Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Harvard  Harvard News Launch Event at Harvard Towards A New New Deal Conference in Washington DC, April 9th, 2008. Photos by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." — Franklin Roosevelt    Center on Education > Roosevelt Home > Harvard > Education Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): Are you interested in education policy? Teach for America calls education inequity the civil rights issue of our generation. There will be three main goals to be worked towards at once (though we're open to suggestions). For each, there will be an Assistant Director to lead the effort (let us know if you're intrested): 1. LEARN & DISCUSS Build our knowledge of education policy issues. Work through the Brookings Institute Primer on American Education. Meet with professors and experts. Link students with professors for research assistantships. Link students to research grants and summer internships. 2. RESEARCH, PROMOTE & ADVOCATE Harvard students in economics, gov, social studies, etc, have done and are doing work on education issues, which we will push to get published for a national audience of policy makers. Work with local and state politicians on developing positions on key issues. Take positions as a group and write op-eds. The Education Policy Center at Columbia, for example, is analyzing Mayor Bloomberg's education initiatives. The Yale group is working with the mayor of New Haven, and is analyzing Yale's admissions system. 3. EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY PROJECT with AMERICANS FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY In addition to taking part in the Askwith Forums at the Ed. School, and events at KSG's Program on Education Policy and Governance, we will run the Education for Democracy Project with Americans for Informed Democracy (www.aidemocracy.org). In February, we will run a conference on Global Issues in the Classroom, at Harvard, in conjunction with AID, for Boston area teachers. They just had one at Yale, with nearly 200 teachers attending, along with expert panelists and speakers. If you are interested in leading one of these three efforts, proposing other projects, or if you want to just work on one or all of them, please e-mail Rob Nelson. Group members: Robert E Nelson Raquel O Alvarenga Maria E Barth Elizabeth P Kurtz Jose O'Brien Susan Y Yao haugen@fas.harvard.edu jdezen@fas.harvard.edu jfauci@fas.harvard.edu keavey@fas.harvard.edu lurtz@fas.harvard.edu alizaidi@fas.harvard.edu msbrown@fas.harvard.edu muldoon@fas.harvard.edu rminkoff@fas.harvard.edu sabo@fas.harvard.edu sbjork@fas.harvard.edu sugihara@fas.harvard.edu weinbl@fas.harvard.edu zalisk@fas.harvard.edu melvoin@fas.harvard.edu dblume@fas.harvard.edu delahoyd@fas.harvard.edu elinos@fas.harvard.edu farber@fas.harvard.edu gpena@fas.harvard.edu   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359