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Digital Learning Day: KnowledgeWorks, others celebrate with robust Ohio agenda
KnowledgeWorks, its subsidiary, Ohio Education Matters, and leading digital advocates will lead a robust set of activities on Wednesday, Feb.
KnowledgeWorks, Riley Institute poised to develop innovative high schools along I-95 Corridor
Clarendon 1 and Colleton County School Districts can begin the process of adding two new innovative high schools during the 2012-2013 academic school year through a $2.9 million competitive Investing in Innovation (i3) grant, the South Carolina Board of Education heard today from KnowledgeWorks, which worked with the Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University to help win the grant.
National education think tank lauds Strive cradle to career efforts
Respected D.C.-based education think-tank, Education Sector, praised the cradle to career efforts of the Strive Partnership in a report released Tuesday on shared accountability titled "Striving for Success: Shared Accountability and School Improvement."
The Strive Partnership Releases Fourth Annual Report Card
CINCINNATI – (Nov. 16, 2011) -- The Strive Partnership released its fourth annual report today, which offers an update on the encouraging progress being made to improve student achievement and growth, cradle to career, in the cities of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport. In fact, of the 34 measures of student achievement on which the partnership is focused, 81 percent are trending in the right direction versus 74 percent last year and 68 percent two years ago.
Ohio Issue 2: Different perspectives make for lively debate
National education leaders – Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and Lily Eskelsen of the National Education Association – shared different perspectives on the failure of voters to approve Ohio Issue 2 during a breakfast sponsored by Ohio Education Matters and KnowledgeWorks with the Ohio Education Service Center Association.
Voters repealed the measure that would have overhauled Ohio's collective bargaining law for public employees by 61 percent to 39 percent of the vote. Eskelsen, a vice president at the NEA, said the outcome of the vote was being watched closely in Ohio because "we are all Ohio," she said. "We are not ideologues. We think you are looking for revenue in the wrong place when you go after employees in the public sector."