ERS Updates
ERS Joins Opportunity Nation Campaign TodayERS Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles joins the Opportunity Nation Campaign today in NYC. ERS is a supporter of Opportunity Nation, a broad-based, cross-partisan coalition of nearly 200 public, private, non-profit, civilian and military organizations working together to create and advocate for an agenda that provides better skills, quality jobs…
Spotting Blobs of Chewing GumI read and reread (and reread) Fernanda Santos’ article in Friday’s New York Times (Oct. 28) trying to understand the point. The article’s title “Office to Hallways, A Day with a Principal: Inside a Big, High-Performing School” accurately portrays the substance – a day in the life of a principal,…
Happy Halloween from the ERS Family!With many employees traveling on Halloween night, ERS decided to have an in-office celebration on Friday so everyone could celebrate together!
1000 schools vs. 1000 school districtsIf the evidence is clear that Extended Learning Time improves student achievement and closes the achievement gap, why do we not see it happening as a district-side strategy?
Comment on “A Perfect Confluence”This blog, written by Patricia M. Godoy, was originally posted as a comment on the blog post “A Perfect Confluence” by ERS Director Regis Shields. Make sure to share your own thoughts on our blog posts be leaving a comment.
School Turnaround - is “Transformation” enough?Last week we brought together some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the area of school turnaround at the ERS summit, “Sustaining Turnaround at Scale”. Included in this group were almost a dozen principals who are succeeding in turning around chronically low performing schools, and are boosting the achievement…
Preschool Wars Go MainstreamWe are grateful Time Magazine recently covered the struggles communities are having around protecting preschool. Research has shown that preschool as an investment pays for itself many times over, yet public funding to ENSURE preschool/Pre-K opportunities for all children is the exception.
ERS School Turnaround Summit Begins TomorrowOver 60 of the nation’s leading school turnaround practitioners will gather tomorrow outside of Boston to wrestle with the challenges of scaling turnaround success on the district level.
Georgia on my mind…After years dedicated to helping urban school systems organize talent, time and money, Education Resource Strategies, Inc. (ERS) is taking their expertise to the next level, literally…partnering with the Georgia Department of Education (GDOE).
Cutting Rules Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Cutting ServicesMany Special Education advocates are feeling anxiety in response to recent federal efforts to relax funding rules. Stephen Frank would urge for advocates to consider that the action could in fact lead to needed improvement delivery of special education.
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