Thanks to Tivo, my late-night comedy viewing tends to take place on a 20-hour time delay, so I didn’t know that Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp was on the Colbert Report until I came home from work today. You can watch the video here. In a lot of ways, it’s most interesting for what you don’t see–this has to be one of the most straight-up interviews Colbert has done. Colbert’s one real fake question was along the lines of, “Why do we need you, since we already have a law that says no child shall be left behind?” To which Kopp said, quite correctly, that’s exactly why we need organizations like TFA. NCLB tells us where the problems are, TFA is one of the solutions.
Some messages are so clear and compelling that they’re hard to make fun of, even on Comedy Central.
Kevin Carey appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to talk about the education proposals put forth during Wednesday’s State of the Union speech, including endowments, student loans, college prices and No Child Left Behind. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
Andrew Rotherham is featured in CBS's "Where America Stands," a news special on the current state of the nation's schools.
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01/28/10 | Education Sector is referenced and linked to in an article on AnnArbor.com.
01/28/10 | Andrew Rotherham is mentioned in a National Review Online column.
01/26/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted in an Education Week news article on President Obama's proposed education spending.
01/25/10 | Chad Aldeman's "College- and Career-Ready" is summarized in the Alliance for Excellence in Education's Straight A's newsletter.
01/21/10 | Chad Aldeman's "College- and Career-Ready" is reviewed by College Summit's blog.
01/22/10 | Ben Miller's Q&E post on student debt is linked to on the California Watch blog.