Sentences with phrase «coming education policymaker»

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When it comes to education, however, policymakers create unique policy and funding barriers that apply to for - profit entities.

The resulting attacks come from three directions: state policymakers, local school systems, and organized public education interest groups.

Interested parties range from education experts to parents, from teachers to policymakers, all concerned with coming up with ways to educate all children, and to do it well.

The annual report offered a way for policymakers to track central tenets of standards - based reform, a movement continuing to come into its own as a major force in K - 12 education.

«Students that come to do a master's in education at Harvard are often motivated by principles - not just that they want to learn to be better policymakers or literacy coaches - they come because they have a passion about what education can do for people,» Levinson says.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

At Editorial Projects in Education and Education Week, we believe that lasting school improvement will only come about when policymakers, practitioners, and the public are armed with the information they need to understand and push for change.

Education Commission of the States serves as a partner to state policymakers by providing personalized support and helping education leaders come together and learn from oneEducation Commission of the States serves as a partner to state policymakers by providing personalized support and helping education leaders come together and learn from oneeducation leaders come together and learn from one another.

The annual PDK / Gallup education poll comes out Wednesday, and policymakers, analysts and pundits will be busy parsing the findings on perceptions of the nation's public schools — from campus safety to high - stakes testing to the new Common Core State Standards.

«Decades of research and our own grant making provide clear evidence that supports the growing consensus among policymakers and parents alike that teachers matter most when it comes to student achievement,» said Vicki L. Phillips, Director of Education, College - Ready, at the foundation.

These policymakers come from state departments of education, legislative committees, and governor's offices in the five states in the region: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

It's true that public education in Louisiana needs reform, said Karin Jenkins, a third grade teacher at Live Oak Elementary in Waggaman who participated in the pilot, but the evaluation system seems to come from policymakers who lack a classroom view.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

This «4C Model» provides a tool for reformers to combat the «give - it - to - the - SEA» reflex, enabling policymakers and outside agents - of - change to develop better habits when it comes to assigning responsibility for their most important education initiatives:

Public and policymaker awareness of the differences in school performance made evident by TVAAS came to public attention as schools were ranked and the top performers honored by the Education Consumers Foundation beginning in 2005.

In a statement, Alliance for Excellent Education President Bob Wise calls the latest PISA rankings the «shiny bow on top of the PISA present,» and stresses that the additional data and analysis contained in the PISA results will «prove invaluable to policymakers in the coming months and years.»

Brandon Wright, of the avowedly right - leaning Fordham Institute education think tank, opined in RealClearEducation that state officials «have understandably come to expect (and perhaps to welcome) being told what to do by Washington,» and he argued that «state policymakers crave and perhaps deserve the clarity and certitude of formal rules.»

Policymakers and the public are coming to the conclusion that standards - based education reform has taken the nation as far as it can and that a new generation of learning and teaching is necessary to prepare students for a successful tomorrow.

Nevertheless, some policymakers and education experts have come to view top - down regulations as synonymous with «accountability» rather than as a pale imitation.