Our News & Announcements
February 25, 2009
Caprice Young, CEO of Distance Learning, is the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's newest board member.
June 17, 2009
Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism, Thomas B. Fordham Institute book, wins award
April 22, 2009
Fordham Public Affairs Director Amy Fagan will be in attendance at the Education Writers Assocation's 62 Annual National Seminar, here in DC from April 30-May 2. A former Washington Times politics and education reporter, Amy looks forward to catching up with colleagues and chatting about trends in education and journalism. If you're visiting and want to get in touch with Amy, email her at afagan@edexcellence.net.
April 22, 2009
Free bookmarks and stimulating debate! Fordham Staff Assistant Mickey Muldoon will be at tomorrow's Manhattan Institute conference entitled "Improving Teacher Quality: Key to Urban School Reform" at the University Club in New York City (details and RSVP info here). Be sure to find him at the Fordham table during registration to grab Fordham's shiny new bookmarks and full-color executive summaries of two recent reports.
January 15, 2009
Fordham's Mike Petrilli and American Enterprise Institute's Rick Hess will be discussing President Bush's education legacy at an AEI-hosted event in February. Take a look at the agenda:
Thursday, February 5, 2009, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Please register for this event online at www.aei.org/event1872.
With a new administration taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and George W. Bush's centerpiece No Child Left Behind Act up for reauthorization, Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at AEI, and Michael J. Petrilli, vice president of national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, consider the education legacy of the Bush administration in their forthcoming article "Left at the Altar." They note that the administration found common cause with progressive reformers by pursuing ambitious policies focused on narrowing achievement gaps-but often at the expense of its own conservative principles. They also find that the po litical environment created in the past eight years presents not only challenges, but also surprising opportunities for reform.
Petrilli and Hess will be joined at this event by Williamson M. Evers, the Bush administration's assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development; Dianne M. Piché, the executive director of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights; and Andrew J. Rotherham, the co-director of Education Sector, an education policy think tank. Hess will moderate.
December 19, 2008
Fordham hails move towards common standards, warns of perils
December 16, 2008
Fordham praises selection of Arne Duncan as U.S. Secretary of Education