Sentences with phrase «educational policymakers who»

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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.

Any stakes associated with testing policies should be shouldered not only by students and educators, but also by policymakers who have control over the educational systems in which teaching and learning occur.

We think that this represents gross neglect, and we compliment those states and policymakers who are trying to collect longitudinal data and base educational policy on a more careful assessment of the trajectories of children's intellectual progress over their school careers.

Policymakers who want to expand educational choice in their states should seek to combine the advantages of each approach.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

The initiative establishes the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy — a group of educators, policymakers, scientists, and business leaders who will study educational issues and their relationship to the U.S. economy.

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.

«And the fast - changing landscape of educational technology only complicates the task for policymakers and administrators who seek to make «smart» decisions about how to proceed.»

This article discusses the authors» experiences leaving their roles as teachers in public schools and then returning to teaching some time later, focusing on how these experiences expose a gap in understanding between U.S. policymakers who work on educational law and the teachers to whom educational laws apply.

Advisors to the study are Michael Fullan, former OISE Dean and Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, who both consult widely with government policymakers and educational leaders around the world.

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.»

Policymakers who might consider regulating or constraining one of these factors — educational choice and financial responsibility for parents; freedom, competition, and the profit / loss system for schools — must consider the impact that such a policy would have on the other factors and the system in general.

In this paper, co-authors Kim Smith and Julie Petersen examine the demand for innovation by educator and student users, school and district buyers, policymakers, and others who provide funding for educational goods and services, like foundations and even parents.