 99th NAACP Conference
By admin 08/13/2008 01:18 pm | Add a CommentProfessor Charles Willie spoke to the education workshop at the recent convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read More…
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ExEl Team Guides Chief State School Officers at Annual Summer Meeting
By Matt Soergel 08/13/2008 01:15 pm | Add a CommentChief state school officers are pulled in every direction, juggling competing demands from the federal government, governors, legislatures, state boards of education, teachers’ unions, parents, and media. Read More…
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Mississippi Educators Find Tools to Build Confidence at HISL
By Jill Anderson 08/06/2008 01:20 pm | Add a CommentProfessor Robert Peterkin was a bit taken aback when he received a phone call from the Phil Hardin Foundation about sending 23 educators from a Meridian, Mississippi school district to the Harvard Institute for School Leadership (HISL). Read More…
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