Sentences with phrase «education policymaking»

After a stint with Teach for America, she went on to co-found Educators for Excellence (E4E) in 2010 to ensure that teachers have a leading voice in education policymaking in order to provide all students the opportunity to succeed and elevate the teaching profession.

States are increasingly at the center of education policymaking in the United States.

The test refusal group had vetted and endorsed candidates to fill two of the three positions on the state education policymaking board.

NASBE conducts annual study groups to provide professional development to members of state boards of education, set organizational direction and priorities, and inform the state education policymaking process on key issues.

Tisch, who heads the state's powerful education policymaking panel, said recently she'd like to see the charter sector grow.

Another factor working in favor of social emotional learning proponents is the recent course - correction in federal education policymaking.

President Bush's decision to nominate Margaret Spellings, his chief domestic - policy adviser, as the new U.S. secretary of education signals a steady course on education policymaking from the administration, analysts say.

But as public funding of private schools expands in states such as Arizona, Florida, and Nevada, more high - quality evidence on the nation's most prominent voucher program has the potential to inform education policymaking in the capital and across the country.

Research - Based Options for Education Policymaking is a collection of mini-briefs that takes up important policy issues and identifies policies supported by research.

Together, we put equity first in higher education policymaking.

His most recent book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary's Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press), looks at the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years.

During an interview with Capital earlier this week, Tisch stressed the importance of separating education policymaking from the politics of the governor and the Legislature.

Under the bill, which passed the chamber 40 - 18, eight of the 17 - member education policymaking board would be chosen by the governor, three by the Senate majority leader, and three by the Assembly speaker.

The makeup of the powerful education policymaking panel will be drastically different, with increased racial and gender diversity and a greater representation of public school educators.

It brings local unions together to promote progressive reform in education and teacher unions, build relationships among key stakeholders and to cultivate the next generation of teacher leaders to influence education policymaking and improve teaching effectiveness and student learning.

Nevertheless, the GoI heralds this approach as participatory democracy in action, which reminds me of similar attempts at democratizing national, state, and local level education policymaking in the United States.

Endrit's DPhil research draws on Global Governance and the role that International Organisations play in shaping education policymaking in Europe.

EdPolicy Leaders Online has launched a new online course that will take a close look at PISA data and explore how the data can be used to improve education policymaking in the U.S.

There is much to admire here, but ultimately the book's organizing idea — that education policymaking consists of confronting tradeoffs — diverts attention from the efficacy question.

But does the disproportionate power of teachers in education policymaking cause problems for democratic governance?

With the focus of education policymaking increasingly on local control, mayors and state policymakers play a significant role in improving our Nation's schools.

And all too often judicial interventions in education policymaking seem to have produced unintended consequences.

As more education policymaking devolves to states, principals are empowered with crafting learning atmospheres that meet the needs of all students.

Few would have thought that John Kline would be just a month away from assuming the most - important education policymaking role in Congress — that of Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.

That is not a reference to exam results, by the way, but — in perhaps a telling commentary on the (globally unique) focus of English education policymaking in the past 15 years — academy financial data.

It is the impact of austerity on the lives of the very children on which education policymaking is so often meant to focus.

The D.C. Policy Center Education Policy Initiative will inform education policymaking through policy papers, blog posts, and regular meetings with key stakeholders.

When, long ago, big guns in education policymaking sat down around a conference table to decide what courses students had to pass to get a high school diploma, they didn't start from scratch and look at all possible options.

Even before the presidential campaign, they had little real sway over federal education policymaking.

Research - Based Options for Education Policymaking — 2016 Collection.

The mission of the NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (The Information Center) is to provide state policymakers and analysts timely and accurate data and information that are useful in making sound higher education policy decisions.

Tisch and her colleagues on the 17 - member education policymaking board have argued that Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers set an unrealistic timeline for putting the new evaluation system in place.

I think because we've been so obsessed with Washington, we've lost sight of the enormous complications of state education policymaking — complex histories, different branches and levels of government, competing interest groups, and so on.

More high - quality evidence on the nation's most prominent voucher program has the potential to inform education policymaking in the capital and across the country

Complicated issues of how to measure success or failure vex the process of education policymaking.

These constraints stem from state government's role in education policymaking, limits on available resources, and tensions within progressivism itself.

In practice, this is almost certainly going to result in more powers being devolved to Cardiff Bay, although one recent opinion poll showed a notable minority in support of returning health and education policymaking to Westminster.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said state leaders might leave any concerns about teacher evaluations to the State Board of Regents, an education policymaking panel.

ALBANY — The appointment of Betty Rosa as chancellor of the state Board of Regents will bring major change to the education policymaking board, ending the reign of Merryl Tisch — a leader whose positions on most education issues vary greatly from that of Rosa.

Now, with President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the helm of education policymaking, and with the department tapping two opponents of the Obama - era guidance for key posts, researchers and policy experts on both sides of the debate are bracing for a big reversal that will deal a major blow to civil rights groups.

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

His narrow vision lets him dodge the question that should ultimately engage historians of American public education: to what extent, if any, were schools, teachers, and students better or worse off as a result of federal involvement in education policymaking?

Mr. McFann elicited those viewpoints from a survey of 240 education leaders and interviews with 15 individuals, primarily legislators, identified as the most influential in education policymaking.

Jennings's role as a staffer for the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce placed him at the center of nearly a half century of federal education policymaking.

Howell also found that winning states were more likely to raise their proficiency standards after RttT was authorized, suggesting that RttT's influence carried over into the implementation stage of education policymaking.

In 1982, James S. Coleman, perhaps the most significant academic figure in education policymaking of the past 50 years, produced a study, with Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore, demonstrating that students perform better in private schools, and particularly Catholic schools, than in public schools, all else being equal.