Sentences with phrase «as educational policy makers»

As educational policy makers seek strategies to improve the teacher workforce, the early career period represents a unique opportunity to identify struggling teachers, examine the likelihood of future improvement, and make strategic pretenure investments in development or dismissals.

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We've also reduced pesticide use on our own experimental station and do other work, such as run educational campaigns and advocate to policy - makers, to help stop pesticide mis - use.

Parents can partner effectively in their children's educational success by supporting home learning, establishing constructive dialogue with educators and policy makers, and shining as individuals within their community.

In a new publication, Quality Physical Education, Guidelines for Policy Makers, UNESCO urges governments and educational planners to reverse this trend, described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic that contributes to the death of 3.2 million people every year, more than twice as many as die of AIDS.

This information on the educational effects of tests will give feedback to policy makers as to what is working well and what needs to be changed, making it possible to improve instruction through the improved use of test information.

ACER draws on its expertise as a leader in educational research, assessment, and data collection and analysis to provide professional learning for educators and system leaders, policy makers, psychologists and human resources professionals, and others to support improved learning.

the undersigned, have been empowered by the Constitution of the State of New York and appointed by the New York State Legislature to serve as the policy makers and guardians of educational goals for the residents of New York State.

Along with other national testing experts, FairTest advises policy makers and educational practitioners that using standardized test scores alone as the basis for describing school performance or improvement is both unreliable and unfair.

Although research as early as the 1970s has demonstrated the effect of principals on student achievement, the improvement of procedures used to select principals have managed to largely evade the attention of educational stakeholders, policy makers, and researchers.

We examine one recent, and uncommonly influential, reading methods study as an example of research that has been overly promoted by the media and misused by some policy makers and educational leaders to support a simple solution to the complex problem of raising the literacy of young children in high poverty neighborhoods.

Why do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»

Engage and interact in conversations with over 700 attendees including teachers, students, technology coordinators, staff developers, administrators, policy makers, professors, government and industry representatives, as well as national leaders in educational policy and practice.

Therefore educators and policy makers in the Arab world should communicate these concepts pragmatically as well as theoretically, starting with formulating a new vision for education in the Arab World, a deep and continuous revision of their curriculums, setting standards for equal chances in professional development, and making serious efforts in creating an educational philosophy not only for gender equity, but rather for human justice.

The authors define data use interventions as «initiatives, policies, programs, and tools designed to alter the ways that educational decision - makers access, draw on, interact with, and respond to data in their ongoing work.»

As an industry we are making unprecedented decisions about the environments our children are spending their educational lives in and there is a need to capture and share the learning on the subject - for architects, educationalists and policy makers.

Rather, until we as educators, parents, school boards, communities, and policy makers are willing to consider second order change, we will continue to be stagnant in improving our educational system in the United States.

Policy makers have long held up charter schools as providing what they consider to be better educational opportunities than low - performing district schools.

Graduates of the program will take key positions in corporations and private and public universities and schools; they will become designers, developers, and evaluators of educational technologies and learning environments as well as domain experts, learning technology policy - makers, or Chief Learning Officers.

119 no. 1) issue of the American Journal of Education focuses on the role of social networks in educational change, and offers a collection of papers from forefront researchers on this topic that may serve as an introduction of the topic to a wide range of interested educators, policy - makers, and researchers.

In her 2010 book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, former policy maker and educational critic Diane Ravitch traces the origin of the school choice model, as well as its growing influence in the United States.

The Institute's Climate Change Education & Parks program (PDF) seeks to strengthen parks as educational venues by identifying program, models, and policies that can be replicated, scaled, and adopted as policy by key decision makers.

NIGA operates as an educational, legislative, and public policy resource for tribal policy makers as well as the public, on issues related to Indian gaming and tribal community development.

By engaging in meaningful conversation, the goal of this session is to incite a broadening and deepening of our thinking and practice as early childhood teachers, leaders, and policy makers who shape the educational landscape for all children.

ACER draws on its expertise as a leader in educational research, assessment, and data collection and analysis to provide professional learning for educators and system leaders, policy makers, psychologists and human resources professionals, and others to support improved learning.