Subject: Paper is the New Email
From: "The Center for Education Reform" <[email-masked]>
To: "R. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:09:32 -0700

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                                NAVY IS THE NEW BLACK,          
                                
                                    50 IS THE NEW 30, AND     
                                
                                          PAPER IS THE NEW EMAIL!

                                
Dear Friends,
                                
I hope you received my note the other day, about our New Letter
to Friends.  If you don't feel like going back to your in-box,
let me briefly explain.
                                
The new CER Newswire is now live. Instead of our reports,
opinions and insights weekly, it is now a daily news digest,
providing all of the most critical education reform news from
around the country, briefly summarized and waiting for you, most
days, before you even get your first cup of coffee! While that
service is free, it will soon require a one-step log-in to access
the page. We hope you enjoy reading what we read every morning to
get our days started. 
                                
Where, you ask, will you get that same dose of insights, news and
commentary you won't find anywhere else, spiced with a dash of
irreverence, from the nation's leading voice in school reform?
Well, I am pleased to introduce you to the New Letter to Friends,
a semi-monthly publication that will come to all CER members on
paper or electronically, that is, if you choose to join us (and
you know we love choice!)
                                
As I said last week, the written word can indeed move mountains,
and many still prefer their written word on paper. However,
whether you prefer your jolt of reform on paper or
electronically, it all costs money to produce and while generous,
our funders can no longer be expected to support all of the work
we do. 
                                
So you'll need to opt in for this new donation-based subscription
service. You will continue to receive it free until September
15th. After that, it will only go to CER Donors and Members. 
                                
It's easy to become one! For the very low annual fee of $120 each
year for the individual parents and teachers out there, and the
equally low fee of $240 for those of you involved in a business
or organization that benefits from the work we do, you'll be able
to receive the New Letter to Friends!  
                                
Since we first announced the New Letter to Friends, we've
received great feedback from people near and far, and from some
of you who we hadn't heard from in years. We're delighted you're
still watching, playing in the game, and engaged in reform. Now
it's time to take it up a notch!
                                
If you'd like a glimpse of what you'll be getting semi-monthly,
please link to the enclosed survey and while you're there, take
time to fill it out and give us your feedback as well as take the
plunge and sign up now! You can link to our donations page there
or here to start the process, or think about it until September
15th, and we will remind you, often, of course! The few thoughts
I share in the link - and your feedback - will eventually make
their way into a larger writing project. 
                                
If you like what we do, we hope you'll pay for it. If not, there
is still plenty of free stuff available at Edreform.com, the
flagship website of the movement. You can check Newswire daily,
get even more engaged with the media through The Media Bullpen
and follow us through Twitter and Facebook!
                                
For 19 years, The Center for Education Reform has been the
pioneer and leading advocate for substantive, structural change
in American education. Its people and policies have helped fuel
an exciting generation of reforms and new activists challenging
the proverbial conventional wisdom day in and day out. Our work
has led to one billion impressions in the media on reform,
millions of new school choices, documentaries, ideas and dozens
of new laws. Today reform is "cool," a goal we aspired to when we
wrote our first mission statement in 1993 and put a stake in the
ground on making educational choice and accountability
mainstream.
                                
We hope you'll join us and wish you the best in your efforts!
                                
Best Regards,

Jeanne Allen
President

PS: If you're not sure we have your current mailing address, now
is the time to send it in. Again, use this handy link to a brief
survey that will give us your coordinates and your comments.  
                                
Click here http://www.edreform.com/2012/08/newletter/ for a SNEAK
PEAK of what's in store for you in New Letter to Friends!

                                                                 

                            

                            
                                
                                The Center for Education Reform
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