Sentences with phrase «common policy experiments»

There's no dancing around it: analysis of the first round of state ESSA plans leaves much cause for concern for EL advocates, both in terms of the general patterns outlined above and other, less common policy experiments.

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Five - plus years into the experiment with new «college - and career - ready standards» (of which Common Core is the most notable and most controversial example), we know little about teachers» implementation and the ways policy can support that implementation.

It's an experiment that — while proven successful in at least two other states — has its origins in a Democratic President's administration and comes fresh off of lawmakers» brush with Common Core state standards, a broad - reaching education policy that blew up into a toxic political football among conservatives because it de-emphasized local control.

PAA promotes education policies that are backed by research and common sense, and opposes the harmful experiments passing as «education reform» nationwide.

IGBP will continue many of its successful approaches to implementation from its first phase including: building research networks to tackle focused scientific questions; promoting standard methods; undertaking long timeseries observations; guiding and facilitating construction of global databases; establishing common data policies to promote data sharing; undertaking model inter-comparisons and comparisons with data; and coordinating complex, multi-national field campaigns and experiments.