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Alexandria, VA (7/16/2015)-- ASCD has released the following statement from Public Policy Director David Griffith in response to the U.S. Senate passing the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177) today:

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In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

They included Rich Bamberger, Cuomo's communications director for his first two years in office; Stephanie Benton, Cuomo's personal assistant; Jeremy Creelan of Cuomo's counsel's office, a specialist on public ethics policy; SUNY Poly spokesman David Doyle, and many more.

Robert Megna: Director of the Division of Budget Jim Malatras: Deputy Secretary for Policy Management Andrew Zambelli: Counselor to the Governor Linda Lacewell: Special Assistant to the Governor Paul Francis: Director of Agency Redesign and Efficiency Sabrina Ty: Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs Barry Sample: Deputy Director of State Operations Leslie Leach: Appointments Secretary to the Governor Yrthya Dinzey - Flores: Chief Diversity Officer Gaurav Vasisht: First Assistant Counsel Alphonso David: Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights Kristin Proud: Deputy Secretary for Human Services, Operations, and Technology Elizabeth Glazer: Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Patrick Foye: Deputy Secretary for Economic Development James Introne: Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of Healthcare Redesign Thomas Congdon: Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment Yomika Bennett: Assistant Secretary for Transportation

Michele Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, SAS Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post James L. Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al - Masry Al - youm Newspaper Frederick Kempe, President & CEO, Atlantic Council Christopher A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Group H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times Christopher Williams, President, Christopher A. Williams, LLC

Recent research by David Hart, director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and Zoltan Acs director of George Mason's Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, finds a considerably lower figure.

Such efforts to take the public's pulse on geoengineering may be crucial for understanding how to involve citizens in future policy making, says David Goldston, director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. «This is something that is going to require a lot of public engagement before decisions are made,» he says.

The research was conducted by Duke psychologists David Rabiner, Madeline Carrig and Kenneth Dodge, the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and director of Duke's Center for Child and Family Policy.

School counselors do not typically receive training in career and college - admissions counseling, and are already overextended, says David Hawkins, the director of public policy and research for NACAC.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

About the Author: David Osborne, co-author of Reinventing Government and other books on public sector reform, is director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

David Osborne, co-author of Reinventing Government and other books on public sector reform, is director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Author Bio: David Osborne, co-author of reinventing Government and other books on public sector reform, is director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute.

David Griffith, ASCD's public policy director, writes in a blog post:»... the connection between the Common Core and RTTT is now firmly established and hard to separate.

«ESEA is the cornerstone of current federal K — 12 education policy,» said David Griffith, ASCD director of Public Ppolicy,» said David Griffith, ASCD director of Public PolicyPolicy.

«We are thrilled to welcome education experts of this caliber to the team,» commented ASCD Director of Public Policy David Griffith.

Cost Study of Bilingual / ESL and Compensatory Education, Invited Testimony of IDRA — Presented by David Hinojosa, J.D., IDRA National Director of Policy before the Texas House Public Education Committee, March 7, 2017

Join us on Twitter today from 3:00 — 4:00 p.m. eastern time for a chat with ASCD Director of Public Policy David Griffith to learn more about the ASCD forum.

The organization's director of public policy, David Griffith, says the group is not against testing, but that it opposes «tests for that specific set of consequences.»

ASCD Director of Public Policy David Griffith predicts that membership in each consortia could decrease by 2015 for a variety of factors.

Milbrey W. McLaughlin is the David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy at Stanford University, Co ‑ director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching (CRC), and Executive Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Commdirector of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching (CRC), and Executive Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their CommDirector of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.

«IDEA is a landmark education law which embodies ASCD's fundamental belief that all students, and particularly students with disabilities, must have access to engaging, challenging coursework with academic support that builds on the strengths of each learner and enables them to develop to their full potential,» said ASCD Director of Public Policy David Griffith.

«ASCD believes college and career readiness includes educating the whole child and involves more than proficiency in one or two subjects,» said David Griffith, ASCD director of public policy.

Guest Experts: Susan Korach, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver David Steinburg, Director, Department of Professional Growth Systems, Montgomery County Public Schools

ASCD's Director of Public Policy, David Griffith, explains that due to an overreliance on standardized testing, schools are seeing an increased «focus on test taking and test preparation» and less emphasis on «actual knowledge and achievement for students.»

«The needs to promote a whole child education and to reduce the overreliance on standardized testing are just two of many priorities that span all education systems across the globe,» said David Griffith, ASCD director of public policy.

«ASCD believes all students must be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged in order to receive an education that will prepare them for college, career, and citizenship,» said David Griffith, ASCD's director of public policy.

On Tuesday, March 23, 2016, David L. Dunn, Executive Director of the Texas Charter Schools Association led a class on public policy making at the University of Texas.

«The Whole Child Snapshots are meant to not only connect the whole child approach to existing data already measured across the states, but also provide specific recommendations to support the whole child,» said David Griffith, ASCD's director of public policy in a statement.

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«This change is designed to protect our users from deceptive or harmful financial products,» said David Graff, Director of Global Product Policy in a post on Google's public policyPolicy in a post on Google's public policypolicy blog.

The participants in the research workshop were: Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Denny Ellerman, Part - time Professor, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence H. Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Robert Hahn, Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford; Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Erin T. Mansur, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Albert McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian J. McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; W. David Montgomery, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting; Erich J. Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; John Parsons, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University Law School.

David Fewer, director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic in Ottawa, was very disappointed by the weakness of the enforcement provisions.

«Whenever policymakers conduct a policy review of a rapidly evolving new development like Big Data, we fear that a rush to develop new policies could stifle innovative outcomes and threaten broad public benefits,» David LeDuc, senior director for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, told the E-Commerce...

Security by design, along with privacy by design, is a fundamental step for companies to be responsible data stewards,» David LeDuc, senior director of public policy at the Software and Information Industry Association, told the E-Commerce Times.

In two sessions, David Griffith, ASCD Senior Director of Public Policy, presented for the association on SEL program development, leadership, and measurement for accountability — and the implications of these presentations are profound.

Presenters: David Griffith, director of Public Policy, ASCD; and Efrain Mercado, lead strategist for Common Core Standards, ASCD

This brief benefited from the insights and expertise of two external reviewers: David Kirp, the James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; and Scott Moore, Executive Director of Kidango.