Sentences with phrase «education policy issues took»

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The Institution is taking particular interest in IT, communications, energy, manufacturing, education and research issues, and is seeking to play a major role in influencing government policy in these areas.

At this meeting, which was also attended by assemblymen Pete Lopez and Kevin Cahill, as well as senators Seward and Bonacic, Turner said he learned that «legislators want state ed to fix the issue, or they will take the unprecedented step of creating education policy.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Higher education has taken K - 12's place in the hierarchy of federal policy issues — due both to weariness with what well - intended federal efforts have wrought in K - 12 and to public concerns about tuition prices and student debt.

Program stood out for several reasons, including its crossdisciplinary approach where students experience key issues from several perspectives, including education, public policy, and business, by taking classes at both the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School.

Taken together, the new cases create a vivid opportunity to connect to the real challenges of global education, bringing «the experiences of young people and teachers to the forefront of issues that are usually framed in more abstract policy terms,» Dryden - Peterson says.

In 2014, Quality Counts took a hiatus from issuing summative grades in order to step back and reassess the education policy landscape.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing cEducation Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing ceducation, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Richard Colvin wrote about teacher voice organizations in «Taking Back Teaching: Educators organize to influence policy and their profession,» which appears in the Spring 2013 issue of Education Next.

A drugs education policy ensures that schools take a whole school approach on the issue of drugs as part of the commitment to being a healthy school.

Public education reform was the first policy initiative Walker called for in his State of the State address and the first issue the state Legislature took up after inauguration.

This is the second part of Research - Based Options for Education Policymaking, a multipart brief that takes up a number of important policy issues and identifies policies supported by research.

Matt, enough... You of all people know that AF schools discriminate against non-English speaking families, they refuse to take their fair share of students who need special education services, they out - migrate any students with behavioral issues, they engage in discipline policies that most would consider child abuse, they refuse to hire or certify their teachers in appropriate numbers...

The Occupy the DOE events reflect educators» mounting frustrations with education policy and practice that doesn't appear to take their views and expertise into account (see the Report Roundup in this issue for more on teachers» increasing job dissatisfaction).

A fast - paced exchange between the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's Mike Petrilli and Education Counsel's Reg Leichty on a range of crucial issues, from their perspectives on Congress's time line and approach for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to how frequently educator feedback is taken into consideration as federal policy is developed (this session will be available soon as a podcast).

ASCD's newest Policy Priorities examines this complex issue, including factors leading to the shift and the successful approaches that some schools are taking to bridge the education and employment gap.

Unions have deployed massive expenditures on debatable matters related to education policy and state spending, and taken positions on issues that have nothing to do with public education, such as The Affordable Care Act.

(Underscoring how divisive this issue is among right - leaning education policy wonks, take a look at this post on Jay P. Greene's Blog, where Jim Stergios takes issue with Porter - Magee's arguments.)

The document provides detailed positions on the main issues in public education today, taking positions counter to many of the school reform policies of the Obama administration.

The report, which surveyed 3,000 C - suite executives in 25 countries and took their temperature on a range of issues affecting innovation and competition, found that business leaders highlighted education as one of their top policy concerns.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that are not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that is not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.