Sentences with phrase «education policymakers looking»

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New York education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure school success and failure based on factors other than test scores.

Looking to create a «customer driven» research agenda, the Education Department's research branch has launched a series of public meetings with educators, parents, and policymakers around the country.

As Congress now works to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which will replace NCLB, a new article from Education Next offers policymakers the first look at the long - term impacts of test - based accountability on students» future gains.

As policymakers look to redesign or replace many of the basic federal education programs established during the 1960s, they face mounds of Department - produced research to guide them, but much of it is of limited value.

My classroom is a laboratory testing out a question that interests a growing number of educators and policymakers: What should 21st - century civic education look like?

As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

«Part of the conversation we need to welcome now — and I'd encourage policymakers to have — is what are those other elements that contribute to students being successful that we ought to take a look at, and then how are we going to make room and build capacity within our education systems to address those issues,» he says.

In The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press; Publication date: September 17, 2012), these leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seek to challenge familiar assumptions and to generate new thinking in a variety of ways, including looking at other sectors, other nations, and emerging new technologies.

In «On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service,» author Craig D. Jerald argues that education policymakers should take a closer look at another accountability system — on - site inspections.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

The article focuses on high - achieving students who are looking for an extra challenge, but increasingly policymakers are looking to introduce larger numbers of low - income high school students to college courses as a way to jumpstart their higher education.

HGSE looks for students with a passion for education, diverse life and work experiences, and a deep commitment to making an impact in the world — as educators, researchers, policymakers, and service - minded leaders of character and integrity.

But for state policymakers looking to advance K — 12 schools beyond outdated time - based paradigms, if New Hampshire's example is any indicator, the road to competency - based education will be long and winding.

Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

In today's Education Next, Public Impact Co-Directors Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel take a look at the seductiveness of the concept of reducing class sizes — and why policymakers should resist temptation.

As an organization, we'll be looking into how state and federal policy can better prepare teachers to address SEL in the classroom, include SEL in successful turnaround intervention strategies under ESSA, and how we can influence education policymakers to leverage industry standards into useful legislation.

A new study from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity's (SCALE) looks to «provide guidance to educators, assessment developers, and policymakers on how to increase student engagement in performance - based assessments.»

With this ambitious accountability plan in place, the Committee looks forward to working with community and business leaders all across Kentucky, as well as policymakers, as we've done for 35 years, to garner the commitment and resources needed to take the next giant leap in education excellence — from the middle to the top tier of all states in this generation.

Worried that American students have fallen behind their overseas peers, U.S. policymakers are looking at education systems abroad for ideas on how to boost achievement here by making lessons more rigorous.

In the journal, The Education Trust's Ryan Smith and Lillian Lowery discuss the importance of keeping equity as the cornerstone of ESSA implementation, highlighting what state policymakers should look for — and what they should watch out for — in state plan implementation.

In addition, education policymakers need to look closely at what can be done about the increasing turnover rates among beginning teachers and minority teachers, as well as in disadvantaged schools, which are traditionally among the hardest to staff.

At the same time, there was growing interest in teacher quality among policymakers, philanthropists and education reformers looking for ways to improve on a public education system that was reportedly failing to produce students who could compete globally.

This strategy also paints education policymakers in an innovative light; they look as though they are thinking outside the box to attack a problem largely created as a result of the state's own negligence.

Having usually looked at these issues from the point of view that it's a bad thing for policymakers to make promises taxpayers don't plan to keep, I'd never thought about how taxpayers» making unpaid - for promises to teachers could actually be a good thing for education, raising their compensation on the cheap.

As a research assistant in India this summer, I am able to witness what education policy reform looks like across the globe, as Indian policymakers develop a new National Education Policy (NEP) for the first time sieducation policy reform looks like across the globe, as Indian policymakers develop a new National Education Policy (NEP) for the first time siEducation Policy (NEP) for the first time since 1986.

Career and technical education (CTE) initiatives are receiving much attention of late across the federal government, as policymakers and leaders look toward CTE programs as an alternative workforce development pipeline for the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math careers.

This trend is evident in Wales where policymakers are looking to harness the talent and enthusiasm that exists in schools to bring about a radical transformation of the way the education system works and an improvement in learner outcomes.

As students continue to take out federal loans to pay for college, policymakers should begin to look at what is continuing to drive up the costs of higher education and examine ways to deter students from unnecessary borrowing.

Policymakers, recognizing the importance of these early care and education environments — not just as a work support for parents but also as a means to promote children's learning and development — are looking for strategies to boost program quality.

As a first step to helping educators, policymakers, and the general public understand what this looks like in practice, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) should collect and disseminate information about the various activities that researchers have found to be hallmarks of effective, sustainable SECD in schools.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.