Arizona State University is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.
"School choice" is a term for K–12 public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence. In the United States, the most common—both by number of programs and by number of participating students—school choice programs are scholarship tax credit programs, which allow individuals or corporations to receive tax credits toward their state taxes in exchange for donations made to non-profit organizations that grant private school scholarships. In other cases, a similar subsidy may be provided by the state through a school voucher program. Other school choice options include open enrollment laws, charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, homeschooling, education savings accounts (ESAs), and individual tax credits or deductions for educational expenses.
City Journal is a public policy magazine and website that covers a wide range of topics, from policing strategy, education reform, and social policy to urban architecture, family culture, and contemporary theories emanating from law schools, charitable foundations, and public health organizations. The magazine began publishing in 1990, and has been lauded as a premier urban policy magazine.
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix campus is one of four campuses of Arizona State University. It is commonly referred to as ASU Downtown. The campus, distinguished by its name, is located in the downtown area of Phoenix, Arizona.
Education Review is an open-access academic journal publishing reviews of books in the field of education. It was established in 1998 by Gene V. Glass, Nicholas Burbules, and Kate Corby. The journal publishes peer-reviewed essay reviews and reviews of scholarly books. Reviews of books published in Spanish and Portuguese are also published. Reviews in English were edited by Glass and co-editor Melissa Cast-Brede. They were succeeded in 2012 by David J. Blacker. Reviews in Spanish or Portuguese are edited by Gustavo Fischman. Education Review publishes approximately 250 reviews each year. Education Review is currently published by the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
Arizona Proposition 203, also known as English for the Children, is a ballot initiative that was passed by 63% of Arizona voters on November 7, 2000. It limited the type of instruction available to English language learner (ELL) students. Before Proposition 203, schools were free in terms of ELL instruction to use bilingual or immersion methods. According to a cover letter from the Arizona Department of Education Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan to the Arizona Legislature, it was impossible to make a correct analysis regarding how many students were learning through English as a second language programs, as opposed to bilingual education. The school districts had submitted "conflicting information," and 40% had not submitted any data, in spite of three deadline extensions.
Morrison Institute for Public Policy is an Arizona State University resource for objective policy analysis and expertise. Morrison Institute researches public policy issues, informs policy makers and residents, and advises leaders on choices and actions.
Michael Maurice Crow is an American academic and university administrator. He is the 16th and current president of Arizona State University, having succeeded Lattie F. Coor on July 1, 2002. He was previously Executive Vice Provost of Columbia University, where he was also Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the School of International and Public Affairs. He is also chairman of the board for In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm.
Len Munsil is the President of Arizona Christian University. He was the Arizona Republican Party nominee for Governor of Arizona in the 2006 gubernatorial election, coming from behind to upset Don Goldwater in the Republican primary in his first run for any elective office. He lost to incumbent Janet Napolitano in the general election on November 7, 2006. In 2016 he served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and a member of the GOP Platform Committee.
Chicana/o studies originated in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Chicano studies concerns itself with the study of Chicanos, Latinos, and Mexican Americans, drawing upon a variety of fields, including, but not limited to, history, sociology, the arts, and Chicana/Chicano theory.
The Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization. It is an international association of public affairs schools at universities in the United States and abroad. NASPAA is also the recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as the accreditor of master's degree programs in public policy (MPP), public affairs (MPAff), and public administration (MPA). Its stated mission is to "ensure excellence in education and training for public service and to promote the ideal of public service."
Donald Thomas Critchlow is the Katzin Family Foundation Professor at Arizona State University specializing in American political history. He serves currently as director for the program for Political History and Leadership and a professor of history at Arizona State University. He has appeared on C-Span, National Public Radio, BBC World News, and many talk radio programs. He has written for the Washington Post, New York Observer, New York Post, and National Review. He is the author and editor of 25 books and is the founding editor of Journal of Policy History published by Cambridge University Press.
Darcy Olsen is an American nonprofit executive. For 15 years, she served as the chief executive officer of the Goldwater Institute. In 2018, she founded Generation Justice, a nonprofit organization that works for children's rights. She has been active in the right-to-try movement, which encourages the passage of state laws to let terminally ill patients try experimental therapies that have completed Phase 1 testing but have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In 2015, she published a book on the topic titled The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need.
The American Economic Journal is a group of four peer-reviewed academic journals published by the American Economic Association. The names of the individual journals consist of the prefix American Economic Journal with a descriptor of the field attached. The four field journals which started in 2009 are Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics.
The Journal of Educational Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1910 and covers educational psychology. It is published by the American Psychological Association.
Current Issues in Education is a triannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal sponsored by Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. The journal is run by graduate students and covers all aspects of education. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus.
Terrence G. Wiley has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC (2010-2017), Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University, and member of the College of Education, Graduate Faculty at the University of Maryland.
The Journal of Policy History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of public policy.
Cora Louise Boehringer was the first female superintendent of schools in Yuma County, Arizona and the first woman to be elected to office in the state. She has been called "the mother of the Arizona educational system". In 2008 she was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.
