Policy

Sinead is a TFA Corp Member teaching math in Chicago Public Schools. She is planning to attend the ed policy program at Stanford in Fall 2006. She can be contacted: sineadmullen-at-gmail-dot-com Nitin Julka is an MBA student at Columbia. He is very interested in education policy, politics, and current events. He can be contacted at: njulka-at-gmail-dot-com JLeeK is a TFA Corp Member who teaches English in New York City Public schools.

Sponsored by Youth Development Evaluation Alliance (www.youtheval.org) the Policy and Reform in Education web log allows for meaingful dialogue about the current education policy context and the challenges of sustainable reform in public school education.

Items relating to education policy making and policy implementation.

This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.

Musings on issues, policies, and practices in K-12 education in the NCLB era.

Commenting on the present and future of K16 education policy

A search for ideas and discussion to improve UK Education based on the belief that present aims and policies are unclear and best management practices not applied.

A non-partisan blog focused on Educational Policy in the 2008 election for President of the United States.

The Rural Education Special Interest Group (SIG) promotes scholarly conversation about the lives of rural people, places and their schools through research and provides a forum for dissemination of this research. This SIG is part of the American Educational Research Association.

Join me in this unique forum to discuss pressing issues in education. We'll explore topics of interest to educators, parents, policy makers and community leaders. Content includes information related to K-12, higher education, school reform and adult education.