Not exact matches
Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage
review boards and
tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.
Singer and Willett, who navigated a successful joint
tenure process at HGSE in 1993, have garnered a host of honors for their research, including the prestigious American Educational Research Association's Raymond B. Cattell
Early Career Award for Programmatic Research in 1992 and its 1993
Review of Research Award.
After
reviewing shows on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, Media Matter found that segments covered substantial education policy issues — school reform, teacher
tenure, the Common Core State Standards, school choice,
early childhood education and guns in schools — but typically failed to include educator input.
Even
earlier in his
tenure, after deciding to thoroughly
review the district's $ 338 million annual budget put together by his predecessor, Ferebee discovered that the budget improperly showed the district carrying a $ 30 million deficit when, in fact, there was a slight surplus.