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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Washington Post Highlights Student Gains

The Washington Post today has an important story on recent gains by at-risk students in the Washington area. The story explains how test scores for disadvantaged students have risen over the past six years. We know that increased accountability, testing...

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Strong American Schools and the Education Equality Project Call for Education Questions in Presidential Debates

With Presidential and Vice Presidential debates coming up, I wanted to let you of the efforts Strong American Schools is making, in cooperation with the Education Equality Project, to have education as a priority in the debates. Over the past...

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Washington Aims to Improve Its Local Schools

National Public Radio recently reported on two school districts, Denver and Washington, D.C., who have taken innovative approaches to improving teacher quality. Being from Colorado, I’ve talked about the Denver school system in the past, so I wanted to briefly...

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Voices from the Campaign

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A Proposal for Teacher Pay in Ohio

With Ohio getting more and more attention these days, I wanted to highlight the recent policy brief from the Buckeye Institute on teacher pay. The detailed report addresses one of the top challenges for schools in Ohio and the nation:...

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Arrival in Denver

After a mere three hour flight from DC, we arrived last night in Denver for the start of the Democratic convention. Over the course of this week we'll be hosting multiple events in the "Mile High City" highlighting the need...

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Posting from RAGBRAI -- Day One

As a part of ED in '08's field efforts in Iowa, the campaign sponsored a team for RAGBRAI, the [Des Moines] Register's Annual Great Bike Race Across Iowa. Throughout the race, we'll have postings from our riders and field team...

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Featured Event

Gov. Romer at the Denver launch

In mid-August, Strong American Schools Chairman Gov. Roy Romer was joined by current Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, former Gov. Dick Lamm and former Sen. Hank Brown to challenge national leaders to put forth real solutions to fix America’s education system.

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