Sentences with phrase «effectiveness of school choice»

Trump's billionaire nominee for secretary of education has stirred up debate about the effectiveness of school choice.

Such regulations are always a threat to the effectiveness of school choice policies, but when a particular state adopts harmful regulations, the negative effects are localized.

But she also stood by the effectiveness of school choice.

The Win - Win report recently released by EdChoice covers the effectiveness of school choice by using methods new to education policy.

These favorable decisions and new programs, plus overwhelming academic proof documenting the effectiveness of school choice, have bolstered efforts to secure greater parental choice in Pennsylvania and across the country.

«Effectiveness of School Choice: The Milwaukee Experiment.»

Three factors have contributed to the muddled view regarding the effectiveness of school choice: ideology, the limitations of individual studies, and flawed prior reviews of the evidence.

Not exact matches

Recent federal recommendations against offering the inhaled nasal influenza vaccine due to lack of effectiveness could lead to more flu illness in the U.S. if the inhaled vaccine becomes effective again or if not having the choice of the needle-less vaccine substantially reduces immunization rates, according to a new analysis led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

On the second day, Thursday 19, workshops will include: «Managing honest conversations with employees», delivered by Schools» Choice; «Making school meals count» by the Children's Food Trust; and «Operational Effectiveness», by Chris Hallmark of OEE Consulting.

To many in the media, both studies sound like they are estimating the effectiveness of charter schools or maybe even the impact of school choice — so shouldn't the answer be the same?

It is a systematic and scientific way to summarize what we know about the effectiveness of a program like private school choice.

Mike Petrilli and Rick Kahlenberg are among my favorite people (I don't know Sam Chaltain, although I might like him, too), but their piece in Sunday's Washington Post smacks of nanny - statism rather than school choice and educational effectiveness.

A second source of disputes over the effectiveness of choice are the limits of each individual empirical study of school choice.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

On the second day, Thursday 19, workshops included: «Managing honest conversations with employees», delivered by Schools» Choice; «Making school meals count» by the Children's Food Trust; and «Operational Effectiveness», by Chris Hallmark of OEE Consulting.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»

They should continue to support funding for the replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools, and they should make new investments in research and support for parent information, equitable funding and facilities, and innovative, low - regulation approaches to equity and effectiveness in schools of choice.

«Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness.»

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Recent work has included several studies related to value - added measures of teacher performance, teacher effectiveness in the early grades, school choice, teacher mobility and special needs identification.

New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City

3) «School choice realists» like us, who want to empower parents to make decisions about their own kids» education, but are skeptical about the effectiveness of distant bureaucrats.

As I have shown in the journals Educational Policy and the Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, licensure exams are very loosely related to teacher effectiveness.

Lead author of Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, he has published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Behavioral Science and Policy, Statistics and Public Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Peabody Journal of Education, Education Next, the Handbook of Research on School Choice, and the Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance.

In the 2013 - 2015 state budget, money for districts will be tight again, creating a new round of challenges, which D'Andrea says will probably include merit pay, a teacher effectiveness program, the expansion of school choice, and maybe the creation of a statewide charter authorizer.

For all of the authors» talk of creating efficiency, effectiveness, and equity in schools through market - based reforms, they ignore the issues that have been found with school choice policies.

The article notes the 2013 report «Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New YorSchools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New Yorschools in New York City.

Imagine Andrews is part of the national Imagine Schools network, 70 charter schools serving 38,000 students in 12 states and the District of Columbia, which use five Measures of Excellence to evaluate the effectiveness of each school, including academic growth, character development, economic sustainability, parent choice, and shared Schools network, 70 charter schools serving 38,000 students in 12 states and the District of Columbia, which use five Measures of Excellence to evaluate the effectiveness of each school, including academic growth, character development, economic sustainability, parent choice, and shared schools serving 38,000 students in 12 states and the District of Columbia, which use five Measures of Excellence to evaluate the effectiveness of each school, including academic growth, character development, economic sustainability, parent choice, and shared values.

Bender argued that targeted charter schools can help students of color who have been failed by the public school system, while Slekar said that school choice undermines the effectiveness of public schools, including their ability to address racial disparities.

How much proof of its effectiveness does school choice need to show before it finally takes hold?

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectivSchool «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectivschool system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

As a board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she authored the controversial Public School Choice Resolution, which created an annual process to identify and address the lowest performing schools in LAUSD, as well as the Teacher Effectiveness resolution to ensure that all students have access to an excellent teacher.

With ever - increasing competition for students (school choice, home schooling, online classes), the success and effectiveness of your district site and each of your school sites is critical.

But teachers» unions and their allies opposed magnets, charters, home schooling, religious schooling, and virtual schools long before data about the effectiveness of these choices was collected.

The Centennial state has some of the «best» school choice, charter and teacher effectiveness laws along with a strong set of rigorous standards and assessments (though some need to be fixed).

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will waive 10 NCLB provisions — including the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, sanctions for low - performing schools, the 20 percent set - aside for school choice and tutoring, and highly qualified teacher improvement plans — for states that establish higher standards, create differentiated accountability systems, promote teacher effectiveness, and reduce paperwork burdens.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

See Martin Carnoy and Patrick J. McEwan, «The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System,» Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 22, no. 3 (Fall 2000), pp. 213 - 39, Chang - Tai Hsieh and Miguel Urquiola, «The Effects of Generalized School Choice on Achievement and Stratification: Evidence from Chile's Voucher Program,» Journal of Public Economics 90, no. 8 - 9 (Sept. 2006), pp. 1477 - 1503.

We are not suggesting that district personnel policies, or policies governing school choice, should be regarded as additional dimensions of district effectiveness, as per the district conditions identified in Anderson «s review (Anderson, 2006); it is simply the case that that they emerged in our analysis of principal interview data as additional sources of district influence on principal efficacy.

Our evidence also suggested the need to add two district conditions not included in our original list of conditions associated with district effectiveness: District personnel policies and District policies governing school choice.

Qualitative research studies suggest numerous ways to improve access — defined as the opportunity for children and families to participate and fully experience the benefits of a programme, affordability, suitability and sufficient quality — to early childhood services for Aboriginal children and their families.24 Some examples include: provision of transport; locating services in areas where other daily activities occur (eg, schools); provision of low - cost or no - cost services; employing, training and retaining Aboriginal staff; provision of culturally competent and secure services; community involvement in the planning and delivery of services; and provision of flexible, comprehensive and continuous services.24 Although some Aboriginal families prefer to use mainstream instead of Aboriginal - specific services, choice is another facilitator of access.24 Furthermore, it remains unknown as to whether mainstream early childhood services with proven effectiveness in non-Aboriginal populations confer the same benefits to Aboriginal children.