The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Publication | May 1, 2008 | Zogby International
Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative
A new Aspen Institute/Zogby interactive survey indicates that most Americans believe increased access to health care is not enough to improve health outcomes. The results of this poll show that...
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Publication | February 22, 2009
Recommendations on WHO’s Draft Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel: Prepared by Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, Secretariat for the Global...
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Publication | March 14, 2013 | Greg Ferenstein
Communications and Society Program
The 2012 FOCAS convened 38 leaders and developers from government, media and communications enterprises, localities, consumer/user groups and academia to define the problems of open and innovative...
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Publication | December 17, 2010
Education and Society Program
An Analysis of Proposals by the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium The U.S. Department of Education has ...
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Publication | March 22, 2011
Education and Society Program
Ambitious reforms across the country are reshaping teacher evaluation and performance management. Designing new systems for measuring teacher effectiveness and using that information to increase...
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Publication | April 11, 2011 | Ross Wiener, Ariel Jacobs
Education and Society Program
As new performance-management-related policies go from idea to implementation, policy makers and education leaders need to flesh-out what are still broad principles in many areas. This...
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Publication | June 2, 2011 | Sean D. Hamill
Education and Society Program
Forging a New Partnership: The Story of Teacher Union and School District Collaboration in Pittsburgh documents Pittsburgh's transformation from a typical, adversarial district-union dynamic to one...
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Publication | January 6, 2012 | Rachel Curtis and Ross Wiener
Education and Society Program
Teacher evaluation has emerged as a key strategy for improving student outcomes in public education.The rationale is compelling: teachers vary widely in their effectiveness, and evaluation systems...
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Publication | March 30, 2012 | Rachel Curtis
Education and Society Program
The two top priorities in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools' Strategic Plan 2014 Teaching Our Way to the Top are: focusing on equitable instruction district-wide, and...
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Publication | March 30, 2012 | Rachel Curtis
Education and Society Program
Hillsborough County Public Schools has launched a teacher evaluation system that has attracted attention from educators and policy makers across the country. Centralized, collaborative,...
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