Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Kristin Blagg In 2009, the non-profit education reform organization TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) published The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act Upon Teacher Effectiveness. This report spurred the redesign of many state and district teacher evaluation systems to more rigorously assess and address teacher effectiveness. Last week, the New […]
By David Thomsen “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations… The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it.” -President Obama’s Inauguration Address, January 21, 2013 […]