Just last week the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Center for Social Innovation hosted a roundtable for the newly-created White House Office on Social Innovation. Headed by Sonal Shah, formerly of Google, the Office of Social Innovation seeks to develop new funding for social innovation, expand national service, increase civic participation through new media, and develop [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
Innovation in Flyover Territory
Posted in Innovation, tagged Innovation, Obama on June 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Behavior Change in the White House
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged behavior change, Obama on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time ran an interesting article on how the Obama administration (and before that for his campaign) is being influenced and advised by the brightest minds in behavior change research. We all know Obama won the election because he looked like change, sounded like change and never stopped campaigning for change. But he didn’t call for [...]
Budget Blogging
Posted in Asset Building, Early Childhood Education, Jobs/Workforce, Policy, tagged Asset Building, behavioral economics, budget, Early Childhood Education, Jobs/Workforce, Obama on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama released his budget for the 2010 fiscal year. The document is a kind of roadmap for the President’s initiatives over the next several years, but he’s left lots of room to Congress to fill in details. Anyway, I thought I’d put up some topics of potential interest to our readers: Early Childhood – [...]
Education Pick Emphasizes Early Childhood
Posted in Early Childhood Education, tagged Arne Duncan, Congress, education, Obama on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arne Duncan, President-elect Obama’s choice for Education Secretary, began his confirmation hearings today, appearing before Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee. Congressional Quarterly reports that Duncan “promised a new emphasis on early childhood education” and called for a commission on the subject as well as improved cooperation between his department and the Department [...]
Pre-K Advocates Melt in Obama’s Endearing Gaze
Posted in Early Childhood Education, Policy, tagged Early Childhood Education, media, Obama on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So reports the Gray Lady: After years of what they call backhanded treatment by the Bush administration, whose focus has been on the testing of older children, many advocates are atremble with anticipation over Mr. Obama’s espousal of early childhood education. Actually the article turns out to be a pretty nice summation of the case [...]
A Primer on the President-elect
Posted in Policy, tagged Asset Building, Early Childhood Education, Financial Services, Obama, Policy, presidential election on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No matter what your politics, you’ve got to admit that the times are a-changin’! I thought since it’s official I’d post up a few links on President-elect Obama’s positions/plans on topics of TI interest: Children and Family: see the campaign page and a post on Early Ed Watch. In a nutshell, the Obama administration intends [...]
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