Meet Liz Cohen, our new VP of Policy
I am thrilled to announce the appointment of Liz Cohen as 50CAN’s new Vice President of Policy. Liz joins us from FutureEd at Georgetown University,...
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Special Edition: Week 255
Today, the 2024 NAEP results were released. In this special edition of the roundup we will bring you all the facts, reactions and context you need to ...
Did my black life matter?
I woke up, dead. It was tough to make out that it was me, but it was. My body was twisted and mangled. There was blood everywhere. My blue Tottenham S...
Personalizing education advocacy to personalize learning
Advocacy itself is hard, but advocating for something as conceptual as personalized learning? That can seem at first to be an impossible task. We are ...
New York City’s war on Uber and charter schools: Same tactics, false pretense
I’m a fan of Uber. I stump for the service to just about anyone. And why not? The experience is near seamless—you might call it magical. I get pic...
A talent blueprint for advocacy organizations
We created the guidebook for building advocacy campaigns to reduce the barriers for more people to get involved in education advocacy by sharing the...
10 Principles of beautiful advocacy
The aim of last week’s campaign boot camp was to prepare our executive directors for the critical task of building their annual campaign plans, bu...
Accountability for advocates
Everyone knows ed reformers love accountability. 50CAN is no different. Accountability is one of our three core policy principles (flexibility and c...