Fwd: [oaklandteachers] Who do the foundations fund?

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Jack Gerson" <jackrgerson@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed Feb 20, 2008  3:14:23 PM US/Pacific
> To: oaklandteachers@lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [oaklandteachers] Who do the foundations fund?
> Reply-To: oaklandteachers@lists.riseup.net
>
> An Education Week blogger has researched the interconnections linking  
> the big education "philanthropeneur" foundations and the  
> objective-posing education policy think tanks. She found that the web  
> of interconnections to be thicker than a spider's web among the  
> following:
>
> * Achieve
> * Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance)
> * Broad Prize
> * Center on Education Policy (CEP)
> * Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights (CCCR)
> * Ed Next
> * Ed Sector
> * Ed Trust
> * Fordham
> * KIPP
> * National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS)
> * National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)
> * New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS)
> * New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF)
> * New Teacher Project (NTP)
> * Teach for America (TFA)
>
> You can read her blog posting about this ("It's a Small World") at:
> http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/eduwonkette/2008/02/ 
> its_a_small_world_after_all_1.html
>
>
> If you liked that, you'll love her latest posting, where she provides  
> a link to an online spreadsheet that she's created detailing the  
> grants awarded by the mega-funders: the Broad, Gates and Walton  
> Foundations. You can find this blog posting ("Funding Frenzy") at:
> http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/eduwonkette/2008/02/ 
> funding_frenzy_1.html
>
>
> Happy browsing,
> Jack Gerson
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