Supporters of independent charter schools want to get back to the charter movement's roots: creating schools that serve
as education laboratories.
This story should have said that Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, or McREL, continues to serve as the federally funded
regional education laboratory for states in the Midwest.
These are the University of Memphis in Tennessee; WestEd, a federally
funded education laboratory based in San Francisco; and Educational Partners, a for - profit consulting company also located in San Francisco.
The Department of Education has put out a call for bidders to operate the department's 10 regional
education laboratories for the next five years.
Under her direction, Crellin Elementary School participated in a reclamation project that led to the creation of their
Environmental Education Laboratory, consisting of a 5.5 acres outdoor classroom, on school property.
High Expulsion Rates, Lower Test Scores for Oregon English - Language Learners State EdWatch: «Disciplinary actions that take students out of the classroom can make it more difficult for them to stay on track to graduate,» a Regional
Education Laboratory report stated.
The event brought together members from research alliances throughout our five - state region, staff members from eight different regional
education laboratories across the country, and national thought leaders to impart knowledge and insights into the ways research alliances can promote the use of evidence by local and state practitioners and policymakers.
Presently, Dr. Williams serves as a Regional
Education Laboratory Southwest (REL SW) partnership facilitator lead for the REL SW Networked Improvement Community, the rural TA consultant for the Texas Comprehensive Center and Great Lakes Comprehensive Center.
He also started the radio on the Bam internet radio network and has written magazine articles for the national PTA, the
southwestern education laboratory and the national head start association's children and family magazine.
The responsibilities will include leading efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating professional development workshops for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our
Science Education Laboratory.
A recent spate of gold - standard research studies from
regional education laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Education has yielded the following disappointing findings:
However, we must never lose sight of the fact that, as we encourage experimentation, the benefits of
the education laboratory must ultimately accrue to 50 million children.
North Central Regional
Education Laboratory: Family and Community NCREL has published several resources on the topic of parent involvement.
Washington — An internal National Institute of Education (nie) document outlining the agency's agenda for the fiscal year 1984 appears to confirm a controversial decision by Edward Curran, the agency's new director, to end the contracts of 17 federally supported regional
education laboratories and research centers one year early.
Selvin Chin - Chance, who directs testing at the DOE, said the findings are skewed by the fact that the larger, more established and higher - performing conversion charter schools, such as
the Education Laboratory in Manoa, Wai'alae Elementary School, and Lanikai Elementary School, are over represented because more of their students take the tests.
Through the OLN, Sho Shigeoka participated in professional learning hosted by the Carnegie Foundation and the Regional
Education Laboratory and brought back an improvement model to support the principals» work.
→ Action → Invest in our existing public institutions of higher education focusing on improving teacher, counselor, and leader education; and reinvest, reclaim, and refocus the function of regional
education laboratories to maintain integrity, relevance, and responsiveness in research aimed at seeking solutions for communities» education problems; and establish the outreach and extension of research findings to ensure their use in educational improvement practices.
They can be
education laboratories that find new ways to reach students, and they can share those lessons with other public schools.
A new study by Regional
Education Laboratory (REL) Northwest examines the funding, delivery, and coordination of instructional services offered by Washington state's network of nine educational service districts (ESDs), which serves more than a million students.
Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says is a resource from the Institute of Education Sciences and the Regional
Education laboratory that looks at approaches to alternative methods of evaluating student achievement in order to measure teacher performance.