Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy: Home Page Welcome! The Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy investigates efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning, the teacher workforce, and the systems of support for teachers’ work, in various contexts and at multiple levels of the K-12 educational system. To that end, Center researchers identify ways that policy actions, leadership, and reform efforts guide, direct, and support teaching and learning, thereby informing and enhancing the quality of learning opportunities in U.S. elementary and secondary schools. Research highlights Recent Center Reports The Center has recently released a synthesis report, Learning-focused Leadership and Leadership Support: Meaning and Practice in Urban Systems. Another line of Center research has produced an examination of the impact of Washington state’s incentives for teachers to attain National Board Certification and to work in challenging schools About the Center
The Education Policy and Leadership Center the deliberate dumbing down of america STARTS NOW Adding to Hunter's diary on loony education theories of the reich wing .. [his] problem is that we're not teaching our children according to the proven principles of [18th] century England... It's much worse: Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize "Complaints that teachers push liberal ideology are trickling down from college campuses to the K-12 level.. activists have generated a wave of efforts to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom The founder of this loony bin in college is right-wing activist David Horowitz [who] has a distinguished history of intellectual defamation, historical inaccuracy and political bullying. Ignore them, they're just crazy ? David Horowitz Think Progress As an American who had spent many years working abroad, I had experienced traveling in and living in socialist countries. That was just the beginning.
ePluribus Media Community || Collaborative Media for the Masses A Memetic Analysis of Policy Making Speel, H-C., 1997; A Memetic Analysis of Policy Making. Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 1. Abstract 1 - Introduction 2 - The Framework 2.1 - The Institutional System and the Case Study 2.2 - Concepts for Policy Making 2.3 - Memes, replication and retention systems 2.4 - Selective interaction and arenas 2.5 - The selective environment and levels of retention 2.6 - Lineage 3 - Implications of the Framework 3.1 - Implications for public policy theory 3.2 - Implications for memetic theory 4 - Conclusions Acknowledgments Glossary References Abstract A memetic framework is presented for the analysis of policy making. 1. This paper aims at establishing a memetic framework of definitions with which policy making in public and private organizations can be described and studied. Much has been written on memetics. In processes of policy making different views on how issues should be addressed compete for supremacy.