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Are you interested in education policy? Teach for America calls education inequity the civil rights issue of our generation. There will be three main goals to be worked towards at once (though we're open to suggestions). For each, there will be an Assistant Director to lead the effort (let us know if you're intrested): 1. LEARN & DISCUSS
Build our knowledge of education policy issues. Work through the Brookings Institute Primer on American Education. Meet with professors and experts. Link students with professors for research assistantships. Link students to research grants and summer internships. 2. RESEARCH, PROMOTE & ADVOCATE
Harvard students in economics, gov, social studies, etc, have done and are doing work on education issues, which we will push to get published for a national audience of policy makers. Work with local and state politicians on developing positions on key issues. Take positions as a group and write op-eds. The Education Policy Center at Columbia, for example, is analyzing Mayor Bloomberg's education initiatives. The Yale group is working with the mayor of New Haven, and is analyzing Yale's admissions system. 3. EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY PROJECT with AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY
In addition to taking part in the Askwith Forums at the Ed. School, and events at KSG's Program on Education Policy and Governance, we will run the Education for Democracy Project with Americans for Informed Democracy (www.aidemocracy.org). In February, we will run a conference on Global Issues in the Classroom, at Harvard, in conjunction with AID, for Boston area teachers. They just had one at Yale, with nearly 200 teachers attending, along with expert panelists and speakers. If you are interested in leading one of these three efforts, proposing other projects, or if you want to just work on one or all of them, please e-mail Rob Nelson. Group members:
Robert E Nelson
Raquel O Alvarenga
Maria E Barth
Elizabeth P Kurtz
Jose O'Brien
Susan Y Yao
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