Another research team, led by Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak,
directors of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at MIT, compared «long - term outcomes» of Boston charter - school students to outcomes for BPS students who had entered charter - school admission lotteries (see Figure 2).
Not exact matches
He also serves as the Conway
Director of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board
Effectiveness at the Rotman
School of Management at the University
of Toronto.
James Bowen,
director of NAHT Edge, also commented: «Too much significance is still being attached to data in judging
school effectiveness.
But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor
of Government and
Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching
school governance,
school choice,
school accountability, and teacher
effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»
Along with a background presentation from Rob Ramsdell
of Tripod Education Partners, presenters included Jana Burk, Executive
Director of Teacher / Leadership
Effectiveness Initiatives for Tulsa Public
Schools; Dr. Kirk Kelly,
Director of Accountability and Testing for Hamilton County Department
of Education in Tennessee; Michael Dunlea, a teacher at Ocean Acres Elementary
School in New Jersey; and Jennifer Carinci,
Director of Research, Innovation, and Data Strategy for the Council for the Accreditation
of Education Preparation (CAEP).
Americans» emphasis on teacher
effectiveness also highlights the need to improve
school leadership in the field, said LeAnn M. Buntrock, the executive
director of the University
of Virginia's Darden / Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education.
Anisha Srinivasan serves as the senior
director of change and organizational
effectiveness for Uplift Education, a public charter
school network that serves over 17,000 scholars in preK - 12th grade on 19 campuses across the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.
Thomas Toch,
director of the Center on the Future
of American Education at the McCourt
School of Public Policy, commented on the Dept.
of Education's educator
effectiveness guidance.
«An early investment in people becoming the leaders that our
schools need will result, we are confident, in a higher degree of effectiveness for novice principals and a lower degree of turnover in the first two to five years of the principalship,» says John Youngquist, director of principal talent management for the Denver Public Sch
schools need will result, we are confident, in a higher degree
of effectiveness for novice principals and a lower degree
of turnover in the first two to five years
of the principalship,» says John Youngquist,
director of principal talent management for the Denver Public
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We reported that Maria Dawes, head
of school effectiveness at Babcock Education, was the first deputy
director appointment.
The United Way
of Dane County, which has made closing Madison's achievement gap a top priority, also plans to measure the
effectiveness of its
Schools of Hope tutoring program over time using MAP results, said Kathy Hubbard,
director of community impact.
«We would like to see them getting closer, but we do think they're measuring different things,» said Scott Thompson,
director of teacher
effectiveness strategy for the D.C. Public
Schools.
In an online letter to members, Association
of California
School Administrators executive
director Wes Smith hints that his organization will be lobbying for a legislative solution in the current session, saying ACSA is committed to working on a meaningful «educator
effectiveness» bill — so named, he points out, because principals and superintendents have a responsibility to support teachers in delivering a high - quality education for all students.
Christina Russell is a Managing
Director at Policy Studies Associates, Inc., a Washington - based firm that conducts research and evaluation in education and youth development, specializing in the assessment
of strategies to improve student learning in the elementary and secondary grades and to enhance the
effectiveness of out -
of -
school time programs for children and youth.
Most recently, Will has served at the Georgia Department
of Education as an Assessment Specialist and
Director in the
School and District
Effectiveness Division.