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.

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.

Welcome to Science and Technology on the Hill. Could your technology move markets if only the Government changed its regulations, legislation, rules, or practices? You need to be informed to make that happen. Or you may be a policy maker sorting out the long-term strategies for education, funding, and privacy issues. We'll give you the latest in biometrics, stem cell, and nanotechnology plus IT, biotech, and clean energy that's happening in related agencies and committees in Congress.

This blog is entirely about public education in North Dakota with an additional look at how the federal government impacts education in rural/frontier America. I welcome comments and observations.

"The 37-year-old Arkansas woman is the 3,496th teacher to be arrested this year on charges that she had sex with an underage student." - The Smoking Gun, November 2005 SHORT NAME:     www. teachertrash.blogspot.com

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.

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.