Sentences with phrase «education reform project in»

(2) Elementary Science Study (ESS) curriculum development program At Inhelder's recommendation, Duckworth began to participate in the Elementary Science Study (ESS) in 1962 — a curriculum development and science education reform project in Watertown, Massachusetts, U. S.

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She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.

In 2009, a $ 500,000 donation from Education Reform Now (which funneled the cash from Plainfield Asset Management, a hedge fund where former schools chancellor Harold Levy was a managing director) bought Sharpton's cooperation with then - Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on the Educational Equality Project.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Betting everything on standards - based reform is neither wise nor necessary, says Ronald A. Wolk, chairman of the board of Editorial Projects in Education.

Despite the rhetoric of it being the «civil rights movement of our time,» education reform has in fact been a centrist project for at least twenty - five years.

This is exactly what Mehta is trying to do for education reform through his various research projects, including The Chastened Dream, a book - in - progress that has him on leave for the next year to be a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center...

This week, ACER's Centre for Assessment Reform and Innovation (CARI) is launching a project to share with the education community details of the processes undertaken by schools involved in assessment reform and innovReform and Innovation (CARI) is launching a project to share with the education community details of the processes undertaken by schools involved in assessment reform and innovreform and innovation.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reformIn a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reformin student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

Philadelphia was selected to participate in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's education - reform project after Baltimore officials wavered over their intentions, the project's director said last week.

Hey Education Sector, how about a little less skepticism, and a little more love, for one of the gutsiest projects in education reformEducation Sector, how about a little less skepticism, and a little more love, for one of the gutsiest projects in education reformeducation reform history?

Nelson is currently president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Project 2061, a long - term program to reform K - 12 science education in the United States.

Legislature spent much of session in dispute with Governor over its education budget, which was $ 5 million less than the Governor's proposal and did not include any funding for a school - reform committee and the pilot projects it supports.

Nsf officials characterized the project as «perhaps the most far - reaching science - education reform effort in the U.S. since the Sputnik era of the 1950's.»

This is exactly what Mehta is trying to do for education reform through his various research projects, including The Chastened Dream, a book - in - progress that has him on leave for the next year to be a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

As I discuss at some length in Letters to a Young Education Reformer, this helps explain why so many reasonable practitioners are inclined to look with a jaundiced eye at the whole project of «reform.»

Within the past month, the Arizona Republican has endorsed the Education Equality Project; criticized his Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, for not doing the same; and written about education reform in a New York City nEducation Equality Project; criticized his Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, for not doing the same; and written about education reform in a New York City neducation reform in a New York City newspaper.

My passions in teaching include Project Based Learning, soft skill development, and education reform.

As Schwarzenegger ran for reelection in 2006, he deflected questions about his education policies by commissioning, with the leaders of the state legislature, an independent research project to recommend funding levels and reforms needed to provide a quality education for every child in California.

Klein is coauthor of «Blended Learning in Practice: Four District School Journeys,» a case study of the Oakland project written with Carrie McPherson Douglass, who's now with the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust, an umbrella organization for urban reform groups nationwide.

Before joining Education Northwest, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education - funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, the Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.

The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (www.edexcellence.net) supports research, publications and action projects of national significance in elementary / secondary education reform, as well as directs programs in the Dayton, Ohio area.

The trust was established in 1990 by the American Association for Higher Education as a special project to encourage colleges and universities to support K — 12 reform.

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Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

FairTest's Assessment Reform Network — a national project created to support parents, teachers, students and others who are working to end the overuse and misuse of standardized testing in public education and to promote authentic forms of assessment.

In commissioning this new research and bringing it to the attention of policy makers on the federal level, the Civil Rights Project hopes to contribute sound research to the current debates surrounding education reform and federal oversight.

Mr. Klein began to use test scores to measure schools» performance, and joined with the Rev. Al Sharpton in forming the Education Equality Project in 2008 to promote good instruction and education reform for minority and poor Education Equality Project in 2008 to promote good instruction and education reform for minority and poor education reform for minority and poor children.

Since her election to this role in 2008, Weingarten has led a series of projects, one of which was the creation of the AFT Innovation Fund, which supports education reform projects developed by teachers in collaboration with their local unions.

Also noteworthy is the near - simultaneous emergence on the center - left of two separate education - reform alliances: the Education Equality Project, which argues that the schools we have can produce stronger results, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, which contends that bigger societal changes must precede any major gains in school effeceducation - reform alliances: the Education Equality Project, which argues that the schools we have can produce stronger results, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, which contends that bigger societal changes must precede any major gains in school effecEducation Equality Project, which argues that the schools we have can produce stronger results, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, which contends that bigger societal changes must precede any major gains in school effecEducation, which contends that bigger societal changes must precede any major gains in school effectiveness.

... is typical of the ambitious former physics teacher who emigrated from Haiti as a boy, used the U.S. education system to drag himself up by the bootstraps from housing project poverty, then applied the same zeal to reforming the system that helped him, say friends and enemies alike in this upstate New York city of 210,000.

What they will do is tackle a range of intriguing K - 12 and higher ed projects, dealing with issues like entrepreneurship, higher ed productivity, philanthropy, mobilizing parents, higher ed transparency, the future of the teaching profession, ESEA reauth, technology, K - 12 and higher ed leadership, career and technical education, Common Core implementation, citizenship, state - and district - level reform, and much else (the mix would be, in part, a matter of interest).

In this forum, president of Democrats for Education Reform Joe Williams speaks for the Education Equality Project and Pedro Noguera offers the Broader, Bolder perspective on improving K — 12 schooling, the early record of the Obama administration, and the challenges that lie ahead.

The Education Equality Project champions accountability, pay reform, and school choice, while the Broader, Bolder coalition insists we must attend to health care, preschool, and parenting skills if students are to succeed in school.

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) responds to Arizona State University professor David Dr. Garcia's review for the National Education Policy Center's (NEPC) Think Twice think tank review project of CCSA's report: Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The success of California charter schools in promoting African American Achievement.

In a MUST READ commentary piece published in the CTNewsjunkie, Robert Cotto Jr. reviews the flawed special education proposal submitted by The Connecticut School Finance Project, a corporate education reform group that has apparently violated state law by illegally engaging in lobbying activities with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administratioIn a MUST READ commentary piece published in the CTNewsjunkie, Robert Cotto Jr. reviews the flawed special education proposal submitted by The Connecticut School Finance Project, a corporate education reform group that has apparently violated state law by illegally engaging in lobbying activities with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administratioin the CTNewsjunkie, Robert Cotto Jr. reviews the flawed special education proposal submitted by The Connecticut School Finance Project, a corporate education reform group that has apparently violated state law by illegally engaging in lobbying activities with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administratioin lobbying activities with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration.

Key to the success of this project is its grassroots approach to reform, bringing together education practitioners from across the P - 20 Colorado educational community to develop, disseminate, and use the content of the Framework, to practice knowledge and soft skills in authentic ways across all content and levels.

Before joining Education Northwest in 2009, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education — funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.

Patrick Wolf, holder of the Twenty - First Century Chair in School Choice at the U of A, co-authored a summary of the latest reports on the publicly funded private school choice program in Louisiana with Jonathan Mills, a senior research associate in the Department of Education Reform at the U of A. Wolf directs the School Choice Demonstration Project.

Corey A. DeAngelis is a distinguished doctoral fellow and a Ph.D. student in Education Policy in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas where he is affiliated with the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP).

As reported in an Education Week news blog, the Education Research Alliance at Tulane University and the Education Reform Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas have released a new study («Student Test - Score Performance Fell in Louisiana Voucher Program, Study Finds»).

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Immigrant Students» Rights Project combines our distinctive leadership in the field of public education advocacy with our in - depth knowledge of the needs of immigrant students, students learning English, and their families to improve student achievement and advance meaningful reform.

Jelani began his career in education reform 11 years ago as a community organizer and youth worker at Mikva Challenge, where he developed curriculum to train teachers in grass roots activism and supported over 5,000 high school students» activism projects.

This is, indeed, a «war on teacher tenure» that, funded by this «latest batch of tech tycoons... follows in the footsteps of a long line of older magnates, from the Carnegies and Rockefellers to Walmart's Waltons, who have also funneled their fortunes into education - reform projects built on private - sector management strategies.»

January 2018, St. Louis, MO - In 1992 Project Appleseed began as one of the first non-profits in America to employ the Internet as a tool for education reforIn 1992 Project Appleseed began as one of the first non-profits in America to employ the Internet as a tool for education reforin America to employ the Internet as a tool for education reform.

Welcome to FairTest's Assessment Reform Network — a national project created to support parents, teachers, students and others who are working to end the overuse and misuse of standardized testing in public education and to promote authentic forms of assessment.

Sherry's influence spans the nation as she works collaboratively with the National Forum To Accelerate Middle - Grades reform as forum member and Michigan Project Director on their Investing in Innovation Grant (2013) and Supporting Effective Educator Grant (2015), awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Under his leadership, ASK has been a driving force in education reform across the region, completing six nationwide and three regional projects over the past 3 years which have impacted 3,843 schools and more than 161,000 students.

He is a domestic education and workforce development specialist with almost 40 years of experience in the design, development, and management of projects and programs dealing with educational policy, teacher education and professional development, college and career readiness, workforce development, and systemic reform.

With enrollment projected to grow between 20 and 40 percent over the next 20 years, charter schools have established themselves as a fixture in the U.S. public education system and can no longer be viewed as an experiment or pilot reform.