Sentences with phrase «policy research at»

«Women joining the work force has had, over the past generation or so, a huge effect,» said Steven Polzin, director of mobility policy research at the University of South Florida's Center for Urban Transportation Research.

Wechsler has more than 25 years of experience conducting policy research at the national, state, and local levels.

You can access a free download of Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Towards an Agenda, edited by symposium keynote speaker Professor Tahu Kukutai and John Taylor, Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University.

Building up the use of carpools among ride - sharers might help ease some of the burden of vehicle traffic, said Steven Polzin, director of mobility policy research at the University of South Florida's Center for Urban Transportation Research.

Dr. Roger A. Pielke Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, said the partisanship seemed to be spreading beyond officials and interest groups.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

«We are seeing that Modi is not as progressive as some of the other rhetoric would lead us to believe,» said Rebecca Lefton, director of policy research at Climate Advisers.

Mattias Hjerpe is director of the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University:

The CFPB is «considerably narrowing its footprint in the market,» including a pullout from oversight of student loan servicing, said Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point Research & Trading.

There was a recent study [Best Foot Forward Study] from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University that measured hundreds of K - 12 teachers to see if video improved classroom observation.

Before joining the Equity Alliance, Adai worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Education Policy Research at the University of New Mexico, and served as a fellow with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in the office of Congressman Chaka Fattah.

In addition, she performed demographic and policy research at the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network for its State of the States report.

Allowing teachers to submit videos in lieu of in - person classroom observations improved the experience for both teachers and administrators, a recent report from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University found.

This paper by Dr. Tim Hudson helps you understand how to successfully review educational research and know how to thoroughly investigate the study, ask probing questions, and access the fine print about how a program «improves scores» or «doubles growth» using a clear rubric and three educational research examples, including a recent Center for Educational Policy Research at Harvard University study of DreamBox Learning Math.

As Thomas J. Kane, director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, noted this spring, such a reaction would «be equivalent to saying «O.K., because there are some players that cheated in Major League Baseball, we should stop keeping score, because that only encourages people to take steroids.»»

SRI's Center for Education Policy conducts technically rigorous education policy research at the local, state, and national levels.

«The mayor needs to be sure adequate school - level supports are put into place before instituting a significant, untested policy that may penalize otherwise successful students,» said Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications for the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

For State Leadership, the Common Core Is a Boon Education Week op - ed by Thomas J. Kane, Walter H. Gale professor of education and the faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University

Corinne Herlihy is the project director for the National Center for Teacher Effectiveness at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

Last year, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University surveyed a representative sample of approximately 1,500 teachers across five states (Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, and New Mexico) to learn about the instructional changes they had made in preparation for the new assessments from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

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.

Previously he served as Senior Program Director for Evaluation and Policy Research at WestEd and Founding Director of its Washington, DC office where he led a nationwide staff conducting research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts for clients from federal, state and local agencies, national and community - based foundations, and non-profit and for - profit organizations.

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.

Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty in 2010, Schanzenbach taught at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Post-Doctoral Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wechsler has more than 25 years of experience conducting policy research at the national, state, and local levels.

Center Offers College - bound Students in St. Louis Help to Keep Them On Track St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 10, 2013» «If they come up against a stumbling block, they are not necessarily primed to go out and seek out help,» said Lindsay Page at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard.»

«The Coleman Report pushed family and community to the forefront in shaping academic success,» said David Figlio, an economist and director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C090023 to the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

STRATEGIC DATA PROJECT c / o Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University 50 Church Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: [email protected] Fax: [phone]

The National Center for Teacher Effectiveness is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C090023 to the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

The Learning and Teaching Program welcomed its first students to the newly launched Instructional Leadership Strand, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University formed the Strategic Data Project, and then - Dean Kathleen McCartney announced the creation of the Ed.L.D.

After she graduates, Brooks will spend the summer working at the Strategic Data Project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard, and she hopes to continue to explore the freedom of movement as a human right in the context of expanding globalization.

The Strategic Data Project (SDP), housed at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, partners with school districts, school networks, and state agencies to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

The Strategic Data Project (SDP), a program of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, announced today that Nicholas Morgan will be the new executive director beginning August 1.

Based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP is releasing a set of three Strategic...

(May 6, 2013)-- Today, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, announced the selection of 20 new partners from around the country who will host the fifth cohort of the SDP Fellowship.

Based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP is releasing a set of three Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) today that challenge common assumptions about college - going patterns in U.S. school districts and provide deeper insight into the health and performance of school districts.

Thomas Kane is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and a professor of economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

In addition, the fellows will have access to the unique network of more than 60 school agencies around the country with whom the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard currently works.

Yes, these numbers, compiled for the state Department of Education by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University are both cold and hard.»

California Takes a Left Turn on State Exams Washington Post, 9/19/13» [Professor] Thomas Kane, a director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard, said California's plan to give students field tests but withhold scores is like practicing basketball in the dark.

Researchers at the Best Foot Forward project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University are testing the hypothesis that there is.

For Taylor, this is something of a homecoming, since he worked as a researcher at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard from 2008 to 2010, before leaving for Stanford University to pursue his Ph.D. in the economics of education.

For the last three years, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard has run a randomized controlled trial of video technology in classroom observations — a project called Best Foot Forward.

As part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP has been working with districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofits since 2008 to transform the way they collect and use data to support their program, management, and policy goals.

«There's a sense of surprise for first grade,» says Nicholas Morgan, executive director of the Ed School - based Strategic Data Project, housed at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

St. Bernard Parish, just outside of New Orleans, participated in the Strategic Data Project (SDP) at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University to help its students, many of whom had been displaced by Katrina.

SDP is housed at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, a university - wide research center dedicated to bringing academic researchers together with policymakers to ensure that research is solving real problems.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.