Sentences with phrase «sara mead»

«Moneyball for Head Start: Using Data, Evidence, and Evaluation to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families» was written by Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti Mitchel and released in partnership by Results for America, Bellwether Education Partners, The Volcker Alliance, and the National Head Start Association.

In a new PreK - 3rd Policy to Action Brief, Sara Mead finds that principals are especially crucial in PreK - 3rd settings, where instructional leaders must align standards, curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessments between PreK and the elementary grades.

The article, written by New America Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Sara Mead, urges education reformers and PK advocates to join forces to support a vision for children's learning ---- physical, social, and emotional development as well as academics ---- that extends from Prekindergarten through Third Grade in a seamless progression.

Sara Mead (Bellwether Education Partners) https://www.fcd-us.org/prek-3rd-principals-as-crucial-instructional-leaders/

As my colleagues Bonnie O'Keefe, Kaitlin Pennington, and Sara Mead noted earlier this week in their slide deck analyzing the education landscape in Michigan, DeVos» home state of Michigan has one of the nation's largest charter sectors, with more than 40 charter school authorizers and 10 percent of its students attending charter schools.

Sara Mead is a senior associate with Bellwether Education, a nonprofit that works to build the field of organizations accelerating achievement for low - income students.

In Education Reform Starts Early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK - 3rd Reform, Sara Mead provides a blueprint for creating a high - quality, well - aligned education system that sustains children's learning gains from PreKindergarten through the Third Grade and beyond.

DFER's chair is Kevin Chavous, a former Washington, DC City Council, Boykin Curry (Eagle Capital Funds), Tony Davis (Anchorage Capital Group), Charles Ledley (Highfields Capital Management), Sara Mead (Bellwether Education Partners), John Petry (Columbus Hill Capital Management) and Whitney Tilson (T2 Partners, Tilson Mutual Funds).

Rotherman sits on the Broad Prize Review Board, while DFER board member Sara Mead is a senior associate partner at his Bellwether Education and sits on the Washington, D.C., Public Charter School Board.

Lisa Guernsey, Sara Mead (New America Foundation) https://www.fcd-us.org/a-next-social-contract-for-the-primary-years-of-education/

This brief by Sara Mead highlights the important role principals play in providing high - quality instructional leadership across the PreK - 3rd continuum.

I agree with Sara Mead that pre-k programs should be held accountable for achieving results.

Sara Mead of Bellwether Education Partners has an interesting blog post at Education Week that focuses on her views on how to overcome the political challenges facing the pre-k movement.

«Over time, we've seen a real shift in thinking from a lot of skepticism about early childhood to a much broader public and parent awareness about the importance of early learning and development,» says Sara Mead, an analyst with Bellwether Education Partners who studies early childhood issues.

The paper benefited from helpful feedback and input from Dane Anderson, Kristin Blagg, Tomeika Bowden, Matt Chingos, Jennifer Comey, Steven Glazerman, Irene Holtzman, Claudia Luján, Sara Mead, Arthur McKee, Ginger Moored, Richelle Russell, and Jon Valant.

In an op - ed published by US News and World Report, Sara Mead of Bellwether Education Partners examined standardized testing under ESSA, raising questions about whether waiting until third grade to gauge performance is too late to catch under - performing students.

In a new report from Education Sector, Sara Mead and Andrew J. Rotherham researched charter school policies that influence quality and growth in 12 states.

Recognizing his great, budding talents, my colleagues Sara Mead and Andy Rotherham scooped him up early, and he's been excelling ever since (see Sara's recent piece on Ethan here).

On it, «subjective perception and experience become the sole arbiter of truth,» as my colleague Sara Mead wrote, and «we are left with the... forces of emotion, sentiment, and affinity to guide our judgments and decisions.»

Sara Mead and I wrote a report earlier this year that flagged this issue in a number of states.

Important Sara Mead on the growing pains of the early ed movement and the leadership that's needed to drive progress.

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Background: As a partner with Bellwether Education Partners, Sara Mead directs the organization's early childhood work and leads teams analyzing policies and advising clients on a variety of early childhood, elementary, and secondary education issues.

As both Sara Mead and Nelson Smith lament, it's a tragic lost opportunity.

(And my Bellwether colleague Sara Mead is a member of its board.)

* Andy's Bellwether colleague, Sara Mead, is a member of the PCSB.

Sara Mead is a partner at that organization.

The article, «The Charter Model Goes to Preschool,» co-authored by Sara Mead, appears in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next.

Sara Mead of the New America Foundation submitted a letter to the editor in response to our article, «The Case for Special Ed Vouchers,» which appears in the Winter 2010 issue of Education Next.

The Charter Model Goes to Preschool Despite obstacles, innovative new programs expand access By Ashley Libetti Mitchel and Sara Mead

These are summarized by Sara Mead, with her own distinctive spin.

How does Sara Mead refute this evidence?

In our previous work about charter schools and pre-k, Sara Mead and I argue that point.

My Bellwether colleagues Sara Mead and Ashley LiBetti just authored a top - notch report on the intersection of chartering and early childhood education.

Sara Mead and Russ Whitehurst assess President Obama's preschool plan at a panel at the Fordham Institute.

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

Andrew Rotherham and Sara Mead expressed this concern in a paper for the Progressive Policy Institute in 2003: «Special education vouchers may actually exacerbate the over-identification problem by creating a new incentive for parents to have children diagnosed with a disability in order to obtain a voucher.»

Sara Mead explained early - childhood education in New Orleans, Kathleen Porter - Magee wrote about theCatholic - school reawakening, and The Economist reported on the heartening story of private - schools outside of the US serving low - income kids.

Author Bio: Sara Mead is a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit working to help education institutions become more effective.

Sara Mead makes several assertions that are contrary to the findings of our article, but she presents no evidence to substantiate those assertions or to contradict the evidence we presented.

Sara Mead examines the sparsely populated restructuring landscape and reports that most locales are opting for the easy way out.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

Not exact matches

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) named Professor Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot the 2008 Margaret Mead Fellow at a ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania on May 8.

[19] Mead, Sara, Ashley LiBetti Mitchell, and Andrew J. Rotherham.

Liz Dooley, Eleanor Nairne, Alan Powers, Sara Selwood, Sarah Shalgosky, Beth Williamson, Imagining a University — Fifty Years of The University of Warwick Art Collection Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Some of the witnesses who testified against SB 724's abortion ban: Jaclyn Dean, NAPAWF; Sara Baker, ACLU of Missouri; Dr. Colleen McNicholas, ob / gyn; Dr. Rachel Zigler, ob / gyn; Eva Archer, Washington University Medical Student; M'Evie Mead, Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri