So what
do education policy makers, districts, consultants and instructional coaches like myself do?
Not exact matches
The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood
education, school food, and disaster readiness by
doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and
policy -
makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.
Over the next couple of weeks we will be inviting
policy -
makers, administrators, and representatives of young German scientists to share with you their opinions on what needs to be
done to make the higher
education system fit for the 21st century.
«The basic next step is for
education policy makers and school leaders to prepare and make sure that this deployment of online learning is
done well and not haphazardly.
So the basic next step is for
education policy makers and school leaders to prepare and make sure that this deployment of online learning is
done well and not haphazardly.
From a
policy -
maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the
education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which
do not feature choice.
While state
education policy makers differed by party in their responsiveness to teacher voices, they
did not discriminate between the value of individual and organized voices of school leaders.
To parents choosing among schools, to families deciding where to live, to taxpayers attempting to gauge the ROI on schools they're supporting, and to
policy makers concerned with big - picture questions such as how their
education system is
doing when compared with those in another city, state, or country, that information is only marginally helpful — and potentially quite misleading.
Here are some more great questions for
policy makers from Diane Ravitch («
Do politicians know anything about schools and
education?
Education advocates,
policy makers, and those who prepare teachers will find it an easier lift to pinpoint the practitioners, schools, and systems that model what we need the next generation of teachers to
do and be.
While
policy makers are praising competency - based
education, not enough is being
done to ensure that our rules and regulations support it.
So how can
policy makers, philanthropists, politicians, school leaders, parents, and taxpayers navigate the contradictory world of
education policy, balance these trade - offs, and maximize their chances of
doing right by kids?
NSBA is committed to making sure federal
policy makers don't push
education to the bottom of the public
policy agenda or overstep their role.
Why
do so many educational
policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan, send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»
After graduation, she said she probably won't pursue a teaching credential but
does want to contribute to the development of young children, perhaps as an administrator of an after - school program, or eventually a
policy maker «so that I can pour my energy into
education reform.»
«We hope these findings can become a tool for reformers and
policy makers alike to include teachers as part of the
education reform discourse, showcasing that the union
does not speak for all teachers.»
Clearly
policy makers have not had uniform confidence in the quality of teachers and teaching — although those same
policy makers don't seem to recognize that they have contributed to this result through the lax enforcement of teacher
education, licensing, and oversight.