Sentences with phrase «education policy debates»

While they're often overlooked in education policy debates, district central office staff can play critical roles in improving schools and ensuring student success.

Advocates on all sides of education policy debates — including teachers unions — agree the old system of evaluating educators was broken.

On a national level, the cheating story cuts to the heart of a major education policy debate over accountability.

But it is precisely the focus on teacher evaluation — and whether it is connected to student test scores — that is at the center of the most hotly contested education policy debates.

So what do both sets of lists released this week say about the current education policy debate?

The flaw of selection on dependent variable analyses is so obvious that it is shocking that education policy debates continue to be shaped by them.

This tends to get lost in a lot of education policy debates, whether on school choice, accountability, teacher pay or standards.

What Clark said in 1970 was absolutely prescient regarding the state of education policy debates today:

Public and for - profit colleges both feature prominently in higher education policy debates, usually for different reasons.

As Dean Kathleen McCartney says, «These individuals will be successful by altering education policy debates, forging powerful public - private partnerships, and restoring confidence in schools.»

None of this will be a surprise to those who follow American education policy debates, and perhaps the greatest achievement of the book is that given the chaos of those debates, Ravitch has collected these arguments in a single volume and explained the perspective of reform critics in a clear and accessible fashion.

During the 2015 - 2016 California legislative session — the first full session since the historic Vergara v. California ruling — Students Matter has engaged in a number of key education policy debates.

Through the stories of these two schools he addresses the meaning of community in multicultural America, the pros and cons of school choice, and what this all means for today's big education policy debates.

Even though most education policy debates have focused on school quality and student achievement, most research on the economic impact of schooling has focused narrowly on the number of years students remain in the educational system.

HGSE has played and will continue to play a leading role in producing rigorous research to inform education policy debates, and in training students who are prepared to transform education,» said Finnegan.

And that would be kind of true, except for the circus that descended upon Bennett last summer, the damage done to his reputation, his having to walk away from a job that he was exceptionally good at, and the fact that observers have now learned that one way to win education policy debates is to smear their opponents.

Third, school reformers, who have their sights on controlling the $ 600 billion U.S. public education enterprise, may well wish to minimize the role that a growing cadre of expert teacher leaders can play in leading education policy debates.

Both terms are at the center of a crucial education policy debate about how tests should be used to measure student achievement — should students be measured by a strict cutoff score or by how much they have grown over the course of the year?

Key higher education policy debates surrounding financial aid reform, student debt management and loan forgiveness, and the academic and social experiences of first - generation and undocumented students in college have much to gain from school and college counselors who have worked with students on the ground.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

They will be successful by altering education policy debates, forging powerful public - private partnerships, and restoring public confidence in our schools.»

The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy debates the question, «Should colleges be required to pay out a percentage of their endowments?»

Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University The rapid accumulation of student achievement data by states and school districts represents an untapped national resource that promises to break longstanding stalemates in the American education policy debate.

We've been quietly bemused when two opposing sides of a major education policy debate have cited the same Toolkit strand to back their arguments.

I know that it is tempting to look at some place that is doing well and wonder what you could imitate to get the same results, but we just need to stop considering that evidence in education policy debates.

Given the importance of the equity issue to the education policy debate, this is a question worth exploring.

Nearly one in three children lives in rural America, «but if you listen to the education policy debate, particularly around the impacts of the new «No Child Left Behind» law, chances are you will still not...

Anyone participating in the education policy debate for five years or more probably staked out their position on the use of value - added (or student achievement growth) in teacher evaluations long ago.

This got me thinking: What does Twitter say about the tone of the education policy debate?

«I got to experience a variety of different challenges, participate in nearly every higher education policy debate, and craft new policy that has shaped the conversation in higher education in important ways,» Smith says, citing her work on the college scorecard and the financial aid shopping sheet as among the initiatives she found most interesting.

The authors admirably illuminate the education policy debate by resorting to the ideas of liberal political philosophers from John Locke to Amy Gutmann.

Parents» perspectives on education reform are often missing from the education policy debate, with technocrats typically arguing with one another about what parents want or what's best for them.

Two reforms have dominated the education policy debates of the past decade: school choice as epitomized by charter schools, and testing and accountability as symbolized by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The report suggests that the needs of rural school systems can't be ignored and are far more important than Americans might think from listening to the education policy debate.

I'm all for folks tweeting about lesson plans and such but there are already good lists about that; this is my list and I want it to focus on the education policy debate!

Of all education policies debates, few draw stronger opinions than school vouchers.

Mike Petrilli talks with Diane about her book, the impact it's had on the education policy debate, the reactions it has sparked, and her vision for the future.

When I look at the list I think, «Yup, those are most of the big players in the education policy debates today.»

This is a question that can engage people on all sides of the education policy debate.

And most importantly, let me know what you make of this list, and its meaning for the education policy debate today.

For at least the past seven years, education policy debates have been marked by fractures on the left, as leading Obama administration officials and civil rights groups pushed for more testing and accountability, while their traditional allies in the teacher unions rebelled.

Petrilli and Wright — in a column for National Review drawing upon a longer piece for the journal Education Next — attempt to show that the poverty rate in the US is about the same as in Finland, one of the celebrated Nordic states (one that is especially relevant to education policy debates, because Finnish students score incredibly well on international standardized tests).

The new degree program will be a «catalyst to drive change,» McCartney said, producing a new generation of education leaders who are expected to alter education policy debates, forge powerful public - private partnerships, and restore public confidence in the US school system.

«All A-Twitter about Education: Improving our schools in 140 characters or less,» by Mike Petrilli This article looked at the role Twitter was playing in education policy debates and ranked the top 25 education policy / media tweeters and the top 25 educator tweeters based on their Klout scores.