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PIE Network Publications and Resources Jan. 23, 2012
| | Seizing the Opporutnity
| |  | | Seizing the Opportunity: How Education Advocacy Groups and State Policy Makers Work Together to Advance Reform” provides an inside look at the role education advocacy groups have played in 11 reform-leading states to advance education reform.
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| | | | | | | | | | Oct. 26, 2011 | | Highlights of the PIE Network Fifth Annual Policy Summit | | 
| | Resources from the network’s summit in Seattle include summaries of 16 sessions focusing on the theme of advancing reform during tough times, photographs, essays from summit contributors, photographs, and recommended readings. | | Go to resource | | | | | | | | | Sept. 27, 2011
| | Can You Spare Some Change? Advancing Reform While Making Ends Meet | | 
| | Policy Briefs from the 2011 PIE Network Summit
Transforming school systems in a time of fiscal austerity, improving teacher effectiveness, and the growing role states are playing in education are just a few of the topics in this collection of thirteen essays written by contributors to the 2011 PIE Network Policy Summit. These policy briefs from leading thinkers in education reform can be used by policy makers and advocates working to improve education at the state level.
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| | | | | | | | March 22, 2011 | | |  | |
By Ulrich Boser, Cynthia G. Brown, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Paul Hill, Robin Lake, Michael J. Petrilli, Bill Tucker, Kate Walsh
Introduction by Suzanne Tacheny Kubach
Leaders of the PIE Network policy partners have co-authored
a white paper explaining how key ingredients for education reform only work when they work together. This collection of essays looks at raising standards and measuring results, ensuring equity, improving teacher quality and effectiveness, advancing quality charters and other parent choice options, encouraging innovation, increasing accountability for school performance, and fostering fiscal transparency.
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| Sept. 14, 2010 | | Rabble Rousers Revisited | 
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| | A guide for launching state-based education reform advocacy organizations
By Suzanne Tacheny Kubach
In more and more states, civic and business leaders are recognizing that education is critically important to the vitality of their states and are creating organizations that bring a credible, professional, and constant advocacy voice to law-making processes.
This report profiles some of these groundbreaking groups and provides a guide to would-be “rabble rousers” who want to effectively shift the balance of power in favor of the public’s interest.
The report looks at the start-up challenges of PIE Network members Advance Illinois, ConnCAN, EdVoice, Partnership for Learning, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Texas Institute for Education Reform. | | | | |
| March 28, 2010 | | The Race to Reform: How Education Reform Advocates are Leveraging Race to the Top | 
| | By Richard Lee Colvin and Suzanne Tacheny Kubach
The high stakes and short timeline for applying for federal Race to the Top grants created tremendous pressure on states to develop bold plans for school reform. This monograph looks at the critical role of leading advocates for education reform in leveraging this opportunity.
Seven states highlighted in this paper (Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Ohio) were named as finalists for Race to the Top grants. Other states highlighted (including California, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington) remind us that successive rounds of this competition will continue to provide advocates with unique opportunities to advance reform.
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