Robertson Foundation, 2002-2010
Started by well-known hedge fund manager Julian Robertson and his family in the mid-1990s, the the Robertson Foundation supports a variety of forms of school choice, organizations focused on human...
View ArticleThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Teacher Quality – An Overview
Over at EdWeek and the Gates Foundation’s blog, Anthony Cody and foundation leaders are exchanging letters about a variety of topics. Vicki Phillips recently posted about the use of student data in...
View ArticleNew Kids on the Block: the Laura and John Arnold Foundation
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) is a relatively new foundation. Established in late 2008, the foundation supported only a handful of education-related organizations/causes during its first...
View ArticleArne Duncan, Billionaire Matchmaker?
From Eli Broad’s recent book, The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking1: Facebook came to my attention in a personal way in 2010, when U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan...
View ArticleLaura and John Arnold Foundation and New Jersey?
Recently, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF), one of the newer education-related foundations, announced $15 million in new grants to New Orleans education causes. According to EdWeek’s Sean...
View ArticleLEE’s Policy Leadership Academy
A few days ago, the American Prospect posted an article titled Teach for America’s Deep Bench, by James Cersonsky. The focus of the article is Leadership for Educational Equity, a 501c4 associated with...
View ArticleStand for Children’s 2012 Washington State Election Spending
During the 2012 election cycle, Stand for Children spent about $750,000 on Washington state elections. The Washington Education Association (WEA) spent around $2 million. Most of Stand’s money came...
View ArticleMichelle Rhee’s Salary and SFER Funding – Some (Minor) Corrections
A recent Washington Post article about Michelle Rhee makes the following claim: Rhee, as the chief executive of StudentsFirst, which employs 124 and is based in Sacramento, earns an annual salary of...
View ArticleJaquelin Hume Foundation, 2001-2010
The Jaquelin Hume Foundation is one of the many conservative foundations operating in the United States. Some of the foundation’s work is directly related to education, and much of the foundation’s...
View ArticleA Guide to Writing Right-Wing, Anti-Common Core Articles and Blog Posts
Step One: Catchy Title The title is an important part of any anti-Common Core piece. A popular choice is to incorporate the word “rotten,” which too many just can’t pass up (here, here, here, here, and...
View ArticleA Poor Defense of CCSS
Alan Golston, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s US programs, recently posted some brief comments about the Common Core State Standards. For what it’s worth, I don’t think the...
View Article#AskMichelle
During the 24 hours after Michelle Rhee offered to answer questions on Twitter, a total of 1,431 tweets included the hashtag #AskMichelle.1 The Washington Post and Salon commented on the reaction,...
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