Sentences with phrase «education policy research also»

Researchers at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research also questioned how the district expected to help children follow through.

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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The Centre also provides information on research, conversion advice, education and policy work on organic food and farming.

He is also the senior advisor for policy, research, and education at SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), an organization he served as national chairman and chief executive officer for more than fifteen years.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

It also supports education, training, research, clinical practice and policy development in the area of infant mental health.

Today, it delivers this objective by developing, supporting and promoting geography through research, expeditions and fieldwork, education, and public engagement, while also providing geographical input to policy.

Greater emphasis is also being put on transferable skills that serve not only academic scholars but also professionals who «may have research careers in other parts of society,» says David Crosier, education system analyst at Eurydice, the E.U. organization that provides information on European education systems and policies.

«This has very important implications for early education policy in the United States, where we are debating how early to start and whether preschool should be provided to all children or exclusively target low - income children,» said Dearing, a professor of applied developmental psychology who is also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development at the University of Oslo.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

This policy also applies to any other NIH - funded programs supporting research training, career development, or research education that require instruction in responsible conduct of research as stated in the relevant funding opportunity announcements.

He also assesses how lessons of cognitive science might inform a more rational - and reasonable - approach to education research, policy, and reform.

He has also won multiple awards for his research including the Association for Education Finance and Policy's Outstanding Dissertation Award and a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation.

McDonald also runs her own company, Catalyst Education Consulting, allowing her to stay involved in all the diverse areas of education that interest her, from policy to research to curriculum design, as well as meet others who, like her, want to affect the education sector for thEducation Consulting, allowing her to stay involved in all the diverse areas of education that interest her, from policy to research to curriculum design, as well as meet others who, like her, want to affect the education sector for theducation that interest her, from policy to research to curriculum design, as well as meet others who, like her, want to affect the education sector for theducation sector for the better.

A copy is also available from the Program on Education Policy and Governance on its research page.

In addition to writing and co-writing nearly 100 papers and book chapters, she has also co-written three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education, and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter (both published by Harvard University Press), and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press), which received honorable mention from the American Publishers Association for the best mathematics & statistics book of 2003.

Michelle also supports the development and implementation of equitable education policies by conducting original research on indicator systems, parent and family engagement, and education organizing.

She also founded and co-directs the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, which conducts research and policy analysis on issues affecting educational equity and opportPolicy in Education, which conducts research and policy analysis on issues affecting educational equity and opportpolicy analysis on issues affecting educational equity and opportunity.

In 2013, Burke was also named the Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy, devoting her time and research to reducing federal intervention in education at all levels and empowering families with educatioEducation Policy, devoting her time and research to reducing federal intervention in education at all levels and empowering families with educatioeducation at all levels and empowering families with educationeducation choice.

Maine's plan also includes partnering with the Maine Education Policy Research Institute to identify successful longevity pay approaches in other rural states, approaching the state legislature to fund a pilot, and encouraging districts to partner with local business leaders and community organizations to fund this additional pay.

He also served as a legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was an education policy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Ppolicy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public PolicyPolicy.

He also writes the weekly «School of Thought» column for TIME.com as well as the blog Eduwonk.com and is the co-publisher of «Education Insider» a federal policy research tool produced by Whiteboard Advisors.

Losing comparable data would be a blow not just for accountability, evaluation, and research, but also for communicating about the state of our education system and making smart policy decisions.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

Our team at DreamBox is inspired not only by this new recognition from Tech & Learning, but also by the recent analysis conducted by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University that suggests DreamBox drives compelling achievement gains in elementary math.

He is also the faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and pResearch Alliance, a research partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and presearch partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and presearch to policy and practice.

They also come at a time when new policy developments are shaping the future of the field once known as vocational training, including a series of reports from the U.S. Department of Education, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the American Institutes of Research's Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, Achieve and others that underscore the critical importance of teacher quality within CTE.

She has also written dozens of scholarly articles for publications such as Educational Policy, Research in Higher Education and Early Education and Development.

During her time in graduate school, she also worked as a Research Associate for the Harvard Kennedy School's SLATE Initiative, as well as the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

Shelby Richardson, a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, tells StateImpact it's difficult because educators want to hold students to the same, high standards while also allowing them to pursue individual interests:

They have also done this, repeatedly since 2011, despite the major research - based issues (see for example a National Education Policy Center (NEPC) analysis that followed; see also a recent / timely post about this on another blog at techcrunch.com).

We also conduct research and analysis on a variety of policies that affect talent supply and infrastructure and shape the context in which education leaders do their work — including school leadership, school governance, and accountability.

Her work has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Community College Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and the invitation - only journal New Directions for Community Colleges, among others; the findings form her studies have also been widely cited in various news outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and other outlets.

More importantly, however, the person who managed the statement's external review and also assisted the AERA Council in producing the final statement before it was officially released was Boston College's Dr. Henry Braun, Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy and Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation.

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She was also a deputy education commissioner in Florida, a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Education during President George W. Bush's administration, and an education research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Inseducation commissioner in Florida, a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Education during President George W. Bush's administration, and an education research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover InsEducation during President George W. Bush's administration, and an education research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Inseducation research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

He also wrote for academic journals, including the Journal of Research in the Teaching of English, the Journal of School Choice, and the Education Policy Analysis Archives and for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Canada's Globe and Mail.

He also does research, writing, and lecturing on education law and policy in such areas as school finance, early education, and school reform.

He also serves on NCSL's State Policy and Research for Early Education (SPREE) Working Group as well as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

For education research, Nguyen contributes an important and understudied perspective on popular and alternative spaces of learning; also she demonstrates the Vietnamese case of public education and cultural library policy under different political and historical regimes.

It also encourages and supports research at all levels of reading and language arts education to promote informed decision making by reading professionals, policy makers, and the public.

The Coalition, together with the new education think tank Learning Policy Institute, also convened its Community Schools Research Affinity Group during AERA.

She also has research and policy experience working at the U.S. Department of Education and D.C. Public Schools.

She also served as Commissioner for Postsecondary Education for the State of California, Associate Director of the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, and the Co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education.

They know that they can fall back on readily available life insurance policy loans to fund their daughter Jesse's college education and, after conducting extensive research, they also know that this planning approach is superior to the vigorously touted 529 plan.

The Pacific Research Institute also has ties to several ALEC «task forces,» including the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force, the Health and Human Services Task Force, the Education Task Force, and the Civil Justice Task Force.

They know that they can fall back on readily available life insurance policy loans to fund their daughter Jesse's college education and, after conducting extensive research, they also know that this planning approach is superior to the vigorously touted 529 plan.

Almost nobody in education policy is aware of the educational context for the ARPA / PARC project which also speaks volumes about the abysmal field of «education research / policy».

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