One of the objectives of the Central Texas D&D Summit held on April 19 at the LBJ Library was to:
a) Identify specific local D&D efforts that could be used as examples of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation’s (NCDD) ‘Seven Challenges Facing the D&D Community’;
b) Members of the NCDD_CenTX team (to be determined) will [...]
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The participants in the small groups at the Central Texas D&D Summit had almost forty-five minutes to share the lessons and insights they have gained during the course of their dialogue and deliberation work.
Steven Fearing set up the groups with the following comments.
This meeting is not a workshop on dialogue and deliberation techniques. Instead it [...]
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[This report is being filed by Erin Kreeger, a member of Texas Forums, graduate of the Fielding Graduate University's Certification in Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement and an adviser to the University of Houston Downtown's Center for Public Deliberation. Erin will be an ongoing guest blogger for Texas Forums so check back often to hear [...]
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We have not yet begun our forums on Too Many Children Left Behind: Closing the Achievement Gaps in Central Texas, but we already have some success stories to report.
Here is a report filed by Susan Dawson, E3 Alliance.
Each community started off with a Too Many Children Left Behind launch team of (at least) a district [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
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On the evening of May 1, ten members of Texas Forums participated in a research project for the Kettering Foundation. They watched an unedited version of Public Voice, a documentary filmed earlier in the day at the National Press club featuring panelists who were commenting on videotaped excerpts of National Issues Forums on energy. The [...]
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The Harvard Family Research Project publishes The Evaluation Exchange, a periodical on emerging strategies in evaluation. The Spring 2007 issue (volume XIII Number 1) is the first of several issues they will publish covering “Hard to Measure” evaluations. Their first issue dealing with evaluating advocacy efforts has several ideas relevant to evaluating public engagement in [...]
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