Education Week

... agencies, and programs together in ways that they never have before will make meeting all the commitments they've made in their plans a big challenge,” said Laura Bornfreund, an early-education policy analyst for the New America Foundation, ...

... was much closer to the Senate Appropriations Committee's version of the measure, which level-funded most programs in the department, said Jennifer Cohen, a senior policy analyst at the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, ...

Just in time for holiday gift-giving, New America Foundation's Lisa Guernsey offers some insights on what research tells us about how to approach screen time with children and some suggestions for ways to approach tech gifts for young ones. Guernsey is the author of Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age 5. (A revised edition will be published next year.) ...

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But the depth of that alignment varies," said Laura Bornfreund, a policy analyst for an early-education initiative begun by the New America Foundation, a think tank and policy institute based in Washington and Sacramento, Calif. ...

The administration views these changes to the student lending program as a potential political boon, said Stephen Burd, the editor of Higher Ed Watch, a blog published by the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington. ...

“It's almost like a dare,” said Jennifer Cohen, a senior policy analyst at the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. “It's the House saying to the Senate Democrats, 'We dare you to vote against more ...

... administration officials likely made it clear to Congress that they were his highest priority, said Jennifer Cohen, a senior policy analyst for the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. ...

... The New America Foundation, in Washington, has done some early predictions, analyzing states’ funding for early education (at 2009-10 levels), their coordination across agencies, and whether states already have rating systems, among other attributes. That analysis, released last week, declared top contenders to be Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Vermont. But if states didn’t make New America’s list, there’s still hope, said Laura Bornfreund, the group’s early-education policy analyst.

... “And analysts at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, are concerned that putting early education in a separate Race to the Top stream does little to encourage alignment between state’s K-12 systems and early education. ...

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That would jeopardize their relationship with Congress,” said Jennifer Cohen, a senior policy analyst with the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington. Still, even lawmakers acknowledge that the budget ...