By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International Dear Prospective Client: My organization and thousands of others, including university-based, non-profits, and for-profit organizations, are pleased that you are soliciting our help in evaluating your project. This is how we keep the doors open, and, in our case, as a non-profit organization, it is how we preach our mission of expanding educational opportunity … Continue reading An Open Letter to All Organizations in Need of a Program Evaluator

Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute Back in 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education began pumping millions of dollars into its Achieving the Dream initiative, an effort to improve educational practice at two-year institutions through data-driven decision-making, the use of learning communities, and changing the way students are processed at community colleges. Seventy-six million dollars later, a new MDRC report suggests that … Continue reading Not Quite Achieving the Dream