Sentences with phrase «behind education policy in the state»

The still growing discontent in New York is not simply because nobody has bothered to explain the vision behind education policy in the state — to the degree that such a vision exists.

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Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

Hill Fight on No Child Left Behind Looms Politico, 1/21/15» «It's not a debate about what education policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Eeducation policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.

Heather Hough, executive director of the research partnership between the CORE Districts and Policy Analysis for California Education, and President of the California State Board of Education Michael Kirst shared the logic behind California's dashboard with us in our Winter 2017 forum on state accountability sysState Board of Education Michael Kirst shared the logic behind California's dashboard with us in our Winter 2017 forum on state accountability sysstate accountability systems.

Eric Hanushek and Al Lindseth: This question is particularly timely, as national policies on education embodied in the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law are in a state of flux and likely to change under President Obama.

«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.

Education leaders are lagging behind in drafting policies to govern the use of online courses in the nation's schools, according to a report by the National Association of State Boards of Education.

Seven of the 11 states with governor's races this year have elected newcomers, bringing in fresh faces to offices that are pivotal in shaping education budgets and policies across the nation and to carrying out the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The Department of Education announced last week another in a series of policy changes designed to give states and school districts additional flexibility in meeting requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act.

A new report from the Washington - based Center on Education Policy tracks how four states taking part in a federal pilot program are using their added flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act.

The new policies have many champions, but a little - known common denominator behind sweeping measures in nearly a dozen states is Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who has re-emerged as an adviser to governors and lawmakers, mostly Republicans, who are interested in imitating what he calls «the Florida formula» for education.

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

As state and national policy increasingly focuses on the role of SEL in schools and in out - of - school time, it is critical that special education settings don't get left behind.

For five years, the Center on Education Policy followed efforts in six states to improve schools repeatedly missing state test targets under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

But Duncan's resignation comes as Congress is deliberating over reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind law and considering rewrites that would limit the ability of the education department to get involved in state policy, leaving many wondering whether Duncan's seven years of intense reforms will stick.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

Some states had already started down this path, broadening the measures they used to assess school quality in response to federal education policy changes made in 2011 through the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers.2 Building on this progress, ESSA requires all states to rethink their school classification systems in consultation with community members.

As an overhaul of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- the sweeping federal education law that sets most national school policy — continues to lag in Congress, Duncan is beginning to get answers about the viability of his plan to relieve states of the law's requirements in exchange for implementing some of his choice reforms.

WHEREAS, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,» was due for reauthorization in 2007, and the U.S. Congress has not reached a bipartisan agreement that will ensure passage to streamline existing federal requirements and allow states and local educational agencies to develop and implement policies that will best support students; and