Proving Ground has developed an innovative approach to supplement agencies» capacity to effectively analyze their data to
address educational improvement challenges.
Not exact matches
Even as various reform efforts have sought to
address the inequities of
educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some
improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.
Reconnecting McDowell is a long - term effort to make
educational improvements while
addressing all of the community's complex problems.
His research also
addresses HIV / AIDS and education,
improvements in HIV prevention programs in Kenya, and
educational access of orphans in Zimbabwe.
The data presented analyzes and compares the 2013 - 14 school discipline data for every district in the state that helped uncover promising practices and examples of effective
educational accountability while at the same time highlighting the numerous areas for
improvement and the deeper systemic issues that still need to be
addressed.
Some of the topics we
address include rigor in the classroom, neuroscience, Heart Centered Education, Common Core Standards,
educational interventions, school
improvement, international best practices, and using technology to support education.
The National Center for the
Improvement of
Educational Assessment, Inc. (Center for Assessment), a Dover, NH - based not - for - profit, 501 (c)(3) corporation, was founded to
address the changes underway in
educational assessment and accountability, and future challenges that will emerge.
They envision a three - pronged systemic remedy: a continuous
improvement approach for
addressing educational opportunities; targeted high - leverage interventions focused on key transition points and needs; and stronger connections between schools and other institutions and systems affecting the development and well - being of children and youth.