独立、高效、创新、实用——美国布朗教育政策研究中心评述

Independent, Efficient, Innovative and Practical——the Brown Center on Education Policy of Overseas Education Think Tank

根据2009至2015年宾夕法尼亚大学发布的全球智库报告,布鲁金斯学会连续几年一直是全球综合实力排名第一的智库,其下属的布朗教育政策研究中心也在教育智库排名中名列前茅。该智库以开展独立、高效、创新、实用的研究为使命。纽约市市长迈克尔·布隆伯格曾表示'在华盛顿,它超越了党派竞争而获得特别的尊重,这对以党派来排序的华盛顿来说不是一件容易的事情。'杂志《外国政策》表示,'布鲁金斯学会丰富的经验,为当今美国面临的几乎每个关键问题都能提供创新的解决方案。'本刊特约记者通过文献法和访谈法等多种途径,从该智库的运行概况、研究重点等几个方面进行呈现,以期对我国教育智库建设和发展有所启示。

Education equity is an important goal of the elementary education development and a significant indicator of education inner quality. Since 19 century, the pursue for education equity in UK has experienced a complicated path, which is from paying attention to the equity of beginning to the equity of result, and to the equity of process. Each stage also experienced whether or not paying attention, the level of attention and the content of attention. This transformation process shows that education process equity and the content of process equity have become the emphasis of education equity research and practice in UK. Hope it is beneficial to promoting the research and practice of education equity in China.