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Hope Street Group

September 2009
Catherine Cullen
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It looks as if Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) will not be taking over the HELP committee. That leaves Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) next in line.

Here's the story from the Washington Post. Harkin will have to give up the chair of the Agriculture Committee to take the post.

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Hope Street Group's summer policy project, developing the elements of a quality teacher evaluation system, is previewed at Gothamschools.org:
A novel nonprofit called Hope Street Group is behind the effort to involve educators in the debate. Created in 2003 as a volunteer-only experiment, Hope Street Group now has a full-time staff that works to build “coalitions of the reasonable” around domestic policy questions by gathering diverse groups of people to solve them together.

 

In a process officials at Hope Street Group call Policy 2.0, business executives and policy experts join with doctors or nurses or — in this case — teachers via small working groups, and then come up with a policy recommendation that everyone can agree on.

 

The team of 28 people who have signed up to write guidelines for a teacher evaluation system includes administrators, teachers, and policy experts, and they come from all around the country, Hope Street officials said. “This is a chance for an authentic and neutral voice,” said Catherine Cullen, a staffer who will work with the teacher-evaluation group.
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