Sentences with phrase «education policy center»

This brief, published jointly by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center, discusses the four key features of community schools and offers guidance to support school, district, and state leaders as they consider or implement a community school intervention strategy in schools targeted for comprehensive support.

Learning to be Watched: Surveillance Culture at School The Eighteenth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercializing Trends 2014 - 2015 National Education Policy Center analysis

National Education Policy Center, January 2012.

Schoolhouse Commercialism Leaves Policymakers Behind National Education Policy Center analysis

He is a policy fellow of the National Education Policy Center.

The National Education Policy Center noted one particular example of an NHA owned charter in Louisiana, where public transportation is not offered despite 7 % of the state funding being given to the school to do so (Crawfish, 2015).

The National Education Policy Center called Pitbull out not just for Academica's involvement but also for what they called misogynistic lyrics in his music.

The National Education Policy Center (NEPC), based at the University of Colorado Boulder, sponsors the Schools of Opportunity project, which identifies excellent public high schools that actively strive to close opportunity gaps — the differences in opportunities and resources that drive the well - known achievement gaps.

Sleepy Hollow High School has been recognized as a «School of Opportunity» by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) for the 2014 - 15 school year.

«What this shows is that charters both outperformed urban schools and improved faster than urban schools,» said David Plank, director of Michigan State University's Education Policy Center.

Speaking of Community schools, the Learning Policy Institute, in collaboration with the National Education Policy Center, has just released Community Schools as an Effective School Improvement Strategy: A Review of the Evidence, a report on the impact of community schools on students and student outcomes.

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Indeed, Pam Benigno, director of the Education Policy Center at the Independence Institute, called it a «landmark day in Colorado,» saying the bill «will align evaluated teacher and principal effectiveness more closely with student academic growth and weaken tenure protections for consistently ineffective teachers.»

Only 20 schools in the country received the distinction from the National Education Policy Center of University of Colorado.

But then Schmidt, who co-directs the university's Education Policy Center, put up his next slide.

[20] The National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder Think Tank Review Project has, since 2006, commissioned and published 96 third - party expert reviews of research published by think tanks related to the topics of value added assessment (7), virtual schools (7), privatization (11), charter schools (45), and vouchers (26).

The brief, «Chartering Equity: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Educational Opportunity,» from the University of Colorado's National Education Policy Center features recommendations from both Green and University of Wisconsin, Madison education professor Julie Mead on how states and school districts can ensure that charters are integrated and helpful to disadvantaged populations.

A new report from the National Education Policy Center examines how zero - tolerance discipline policies in schools negatively impact students of color — and offers several recommendations for protecting youth from state sanctioned violence.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

Think Twice is a project of the National Education Policy Center housed at Boulder, and is funded in part by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice.

National Education Policy Center is a good resource on charter school issues, especially for its analysis of charter school «studies» by charter advocates and developers.

She has previously worked at the Utah Education Policy Center at the University of Utah and as a data and statistics coordinator for the Utah State Board of Education.

Regarding national findings, a review of the CREDO study by the National Education Policy Center questioned CREDO's statistical methods: for example, the study excluded public schools that do NOT send students to charters, thus «introducing a bias against the best urban public schools.»

He is the coauthor of several peer - reviewed papers on school finance and charter schools, and has written many briefs on a variety of education policy issues for groups such as the National Education Policy Center, the Shanker Institute, and the Education Law Center.

We asked the folks at the National Education Policy Center for an answer.

More information about Julia Daniel is available on the National Education Policy Center website.

Based at the University of Colorado Boulder, the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) sponsors the annual Schools of Opportunity project, which identifies and recognizes excellent public high schools that actively strive to close opportunity gaps — the differences in opportunities and resources that drive the well - known achievement gaps.

He is coauthor of Financing Education Systems with Preston Green and Craig Richards, author of numerous peer - reviewed articles on education finance, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Education Finance and Education Finance and Policy as well as serving as a research fellow for the National Education Policy Center.

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School leaders can not expect that all this policy work is going to work wonders, says Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado - Boulder.

Professor, Education Policy & Law; Director, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado

William Mathis, Managing Director of the National Education Policy Center and member of the Vermont State Board of Education, has just published an astonishing piece in the Washington Post.

The National Education Policy Center sponsors the annual project to identify excellent public high schools which actively seek to close differences in opportunities and resources which drive well - known achievement gaps.

After the Colorado - based National Education Policy Center announced their school won one of its inaugural School of Opportunity awards, Urbana teachers and students expressed excitement over finally being recognized as one of the nation's best.

MICHELLE RENÉE VALLADARES is associate director, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder.

But according to a 2015 paper from Michigan State University's Education Policy Center, the complex formula Michigan uses to fund schools has resulted in a loss of about a quarter of per - student funding — adjusted for inflation — since 2002.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Community schools can be a successful strategy for improving schools under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), according to a policy brief released today by the National Education Policy Center and the Learning Policy Institute.

Frankenberg did the analysis for Think Twice, a project of the National Education Policy Center.

This article from the National Education Policy Center features teacher scholar Aija Simmons and Mills Teacher Scholars» transformational work at Oakland's New Highland Academy.

Opportunity gaps beyond the control of schools contribute to gaps in achievement, said Kevin Welner, a CU professor who directs the National Education Policy Center.

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ADAM YORK is a research associate, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder.

The National Education Policy Center has called for identifying and recognizing school reform that addresses equity for all students through their Schools of Opportunity project.

A 2012 report from the National Education Policy Center (which has been critical of the charter schools) found that students who attended virtual schools performed worse academically then their peers in other public schools.

A recent study produced by the union - backed National Education Policy Center found «serious flaws with full - time virtual schools.»

Since 2015, the National Education Policy Center Schools of Opportunity project has identified and celebrated public high schools that have resisted the test - focused craze of the No Child Left Behind era and — rather than buckling under the pressure to focus solely on student outcomes — have made it a priority also to create strong and equitable opportunities for all students to learn.

«We're watching the old NCLB / Race to the Top coalition come apart, and we'll see what will come out the other side,» says Rick Hess, director of the education policy center at the American Enterprise Institute.

The University of Colorado's National Education Policy Center developed the recognition as an alternative to test score - based «top school» lists.

That reference resonated with the other piece I read this weekend — the wonderful report by my heroes at the National Education Policy Center, «Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Action.»

Rick Hess is director of the education policy center at the conservative - leaning American Enterprise Institute.