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UEE is reaching new heights! In this section, you will find the latest developments at UEE, our partner schools, and in education reform. Check back often.

Recent News

• UEE Theater Benefit


Urban Education Exchange invites you to join us
for the highly anticipated revival of:

West Side Story
Palace Theatre
1564 Broadway at 47th Street
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
8:00 p.m.

Proceeds will support our mission to close the achievement gap in reading!

If you would like to purchase tickets, please contact us at (212) 749-3558 or by email at westsidestory@ueexchange.org. Tickets are $450. All seats are in the orchestra and priority seating will be based on the order of response.

If you cannot attend but would like to make a gift to Urban Education Exchange, click below. All contributions are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support!

• New Research

A recent McKinsey report, "How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top (2007), examines the most successful practices in education worldwide. It identifies the three following principles as the most important for improvement in student outcomes:

1) the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of the teachers,
2) the only way to improve outcomes is to improve instruction and,
3) achieving universally high outcomes is only possible by putting in place mechanisms to ensure that schools deliver high-quality instruction to every child.

• KIPP Summit

UEE presented at the KIPP Summit in San Antonio, Texas from July 28 – 31. UEE Director of Teacher Training, Rachel Etienne, led 5 sessions on the Concepts of Comprehension© and Textual Analysis.


• National Charter School Conference Panel

UEE was chosen to present at the National Charter School Conference in New Orleans on June 24. Our panel, entitled “Achieving Scale in Teacher Quality,” brought together leading reformers to discuss a scalable solution for supporting teacher excellence, the critical component for success of the movement.  Currently, scale depends upon replication of individual schools and an unlimited supply of martyr educators.

 Panelists

Joe Williams: former newspaper journalist and author of the controversial book Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (PalgraveMacmillan, 2005).   

Robin Lake: Associate Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs.

Nancy Scharff: Executive Director of Urban Education Exchange.

Kinnari Patel: Principal of Explore Charter School, a K-8 charter in Brooklyn, NY.  She holds a degree in Elementary Education and is a graduate of New Leaders for New Schools.

Charles Harris: Co-Founder and Executive Partner of SeaChange Capital Partners, which seeks to enhance the flow of growth capital from wealthy donors to select high-performing non-profits.




UEE in 2008

This year, UEE is:

• Supporting 4 schools in New Orleans.

• Reaching over 425 TFA corps members.

 • Helping the teachers of over 20,000 students.