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Please join us for Education 2.0: Making Our Children and Our Country More Competitive, a unique evening hosted by Hope Street Group in New York City on February 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm at The Yale Club.  We will be featuring NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Harlem Education Activities Fund President Dr. Danielle Moss Lee to share their brief remarks about the role that education can play in our economic recovery.

 

RSVP and purchase your tickets online now.

 

Following this, attendees will have the opportunity to network with other social entrepreneurs and policy makers or join other education thought leaders in small group discussions to learn about key education reform issues in the following areas:

 

- Early Childhood Education
- Improving Education through Technology
- 21st Century Standards & Global Competitiveness

 

In addition, HSG will present attendees with hands-on opportunities nationally and locally, including professional volunteer activities at Hope Street Group and direct service volunteer opportunities at HEAF.

 

Tickets: A minimum donation of $100 is requested, although Hope Street Group welcomes additional contributions; if you cannot attend and would like to support the event, please consider sponsoring a teacher or HEAF student for the evening.

 

Space is limited, so please RSVP and purchase your tickets online now  at  or contact Courtney Haynes at Courtney@hopestreetgroup.org by Feb. 10th.

 

Hope Street Group is a non-partisan organization founded for one reason:  to build the Opportunity Economy – an economy in which anyone who works hard and invests in themselves has the opportunity to succeed, and where our nation prospers as a result. Over the last two years, Hope Street Group has successfully convened leaders from civil society, politics, and business to build broad-based coalitions and bi-partisan consensus around policies that promote an opportunity economy. As a result of these efforts, Hope Street Group offers numerous opportunities for young professionals to play substantive roles in policy discussions and development.

 

Learn more about Hope Street Group's American Dream Agenda for the next administration, and the education and health care reform proposals that the presidential campaigns incorporated into their platforms.

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Courtney Haynes
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The Brookings Institute launched their "Blueprint for American Prosperity - Unleashing the Potential of a Metropolitan Nation" this morning with Bruce Katz, VP at Brookings and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, leading the discussion on the importance of the changing demands of our nation and the urgent, catalytic government reform necessary for America to sustain global competitiveness.  The Blueprint for American Prosperity was developed to enhance America's metropolitan areas which are increasingly the core of the economy providing the majority of jobs and homes.  Although the top 100 metropolitan cities account for only 12% of land area, 65% of the population resides in these cities and 78% of our national GDP is generated here.  The blueprint is intended to promote various government reforms in order for metropolitan areas to strive in areas of innovation, infrastructure, human capitol and quality places.

 

The world is changing, America is changing and the federal government is failing to ignite necessary reforms to drive prosperity.  Instead of becoming more advanced, America has fallen behind other countries in education, infrastructure, energy, and technology.  How will America keep up? How will America accommodate a growing population?  Katz believes the answer is provided within the blueprint which outlines the proactive reforms the federal government should implement including productive and inclusive growth plans for metropolitan areas.  Furthermore, it is vital that local, state and federal governments work together along with business, civic, and government professionals to counter problems with collaborative problem solving that focuses on strengthening metropolitan areas to increase overall competitiveness. Katz's work is extraordinary and simplicity construes the problems America is facing and HOW they can be addressed in a productive and efficient way.  To read more about The Blueprint for American Prosperity, please visit http://www.blueprintpropserity.org/ .

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