Just because it is time to formally put away the supplies and shut the classroom doors, doesn't mean we have to stop thinking
about educational improvement.
Parents and teachers, who deal with the on - the - ground realities of schools and classrooms day in and day out, have a particularly valuable vantage point
on educational improvements.
Participants will be taught how to shape responses to their classroom observations and connect those responses with the broader
educational improvement goals of their schools and districts.
His research on leadership focuses on issues of scaling up innovations from local to widespread use, and his work in policy centers on state and national level
educational improvement strategies.
The work of this committee focused on interventions that show particular promise to support the
rapid educational improvement of high numbers of students by targeting supports to these schools.
When educational improvement becomes a broader discussion of excellence, cost - effectiveness, transparency, and more, everyone has a more personal stake in it.
While many factors make consensus elusive when it comes to school reform, a key obstacle to finding agreement
around educational improvements and bringing such improvements to fruition is ideological policy divisions.
The Chancellor could emigrate from distortion to reality by acknowledging the role of public charter schools
in educational improvement — we're all in this together, right?
$ 60 million is appropriated annually for scholarship organizations, $ 30 million for innovative
educational improvement programs in public schools and $ 10 for a separate pre-kindergarten scholarship program.
His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large -
scale educational improvement initiatives, policy formulation and analysis, and leadership in educational innovation.
Heads understandably turned last October when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced the release of a new study concluding that «school choice isn't a powerful tool for
driving educational improvement in Milwaukee Public Schools.»
This discussion group brought together a wide range of stakeholders across education and youth - serving systems, including educational researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, to examine the role intermediary organizations play in
promoting educational improvement through the use of research and evidence - based practices.
However, no matter how great your product is, if the technology is poorly integrated into the school structure, it will eventually fail to deliver on its promises to
create educational improvements, until a new trending technology arrives on the market, renewing the cycle.
In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state -
based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»
Indiana officials have agreed to provide the Fort Wayne schools with an extra $ 12.9 million over six years to
fund educational improvements as part of a desegregation settlement.
Proving Ground has developed an innovative approach to supplement agencies» capacity to effectively analyze their data to
address educational improvement challenges.
Cobb et al. (2003) referred to the highly interventionist nature of the methodology as a feature of design research and stated, «The intent is to investigate the possibilities for
educational improvement by bringing about new forms of learning in order to study them» (p. 10).
They have recruited around 75 notable business leaders willing to put their reputations forward in favor of more rigorous standards in schools (including the Kentucky Core Academic Standards, which are aligned to the Common Core) and
general educational improvement in the state.
A task force
studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.
When President Bush was asked at an April 10 news conference what single domestic policy goal he would most like to achieve if he wins a second term, he
chose educational improvement.
These companies» passion for
educational improvement once again shone through; they were listening to what the visitors wanted, offering advice, connecting them up with other teachers and offering them free trials.