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Lisa Graham Keegan (born July 20, 1959) is an American education reform advocate and the author of the popular parenting book ''Simple Choices: Thoughts on choosing environments that support who your child is meant to be.''〔http://www.bookwire.com/title/Simple-Choices-9780988745148〕 She is the principal partner of the Keegan Company, an education policy consulting firm〔 http://www.qualitycharters.org/about-nacsa/board-of-directors/lisa-graham-keegan.html〕 〔http://www.keegancompany.com〕 and the executative director of A for Arizona, an organization promoting a "shift (of) efforts toward studying schools that, despite being low income, are certainly on the high end of success." 〔http://m.yumasun.com/news/group-put-focus-on-successful-arizona-schools/article_640d64fc-37f5-11e5-9093-97584f532ced.html?mode=jqm 〕 She served as Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction and as a senior policy advisor on education to Senator John McCain's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Congressional Quarterly: McCain’s Policy Team, September 1, 2008 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= A McCain team could include some Arizonans, Possibilities: Kyl, Keegan, Peters, Woods )〕 At the 2008 National Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota she was a vice chairman of the Republican Party political platform committee, for which she wrote policy statements on education issues.〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF )〕 '' Simple Choices '' begins with Lisa Graham Keegan’s memoir of building a family through divorce, abandonment, adoption, mental impairment, sexual identity and all the challenges life has to offer. Rather than weakening the family, Keegan shows how these trials can help build a stronger family bond. The book concludes with advice on how to nurture children to lead a life of service.〔http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Choices-Lisa-Graham-Keegan/dp/0988745100/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368043368&sr=1-1&keywords=0988745100〕 Keegan has advocated for comprehensive education reform, including emphasis on standardized testing, school choice methods such as school vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter schools, and open enrollment. Political leaders for whom she has worked included several governors including Jeb Bush of Florida, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Jan Brewer of Arizona, and Chris Christie of New Jersey, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF )〕 After the 2014 election she was appointed as education co-chair of Arizona Governor-elect Doug Ducey's transition team. 〔http://2015azgtc.com/news/〕 ==Author== Lisa Keegan is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles. Her most recent work is ''Simple Choices: Thoughts on choosing environments that support who your child is meant to be'' is a parenting book published in 2013.〔 Simple Choices begins with Lisa Keegan’s memoir of building a family through divorce, abandonment, adoption, mental impairment, sexual identity and all the challenges life has to offer. Rather than weakening the family, Keegan shows how these trials can help build a stronger family bond. The book concludes with advice on how to nurture children to lead a life of service.〔 The forward to the book is written by Kate Keegan McClendon and Annie Graham, Keegan's step daughter and daughter respectively. They articulate the sense of family and service that Keegan imbued in her extended family.〔 Keegan has authored numerous articles on education for Hoover Institution's magazine ''Education Next'' and blog Liberating Learning,〔http://liberatinglearning.blogspot.com/p/terry-moe.html〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Publishing for the Digital Future )〕 and other conservative groups including the Manhattan Institute and the Pioneer Institute, as well as the ''Arizona Republic''. She co-authored the education chapter of Newt Gingrich's 2010 book ''To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Gingrich Lines Up Experienced Education Adviser )〕 She has appeared as a speaker for think tanks, such as the Hoover Institute Board of Governors, Institute of Economic Affairs at the University of London, Empower America, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute. Columnists such as George Will of ''Newsweek'', David Brooks of the ''Weekly Standard'', and Clint Bolick of ''National Review'' have featured Keegan's reform agenda.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= George Will: Straight Talk from Arizona )〕 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「Lisa Graham Keegan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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