Sentences with phrase «education next reported»

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

In this, the fifth in a series of Education Next reports, we compare the proficiency standards set by each state to those set by NAEP, which has established its proficiency bar at levels comparable to those of international student assessments.

In our recent Education Next report, «Why Most Teachers Get a Bad Deal on Pensions,» my colleague Kelly Robson and I analyzed state pension plan turnover assumptions to look at two key milestones, the point when teachers first qualify for a pension, and when they become eligible for normal retirement.

But the authors of the Education Next report found that pensions do little to attract new talent and even less to retain it.

«The idea of a common set of standards across the country has wide appeal, and the Common Core itself still commands the support of a majority of the public,» the Education Next report says.

The Education Next report concludes that Common Core proponents need to clarify confusion over the initiative.

There does appear to be one important caveat to these studies: teachers with advanced degrees in a specific subject area (e.g. math or physics) show higher gains in student achievement when they teach classes in those specific subjects, according to this Education Next report:

As University of Houston researchers Sai Bui, Steven Craig and Scott Imberman revealed last October in their Education Next report in their report, the progress among top - performing students often stagnates once they are in gifted - and - talented classes.

Not exact matches

The market size of online supplemental education opportunity in India is expected to touch $ 2.5 billion in 2016 and is poised to grow at 15 % over the next three years, driven by innovative ways of delivering courses and study material by players in the space, according a report by research and advisory firm RedSeer Consulting.

There's been a lot of interesting commentary, from a variety of sources, on my article for the New York Times Magazine on character education, which draws on some of the reporting that I've been doing for my next book, «The Success Equation.»

With Michael Gove's ears still burning from being made to stand at the front of the class with his hands behind his back following his humiliating EBacc u-turn, the Annual Ofsted Report, due to be given by Sir Michael Wilshaw and John Goldup next Wednesday morning, will be quite an important performance indicator for the education policy talking heads.

And next week there may be some very awkward questions for the Education Secretary when those reports are published into alleged Islamification in some Birmingham schools.

Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who reports to the board, have pledged to tackle diploma issues over the next 10 months.

A report commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Sciences last year showed that a third of the scientific staff will retire in the next 10 years.

A new report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and presented by Robin Mellors - Bourne, director of research and intelligence at CRAC: The Career Development Organisation (which runs Vitae), shed light on how English universities recruit Ph.D. students and how they expect supply and demand to develop in the next few years.

Due to an aging scientific workforce within NOAA and fewer students going into the necessary fields of study for fish stock assessment, there could be as many as 180 vacancies within NMFS over the next decade, according to a 2008 report issued by the Departments of Commerce and Education.

The data — taken from The Key's annual State of Education report, to be released next month — reveals that 59 % of schools (which equates to 14,347 schools in England) received more applications for places this academic year than the number of pupils they could accommodate.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about a new Fordham Institute report identifying 2800 public schools that only prosperous kids can attend.

Greg Toppo sits down with Marty West to discuss the influence of the Coleman Report on the Education Next podcast.

State education officials in Idaho say they hope their pledge to report on how districts use a proposed $ 20 - million school - improvement fund will help boost total education funding during the next legislative session.

(See these well researched reports in Education Next: here and here and here.)

For more on the Brookings Institution report, please see «What's Next in Education: Common Ground or Battle Ground?»

A major survey, as seen and reported on by TES, reveals that two - thirds of secondary head teachers in the East of England believe that they of not have the sufficient funds necessary to «deliver high quality education» over the next year.

Some of the next steps in the education space are to develop reports on the teaching workforce next year and allow for a robust supply and demand model of more than 600,000 practising and preservice teachers to be used by employers, sectors and providers.

For more about the articles on the Moynihan Report that will be appearing in the Spring 2015 issue of Education Next, visit educationnext.org/revisiting-moynihan-report-50th-anniversary/.

The report by RM Education reflected that while average network team sizes currently comprise of around four or five internal staff, there is an increasing expectation from ICT leaders that the number of staff dedicated to ICT will fall over the next two years.

The Spring 2015 issue of Education Next is dedicated to revisiting on its 50th anniversary Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 report «The Negro Family: The Case for National Action» (generally referred to as the Moynihan Rereport «The Negro Family: The Case for National Action» (generally referred to as the Moynihan ReportReport).

Readers of Education Next may have seen a report entitled Diploma to Nowhere from Strong American Schools last year that counted up the number of high school graduates who end up in remedial courses at the next leNext may have seen a report entitled Diploma to Nowhere from Strong American Schools last year that counted up the number of high school graduates who end up in remedial courses at the next lenext level.

It was part of a special Education Next issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman's groundbreaking report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity.»

In the first three and a half weeks of its launch, Kaiser reported that 250 arts organizations contacted the Kennedy Center for its pro bono help, which will include a new arts in education program, slated to pilot in the Lafayette, La., schools next year, that aims to reshape the current, episodic nature of children's arts education.

The report, «Taking Back Teaching,» by Richard Lee Colvin will appear in the Spring 2013 issue of Education Next and is currently available online at www.educationnext.org.

In a new article for Education Next, Susan Payne Carter of the United States Military Academy, Major Kyle Greenberg of the Army's Human Resources Command, and Major Michael S. Walker of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense report that allowing computer use in the classroom, even with strict limitations, significantly reduces students» average final - exam performance.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers» by Sara McLanahan and Christopher Jencks, and «Moynihan and the Single Parent Family: The 1965 report and its backlash» by James T. Patterson will appear in the Spring 2015 issue of Education Next and are available now on http://educationnext.org.

The report, «Poor Results for High Achievers: New evidence on the impact of gifted and talented programs» will appear in the Winter, 2012, issue of Education Next and is available at www.educationnext.org.

In a new article for Education Next, Richard Lee Colvin reports that Anderson's replacement, Chris Cerf, is effecting positive change for students and leaders in a district previously plagued by conflict through his commitment to listen before acting.

As June Kronholz reported in Education Next, studies have long found that disadvantaged students who participate in such activities are less likely to drop out, use tobacco or alcohol, or get pregnant; they are also more likely to score well on tests, enroll in college, and complete college.

In a blog entry for Education Next, «The Limitations of Self - Report Measures of Non-Cognitive Skills,» Martin West describes some of his research with Chris Gabrieli and others on non-cognitive skills like conscientiousness, self - control, and grit.

These results, based on a study by a team of scholars at Harvard, Brown and Stanford universities, are reported in the Summer 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org.

The article is part of an Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman's groundbreaking report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity.»

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

Congressional Republicans and educators are dismayed over reports that the Department of Education plans to seek a minuscule increase for special education state grants for the next fisEducation plans to seek a minuscule increase for special education state grants for the next fiseducation state grants for the next fiscal year.

On Top of the News TAKS grade inflation is nothing new 06/13/10 Houston Chronicle Behind the Headline State Standards Rising in Reading but Not in Math Fall 2010 Education Next It has been reported that the «passing» mark for some parts of the Texas state proficiency exam was altered after the results came -LSB-...]

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which pays both high school students and their teachers for receiving passing scores on AP exams, boosted AP participation rates in participating schools (no big surprise!)

A former adviser to the federal Reading First program will leave his current position at the U.S. Department of Education at the end of next month, the agency announced one week after a congressional report questioned whether he had gained financially in that previous job by promoting certain commercial products.

In the story I reported for Education Next in 2008, there is surely plenty of bluster from Mayor Mike and his former trust - busting chancellor Joel Klein — an image reinforced by a vivid cover illustration of the mayor, bedecked in shining armor with shield and sword, standing atop the city's refurbished Department of Education building — and there is no doubt that Bloomberg and Klein will have to eat a bit of crow.

On Top of the News States Fail to Raise Bar in Reading, Math Tests Wall Street Journal 8/11/11 Behind the Headline Few States Set World - Class Standards Education Next Summer 2008 A new NCES report finds that, while some states have raised their standards for proficiency in math and reading, most states still fall -LSB-...]

All this is reported in the 4th annual survey of public opinion on educational issues by Harvard's Program on Educational Policy and Governance and Education Next, which I, with William Howell and Martin West, help to direct.

The main findings from the Education Next — PEPG survey reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of U.S. adults (age 18 years and older) and oversamples of Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks, public school teachers, and residents of Florida (the last group for supplemental analyses not reported here).

In last year's fall issue of Education Next Columbia Business School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominously:

On this week's Ed Next podcast, Marty West of Education Next talks with Anna Egalite, assistant professor of education at North Carolina State University and the author of «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» which appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the journal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jim Coleman's landmarEducation Next talks with Anna Egalite, assistant professor of education at North Carolina State University and the author of «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» which appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the journal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jim Coleman's landmareducation at North Carolina State University and the author of «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» which appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the journal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jim Coleman's landmark report.