Widmeyer’s Vice President of Higher Education Chris Messina-Boyer is included in a CQ Weekly piece about DC movers and shakers.
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The New York Times‘ Education Life section on Sunday, January 22, 2012, featured Widmeyer research on American attitudes surrounding the Penn State controversy and college athletics. Click here to read the article by Laura Pappano, “How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life”. Highlights from the survey include:
83 percent blamed the “culture of big money” in college [...]
Widmeyer secured national coverage of the Data Quality Campaign’s new national report, which looks at the growing momentum toward using data to inform education decisions, in The Washington Post on Page A2 and a story in The Atlantic, “How Smarter Data Can Save U.S. Education,” among others. DQC released the findings at its National Data [...]
With President Obama’s announcement to elevate the Small Business Administration (SBA) to Cabinet-level status, Widmeyer helped insert its client, the National Association for the Self-Employed, into the national conversation by distributing a press release quoting NASE’s President and CEO Kristie Arslan [...]
Widmeyer’s Public Affairs team secured an exclusive interview with Thomson Reuters on the first global competition to determine the world’s most energy efficient televisions. The announcement, from our client CLASP (www.clasponline.org), of the Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Initiative (www.superefficient.org) has been picked up by outlets across the country [...]
GOP candidates continue to battle for the nomination. Recently, Drake University hosted a GOP Debate, which brought the candidates to campus and placed the university in the national spotlight. Widmeyer assisted Drake with the media outreach efforts [...]
Widmeyer Communications’ Senior Advisor Edward B. Fiske and his wife Helen F. Ladd, professor of public policy and economics at Duke, partnered to write an op-ed for The New York Times regarding federal education policy expectations for schools relating to economic advantage and student performance. Their opinion piece, citing both national and international research data, [...]
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes at the White House to congratulate the newest class of Nationally Board Certified teachers and engage in a discussion on transforming the teaching profession. Widmeyer supported the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as it announced the 6,200 teachers who achieved certification in [...]
Widmeyer secured a feature in the Atlantic by National Center on Education and the Economy President Marc Tucker about U.S. global competitiveness. This comes after Widmeyer helped Marc Tucker release his new book, Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems, with New York Times’ Tom Friedman and NBC News’ [...]
The Data Quality Campaign released its seventh annual state analysis of education data systems, Data for Action 2011, which found that states have made strong progress in building and using data systems but that they aren’t helping educators, parents and other stakeholders to use the data to inform decisions to improve student achievement. Widmeyer helped [...]
