CSEP concludes School Leadership Program grant

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The Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) recently concluded a five-year, $4.6 million School Leadership Program grant to support the Illinois Partnerships Advancing Rigorous Training (IL-PART) project.

B-3 Continuity Project presentation

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Lisa Hood, Ph.D., from the Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP), in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations, recently presented to the Early Learning Council on November 18 at Roosevelt University on the B-3 Continuity Project.

Mapping the future of higher education

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Cemeteries, where ideas have gone to die, are filled with claims over the decades that higher education was headed for a radical transformation or even just significant change. The tombstones all read, “They were wrong. Nothing much changed.” Any claim that this time it’s different must be met with the appropriate level of skepticism. In

Why Bloomington-Normal still has two school districts

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Lynne Haeffele, director of Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy, was recently interviewed and featured on “Why Bloomington-Normal Still Has Two School Districts” by WGLT in October. Other contributors to the discussion were former Unit 5 school board member Doug Reeves; Alan Lessoff, a history professor at ISU; and Bill Mueller,

Wallace Foundation shares principal preparation book

Lisa Hood, Alicia Haller, Maureen Kincaid, and Erika Hunt

We are excited to be featured in a Wallace Foundation blog post that shares an interview with Erika Hunt, Ph.D., about the newly released book titled Reforming Principal Preparation at the State Level: Perspectives on Policy Reform from Illinois.