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Civic and Leadership Education
William Galston - College Park professor and director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland
Expertise:
family policy, domestic policy, American politics, campaigns, elections, education policy.
Credentials: deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal in first Clinton administration; served as senior advisor to Albert Gore Jr. during 1999-2000 presidential campaign and the run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988; issues director for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign, 1982-1984. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values.
Contact: 301-405-6347 (office); bgalston@umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site:http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Galston.html |
Judith Torney-Purta - professor, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland
Expertise -
social/political cognition; civic education cross-nationally; cross-cultural and inter-cultural studies; research related to social policy; interaction in technology-rich environments; social studies and history learning.
Credentials - author of numerous articles about civic education around the world and how it can foster democracy. Prof. Torney-Purta chairs the Task Force on Research and Outcomes Evaluation for the National Alliance For Civic Education. She chaired the international steering committee for the IEA ( International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) worldwide Civic Education Study (which was centered in the Department of Human Development), whose report was released in 2001 and 2002.
Contact - (301)-405-2806 (office); jtpurta@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_torney-purta.j.php
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