Sentences with phrase «education policy course»

During her time at HGSE, Wiener worked as a teaching fellow for Reimers in his Comparative Education Policy course, as well as for former assistant professor Matthew Jukes.

«I'm honored to be selected for the Radcliffe Fellowship, and am very much looking forward to learning in the vibrant Radcliffe community,» Mehta said, noting that he will miss his Ed School colleagues and teaching students in his deeper learning and education policy courses during the sabbatical.

Prior to her most recent position as New Mexico's education Chief, Secretary Skandera's record of service in the education sector includes serving as Florida's Deputy Commissioner of Education for former Governor Jeb Bush, senior policy advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education under former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and Undersecretary for Education for former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to teaching Education Policy courses at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

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The law The argument is often advanced, «Of course, we would like to keep to what the Church teaches, but, alas, in England and Wales, the law requires us to teach a modern sex education policy.»

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.

Professional Development: State Board of Education Policy EE - 2 requires managers to attend a 24 hour course during the first year of employment and complete an additional 24 hours every three years.

Requirements for the information sheet are outlined in the policy (E) Maintain all documentation of the completion of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program and signed concussion and head injury information sheets for a period of three (3) years.

The course also meets the recommendations contained in the concussion model policy recently released by the New Jersey Department of Education.

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

Other Ministers during the course of this parliament, notably Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Gove and Andrew Landsley, have shown themselves to be deeply engaged with the portfolios that they have held (welfare, education and health respectively), while it is hard to detect a comparable passion in Cameron (although Steve Richards, in the article linked to above, suggests that foreign policy is his special interest).

Cuomo «has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform,» write Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleischer.

Of course, Cuomo isn't just linking education policy to spending.

We have sharp new political education courses and we are creating a network to keep them in touch with Unite policies and give help and assistance.

«We welcome Richard Carranza as NYC Schools Chancellor and hope he will show himself to be an independent leader who critically reviews Mayor de Blasio's education policies and charts a new course.

Rod Clark is the Chief Executive of Prisoners» Education Trust, a charity that funds distance - learning courses in prison and advocates for better prison education policy and practice throughouEducation Trust, a charity that funds distance - learning courses in prison and advocates for better prison education policy and practice throughoueducation policy and practice throughout the UK.

Of course, Moskowitz has already had significant influence on state - level education policy.

There are of course other issues De Blasio might still use to separate himself from Quinn: education policy, progressive taxation, Ray Kelly.

The chief one of course is the Panel for Educational Policy, which as Patrick Sullivan, a member, wrote on New York Public School Parents, routinely rubber stamps Department of Education contracts — even ones dripping with corruption such as the agreement with Future Technology Associates.

The married couple, both graduates of the International Education Policy Program, credit one of Professor Fernando Reimers» courses with providing a framework for producing change at scale in the global context.

Matt Chingos of Brookings and Guido Schwerdt of the University of Konstanz are out today with a new Program on Education Policy and Governance working paper that provides, to my knowledge, the first credible evidence on the effects of online courses on student achievement in K - 12 schools.

By the time they can measure «student A» from the fourth grade through post secondary and beyond, education changes so much through initiatives and new policies that right there the data is irrelevant from one year to the next, and of course from one student to the next!

Stubbs credits Associate Professor Martin West's Education Policy and Politics course — one of her top courses taken while enrolled in the Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program — as showing her the reality of the current state of education in the U.S. «This class is the class that completely unraveled the many layers of the education system,» Education Policy and Politics course — one of her top courses taken while enrolled in the Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program — as showing her the reality of the current state of education in the U.S. «This class is the class that completely unraveled the many layers of the education system,» Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program — as showing her the reality of the current state of education in the U.S. «This class is the class that completely unraveled the many layers of the education system,» education in the U.S. «This class is the class that completely unraveled the many layers of the education system,» education system,» she says.

On November 18, Tamez Guerra spoke to students in Ford Foundation Professor Fernando Reimers» Education Policy Analysis and Research in Developing Countries course about the state of...

CAST approaches the issue of implementation from many directions, including by teaching workshops and institutes at their headquarters or onsite at schools or state departments of education, by creating online courses, by publishing books on the policy, research, and implementation of UDL; and by making guidelines and teaching tools freely available on their website.

[xi] Di Xu and Shanna Jaggars, «Performance Gaps Between Online and Face - to - Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas,» Journal of Higher Education 85 (3), 633 - 659, 2014; Cassandra Hart, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Michael Hill, «Online Course - Taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges,» Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming.

President Bush's decision to nominate Margaret Spellings, his chief domestic - policy adviser, as the new U.S. secretary of education signals a steady course on education policymaking from the administration, analysts say.

The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) has tracked the teacher workforce over the course of several decades.

The new course, Thinking and Acting Like an Education Reformer, will use the case method to understand leadership and policy challenges in high schools.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new analysis of data from the Education Commission of the States (ECS) finds that almost every state has some type of dual - enrollment policy, which allows high school students who are ready for college work to enroll in college courses while completing their high school programs.

In the last few years, a handful of states (Florida, Texas, Utah, Michigan, and Louisiana) have pioneered a new breed of education policies called «course choice».

Of course, the effect of these policies will be determined by how well they are implemented, but they apparently do reflect a tectonic shift in Tennessee's approach to public education.

Course registration for the Spring Semester of the Harvard Extension School course, «Saving Schools: History, Politics, and Policy in U.S. Education» is open until January 25,Course registration for the Spring Semester of the Harvard Extension School course, «Saving Schools: History, Politics, and Policy in U.S. Education» is open until January 25,course, «Saving Schools: History, Politics, and Policy in U.S. Education» is open until January 25, 2015.

In March 1980, union organizer and education reformer Albert Shanker spoke at Harvard for the first time, in the same Longfellow Hall room in which he would later teach his course on teacher policy.

According to a 2008 national survey conducted by Education Next and the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Education Policy and Governance, more than two thirds of American parents say they would be willing to have their children take some of their high school courses over the Internet.

What we learned by teaching «Saving Schools: History, Politics and Policy in U. S. Education,» our first Massive Open Online Course

Cross-register for courses in cellular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and linguistics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences or explore the impact of research on education policy in the Harvard Kennedy School.

The conference, «Defining the Future of Global Education,» featured the presentations of final projects by close to 50 master's students in the HGSE course «Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective,» taught by Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education.

Many, of course, also work for the U.S. Department of Education as undersecretaries, writers, policy analysts, and education program specialists, to naEducation as undersecretaries, writers, policy analysts, and education program specialists, to naeducation program specialists, to name a few.

HDP courses cover subjects as varied as language and literacy development, educational neuroscience, prevention science and practice, early childhood education policy, assessment, gender and relationships, moral and civic development, and development across cultures.

Therefore, my portfolio of courses aims to prepare forward - thinking leaders in higher education who understand institutional policies, practices, and structures and the ways in which leadership decisions influence an institution's ability to change and improve.

In addition to producing award - winning and policy - relevant scholarship on the influence of culture in education, she is a superb teacher whose courses deftly address highly - charged issues of race, ethnicity, and social status,» Ryan said.

As part of Lecturer Jal Mehta's course, Schooling and Society, students blogged about educational issues and policies on a web page entitled «The Future (s) of Education.»

A number of new education policies contributed to this stability in course taking and to the declining quality of high - school education.

Together, the essays in Integrating Schools highlight new ways for the American public education system to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality and reverse the course policies have taken since the decisions of Brown.

Now in its second year, the Global Education Leadership Opportunities conference gives students from Professor Fernando Reimers» Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective course an opportunity to present their final projects for feedback from education leaders from around tEducation Leadership Opportunities conference gives students from Professor Fernando Reimers» Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective course an opportunity to present their final projects for feedback from education leaders from around tEducation Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective course an opportunity to present their final projects for feedback from education leaders from around teducation leaders from around the world.

Whether we deploy many more «whole schools» of this kind or opt mainly for specialized courses and programs within ordinary schools, the kinds of rigorous and advanced education that selective - admission schools seek to provide, and the youngsters that they serve, need to rise higher in our national consciousness and our policy priorities.

Of course, we can not know whether refutation texts will work for all education policies.

Education leaders are lagging behind in drafting policies to govern the use of online courses in the nation's schools, according to a report by the National Association of State Boards of Education.

On September 8, Paul E. Peterson will launch an online course called «Saving Schools: History, Politics and Policy in U.S. Education.»

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.