Sentences with phrase «educational policymakers»

They are joined by teachers, school administrators, and educational policymakers who want to integrate scientific research in their practice.

«This is a unique program because it engages a wide range of educational policymakers and...

How do educational policymakers and practitioners in various high performing and rapidly improving countries conceptualize their understanding of the goals and purposes of education for an increasingly interdependent world in the 21st century?

Effective mathematics instruction is the result of a complex web of factors, many of which can be controlled by educational policymakers and are independent of socioeconomic and other conditions, according to a new analysis of data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

International education also became a priority of Ylvisaker's administration: The Project for Human Potential helped educational policymakers find the means of achieving a full range of development possibilities in a given population, and the Office of International Education was created.

Another round of panic will set in, fingers will point at America's public schools, yet again, and we will, yet again (though hopefully not by the grace of more visionary educational policymakers) look to even higher standards and better tests to adopt, implement, and repeat, from the beginning — see # 1 above.

Conceptually sophisticated and lucidly written, this book is indispensible reading for educational policymakers, policy researchers, and all who have a stake in U.S. urban schools.»

Many educational policymakers shy away from pursing integration without considering the strong research evidence demonstrating its value as an educational reform tool.

Those who think that this is a foolhardy approach should examine what Finnish educational policymakers did when student performance in their schools languished.

«This is a unique program because it engages a wide range of educational policymakers and practitioners from around the world with HGSE faculty, educational leaders from Massachusetts, and a number of HGSE students,» said Senior Lecturer James Honan, the institute's educational cochair.

Worse, many other administrative arrangements which are effective with the gifted and are centered in the regular classroom, including ability grouping, cluster grouping, and acceleration, are now considered politically off limits by educational policymakers.

Company executives absolutely need to read it, but so do many others including government and educational policymakers, university career advisers, recruiters, job seekers, and journalists who help perpetuate the skill - shortage myth.

There are many ideas and techniques that educators and educational policymakers can take away from charter schools.

Moreover, the social justice mission of MSIs is instrumental in the creation of think - tanks and networks for university faculty, teacher education students, teachers, administrators, and educational policymakers to work together to solve pressing issues for minority and underserved students.

Comparisons, for instance, are often made with doctors — the implication being that educational policymakers should turn to the medical profession as a model.

Otherwise, he calls all educators (and educational policymakers) to continuously ask themselves one question when test scores rise: «What did you give up to achieve this rise in scores.»

If we used the mean compensation of these educational policymakers as the benchmark for teacher compensation, we might at least approach a fair wage for teachers.

In close cooperation with the Anne Frank House and other partners, the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin brought together teachers and educational policymakers to exchange ideas and experiences on teaching about anti-Semitism in relation to other forms of discrimination.

A more profound worry is that many law professors and educational policymakers are not even aware that there is a second option.