ADVISORY/Williamson Evers Returns to Hoover Institution after Six Months as Senior Adviser to Iraqi Ministry of Education.News Editors/Education Writers ADVISORY... Topical News: War On Terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2004 Available to Talk to Media about Iraq, His Experience Hoover research fellow Williamson M. Evers, who spent the past six months as a Presidentially-appointed senior adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Education, recently returned to the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President . Evers was part of an international team of civilian and military advisers in Baghdad who were recruited by the office of the United States Secretary of Defense The United States Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), concerned with the armed services and military matters. The role of the Secretary of Defense is to be the principal defense policy advisor to the President and is responsible for to work with the new Iraqi managers of their school system. He can discuss: -- prospects for Iraq -- his optimism about the possibilities for Iraq's future based on the people he met and with whom he worked -- life as a civilian adviser in Baghdad -- housing and living conditions for the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) سلطة الائتلاف الموحدة was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States, (CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. ) staff, of which he was a part; security and safety in Baghdad, and the measures taken when he and staffers ventured into the countryside to consult with school principals and administrators. -- education reconstruction & reform -- the removal of Saddam's textbooks and the publication of new and updated textbooks, the condition of school facilities, the mission of the CPA education ministry and its results. An op-ed by Evers on the situation of the education system in Iraq was published in the Wall Street Journal on January 15, 2004. Titled "An Iraqi Education," it covers many points upon which Evers can expand. He can be reached at 650-723-4148 and at evers@hoover.stanford.edu. He can also be reached through Hoover Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. at 650-723-0603. Evers, 55, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force The Koret Task Force on K–12 Education The Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education is a group of senior education scholars brought together by the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, who work collectively as well as individually on on K-12 Education. Evers's research concentrates on education policy -- especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, and accountability in elementary and secondary schools. The Iraqi Ministry of Education has historically operated the elementary and secondary schools and vocational centers across the nation of Iraq. The ministry has been responsible for building and outfitting schools, setting curricula, publishing textbooks, testing students, and auditing school performance. The CPA is a joint civilian-military administration leading the rebuilding of Iraq, led by Ambassador Paul Bremer. Senior advisers to Amb. Bremer act as resource people for Iraqis both inside and outside the ministry who want to revive To renew. For example, revival is the act of renewing the legal force of a contract or debt, either by acknowledging it or by giving a new promise, when the contract or debt is no longer a sufficient foundation for a lawsuit because it is barred by the running of the Statute Iraqi schools and begin the process of educational reform. |
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