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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of our work with Lumina Foundation’s Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) – Models of Success Program, Widmeyer secured an op-ed placement for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) in U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Kenneth Kitts, UNCP’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, discussed the role Native American students will [...]
The National Center on Education and the Economy celebrated the latest publication from NCEE President Marc Tucker with a book signing reception and discussion featuring New York Times columnist Tom Friedman and NBC Correspondent Luke Russert [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Widmeyer Communications, a fiercely independent strategic communications firm, announced the addition of three key staffers to its PreK-12 education team: Vice President Nona Richardson in DC, and Vice President Marina Stenos and Assistant Vice President Jacqui Lipson in New York [...]
The Davidson Institute for Talent Development recently honored 18 gifted students, all under the age of 18. These 2011 Davidson Fellows were awarded scholarships ranging between $10,000 and $50,000 for projects they developed that contributed to the fields of mathematics, science, music , technology and literature. Widmeyer has secured a broad range of local and national coverage including stories in [...]
