Sentences with phrase «education policy researchers at»

While in graduate school, I worked as an education policy researcher at the Howard Samuel State Management and Policy Center.

Later, she earned a Ph.D. in political science with a specialty in education policy, while working as an education policy researcher at CUNY Graduate Center.

Bruce Baker, an education policy researcher at Rutgers University, has been a leading critic of the differing populations in charters and traditional schools.

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Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

Those findings raise important policy questions in areas ranging from education and health to juvenile justice and social welfare, researchers said at a Capitol Hill briefing organized by AAAS.

Within 18 months, a White House - level coordinating committee should publish reviews looking at funding, licensing policies, gaps in risk assessment, ethics education, and oversight rules for researchers.

«There has been a dramatic contraction of the prison education system, particularly those programs focused on academic instruction versus vocational training,» said Lois Davis, the study's lead author and a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

In this forum, we hear from Patrick J. Wolf, education policy professor at the University of Arkansas, Douglas N. Harris, professor of economics at Tulane, and the trio of Mark Berends, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, R. Joseph Waddington, assistant professor at the College of Education, University of Kentucky, and Megan Austin, researcher at the American Institutes for Research,education policy professor at the University of Arkansas, Douglas N. Harris, professor of economics at Tulane, and the trio of Mark Berends, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, R. Joseph Waddington, assistant professor at the College of Education, University of Kentucky, and Megan Austin, researcher at the American Institutes for Research,Education, University of Kentucky, and Megan Austin, researcher at the American Institutes for Research, Chicago.

A new effort, Project for Policy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communPolicy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communpolicy research that will have a real impact in their communities.

Education Researcher Stresses Importance of Teacher Quality at HGSE (Harvard Crimson) Mention of the Center for Education Policy Research's recent PIER Fellowship event.

says Steele, a policy researcher in the education unit at the RAND Corporation.

Most IEP students arrive with professional experience in international education and development, perhaps as teachers or administrators at international schools, Peace Corps volunteers, field researchers with NGOs, or policy analysts with U.S. - based aid organizations.

In a first of its kind new global study of urban refugee education, researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University have revealed a gap between policy and practice.

I don't know whether something got lost in the translation between the researchers and Gates education chief, Vicki Phillips, or between her and Sam Dillon at the New York Times, but the article contains a false claim that needs to be corrected before it is used to push changes in education policy and practice.

«In the 1970s and 1980s, policies and practice favored bilingual education, in which children were taught partially or entirely in their native language, and then transitioned at some point during the elementary grades to English - only instruction,» wrote Johns Hopkins researcher Robert E. Slavin and colleagues in a study published in 2010.

The 13 master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education attract extraordinary students from every imaginable background: classroom teachers, district leaders, nonprofit workers, public policy researchers, social entrepreneurs, and software engineers.

SDP is housed at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, a university - wide research center dedicated to bringing academic researchers together with policymakers to ensure that research is solving real problems.

In a 2011 report for the Providence, Rhode Island, school board, researchers at Brown University's Urban Education and Policy program found that the district's 1,321 teachers took off an average of 21 days each per school year.

For Taylor, this is something of a homecoming, since he worked as a researcher at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard from 2008 to 2010, before leaving for Stanford University to pursue his Ph.D. in the economics of eEducation Policy Research at Harvard from 2008 to 2010, before leaving for Stanford University to pursue his Ph.D. in the economics of educationeducation.

Researchers at the Best Foot Forward project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University are testing the hypothesis that there is.

Guido Schwerdt, a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, and Amelie C. Wuppermann, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mainz, Germany, conducted the study.

- Jane Hannaway is the director and principal researcher of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute.

Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor in the Department of Economics, is a bold researcher who has focused his work on race and education, testing theories and evaluating policies aimed at expanding educational opportunity and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.

At a panel discussion this Friday, education researchers, change agents, community - and thought - leaders, and policy makers will discuss what we've learned about the country's views on K - 12 education over the past decade.

As a doctoral student at NYU and a post-doc at Harvard, I have been able to work with researchers representing multiple fields outside of psychology, including economics, sociology, public policy, and education.

Now, a new study from researchers at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research suggests that effort led to positive growth in student achievement in English, with no significant changes in math.

He is the faculty methodologist for the Penn IES Pre-Doctoral Training Program, a faculty fellow with the Penn Institute for Urban Research, a faculty affiliate with the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, a senior researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, and an affiliated researcher with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

By partnering with education and policy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the Uniteeducation and policy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the United Spolicy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the UniteEducation Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the United SPolicy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the Uniteeducation research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the Uniteeducation policy researchers across Harvard and around the United Spolicy researchers across Harvard and around the United States.

Ben Master completed his PhD in Education Policy and Organization Studies at Stanford's Graduate School of Education, and he's currently a Policy Researcher at RAND Corporation.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

This article by researchers at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis finds that principal turnover in one large urban school district is detrimental to student performance and teacher retention.

A look at a forthcoming study by researchers at Western Michigan University and the National Education Policy Center shows that only a third of K12's schools achieved adequate yearly progress, the measurement mandated by federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

That message was echoed by many of the advocates, researchers, and experts who took turns at the figurative bullhorn here last week for the release of «Measuring Up 2008,» the fifth in a biennial series of reports by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

In three new articles published in Education Next, researchers with the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, investigate how schools and student performance have responded to the policy shifts.

Perhaps most important, CORE has made both the student survey data and district administrative data available to independent researchers at the John W. Gardner Center and Policy Analysis for California Education at Stanford and Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR).

But according to Gerald W. Bracey, the independent researcher who produced the analysis for the Education Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University, in Tempe, any studies that have proven such results do not hold up under review.

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

~ Dr. Erika Hunt, Senior Policy Analyst and Researcher, Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

HECSE member institutions are committed to effective professional preparation at all levels, whether new teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, field researchers, disability and education advocates, policy makers, and related services professionals.

Ms. McGoldrick has held a variety of positions in K - 12 education, including analyst for the Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District, executive director of evaluation, research, and policy for the Urban Education Partnership, and survey researcher at Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin and Aseducation, including analyst for the Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District, executive director of evaluation, research, and policy for the Urban Education Partnership, and survey researcher at Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin and AsEducation for the Los Angeles Unified School District, executive director of evaluation, research, and policy for the Urban Education Partnership, and survey researcher at Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin and AsEducation Partnership, and survey researcher at Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin and Associates.

In the study, published as a working paper on the Teacher Policy Research website, researchers from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the Stanford University Graduate School of Education used data for New York City public schools to examine a reform initiated in 2009 that altered the process by which teachers are granted tenure following their third year of teaching.

Several CRPE researchers are presenting work at the 2014 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Spring Research Conference in San Antonio, Texas, March 13 - 15.

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization based in Washington, DC, provides learning opportunities for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels.

«After the spending increased, test scores slowly, surely increased as a result,» says one of the researchers, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, who is also an associate professor at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

It also provided a forum to meet with state policy and education leaders, researchers, and state legislators who are working at the forefront of these issues in Texas.

Researchers will be looking at this data for years to come, but for now, one thing is clear: This time period also saw one of the most dramatic changes in education policy agendas this nation has ever seen.

«Principals and schools didn't seek innovation status to make wholesale changes,» lead researcher Kelci Price told a crowded room of lawmakers, education policy wonks and others during a legislative briefing Wednesday at CEA headquarters.

«This is the ideal form of crony capitalism,» Gene Glass, senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center, told the Herald.