Sentences with phrase «education policy adviser»

Prior to her role at Teach for America, Brown served as senior education policy adviser for the House Committee on Education and Labor, where she advised Chairman George Miller (D - CA).

Janet Clark, education policy adviser for the Association of Teacher and Lecturers (ATL) union, welcomed the call for a broader curriculum.

Then, after joining the Republican governor's staff as education policy adviser in 1997, he played a central role in crafting and winning legislative approval of a court - ordered rewrite of the...

Janet Clark, education policy adviser at ATL, comments on drop in disadvantaged pupils going to university.

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

Robert Hill, a former government education policy adviser, said he did not think the white paper was «history», but added: «But nor will the agenda proceed as planned — and it wasn't anyway.»

Education policy advisers from the Obama and Romney campaigns will join AEI's Frederick M. Hess to discuss the best ways to allocate limited resources, improve teacher quality, increase accountability and maximize student achievement during the next presidential term.

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.

Anne Heavey, education policy adviser with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, described the plan as «at best ill - thought - out and at worst a threat to the mental health and well - being of our children», with the risk that some children would feel branded as «failures from day one».

Urban League President Kaleem Caire said he told Walker's education policy advisers last fall that his organization would not support vouchers in Madison.

Janet Clark, education policy adviser at ATL, comments on the Institution of Mechanical Engineers new report that calls for a major rethink about the role of schools and colleges in promoting engineering.

Robert Hill, an education consultant and former government education policy adviser, writing in a blog on the future of academies, said: «Many of the early standalone converter academies may find that they need to review their position.»

’14 — senior education policy adviser to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren — the journey to Capitol Hill was not direct.

«Well it's grown quite a bit, the number of students using the choice scholarship program increased a lot year over year, there's no question about that,» says Chad Timmerman, education policy adviser to Gov. Mike Pence.

Alison Ryan, education policy adviser at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «While many state faith schools are excellent schools, with mixed pupil intakes, some voluntary aided schools, whether intentionally or not, are less diverse ethnically and have fewer disadvantaged pupils because of the faith criteria they use in their admissions policies.

Former teacher and education policy adviser, Kiran Gill, set up The Difference to break the link between school exclusion and social exclusion.

Donald Songy, education policy adviser to Gov. John Bel Edwards and former superintendent of Ascension Parish public schools, urged other companies to follow ExxonMobil's example.

Melvoin, an attorney and former middle - school teacher, campaigned last year for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; Gonez, a seventh - grade science teacher, worked for two years as an education policy adviser for the Obama administration.

Jill Stokoe, education policy adviser at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «Congratulations to the many pupils who, despite having dealt with the stress and pressure of rushed - in exam reforms, have done so well in their A-levels.

Although he is an education policy adviser and erstwhile academic, he is not an educator.

Any overhaul of the formula would have required more money to be politically feasible, said Ben Scafidi, who was an education policy adviser to Perdue.