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The Educational Policy Institute (EPI) is a non-profit organization founded by its current president and CEO, Dr. Watson Scott Swail, and dedicated to increasing awareness of the challenges that individuals and families from under-served communities face throughout their educational career. EPI is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and partners with renowned research and educational organizations around the world, with satellite offices in Winnipeg, Canada, and Melbourne, Australia. The resources and knowledge gained through these partnerships and collaborations enhance EPI’s ability to conduct high-level research with global and local relevance and expertise. ==History & mission== The Educational Policy Institute’s mission is:
In 2002, Dr. Watson Scott Swail founded EPI to establish stronger connections between educational research and educational policy, with an emphasis on historically underserved communities such as students from low-income families, students of color, and students with disabilities. Swail chose this focus because these student populations tend to be the primary target of the majority of educational policy programs, while their voices are simultaneously under-represented in the policy-making arena. This discrepancy points to the need for a greater understanding of what factors have the greatest influence on their educational outcomes.〔 〕 Another research focus for EPI is the expansion of access to educational opportunities that are found to be of high quality, with the rationale that access is only relevant if it is to a quality learning experience. As the economy has become increasingly global, EPI supports the notion that students must be armed with skills that set them up for success in a competitive and technologically savvy market. Thus, EPI recognizes the rising need for students to attain postsecondary degrees, and focuses a great deal of its research on the ability of underserved student populations to matriculate through and graduate from higher education institutions, including the financial and social challenges that come along with this goal.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Educational Policy Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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