Sentences with phrase «around education policy»

After a legislative session which saw the House of Representatives strongly denounce Common Core and ultimately the entire General Assembly vote to delay the PARCC tests, Governor Haslam convened an Education Summit to «reset the conversation» around education policy in the state.

But the divisive politics around education policy had made it extremely difficult to do.

Union members also refused to interview Laura Lavine, a Republican who has centered her campaign around education policy.

She has centered her candidacy around education policy after working in school systems for 40 years, most recently as superintendent of the suburban LaFayette School District.

ALBANY — The state Legislature appointed three new members to the Board of Regents on Tuesday, increasing the diversity of the policymaking board, and suggesting tensions around education policy may have eased around the Capitol.

So, I think that this is just a good window of opportunity for folks on the hill and in congress to consider some new measures, some new thinking around education policies for military households.

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After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Christians of all races can learn how longstanding policies and practices around housing, education, and criminal justice disproportionately harm some of their neighbors.

Responding to research from the Consumers Health Forum, the Heart Foundation, the Obesity Policy Coalition and the Public Health Association of Australia, the Council's CEO Geoff Parker said better education around diet and lifestyle, not taxes, is a far better and more commonsense approach for a healthier country.

Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

In a new document, the Catholic Education Service has set out its policies around its schools, and explains why it provides them.

Barry Sheerman, committee chair said «The proportion of 16 - 18 year olds not in education, employment or training has remained at around ten per cent despite one policy strategy after another.

He also worked as a policy analyst on a New York education task force, and as a consultant with public housing authorities and child support enforcement agencies around the country.

We're looking for writers here at ShakingNews to cover and explain New York politics, especially around topics like healthcare, housing and real estate, transportation, education and tech policy.

Michael Gove has been described as an education tourist, spending his time shopping around southeast Asian and Scandinavian countries looking for policies he can claim will raise standards and which fit with his own dogmatic perception of what schools should look like.

Any country that aims to transform itself into a modern productive player in the global marketplace must get its educational policies right, adding that the countries that have made rapid progress around the world put education at the heart of their development.

Dozens of educators dogged Hochul around the fairgrounds yesterday chanting and repeating many of the concerns they've had about the Cuomo administration's education policy for years now.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

The DOE's school closure policy has come under intense fire from education advocates and elected officials who believe the city should be investing more to turn failing schools around instead of shutting them down.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

The previous contract, for $ 32 million, was held by Pearson, an international education company based in London that has become a lightning rod in education policy around the country.

She currently implements a landmark science cooperation agreement between AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences, develops the Center's global science diplomacy education and capacity building initiatives, leads a research project analyzing science - policy connections around the world, and serves as an associate editor of the open - access policy journal Science & Diplomacy.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

The findings could provide new insight as educators re-shape education policy around the language reclassification process, Thompson said.

Like other cybersecurity training programs around the country, the CAE programs draw students from computer science, engineering, math, statistics, forensic sciences, criminal justice, business administration, public policy, law, education, and the social sciences.

In addition to compiling head - to - head rankings, OECD collects data on educational policies and practices around the world, with topics ranging from how countries educate their poorest students to parental attitudes toward the importance of an education.

Cherny concluded: «Palliative care has been a central part of ESMO's work in research, education and public health policy initiatives both in Europe and around the world.

Nearly one in three children lives in rural America, «but if you listen to the education policy debate, particularly around the impacts of the new «No Child Left Behind» law, chances are you will still not...

«NAPLAN is a point - in - time test of a just a few, albeit important — subjects which can be compared to the same data collected at other times and around Australia, to help work out, among other things and alongside other data, the effects of different education programs and policies, and the places where additional resources could make the greatest impact.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

According to a 2008 report from the Center on Education Policy, restructuring itself needs to be restructured because there is no sure - fire way to turn around a chronically low - performing school.

The question is whether we should be orienting our pedagogical practices primarily around these differences, as I think most personalized - learning supporters would urge, or instead take note of the many ways in which students are cognitively similar, and make these shared characteristics the focus of our education policies and practices.

Some may take this wrong - headed book seriously, given the credentials of lead author Richard Rothstein, former New York Times education columnist, all - around smarty, and veteran maneuverer on the education - policy chessboard.

Investing in quality education that equips people with the entrepreneurial and employability skills needed to succeed in the 21st century, while ensuring that they are grounded in financial and ethical responsibility, should be a top priority for policy makers and decision makers around the world.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

Program: International Education Policy Major ED Duties: Adviser to the secretary on strategic communications and policy; primary liaison with the White House on agency activities; cochair of the Advisory Council on Dependents Education; partner of Michelle Obama on the Joining Forces project; and aide on communications and engagement planning around the president's early learning initiPolicy Major ED Duties: Adviser to the secretary on strategic communications and policy; primary liaison with the White House on agency activities; cochair of the Advisory Council on Dependents Education; partner of Michelle Obama on the Joining Forces project; and aide on communications and engagement planning around the president's early learning initipolicy; primary liaison with the White House on agency activities; cochair of the Advisory Council on Dependents Education; partner of Michelle Obama on the Joining Forces project; and aide on communications and engagement planning around the president's early learning initiative.

With RTTT, Tennessee is stepping around this problem: they are now developing online instruction in the use of TVAAS, and a new State Board of Education policy has relaxed restrictions on alternative teacher licensure.

Paulet Piedra enrolled in the International Education Policy (IEP) Program at the Ed School to follow that dream by developing a greater understanding of policy design and implementation processes in countries around the Policy (IEP) Program at the Ed School to follow that dream by developing a greater understanding of policy design and implementation processes in countries around the policy design and implementation processes in countries around the world.

He worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator and policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and reforms around the world.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country.

One of the (many) problems with education policy analysts is that a large number of them live in or around Washington, D.C.

Informed Dialogue: Changing Education Policies Around the World, Spanish translation available (with N. McGinn), (1997)

Now in its second year, the Global Education Leadership Opportunities conference gives students from Professor Fernando Reimers» Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective course an opportunity to present their final projects for feedback from education leaders from around tEducation Leadership Opportunities conference gives students from Professor Fernando Reimers» Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective course an opportunity to present their final projects for feedback from education leaders from around tEducation Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective course an opportunity to present their final projects for feedback from education leaders from around teducation leaders from around the world.

Beginning in January 2015, Hill, along with the Center for Education Policy Research Senior Project Manager Barb Gilbert and Instructional Specialist Daniel McGinn, will observe teaching using Samsung tablets placed in 460 middle school classrooms around the country.

Contributing around 10 percent of public school costs, the US Department of Education imposed further requirements and regulations on the public schools, which removed another major fraction of local boards» control over school policy.

Third, I want to use my research to inform policy around early childhood and early intervention programs so that schools become more equitable and accessible for students from their first years of education.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

«He will be a tremendous asset to our students — especially those studying international education and education policy — and his expertise will be invaluable to the school as we define and execute a strategy to help ensure that children around the globe have access to meaningful education.»

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.