Edward B. (“Ted”) Fiske, the former Education Editor of The New York Times and a senior advisor for Widmeyer, recently reviewed a new book for Education Week authored by Vivien Stewart of The Asia Society. The book highlights lessons that U.S. policymakers, educators and education advocates can and should learn from other countries with highly [...]
Cartoon Network premiered its new bullying documentary Speak Up, which captures the authentic, everyday stories of America’s bullied kids and the peers who have helped them. Widmeyer helped secure national media coverage of the documentary, which opens with a special message from President Barack Obama, and its premiere at a D.C. middle school with Health [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 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 [...]
Widmeyer Communications secured an exclusive story for ARC: International Wildlife Crossing Competition in the New York Times announcing the winner. An additional story with pictures and video of the design competition was posted on the New York Times’ Green Blog. In the lead up to the announcement, Widmeyer also helped secure an in-depth piece in [...]
On December 4th, The New York Hall of Science (NYSCi) – New York City’s only hands-on science center and a Widmeyer client – debuted “1001 Inventions,” an exhibition chronicling scientific and technological advances developed throughout Muslim civilization from 700 to 1700. The exhibition demonstrates that many aspects of modern medicine, physics, mathematics, astronomy and more [...]
New York Times’ columnist, Tom Friedman, quoted Marc Tucker, the National Center on Education and the Economy president, in his August 3rd column, “Broadway and the Mosque.” On creativity and thinking, Tucker once explained to Friedman, “…if you spend your whole life in one silo, you will never have either the knowledge or mental agility to do the synthesis, connect the dots, which is usually where the next great breakthrough is found.”
