Elizabeth Green

Elizabeth Green is the editor of GothamSchools.

Elizabeth Green appears in the following:

The Science and Craft of Teaching

Monday, August 04, 2014

With lawsuits trying to make it easier to rid the system of ineffective teachers, more attention is going to how to teach teaching.Elizabeth Green, co-founder of Gotham Schools (now Chalkbeat) and the author of Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), explores "best practices" for training educators.

EVENT: Elizabeth Green reads tonight at Book Court, 163 Court St, in Brooklyn at 7pm.

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30 Issues: Education

Friday, October 01, 2010

Jennifer Cohen, policy analyst with the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, and Damon Hewitt, director of the Education Practice Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) talk about partisanship and the Obama administration's education policy. Then, Elizabeth Green, editor for Gotham Schools, looks at the Cuomo and Paladino positions on education.

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Getting a Passing Grade in NYS

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Mayor Bloomberg has boasted about improved tests scores in New York City's schools, but recent findings say it's simply gotten easier to pass the state's tests. Elizabeth Green, editor for Gotham Schools, and Daniel Koretz, professor of education at Harvard and author of Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, talk about these findings, this year's tougher tests and what it all says about the city's claims of better education.

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Education Minutes

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Racing to the Top
Gotham Schools.org editor Elizabeth Green talks about New York's chances of qualifying for federal Race to the Top funds, now that the guidelines are out.

Two Million Minutes
In the 2007 documentary, 2 Million Minutes, venture-capitalist-turned-filmmaker Bob Compton critically compares American ...

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Teacher's Aides in NYC Schools

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

This week, the Department of Education ordered an end to the practice of parents independently hiring aides to help in the city's public schools. Elizabeth Green of Gotham Schools explains the practice and the implications of the ruling. Then, Rebecca Daniels, past president of District 2, discusses how this will ...

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Crunchtime In Albany: Mayoral Control

Monday, June 22, 2009

Elizabeth Green, reporter with Gotham School, looks at how the Albany standstill will affect the important decisions around Mayoral Control of NYC's schools.

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Changes to the Gifted and Talented Program

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Elizabeth Green, reporter for the New York Sun, and Robin Aronow, founder of School Search NYC discuss changes to the gifted and talented program by the Department of Education.

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