Sentences with phrase «national education association]»

In the «People in the News» column in the Nov. 7, 2001, [print] issue of Education Week, a photo of Gregory C. Malhoit, the director of the Rural Education Finance Center, was incorrectly identified as James W. Kohlmoos, the president of the National Education Knowledge Industry Association.

The National Education Policy Center has just released a critique of our study by Sara Goldrick - Rab of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«I have never seen him call someone a name to make his point,» says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, an organization that has about as much love for the conservative think tank AEI as the Red Sox do for the Yankees.

The National Education Association and the afl - cio, the parent body of the American Federation of Teachers, were scheduled last week to make preliminary pledges in support of the Presidential campaign of Walter F. Mondale, the former Democratic Vice President.

None of this mentions the work of the AFT, National Education Association, national foundations, teacher preparation institutions, assessment consortia (Smarter Balanced and PARCC), or other groups with a stake in the successful implementation of the Common Core.

Senate Overwhelmingly Passes New National Education Legislation Washington Post, 12/9/15 «But all players were feeling «reform fatigue,» said Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

«This is a very important win, but it's still an uphill battle,» said Michael Edwards, a lobbyist for the National Education Association.

In 2001, the National Education Association took no position on the No Child Left Behind Act.

The National Education Association has moved to reopen a debate among its members on the possibility of a merger with the American Federation of Teachers.

Within the exploration of school reform, participants considered topics including high quality teachers, national education reform, public / private partnerships, and implementation strategies.

Noting that the six national education goals adopted by President Bush and the nation's governors paid scant attention to higher education, the resolution also called on the President, the Congress, the governors, and state legislators to include higher education «in any statement of education goals.»

A recent National Education Association - funded study conducted by Peter W. Cookson Jr., C.A.S.» 91, of Columbia University's Teachers College, found that the «striking investments» that Edison makes in teachers often result in high morale.

It's hardly a «national school board,» but yes, it would look a little bit like the old National Education Goals Panel.

Last week, the Department of Education announced plans for a «national education reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district level.»

Using the National Education Association's «Six Steps to Successful Co-Teaching» as a framework, I examined our actions and came to some revelations.

In 1906, Congress granted a federal charter to the National Education Association that exempted the teachers» group from property taxes on its national headquarters in Washington.

The National Education Association describes Social Security as the «cornerstone of economic security,» and Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, describes it as «the healthiest part of our retirement system, keep [ing] tens of millions of seniors out of poverty [which] could help even more if it were expanded.»

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett stepped up his crusade against the National Education Association in a major speech here last week, challenging Presidential candidates to «stand firm» against the union and support accountability in the schools.

The state affiliates of the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, and AFL - CIO testified and lobbied aggressively against it.

By contrast, the Carnegie task force included a generous representation of public education's political establishment: the presidents of both national teacher unions (the National Education Association's Mary Hatwood Futrell and the American Federation of Teachers» Albert Shanker), two state education superintendents (California's Bill Honig and Minnesota's Ruth Randall), an ed school dean, the New York Times «s lead education columnist (Fred Hechinger), and the ubiquitous John W. Gardner.

He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agenda.

So they moved from outright hostility to a highly conditional embrace, with the National Education Association beginning its own charter school project in 1996 (and subsequently abandoning it).

«National education policy is now affecting everyday what happens in the local classrooms in a way it never did before.

I'm excited about building an institute in New York that will be a real center for discussion and debate of educational values and reform direction, and again hope to have a voice in national education reform.

Additionally, Reville was the executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

Both Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Dennis Van Roekel, president of the larger National Education Association (NEA), recognize the threat.

But when a report is commissioned by an organization like the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, a Midwestern group sponsored by six state affiliates of the National Education Association, it would seem to call for a reasonable dose of skepticism.

Bob Chase, president of the National Education Association, agrees that the survey is good news for public schools.

With the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco with thousands of education researchers, the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit in Burlingame with a who's who of education leaders and entrepreneurs, the GreatSchools 2013 Summit in San Francisco, the National Education Writer's Association's 66th National Seminar in Palo Alto, ImagineK12's Demo Day in Palo Alto, and more, educators, investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and researchers had plenty of opportunities to meet.

Nashville, Tenn — Mary H. Futrell, president of the National Education Association has told Gov. Lamar Alexander — whose proposal last spring for a statewide «master - teacher» program helped catalyze the national debate on school reform — that by working with the Tennessee Education Association he can develop a «model reform package.»

Although differing in detail, the plans adopted by the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association at their July national meetings are remarkably similar in intent.

The National Education Association (NEA)-- the country's largest teachers union — remains opposed to merit - based salary schedules, said Kathleen Lyons, a spokeswoman for the www.nea.org National Education Association.

In US studies of inverted classrooms tried in national education system, reported by the Flipped Learning Network:

The National Education Technology Funding Corporation will aim to stimulate private investment in school technology and encourage states to sponsor information networks for public schools and libraries, said James E. Murray, a member of the group's board and a former president of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

For boys, that number jumps to almost one in 94, according to information from the National Education Association (NEA).

-- Bob Chase, President of the National Education Association, 1996 - 2002

In California, Florida, Washington, and Wisconsin, affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees have either agreed, or tentatively agreed, to forgo competing for the bargaining rights of school workers already organized by the other.

The one - day meeting, billed as a «bipartisan national education summit,» was organized by Sen. James M. Jeffords, R - Vt., who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary Terrel H. Bell.

The National Education Association should support efforts to connect elementary and high school classrooms to a national, fiber - optic telecommunications network and take other steps to bring teachers into the information age, according to a new report.

You can sign up for professional development online (such as webinars) through organizations such as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) or the National Education Association (NEA).

One victim of the controversy over national education standards could be the board designed to certify them.

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The National Education Association climbed aboard as well.

But groups like the National Education Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers forcefully objected.

This is a terribly awkward issue to raise at this moment, but the 3,000 teachers from the American Federation of Teachers who recently left Chicago after their convention made the same mistake as the 9,000 teachers from the National Education Association who met earlier in Washington.

P.E. 4Life's Flannery says her organization has mobilized support for the program and advocates that a review of physical education standards be part of overall national education reform efforts.

According to the manifesto, «Labour will create a unified National Education Service (NES) for England to move towards a cradle - to - grave learning that is free at the point of use.»

Hour after daylightless hour he sits, a medium - size, mustachioed man jotting notes while what the National Education Association calls «the largest democratic assembly in the world» swirls around him.

Is it any surprise that the National Education Association was so fast out of the gate with an endorsement for President Obama's reelection?

Both also have the support of the Georgia Association of Educators, the state's National Education Association affiliate.