Emerging Education Policy Scholars
In summer 2010, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute will jointly embark upon a new project to cultivate talent within the education-policy sector. The Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS) program will convene up-and-coming scholars from various disciplines to meet with senior education-policy experts and engage both parties in discussion around K-12 research and policy issues. Through EEPS, we seek to counter the long-standing, well documented divide between research and policy in education. The program focuses on three over-arching goals:
- To enlarge the pool of talent and ideas from which the education-policy arena currently draws;
- To introduce scholars to key players in the education policy arena; and
- To increase understanding of how the worlds of policy and practice intersect with scholarly research in education and related fields.
EEPS’s inaugural event, The Intersection of Research and Policy in K-12 Education, will be held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. on July 27-28, 2010.
During this one-and-a-half-day discussion series, twenty young scholars will gather with think-tankers, academics, policymakers, and reformers in an informal setting. Two education-policy experts will spearhead a variety of roundtable discussions, which will span a diverse array of research operations at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as in the public and private sectors. The event will also allow ample time—during discussion sessions, meals, and a cocktail hour—for scholars to build professional connections and share research and ideas.
