Education Voters Institute » About Us http://www.edvotersinstitute.org Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Poll: Voters support public education funding http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/demand-for-higher-school-standards/poll-voters-support-public-education-funding/ http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/demand-for-higher-school-standards/poll-voters-support-public-education-funding/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:23 +0000 eviadmin http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/?p=107 Delaware voters strongly believe that every child has a right to a quality public education, according to a recent survey of likely voters conducted for Education Voters of Delaware. Support for public education is a deeply held core value for Delaware voters, parents and non-parents alike across the state.

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The Education Voters family of organizations includes Education Voters Institute (a (501(c)(3) organization) and Education Voters of America (a (501(c)(4) that also operates a related political fund).  Education Voters Institute builds public will by educating the public and organizing citizens to understand and support the need for funding and policies necessary to ensure every child receives an excellent education.  Education Voters of America advocates for progressive education policy and fair funding through direct advocacy and organized issue campaigns.

What’s your stance on No Child Left Behind?

At this time we aren’t engaged in the federal policy debate. Please see our partner organizations for their insightful analysis on NCLB as well as many other important federal policy issues.

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PISA results

States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High School

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Public Education Network

Alliance for Excellent Education

Education Justice at Education Law Center

Teachers College at Columbia University

Forum for Education and Democracy

]]> http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/staff/feed/ 0 Leadership and Staff http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/leadership/ http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/leadership/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:53:29 +0000 admin http://localhost:80/wordpress/about-us/ EVI shares office space and staff with Education Voters of America, in Washington DC’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. The six full-time staff include the president, the director of operations, the director of finance and administration, the senior accountant, the development manager, and the online communications manager.

EVI Board of Directors

Dan Leeds, founder and chair

  • Alliance for Excellent Education, board chair
  • Brookings Institution Business Council, member
  • Brookings Institution Center for the United States and Europe, advisory board member
  • Enfranchisement Foundation, board co-chair
  • Education Voters of America, board chair
  • MIT Sloan School of Management, Dean’s advisory board
  • NY EdPAC, board chair
  • Teachers Institute of Washington DC, board member

Sunita Leeds, secretary/treasurer

  • Enfranchisement Foundation, co-chair
  • Education Voters of America, board member
  • Maret School (DC), board member
  • National Jewish Democratic Council, executive committee
  • NY EdPAC, board member

James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center
  • Founded Comer School Development Program, 1968
  • Member, National Committee on Teaching and America’s Future
  • Member, Nellie Mae Education Foundation Board of Directors
  • Member, Columbia University Board of Directors
  • Received the 2006 John Hope Franklin Award
  • Received the 2004 John P. McGovern Behavioral Science Award from the Smithsonian
  • Recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Board Member Emeritus of several institutions.

John H. Jackson Ed.D., J.D.

  • President and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education
  • Founder and Chairman of the National Equity Center Inc.
  • Held previous positions as NAACP’s Chief Policy Officer and National Director of Education
  • 2002 recipient of the NAACP Medgar Evers Award
  • Appointed by President Clinton to serve as Senior Policy Officer in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.

Douglas E. Wood, Ph.D.

  • George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, fellow
  • National Academy for Excellent Teaching, Columbia University, executive director
  • Former Executive Director of the Tennessee State Board of Education
  • Named 1994 South Carolina Technology Educator of the Year
  • Awarded the 2002-2003 Distinguished Service Award by the Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers

Linda Darling-Hammond, Ed.D.

  • Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University
  • Launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network
  • Founding executive director of the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future, the blue-ribbon panel who authored the 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future
  • Wrote The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998

Paul Herdman, Ed.D.

  • President and CEO of the Rodel Foundation
  • Managed support to states at New American Schools
  • Conducted research for the Brookings Institution, RAND, US Dept of Education, and the World Bank
  • Co-founded a school-within-a-school in New York City, used as a model for Expeditionary Learning
  • Worked in MA Dept of Education under two governors during redesign of state’s policies on standards, choice, and finance
  • PhD from Harvard in Education Administration and Planning
]]> http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/leadership/feed/ 0 How We Are Different http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/how-we-are-different/ http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/how-we-are-different/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:53:13 +0000 admin http://localhost:80/wordpress/about-us/ Strategic participation in democratic processes is the key to transforming education policies. We believe that by engaging the public in a discussion of what comprises a high-quality education and then promoting the policies necessary to enable our public school system to provide that high-quality education for all children, we can fundamentally change public education in America. All public officials claim to be pro-public education, but most people have difficulty defining the elements that ensure quality education and evaluating whether or not their public officials are making decisions that will result in an effective education system for all children. Education Voters Institute will work with distinguished academics, practitioners, policy makers, think tanks, educators, and voters to identify the most critical elements for making public schools work. Based on that research, EVI will work state by state, year by year, to ensure that voters and public officials have a common understanding of specific policies they can support, and specific actions they can take, to improve public education policy. The interactive sections of our website, and the state EVI affiliates, will ensure that our information is timely, relevant, and action-oriented.

]]> http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/how-we-are-different/feed/ 0 MISSION/VALUES http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/change-education-policy/ http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/about-us/change-education-policy/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:13:15 +0000 admin http://localhost:80/wordpress/about-us/mission-about-us/first-mission-statement The Education Voters Institute envisions a nation in which every child graduates from high school prepared for college, civic engagement, and success in life, and in which every graduate has access to affordable higher education. We envision a rededication of public policy and public funds to the historic purpose of public education: preparing each student for engaged citizenship and lifelong learning. We envision Americans across the country engaged in common pursuit of that purpose. Our mission is to build public support for education policies that promote that vision. Through public information and civic participation campaigns, Education Voters Institute will create and increase voter demand for excellent education. We will organize a network of coordinated state EVIs that will conduct national, state and local initiatives.EVI will change public policies and redirect public funding toward accomplishment of five goals by the year 2012:

  • Bring excellent solutions to all schools, eliminating educational inequities within and across schools, neighborhoods, districts, and states.
  • Encourage innovation and creativity to address the needs of every child.
  • Invest in quality teachers, reducing turnover and increasing student success.
  • Invest in the full spectrum of education, from pre-K through postsecondary education.
  • Provide access to affordable higher education for all who seek it, preparing today’s students for tomorrow’s workplace.

Education is the key to individual accomplishment and democratic renewal. The goals we are pursuing will benefit individual students by improving access to quality education; equally important, they will benefit all Americans by preparing every individual for college, productive employment, and life in the 21st century.

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