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Archives for blog topic “Education”

Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast: Assessing Coalitions with Innovation Network on May 22nd

During Q&A at our last breakfast event, someone in the audience asked Serra Sippel of the Center for Health and Gender Equity about the challenges of assessing an advocacy coalition

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies, APEP News
Close that Loop, PleaseCall us biased, but we think The Aspen Institute's Education and Society Program is doing significant work, especially on the (still) controversial issue of teacher evaluations. In their new report,
Filed in Blog Topics: Advocacy Strategies, Education, Evaluation Theory and Practice

Calling All Breakfast Aficionados: Join Us on February 28th, 8:15 – 9:45AM

Craig Charney, Founder and President of Charney Research, will be on hand to chat with us about the potential role of public opinion surveys in development evaluations.

Filed in Blog Topics: Advocacy Strategies, Education, APEP News, Evaluation Theory and Practice

Come Have Breakfast with Us on February 28th, 8:15 – 9:45AM

Ladies and gents, our second Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast of the year is fast approaching on February 28th.  This time around, we’ve invited Craig Charney, President of

Filed in Blog Topics: Evaluation Theory and Practice, Education, APEP News

Education Nation
APEP got the chance to witness television magic this week at the Education Nation Summit thanks to our work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and NBC News. We’re helping to define and assess

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, Advocacy Strategies, US Politics

Global Health Policy Networks
At our last advocacy evaluation breakfast, American University professor Jeremy Shiffman presented on his work for the Gates Foundation’s Global Health Advocacy and Policy Project. Focusing on what makes for an effective

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, global health, Evaluation Theory and Methods

Bipartisanship?! Really?
The Kaiser Family Foundation published the results of their latest poll of the American public—this time on spending in global health projects in the developing world. The majority of Democrats (74%), Republicans (66%), and Independents (66%)

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, Philanthropy, global health, Evaluation Theory and Methods, US Politics

The World as Classroom
The idea gurus at TED have just released an online portal for educators—and for the student in all of us: TED-Ed. Teachers from around the world are invited to submit short lessons, and those selected are paired up with animators to produce pithy,

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, global health, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies

Evaluating Talk
Two weeks ago, we featured the Huffington Post piece of an Aspen Institute colleague arguing for the value of talk. Coincidentally, The New Yorker recently asked: so, what really happens at the World Economic Forum? Nick Paumgarten answers by describing

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy and Social Media

A Message from APEP Head Honcho, David Devlin-Foltz
As many of our Washington DC colleagues know already, Lisa Molinaro is leaving the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program on February 8th to pursue an exciting combination of travel and teaching yoga around the world, followed by business school

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, Evaluation Theory and Methods, APEP News

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