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We hope you had a wonderful summer and are having a great start to September. We have some interesting updates we want to share with you. As some you may know, Families and Work Institute (FWI) president Ellen Galinsky has a regular Huffington Post blog. The blog she posted this week is attracting a great deal of attention. Here is the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-galinsky/the-us-is-11thits-time-to_b_715973.html. In this blog, Ellen responds to the fact that the United States has declined to Number 11 in Newsweek’s list of the best countries in the world. In light of the decade of research she has conducted for Mind in the Making, Ellen argues that if we are going to regain our "oomph as a superpower," we have to put the oomph back in education. We are very proud that Ellen has also been invited to speak at the NBC News Special Event, “Education Nation Summit.” This will be the first nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. During the entire week of September 26th, NBC News will highlight education stories as well as broadcast live from the Learning Plaza at Rockefeller Center. For more information, please visit: http://www.educationnation.com. We have some other exciting news of our own at FWI. In the coming weeks, we are releasing two new reports. With the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, we will be releasing "Working in Retirement," and with Maria Shriver's “A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's,” we will be releasing “Working Family Caregivers of the Elderly.” About the Shriver study: http://health.einnews.com/pr-news/151947-the-shriver-report-a-woman-s-nation-takes-on-alzheimer-s. Finally, we are honored to be working with a small group of national organizations—Corporate Voices for Working Families, Family Values @ Work, the National Partnership for Women & Families, and the Labor Project for Working Families—on a year-long series of forums to be convened by the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor that are the follow up to the March 2010 White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. Families and Work Institute will be releasing a report for each of these four national and six regional forums. As all of these reports come out, we will let you know. We look forward to hearing from you and working with you over the coming months. Best wishes, http://familiesandwork.org/blog YouTube: http://youtube.com/fwichannel
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