Sentences with phrase «education policymakers so»

Are education policymakers so focused on the poorest - performing students in the name of closing the achievement gap that the highest - performing students suffer?

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So much discussion among politicians and policymakers centers on public education, gender equality, and poverty alleviation.

Connecticut last week became the first and, so far, only state to sue over the federal No Child Left Behind Act, a move that some analysts say could embolden policymakers elsewhere to step up their varied challenges to the Bush administration's signature education law.

Higher education today gives analysts, policymakers, and critics so much to fret about — cost, free speech, leftward lurching faculty, politically trendy majors — that we haven't been paying nearly enough heed to the quality and value of the product itself.

Choice is here to stay — like it or not — so policymakers need to get smart about harnessing its power to further the goals of public education.

Mediocre PISA and TIMSS results plus persistent domestic achievement gaps have caught the eyes of policymakers and education leaders on both sides of the pond, as it's become clear that yesterday's so - so expectations just aren't good enough and that today's testing - and - accountability regimes do not produce nearly enough world - class, college - ready graduates.

There can be no doubt that expanding the amount of time American students spend in school is an idea popular with many education policymakers and has long been so.

So, what are the implications then for school communities and education policymakers here in Australia?

Federal policymakers should work to limit Washington's intervention in higher education — specifically, through accreditation — so that reform can take place.

The «exhaustion and anger of teachers» referred to in the article is seldom directed at the «educational establishment» but more often at policymakers - and most frequently at those who offer unbalanced and poorly substantiated criticism of the education system and whose own policy ideas are so obviously ideologically driven.

Consider an education program so effective that its impact can be measured 19 years later, so well - studied that it can be backed up with decades of scientific evidence on children's improved skills in math and reading, and so impressive to policymakers that it continues to be championed around the country 40 years after its launch.

It does so in three ways: providing timely, useful information to policymakers; advancing awareness among the larger public on complex education issues; and highlighting effective models and strategies intended to improve student outcomes.

Overview This study mission for state policymakers focused on how policies can strengthen the alignment of expectations and resources across the educational pipeline so that young people complete high school prepared to succeed in a range of postsecondary education opportunities.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

Considering the issues you raise, I hope you will send it on to Connecticut policymakers so they can consider necessary changes to this year's «education reform» legislation.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

Although the states that adopted Common Core's standards did so legally (usually by a vote of their state boards of education), many state policymakers deliberately minimized public awareness and discussion of the standards» academic deficits in order to ensure their passage and continue their use.

Public school leaders, education experts and policymakers in New Jersey must work together to identify an adequate funding source so that all of our schools have the resources they need to succeed.

So, while policymakers and politicians are focusing on the fall - out from the recent election, educators across the country have begun a new conversation about how to improve civic education in our schools.

C2 is a voluntary, nonprofit international research network that prepares, maintains, and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of interventions in education, crime and justice, social welfare, and international development, so that policymakers, practitioners, and service recipients are better equipped to make informed decisions.

«A team of documentary filmmakers began following affected families and educators, policymakers, and advocates as the closures unfolded — and their stories became a jumping - off point for exploring so many urgent questions facing public education today.»

With urban and rural education struggling mightily, it is incumbent on policymakers to help replicate the high - performing schools and provide parents with access to better information so they can make more informed choices.»

«Parents need this data to ensure their child has the best possible education, communities need it to advocate for changes in their schools, and policymakers need it so they know how to direct resources.

Show Me the Data 2017 highlights strides made by states in their education data reporting and ways they can make their report cards clearer and more useful so that parents, educators, community members and policymakers have the information they need to make decisions that help all students excel.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

For more than 75 years, NSBA, a federation of 49 state associations and one territory association, has been working to ensure our public education system is appropriately supported by federal policymakers, so public schools can offer the best possible environment for students to realize their dreams.

To implement their plan, one of things Achievement First must do is persuade Connecticut policymakers to adopt education reforms that will favorably position the Charter School Management company so it can expand here in Connecticut.

State of Our Cities: Profiles of Education Performance Around the Nation provides comparable education data on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local comEducation Performance Around the Nation provides comparable education data on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local comeducation data on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local comeducation decision - making in their local communities.

As communities strive to ensure the success of all children, it is important that policymakers and early education professionals identify and respond to the needs of immigrant families so that teachers, schools, and early childhood programs are prepared to serve these children.

The public and policymakers must know which schools are working so that we can begin the work of improving public education.

Given that policymakers have been so blind to those needs, for so long, they should reserve seats at the education policy table for senior - level leaders who will advocate for the whole child, speaking up forcefully on behalf of SECD.