Sentences with phrase «based education agenda»

Topic: Setting an agenda for education A new commission created last year — My Future NC — wants to develop a broad - based education agenda for North Carolina aimed at making the state more competitive.

An analysis conducted for Quality Counts 2006 by the EPE Research Center found a positive relationship between states that had pursued a standards - based education agenda and gains in student achievement.

Republicans have a significant opportunity in next year's election to win on the education issue by continuing their push for a reform - based education agenda and arguing against the idea that more money without real structural reform can fix the ills of our education system.

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Termed the «New York Promise Agenda,» the broad - based proposals include criminal justice reform, voting access, women's rights protections, fighting homelessness, preventing faith - based discrimination, protecting the environment, and improving immigrants rights and access to education.

He said «education is the most effective weapon against poverty» and that the policy formed the basis for the country's development agenda.

The resulting 2011 report — Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action — offers a detailed, evidence - based agenda for transforming the curriculum and the culture.

Is it a fundamental principle on which to base an entire education reform agenda?

Broad - based consultations on the post-2015 education agenda have confirmed the continued relevance and importance of EFA beyond 2015.

Together, they pushed an education reform agenda, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that emphasized higher standards and more accountability, a results - based approach that parents liked.

Additionally, Reville was the executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agBased Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agbased, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agBased Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agbased, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agenda.

Other highly visible education schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and University of Washington have forfeited much of their research agenda to other parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tanks.

The research studies in the book and released at the «Latinos at the Crossroads» conference are based on presentations given originally at the conference «Latinos in the 21st Century: Mapping the Research Agenda,» held in April 2000 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and cosponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

In harmony with the new educational agenda 2030, the Ministers of Education and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in thEducation and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in theducation systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in theducation is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in the region.

This important agreement informed the standalone goal and targets on education proposed by the UN Open Working Group and decided by the UN General Assembly as the basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda.

By the early 1990s, attempts to improve public education had morphed into the standards - based education reform agenda, often called test - based accountability.

This response committed to a reform agenda for teacher education that aimed to add rigour to the system and provide a stronger evidence base for ITE in Australia.

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education advances a comprehensive, research - based policy agenda to mitigate those impacts and, thus, even the education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school Education advances a comprehensive, research - based policy agenda to mitigate those impacts and, thus, even the education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school and life.

Education research and development is done mainly by university - based outsiders, with academic agendas of their own.

Public Agenda and the Public Education Network, a Washington - based group of nonprofit local education funds, plan to use the findings to engage AmericEducation Network, a Washington - based group of nonprofit local education funds, plan to use the findings to engage Americeducation funds, plan to use the findings to engage Americans in...

Creating new resources, processes, and values is hard and gradual work — The temptation of any reform agenda — especially one as rational and intuitive as competency - based education — is to imagine that vis - a-vis policy change or of their own will, schools can simply flip a switch and suddenly exist in this new, mastery - based paradigm.

President Obama's education agenda includes two key programs that reward states that adopt or expand these test - based reforms of teacher evaluation.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been busy fulfilling her conservative agenda that seeks to broaden school choice and market - based schooling in pre-K through higher eEducation Betsy DeVos has been busy fulfilling her conservative agenda that seeks to broaden school choice and market - based schooling in pre-K through higher educationeducation.

«Parents will rightly question the motives of a Secretary of State for Education who appears hell - bent on pursuing a policy agenda that isn't evidence based and clearly not in the interests of children and young people.»

Those concerned about the future of public education should not be fooled: the agenda of these players is about privatization and market - based reform.

According to a recent Public Agenda survey, 64 % of respondents are in the planning phase of competency - based education (CBE) program development.

ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, which outlines the association's public policy priorities for the year, calls for whole child — based education reforms.

Her current research agenda centers on the politics of tuition - free community college policies as well as performance - based funding in higher education.

Equity was the center of the learning agenda for the Competency - Based Education Summit.

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

Jonah Edelman, its founder and the son of children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has raised millions of dollars in funds from the Gates and Walton Foundations, as well as many top business executives, and now pursues policies central to the corporate education agenda, including support of charter school expansion, the evaluation of teachers based on test scores and the elimination of their seniority protections.

Unsurprisingly, a person with such a low regard for teachers has bought in to the entire corporate education reform agenda of test based accountability and choice.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.

The National Center on Education and the Economy was created in 1988 to analyze the implications of changes in the international economy for American education, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carrEducation and the Economy was created in 1988 to analyze the implications of changes in the international economy for American education, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carreducation, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carreducation based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carry it out.

comes from the New York City - based nonprofit Public Agenda, which interviewed more than 1,500 parents of students in five counties in the Kansas City area about what they knew about education in general and their children's schools, how they prefer to communicate with educators, and what they hope to contribute.

All this spending has two agendas; implementing common core and establishing the infrastructure of Competency Based Education (CBE).

Some of the topics discussed included the economic and equity imperitatives of the college - and career - ready agenda, Common Core State Standards implementation, defining career readiness, K - 12 and postsecondary alignment, competency - based education systems, college - and career - ready reporting and accountability, and transition to college - and career - ready assessments.

Pushing his education reform agenda, Bush called for ending teacher tenure, implementing teacher evaluations and compensation based on standardized test scores and utilizing alternative paths to certification / licensure.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

Gift of Hope, Biddeford, ME 6/2014 to Present Community Outreach Coordinator • Establish and maintain effective and cooperative relationships with representatives of designated community • Develop and implement outreach campaigns, grassroots programs and special events to provide education on designated agenda • Create effective tracking tools and maintain databases to monitor and analyze program effectiveness • Identify, recruit and train volunteers such as donor families, recipients and healthcare professionals • Write and edit written materials and web based content in conjunction with program directions • Plan and execute events such as events, open houses and seminars • Represent organization at health fairs and other community events • Respond to interest parties» requests for information and resources • Identify and maintain relationships with donors and referral resources • Establish brand awareness through contacts, trade shows and community education programs

The exploration in this year's report of Indigenous human rights protections, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and Indigenous health equality provide the basis for identifying the important steps government needs to take over the following eighteen months, to set the new agenda for Indigenous affairs.