Sentences with phrase «education policy moved»

Higher education policy moved back into the news last week when the State University of New York's Chancellor announced an effort to keep increasing the cost of public college tuition.

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Witness (to provide a different illustration) the draconian moves being made in education policies across the country, right down to the control of pronouns, not to mention powder rooms.

The public - policy recommendations include providing state - supported marriage and family education, developing a «family - friendly» workplace, and moving toward a modified «fault» divorce law in cases involving dependent children.

«At the association we try to think ahead and move the industry forward in terms of education, policy, standardization and sustainability.

Instead of pursuing bold policies on education or law and order, the Tories are refusing to move anywhere like enough away from the approach which denied them victory in 2010.

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure.

In a move which threatens to embarrass Mr Clegg activists have tabled a highly critical motion on the Government's education policy.

With reports trickling out of Albany that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reached a tentative deal with lawmakers over the state budget and education reforms, local educators are calling for an independent commission to help develop policy moving forward.

Along the way, the East Harlem Council Member has shared her progressive vision for moving our community forward, and addressed vital issues for Northern Manhattan and the Bronx, including affordable housing, education, and reforming stop and risk policing policy.

«We're partnering with the State Education Department to get to the bottom of what happened and ensure the district's policies protect our children moving forward.»

The move, according to the NTC, is to enforce discipline and eliminate non-performing teachers from the system, in accordance with the new Teachers Licencing Policy under the Education Act 778 (2008).

At a time when Albany needs to step up and help move public education in New York State forward, the Governor's destructive policies would instead take us backward.

After the Department of Education's Panel for Educational Policy made the rare move of rejecting a co-location proposal that would have sited a new Success school with an existing district school, Moskowitz released a statement accusing de Blasio of being unable to influence P.E.P. members.

The Executive Director of Ghana National Education Campaign (GNEC), Veronica Djiagu, said the move will enable students in such institutions to also benefit from the policy.

«If we want a community that moves forward, and takes the physicists that are coming to us, and helps their careers, we need to include LGBT physicists,» said Barthelemy, an astrophysicist currently serving as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, sponsored by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, at the U.S. Department of Education.

Nine years later, when she moved to Michigan, Debra earned a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Michigan.

In its appropriation directions for higher education institutions for the 2016 fiscal year, the government states that all higher education institutions must produce a plan showing how they intend to move their work on Gender Mainstreaming forward, so as to contribute towards achieving the goals of gender equality policy.

«We have to move beyond dietary guidelines and education and food labeling and really think about strong government policies to make the food system healthier for everybody,» Mozaffarian says.

Armed with new power under state law, Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has moved quickly to put his stamp on school policy by overhauling the state school board and taking an active role in hiring at the state education agency.

Nearly 58 years after Brown v. Board of Education, desegregation policies seem to be moving in the wrong direction, write the authors of Integrating Schools in a Changing Society.

I've moved on from the classroom and into the world of education policy, where I am inevitably detached from the lives of the children we «quantify» each day.

April 2005 - U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who had helped shepherd the NCLB law through Congress as a top domestic policy advisor in the White House, announces plans to offer states limited flexibility from parts of the law if they could prove they were moving the needle on student achievement.

His education policies are present on every page, and missteps are acknowledged: at one point Klein writes, «we had blown it»; at another, «we made a totally boneheaded move.»

With Whitehurst moving to the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution after his term expires this month, and as drafts for IES reauthorization begin to make the Beltway rounds, it is time to assess the contribution of IES to the history of federal education research and look ahead to itEducation Policy at the Brookings Institution after his term expires this month, and as drafts for IES reauthorization begin to make the Beltway rounds, it is time to assess the contribution of IES to the history of federal education research and look ahead to iteducation research and look ahead to its future.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

As online learning gains share and transforms our education system, for some time I have argued that foundations and philanthropists would be wise to spend their dollars in moving public policy, creating proof points, and the like to create smarter demand and not invest on the supply side in the technology products and solutions themselves.

Whether ESEA moves forward in the 112th Congress is primarily up to one man: future House speaker John Boehner, himself no slouch as an education - policy shaper.

As the presidential election mercifully moves toward its conclusion, there are important education policy questions that will need to be answered in the coming years.

In short, regardless of your particular policy preferences, there is good reason to move on from the «shiny object» approach to education policy and focus instead on giving old and seemingly dull objects a chance to demonstrate their worth before throwing them in the policy landfill.

But state systems of education consist of interconnected policies and work streams, and if related elements don't move forward in tandem, the efforts often fail to have impact.

Launching an attack on the proposed return to selection, Trobe suggested the move was based on «nostalgia» and claimed it «makes no sense» as modern education policy.

Instead of trying to limit robots and computers, effective policy responses to job loss will need to start first with education and then move to income redistribution as automation becomes more advanced.

Dr Zyngier also praised the government's move of childcare reforms out of social services and back into the education portfolio as a very good move for education policy.

Still, there was some movement on the list, with Arne (Duncan) assuming the throne as Education Policy Social Media King, Randi (Weingarten) rocketing to third place, Tom Vander Ark moving up to eighth, and the AFT, Anthony Cody, and (yes, shameless self promotion) Education Next landing on the top - ten list as new entrants this year.

Submissions should describe a particularly meaningful or moving personal experience, discuss issues of teaching or education policy, or reflect on teaching methods or other pedagogic issues.

Even though money from the first year of funding is just now moving toward being awarded to states, Obama administration officials credit it with prompting education policy changes in many parts of the country.

As the law moves to closed - door negotiations, Republicans are increasingly opposing any and all federal education policies, regardless of merit, on the grounds that education is inherently a state and local concern.

Further enhancing NASDC's national profile was the fact that its key scale - up idea — moving from reforming individual schools to transforming entire systems — was quite similar to the idea of systemic reform that was one of the cornerstones of the Clinton administration's education policy.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

Question: Do you think that the evolving focus on policies aimed at improving the quality of our teaching force will continue, and move from almost a sole concentration on professional development (in - service) to more stringent quality controls for preservice education (admission and exit requirements), together with...

Last year, NYC School Chancellor Carmen Farina announced that the Department of Education will move towards a d restorative justice discipline policy for New York City Public Schools.

The move marks the latest battle between states and the Obama administration over what has been perceived to be heavy - handed federal education policy that will continue for the next few years.

Community Voice is committed to moving education forward rather than maintaining the status quo policies of the last ten years.

Frank Adamson, a policy analyst at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, an education research and policy development center, said the move to tests with performance tasks was promising, but not enough to realize the ultimate goals of the Commonpolicy analyst at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, an education research and policy development center, said the move to tests with performance tasks was promising, but not enough to realize the ultimate goals of the CommonPolicy in Education, an education research and policy development center, said the move to tests with performance tasks was promising, but not enough to realize the ultimate goals of the ComEducation, an education research and policy development center, said the move to tests with performance tasks was promising, but not enough to realize the ultimate goals of the Comeducation research and policy development center, said the move to tests with performance tasks was promising, but not enough to realize the ultimate goals of the Commonpolicy development center, said the move to tests with performance tasks was promising, but not enough to realize the ultimate goals of the Common Core.

Kline's original goal was to move away from an omnibus approach to federal education policy as represented by No Child and offer up five bills that would essentially revert back to the days before the passage of No Child, when federal dollars were handed out to states without showing any results.

They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.

Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.

It's appropriate to think about how we can maybe modernize existing programs, the education programs for military families to transition them into choice - based policies at the end of the day, no matter what population it is, but it's critical for military families who move so much.

While some states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin and California began embracing the expansion of choice through the passage of charter school laws as well as the launch of voucher programs, it was the move by the Clinton administration during the 1990s to make charters a key part of federal education policy that helped spur states to expand choice in their own states.