Turning Up the Heat on Education Reform

In the video below, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, offers a few takeaways from the education roundtable with business leaders that he attended at the White House yesterday.

Gov. Wise notes that it was hot and muggy in Washington, DC, yesterday, but he hopes that the heat is going to get turned up even more on education reform as a result of the meeting.

Attendees included President Obama; U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett; Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes; General Colin and Mrs. Alma Powell of the America's Promise Alliance; and some of the nation's top CEOs, including Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett and State Farm CEO Ed Rust.

Watch the video below to hear more from Gov. Wise:

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Education Nation Videos

Below are a few more videos from today's NBC News Education Nation coverage including a "Morning Joe" segment on the high school dropout crises with Colin and Alma Powell, an interview with Rep. George Miller on the future of No Child Left Behind, and an explanation of the how the Education Nation Scorecard tool works by Director of Education at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Vicki Phillips.

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Morning Announcements: September 22, 2010

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve an overhaul of the $2.25 billion E-Rate program to give schools more options for faster Internet service, allow for community Internet service and to begin pilot programs for digital textbooks, according to the New York Times.  The program will mostly serve schools in poor and rural areas.

In the Curriculum Matters blog, Education Week reporter Erik Robelen discusses a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education that calls for the federal government to substantially step up its role in promoting strong literacy skills at the middle and high school levels.

Teacher performance pay alone does not raise student test scores, according to a new study released today by the Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.

Democrats' dreams of passing an immigration bill before the midterm elections died Tuesday, when Senate Republicans blocked a measure that could have carried legislation benefiting undocumented college student, reports the Chronicle for Higher Education.

Inside Higher Ed reports that the Hope Scholarship, a merit based program in Georgia, will most likely come to a close by the end by fiscal year 2013 due to an increase in the number of participating students and a decrease in the lottery funds that support the program.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and his wife, Alma write about the  “'100 Best' places fighting dropout crisis” in an opinion piece on CNN.

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Deborah Kenny, founder and CEO of Harlem Village Academies, asks “What happens to bright teachers stuck in schools that don't have the right to hire by performance and build a culture of excellence?”

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