Monitoring and Evaluation at Save the Children
This summer I am working with Save the Children’s monitoring and evaluation team in the El...
Read Moreby John Dinning | Jul 4, 2014 | Health & Social Policy, International Development, Philanthropy & Non-Profit Organizations, Summer Internships | 1 |
This summer I am working with Save the Children’s monitoring and evaluation team in the El...
Read Moreby Francoise Van Keuren | Jun 27, 2014 | Economics & Trade Policy, Education Policy, International Development, Summer Internships | 0 |
At the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, I will board a train travelling 12 hours from Belo...
Read Moreby Ramzey Zbeida | May 2, 2013 | Education Policy | 0 |
President Lyndon Johnson said, “Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” As students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, President Johnson’s commitment to...
Read Moreby Michael Gaudini | Feb 11, 2013 | Education Policy | 0 |
When Ross Perot embarked on his crusade to fix the Texas education system in the 1980s, he said the state’s schools excelled in only three areas: drill...
Read Moreby Bryce Adams | Feb 11, 2013 | Education Policy | 3 |
Last week, the Statesman delivered good news for Texas: STAAR passing rates jumped after a recent round of retakes. This is a big win not only for Texas schoolchildren and teachers, but also for state policy. The...
Read Moreby Josh Haney | Feb 15, 2012 | Education Policy | 0 |
With school districts across Texas rallying against drastic budget cuts, many elected officials and critics of public schools have tried to cast educators as being responsible for the situation they’re currently facing....
Read Moreby Tim Regal | Nov 9, 2011 | Education Policy | 0 |
As the debt ceiling debate fades, a new reminder of a dangerous collective malady emerges with the ill-defined protests that started in New York and have spread throughout the country. The protests, despite the message the...
Read Moreby Kellyann McClain | Oct 12, 2011 | Education Policy | 0 |
Disrupting class used to land kids in the principal’s office or detention. In Texas, however, more and more children are facing criminal prosecution, criminal records and hefty fines for acting out in school....
Read Moreby Josh Haney | Oct 12, 2011 | Education Policy | 0 |
We’re all aware of the beating public education took this past legislative session. A total of $5.3 billion was cut, representing the first time Texas deliberately underfunded its schools. As a result, thousands of...
Read Moreby Josh Haney | Aug 31, 2011 | Education Policy | 0 |
Charter schools are quickly becoming an important piece of both national and state-level education reform efforts. They’ve been praised in movies like “Waiting For Superman” as one of the few hopes for...
Read Moreby Josh Haney | Apr 6, 2011 | Education Policy | 0 |
Frustrated by rising costs and stagnant achievement levels on standardized tests, American politicians and media-savvy education reformers have over the past several years pushed for a complete overhaul of this...
Read Moreby Josh Haney | Mar 2, 2011 | Education Policy | 0 |
As Texas legislators and education officials are scrambling to find ways to reduce school spending, a few of the politically savvy ones are spinning the budget crisis as a means to “reinvent public education in...
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