Sentences with phrase «education policy makers take»

We know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take teacher voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

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Some policy makers are trying to get the public to believe that they should be starting formal education earlier, advocating Head Start programs for children as young as 1 year, hoping to take advantage of the time when the brain is growing more than ever.

The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood education, school food, and disaster readiness by doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and policy - makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo took another shot at the State Board of Regents Thursday, blaming the education policy makers for «massive chaos» that he said has resulted from their implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York state's education policy - makers have voted to shorten the time students spend taking the unpopular Common Core math and English tests.

«We believe that rigorous, highly valued qualifications should exist in engineering and technology areas that will be vital to the nation's future and that all education policy makers should seek to maximise the take up of these qualifications.»

Bett is the education technology world's curtain - raiser, taking place each year in January and drawing almost 35,000 teachers, leaders, policy - makers and edtech addicts to London for four days.

Similarly, «your constituents» was among the most frequently selected «most important» voices that state education policy makers consider when taking a position on teacher evaluation policy (see Figure 2).

Bringing together high - level policy makers, decision makers and practitioners from education, business, and government, eLearning Africa 2018 will take place on 26 - 28 September in Kigali, Rwanda.

Agents of Their Own Success: Self - Advocacy Skills and Self - Determination for Students with Disabilities in the Era of Personalized Learning: This report highlights steps students, families, educators, policy makers, and other key stakeholders in our education system can take to ensure all students are equipped with self - advocacy skills and the capacity for self - determination: elements we know are critical to their success in personalized learning settings.

Since they can't take on poverty itself, education policy makers should try to provide poor students with the social support and experiences that middle - class students enjoy as a matter of course.

Keep in mind, this lamentation of the lack of «honor» given to teaching as a profession comes from someone who has repeatedly taken the standard reformer line that all of the ills in our education system can be traced back almost entirely to teachers themselves and who has advocated for policy makers who diminish teachers» workplace protections and their autonomy and who want to tie opportunities for greater compensation to standardized test scores.

Through E4E, teachers can learn about education policy and research, network at our events with like - minded colleagues and policy makers, and take action by advocating for teacher - created policy recommendations that lift student achievement and the teaching profession.