National Education Policy Center
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Leading Education Researchers Announce Creation of National Education Policy Center
With the demand for education research at its highest level in a generation but growing concern about the quality of such research, experts and researchers from across the United States today announced the establishment of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Housed in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, NEPC stands at the forefront of efforts to bring the highest quality education policy research to bear on policymaking and public understanding of key schooling issues.
The mission of the National Education Policy Center is to produce and disseminate high-quality, peer-reviewed research to inform education policy discussions guided by the belief that the democratic governance of public education is strengthened when policies are based on sound evidence.
“We are launching NEPC at an important time for American education research and policy,” said Kevin Welner, NEPC director and Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Policy decisions are too often made without supporting research, or even in conflict with what the research tells us. To help push research to the fore, the National Education Policy Center brings together some of the most important education research and analysis currently being conducted across the nation and around the world.”
The NEPC Fellows, a network of 100 mostly university-based education policy scholars, will work with NEPC because they care about the goal of bringing quality research to the task of policymaking. These Fellows include some of the most accomplished and knowledgeable researchers in the nation, and they will assist NEPC in meeting the national demand for education reform and improvement.
“The national need for progress in our schools makes it more important than ever that policy be based on reliable research,” Welner said. “NEPC is committed to providing researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the community at large with policy analyses and recommendations based on high-quality social science research.”
NEPC will feature three ancillary activities in support of research-based education policy analysis:
1. The Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU), which is the only research unit in the world dedicated to studying the impact of commercialism on education, is now part of NEPC.
2. NEPC will be the new home for Education Review, the foremost open access book review journal in education, accessed by more than 1,000 readers each day.
3. NEPC will house the new Education Research Global Observatory (ERGO), a resource dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of open access scholarship in education from around the world.
NEPC will combine the efforts of two previous major players in the education policy-making scene – the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University. NEPC will continue to produce think tank reviews, policy briefs, research briefs, and legislative policy briefs.
“Over the years, EPIC and EPRU have seen growing demand for their research publications,” said Alex Molnar, NEPC Publications Director and professor at Arizona State University. “NEPC will build on and extend the work begun by EPIC/EPRU. We have a very aggressive publication agenda.”
To learn more about NEPC, visit http://nepc.colorado.edu
Leading Education Researchers Announce Creation of National Education Policy Center
With the demand for education research at its highest level in a generation but growing concern about the quality of such research, experts and researchers from across the United States today announced the establishment of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Housed in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, NEPC stands at the forefront of efforts to bring the highest quality education policy research to bear on policymaking and public understanding of key schooling issues.
The mission of the National Education Policy Center is to produce and disseminate high-quality, peer-reviewed research to inform education policy discussions guided by the belief that the democratic governance of public education is strengthened when policies are based on sound evidence.
“We are launching NEPC at an important time for American education research and policy,” said Kevin Welner, NEPC director and Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Policy decisions are too often made without supporting research, or even in conflict with what the research tells us. To help push research to the fore, the National Education Policy Center brings together some of the most important education research and analysis currently being conducted across the nation and around the world.”
The NEPC Fellows, a network of 100 mostly university-based education policy scholars, will work with NEPC because they care about the goal of bringing quality research to the task of policymaking. These Fellows include some of the most accomplished and knowledgeable researchers in the nation, and they will assist NEPC in meeting the national demand for education reform and improvement.
“The national need for progress in our schools makes it more important than ever that policy be based on reliable research,” Welner said. “NEPC is committed to providing researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the community at large with policy analyses and recommendations based on high-quality social science research.”
NEPC will feature three ancillary activities in support of research-based education policy analysis:
1. The Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU), which is the only research unit in the world dedicated to studying the impact of commercialism on education, is now part of NEPC.
2. NEPC will be the new home for Education Review, the foremost open access book review journal in education, accessed by more than 1,000 readers each day.
3. NEPC will house the new Education Research Global Observatory (ERGO), a resource dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of open access scholarship in education from around the world.
NEPC will combine the efforts of two previous major players in the education policy-making scene – the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University. NEPC will continue to produce think tank reviews, policy briefs, research briefs, and legislative policy briefs.
“Over the years, EPIC and EPRU have seen growing demand for their research publications,” said Alex Molnar, NEPC Publications Director and professor at Arizona State University. “NEPC will build on and extend the work begun by EPIC/EPRU. We have a very aggressive publication agenda.”
To learn more about NEPC, visit http://nepc.colorado.edu
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