How can we give students options when their public schools are failing them?
What exactly is NCLB and how is it effecting our education system?
How do we ensure that all children are prepared to enter kindergarten?
Why are we struggling to recruit and retain teachers? What reforms do the candidates propose to solve the teacher shortage and improve their working conditions?
With a struggling economy, should lawmakers place further emphasis on federally-funded school-to-work programs? Moreover, do they work?
Who are the key players changing education today?
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP)
Michelle Rhee: Founder of New Teacher Project
“The war is won in the classroom. It’s all about leadership.”
Disruptive Innovation: The New Teacher Project is “a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and to creating environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement.” They approach this in four ways:
- Teaching Fellows: They partner with school districts and states to establish innovative programs that recruit, select and train outstanding teachers.
- Staffing Initiatives: Through Model Staffing Initiatives they demonstrate how schools can establish effective teacher hiring practices and put in place model strategies that can work for all schools in the district.
- Training and Certification: TNTP have district and/or university partners to encourage their teachers to have the maximum impact in minimum time.
- Policy and Research: They conduct targeted research to identify the obstacles that school systems face to hiring the best teachers possible.
Potential to Serve: All students can benefit from quality teachers!
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