July marked the
beginning of Education Forward DC’s third year and we’re excited to partner
with new organizations and leaders in service of our five-year goal of doubling
the number of underserved students in DC who are college and career ...
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On Monday, January 28th, Education Forward DC hosted a webinar to explain how we partner with organizations and entrepreneurs to achieve our five year goal to double the number of underserved students in DC who are college and career ready. ...
Education
Forward DC’s mission is to support visionary education leaders to foster a city
of high-quality, equitable public schools for every DC student and family. In
the two and half years since we launched, we have supported more than 40 ...
America to Me is a ten-part docu-series by Academy-Award nominated director Steve James that follows a year in the life of students, teachers, and administrators at Oak Park and River Forest High School right outside of Chicago. The series was ...
An Interview with Education Forward DC CEO, Maura Marino: Leading the Charge for Better D.C. Schools
Thank you to Tom Vander Ark for hosting Education Forward DC’s CEO, Maura Marino, on his Getting Smart podcast.
Learn more about Maura, Education Forward DC’s work and mission, and DC’s education ecosystem by listening to the ...
A school focused on computer science? “Sometimes I think it isn’t even that innovative; it just makes sense,” says Mashea Ashton, Founder and CEO of Digital Pioneers Academy.
Opening this fall in an unused wing of the East Washington Heights ...
By Caitlin Campbell-Hahn
Caitlin Campbell-Hahn is a Senior Analyst with our Schools Investments team. Caitlin taught middle school students in Washington, DC and Boston for seven years prior to joining Education Forward DC.
Grab a pencil ...
By Ryan Jones
If you’re one of the thousands of families in DC who just submitted school choices in the citywide school lottery, My School DC, you know that finding information and comparing schools across the city’s traditional and charter ...
This evening, Taylor Parson will be recognized as one of seven outstanding teachers at the Standing Ovation for DC Public Schools (DCPS) annual awards event hosted by the DC Public Education Fund. Ms. Parson, a fourth-grade teacher at Anne ...