Go Stars!! This MN girl is happy to wear her North Stars jersey in Big D 💚🌟Dallas Stars

Ticket: PUNCHED ‼️‼️‼️ #GoStanford

See the latest NCTQ report here: nctq.org/review/standar…

We aren't just building a strong baseball program on The Farm, we are building leaders in life who will take core values with them wherever they go. #GoStanford

Congrats to @SCORE4Schools for a terrific Summit today, and many thanks for including me in the rich, frank discussion about what’s needed to prepare more people for lives with opportunity and choices.

Great piece by Anne Wicks! #TheMSStory ExcelinEd MS Dept of Education

The MS reading story: steadfast leadership + policy with both accountability and support + research based instruction = kids win. It’s an honor to tell it in this George W. Bush Presidential Center Catalyst issue about policy that actually works. Kymyona Burk, Ed.D., #DrCareyWright, & team amaze me!

Anne Wicks highlights how Mississippi started a reading revolution. George W. Bush Presidential Center MS Dept of Education Kymyona Burk, Ed.D. bushcenter.org/catalyst/the-f…

ICYMI, Standardized tests are good…we should listen to what the results are telling us: assessmenthq.org/2023/11/07/gue…

“Rather than continuing to work together to help all children meet high standards, too many state leaders have settled for moving the goalposts, lowering the standards, and pretending that everything [is] okay. It isn’t.” Aimee Guidera via The 74 the74million.org/article/closin… Center on Reinventing Public Education

The Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System caught only 31% of the struggling readers. Burns called that level of accuracy "shocking," saying it was "quite literally the lowest I've ever seen." apmreports.org/story/2023/12/…

“The backlash against testing, @mpolikoff said, has come ‘at the worst possible time given the damage that’s actually been done.’” Linda Jacobson via The 74 the74million.org/article/a-rose… #AssessmentHQ Dr. T. Nakia Towns Melissa S. Kearney Meredith W. Dodson Dan Goldhaber

“Trenace Dorsey-Hollins explained that only 13% of Fort Worth students scored high enough on SAT or ACT exams to be considered ready for college, a career or the military. Parents were shocked.” Anne Wicks Bill McKenzie the74million.org/article/what-t… #SoR #txed #txlege Powerful Parent Movement Katy Literacy Coalition

Instructive article by Anne Wicks & Bill McKenzie on Texas’s efforts to adopt the science of reading. They highlight data from our June report showing that < ⅓ of Texas teacher prep programs adequately cover scientifically based reading instruction. bit.ly/3RsuV84

Texas once was on track with proven reading instruction. Now, though, my colleague Anne Wicks and I make the case why it should learn from states like Mississippi and Colorado that are basing their instruction on scientifically backed strategies. bushcenter.org/publications/t…

I loved sitting down with Dr. Arthur Brooks and my George W. Bush Presidential Center colleague Andrew Kaufmann - join us if you need a little dose of wisdom to help navigating our complex world with your sanity (and dare we say soul) intact!

So honored to join the Commit Partnership board!

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Salim Asrawi, Co-Founder and President of Texas de Brazil. While we sadly weren’t at the delicious Brazilian steakhouse, we were at the George W. Bush Presidential Center Forum on Leadership, discussing our journeys immigrating to the United States and

PIE Network is powered by and for advocates, including the dynamic Network leaders who serve on our Board. Join us in welcoming PIE Network's newest Board members: M. Karega Rausch of NACSA & Anne Wicks of George W. Bush Presidential Center. Learn more about the Board pie-network.org/what-unites-us…

The Don Evans Family Managing Director of Opportunity and Democracy of the Bush Institute, Anne Wicks , argues that pluralism is the “messy, sometimes bruising, central tenet of U.S. democracy” and provides the kind of friction our best leaders use to sharpen their