Sentences with phrase «education analyst»

The following are edited excerpts from telephone interviews and email exchanges with leading education analysts, writers and researchers regarding the policies and positions of the presidential candidates.

«Interestingly, the rhetoric around NCLB — that the law is broken, failed, and ineffective — masks the fact that nearly all of the research says otherwise,» said Anne Hyslop, a senior education analyst at Bellwether Education Partners.

Honoré Center founders consider the program unique because it starts with an unlikely group of students, sometimes referred to by education analysts as «the bottom quartile» of scholars because they lack the requisite grades, test scores, and financial means to attend college.

The department for education analysts and ministers were wrong in interpreting their (flawed) statistical analysis to conclude that university admissions officers gained no additional value in assessing students» potential from AS Level results.

The current school calendar is not cutting it, said Elena Rocha, a senior education analyst with the Center for American Progress, who has researched the issue of extended school days.

Ranked among the top joint EMBA programs in the world by higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Sally Kingston, PhD, is the Senior Education Analyst at Applied Engineering Management Corporation.

Even when charter schools use simple applications, the fact that parents must submit them months before the start of school means that «these students are in some ways more advantaged, come from more motivated families» than kids in nearby district schools, education analyst Michael Petrilli said.

As education analyst Matthew Ladner has detailed, Arizona's charter sector not only outperformed the state average for gains between the 2011 4th - grade and 2015 8th - grade NAEP tests for math and language arts, but they beat the statewide average gains for every single state.

Moreover, former U.S. Department of Education analyst Keith Baker compared 40 years» worth of nations» per capita gross domestic product and international test scores and found that test scores actually dropped as the rate of economic growth improved.

The Alberta Haskayne Executive MBA — a joint program offered by the Haskayne School of Business and the University of Alberta — has been ranked as the 19th best joint EMBA program in the world by higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

National education analyst Diane Ravitch told Vivian's story on her blog.

The combination could make it difficult for either of the two contenders — Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the Republican, and Vice President Al Gore, the Democrat — to push through significant changes in federal education policy, education analysts said last week.

For example, in discussing the supposed relationship between the scores of American students on international tests and our national economic health, Ravitch cites the work of former US Department of Education analyst Keith Baker.

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Education on behalf of members of the Administrative Education Officers and Education Analysts Chapter.

«In light of the nation's need to build a strong STEM workforce to compete in the global economy, it is important to understand why college students are leaving STEM majors,» said Xianglei Chen, Ph.D., research education analyst at RTI.

Nina Shokraii Rees, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and a former education analyst at the Heritage Foundation, had led the office since its creation in 2002 by then - Secretary of Education Rod Paige.

But today, its orientation to K — 12 issues is most aptly described by education analyst Charlene Haar as an «echo... of the teachers unions.»

Interviewed in October on the Today Show, President Obama seemed to be channeling a generation of conservative education analysts in stating bluntly that more money absent reform won't do much to improve public schools.

On what basis do these D.C. education analysts believe that a significant number of parents, especially affluent parents, are gaming the special education diagnostic system to get access to advantageous accommodations or expensive private placements?

So, DC education analysts are always at - risk of drawing policy conclusions based on incredibly atypical experiences.

Education analysts often compare U.S. schools to those in Finland, Korea, Poland, even Shanghai.

Preschool also looms large for some prominent education analysts who doubt that K — 12 schooling alone can accomplish much gap closing due to other powerful forces in the lives of children and families.

At the session, lawmakers will hear from Mary Laura Bragg of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, education analyst Terry Stoops of the conservative John Locke Foundation, and Julia Freeland of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation in California.

New analysis of Ofsted ratings for the LGA by education analysts Angel Solutions found a higher percentage of good and outstanding grades among council maintained schools than among academies.

In other cases, Mr. Gates has actually created entirely new advocacy groups, while at the same time financially supporting many Washington education analysts with contacts with journalists, even giving grants to some media organizations.

Education analysts talked about school choice, including the prospects for President Trump's proposals for charter schools...

She demonstrates her ignorance by showing such disrespect and outright contempt for the woman who is widely regarded as the preeminent education analyst and historian alive today.

Analyzing data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), higher education analyst Thomas Mortenson published this indicator in the Postsecondary Education Opportunity.

The Smarter Balanced tests have revealed wide gaps in subgroup scores that education analysts said reflect the challenges of online tests and the rigors of the Common Core standards that they assess.

Education analysts at both the state and local levels asserted Wednesday that more than $ 2 billion in added funding will be needed in 2016 - 17 just to allow the state's 700 - plus school districts to continue offering student services at current levels.

«Without question, Day of Truth is a loving and redemptive way students of faith can express their views positively in response to GLSEN's Day of Silence which only presents one point of view,» Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family, said in a statement.

In a statement on the institute's Web site, its education analyst Casey Luskin hailed the new policy as a «victory for Louisiana students and teachers.»

The education analyst's Chevy Chase, Md. - based consulting firm is working on a project that will describe to experts and nonexperts alike how to go about setting academic standards.

In 71 of the nation's 100 largest cities, the percentage of public school teachers whose children attend private schools exceeds that of the general public, according to the study by the education analyst and consultant Denis P. Doyle.

Fifty education analysts had a unique opportunity recently to bridge the gap between rigorous data analysis and key policy challenges faced by education agencies.

This institute — which was open for all education analysts, not only those participating in the SDP fellowship program — was the first of its kind offered by SDP,...

Fifty education analysts had a unique opportunity recently to bridge the gap between rigorous data analysis and key policy challenges faced by education agencies.As part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student...

This institute — which was open for all education analysts, not only those participating in the SDP fellowship program — was the first of its kind offered by SDP, a project within the Harvard Graduate School of Education - based Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University.

But, as the education analyst Michael J. Petrilli quickly demonstrated, this was some locally generated curriculum that was one of hundreds on a lesson - sharing website and it was promulgated a year before the Common Core standards even existed.

«Even with all the noise and bombast,» said Michael J. Petrilli, an education analyst at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right - leaning think tank that supports the standards, «40 - plus states are still standing with the Common Core.»

Some education analysts argue that mixing the student bodies of these two schools may be a vital factor in improving education, and a handful of districts and private schools have begun enacting so - called «economic integration» policies that seek to create income - diverse schools, complete with rich kids, poor kids and everyone in between.

Chester E. Finn Jr., an education analyst at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and longtime friend, recalled sitting next to Ravitch in the East Room of the White House when the second President Bush proposed the law in January 2001.

«There are going to be lots and lots of forces pulling states away from these assessments,» said Andy Smarick, an education analyst with Bellwether Education Partners.