No Child Left Behind

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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 7)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: Would you consider taking outside financing? RV: We will consider anything. Right now the business is running in a healthy fashion without outside financing. If someone brought in quality board members and added something more than just financing to our business, that would appeal to us. We... ..
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• Warning to “Pass Anything” Camp: Reforms Don’t Always Get Better Over Time

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 741
  (photo: saturnine) People in the “pass any bill, regardless how bad” camp often talk about “fixing it later.” They point to previous progressive change like social security, Medicare, and the civil rights legislation as proof that progressive reforms start small but grow into something better . This mantra ...
  5 days ago

• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 6)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: You have scaled to a $13 million business over the past seven years. What has been challenging in that process?RV: The most challenging aspect has been our individual personal growth. When we first started the business we did everything, including the teaching. We went from a two-person team... ..
  6 days ago

• Education data in 2025

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  The latest Education Next includes a shortened version of a chapter Checker wrote last year for Fordham’s A Byte at the Apple: Rethinking Education Data for the Post-NCLB Era . It’s a creative piece about the progress schooling could make over the coming 15 years or so in remaking itself into a modern ...
  6 days ago

• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 5

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: In terms of revenue, what is the size of your company?RV: Our SAT business is at $11 million, and we are just over $13 million in total. SM: Looking at the size of your company, I have to ask one question. Why you are in so many businesses?RV: We have violated all the rules [...] ..
  1 week ago

• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 4)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: What does a deal size look like for your company? Let’s use Los Angeles Unified as the example.RV: The LAUSD contract ends up being between $500K and $600K annually. SM: Is that an annual subscription service?RV: Yes. It is $30 per student, per year. The price of the contract can fluctuate... ..
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 3)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: Are you primarily a brick-and-mortar tutoring service, or are you an online education service?RV: The SAT prep courses are 90% offline and 10% online. However, we have another larger business that we started in California and Texas three years ago which is 100% online. In California, students... ..
  1 week ago

• Race to the Test

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 528
  President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan The California Senate passed the “Race to the Top” bill by a vote of 21-7 Thursday.  The bill now goes back to the state Assembly, which is expected to reconvene in early January. California and other states are facing a Jan. 19 deadline to compete ...
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• Sorry to Keep Interrupting Your Folly with the Constitution, But…

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  By Neal McCluskey …the Constitution! Andy Smarick at the Fordham Foundation continues to simultaneously cajole and sympathize with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as Duncan tries to formulate some sort of discernible parameters for what the federal government should and  should not do in ...
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 2)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: What kinds of learning challenges do you help your students overcome?RV: A lot of students have a hard time reading long passages. They read something and then realize they have no idea what they just read. To counter this we teach kids how to actively read by asking themselves questions after... ..
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• Rolling along with sight words. So what.

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 132
  A full eight months before hes to start kindergarten, Boots already knows a half-dozen "sight" words. Id never say this to his face because it would break his little heart, but so what? Yeah, yeah. I know. Sight words are the current currency by which prodigies are measured, the panic point that sends parents flying ...
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• The Best Of Both Worlds

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 601
  This was originally posted at The Lobbyist , and I have expanded it below: Hey, CPAC organizers, here’s an idea- let’s stick to our principles and get good public relations at the same time! Let’s start with not allowing the John Birch Society to co-sponsor the 2010 CPAC . Then, let’s fully ...
  1 week ago

• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 1)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  Revolution Prep was founded 2002 by Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg, who met at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Founded in 2002, Revolution has become the largest provider of SAT prep courses and tutoring in California and one of the largest providers nationwide, with students in 12... ..
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• ‘That Dumb Cowboy Bush’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Matthew Yglesias, making another version of his argument that the multiple veto points in the legislative branch overly empower the minority and make America “ungovernable,” drew a quip from Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds : “Funny, that dumb cowboy Bush seemed to get a lot done with fewer votes in ...
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• Dodd and Duncan Stump on ESEA in Connecticut

  
  Politics K-12 — Authority: 576
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will up in the Nutmeg State this week talking about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—and hanging out with Sen. Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who has a top spot on the Senate education committee. (He actually passed up a chance to become chairman earlier this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Department Circulates ESEA PowerPoint on the Hill

  
  Kentucky School News and Commentary — Authority: 435
  This from Politics K-12 : The U.S. Department of Education is shopping this Elementary and Secondary Education Act PowerPoint presentation to congressional aides this week, meant to lay out broad principles for renewing the law, now known as the No Child Left Behind Act. And if you take a look at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 124
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Will Happen to The No Child Left Behind Act in The Next Presidential Term?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 571
  What will Happen to the No Child Left Behind ACT in the Next Presidential Term? “No Child Left Behind was a good beginning. We know, after a number of years of examination and practice with it, know there’s some things that badly needs fixing.”1 states former Senator John McCain recently when asked his opinion ...
  4 weeks ago

• What Really Matters, Celebrity or Real World?

  
  Education and Technology — Authority: 419
  I am tired of celebrities taking the limelight from real life concerns. Yesterday Tiger Woods had an accident, in the process he received minor injuries. All day and into this morning all the major networks have called in their lawyers, analysts or in one case Mark Furman from the OJ trial to talk about it. WHY? It ...
  4 weeks ago

• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant

  
  Clif's Notes — Authority: 114
  “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive ...
  4 weeks ago

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