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Drs Dan Levy and Kevin Kinser, as well as EAPS graduate Prachayani Praphamontripong, contributed to a new volume on the financing of higher education

Just published by Routledge Press, the book, edited by Donald Heller and Claire Callender, documents the changes in higher education financing around the world as governments increasingly require students and their families to pay for education, in addition to the emergence of a substantial private sector within the higher education systems of many countries.

 

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Prof. Gilbert Valverde hosts delegation of Evaluation and Standards Policymakers from Uruguay

At the invitation of the US Embassy in Uruguay and the US Department of State, Professor Gilbert Valverde hosted a delegation of government policy makers in evaluation and standards from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education, the National Administration of Public Education, and the newly created National Institute for Education Evaluation.
In Uruguay, weaknesses in the public education system are high profile issues as rising dissatisfaction with the quality of the schools and instruction that children are receiving, particularly in rural schools, has put pressure on the government to improve education across all levels. The delegation came to discuss with Professor Valverde, an expert in both Latin American and international evaluation and standards policies and current President of the Comparative and International Education Society, topics including educational indicators, evidenced-based policymaking, teacher evaluation and educational research policies. Joining in the informal conversation were EAPS colleagues Drs. Alan Wagner, James Butterworth (Executive Director of CASDA, the Capital Area School Development Association) and doctoral candidate Ms. Gloria Zambrano.

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PISA, Power and Policy: the emergence of global educational governance

Drs. Heinz-Deiter Meyer and Aaron Benavot have co-edited the most recent volume of the Oxford Studies in Comparative Education series. The book scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation’s school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world’s vast cultural and institutional diversity. This edited volume includes research by EAPS faculty Meyer, Benavot, Kathryn Schiller and doctoral student, Taya Owens.

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Professor Hal Lawson received the National Cooperative Leadership Award.

The National School Development Council has bestowed one of its two National Cooperative Leadership Awards on Professor Hal A. Lawson. This award recognizes outstanding, national leadership, including demonstrated success in improving school leadership preparation and practice, facilitating collaboration with educational partners, and investing in research frameworks that benefit educational practice. Professor Lawson was honored at    the Capital School Development Association’s annual award dinner, April 16, 2013.
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