Sentences with phrase «efforts of education researchers»

Beginning with the efforts of education researchers themselves, we find references to the Coleman Report and its central findings suggesting that many researchers do not understand the thrust of the report.

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Researchers at Detroit Medical Center reported the results of the implementation of an initiative called the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, www.survivingsepsis.org, an international effort to formulate guidelines to improve sepsis treatment and reduce mortality through sustainable change and physician education.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

The researchers conclude that the best way to boost organ donation rates is a multi-pronged approach that includes education and engagement with potential donors and their families, broader community engagement, concerted efforts by hospitals caring for potential donors, and optimized performance of organ procurement organizations who manage organ donation in this country.

Responding to the country's critical need for STEM teachers, and for teaching that supports students all the way to graduation and employment in ever - expanding STEM fields, education researchers and practitioners have fought hard to build effective approaches, and AAAS has helped to spearhead those efforts, said Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

Providing training for early childhood education teachers, embedding direct instruction and practice of targeted skills into daily practice and engaging families in these efforts help to boost the success of these kinds of interventions, Oregon State University researchers suggest in a new paper.

Koretz is a senior researcher with the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), a collaborative effort of several universities and research organizations funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

A new effort, Project for Policy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communities.

Institutional researchers acquire detailed reports from various departments and utilize all departmental data to submit accurate reports to NCES for IPEDS data collection.Examples of Implementation Efforts and Goals to AchieveHigher education institutions include several goals in their strategic planning processes.

A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.

I am an education policy researcher who's taken a few detours into policy jobs — once in the Office of Data and Accountability of DC Public Schools, and once as the Deputy of Educator Preparation for the State of Delaware under its Race - to - the - Top efforts.

The researchers» approach to measuring the causal effect of competition between private and state schools uses the fact that the amount of competition in education today has in large part been influenced by the Catholic church's efforts in the nineteenth century to construct an alternative school system wherever the state religion was not Catholic.

In an effort to understand how students learn, researchers from the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne have collaborated across disciplines of education, psychology and neuroscience to explain the role of synchrony in collaborative learning.

That's because the meeting comes as the Bush administration is stepping up its commitment to what it calls «evidence - based education practice,» and education researchers may be key to the success of that effort.

A number of social studies education researchers have explored efforts to leverage digitized primary source documents in this form of disciplined inquiry in history (e.g., Hicks, Doolittle & Lee, 2004; Friedman, 2006, Saye & Brush, 1999, 2004, 2006).

The Prime Online oTPD program was developed as the result of a collaborative effort between three teacher educators and researchers with expertise in special education, mathematics education, and teacher professional development with a focus on teacher inquiry.

Jacobson's chapter, «School - Community Partnerships: A Typology for Guiding Systemic Education Reform,» draws on the experiences of the Coalition for Community Schools and other partnership efforts to help policymakers and researchers understand the value and different types of partnership approaches.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and iEducation does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and ieducation system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.

Thanks to No Child, the work of researchers such as Robert Balfanz, Jay P. Greene, and Christopher Swanson, the efforts of policymakers such as former Indiana Commissioner of Higher Education Stan Jones and Congressman - Elect Luke Messer, and the National Governors Association, states revamped their graduation rate calculations and admitted the abysmal state of American public eEducation Stan Jones and Congressman - Elect Luke Messer, and the National Governors Association, states revamped their graduation rate calculations and admitted the abysmal state of American public educationeducation.

Calling North Carolina's school turnaround work «among the most ambitious in the nation,» Vanderbilt University researcher Gary Henry told members of the State Board of Education on Thursday that he's found significant positive effects resulting from the state's federally - funded efforts to boost the performance of some of its lowest performing schools between the 2011 and 2015.

Special education researchers, and the practitioners who are pioneering efforts to prepare students to take part in and succeed in large - scale assessments, are ensuring that this mandate is implemented in the best interest of the students, their families, and the educators who assist them.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Prior to her work with LEED, she served in multiple capacities to support educational organizations in their efforts to achieve educational excellence including School Improvement Facilitator, School Coach, External Evaluator, Education Researcher and Director of School Redesign.

The testing effort is a «great opportunity,» said Elliot Weinbaum, a senior education researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, but there will be «a host of technical challenges» to make the tests achieve all their complex aims.

Most responsible for the dearth is Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been one of the foremost critics of federally driven efforts to use data to improve education — leaving researchers and policymakers in the dark and setting up the possibilities of significant consequences for defying federal guidelines.

A small group of education advocates and researchers have been beating the drum about chronic absenteeism for years, gathering evidence that not only is attendance directly linked to achievement, but that comprehensive community efforts — including schools, nonprofit groups, social workers and community health organizations — can yield substantial improvements in school attendance.

Special education researchers and practitioners are pioneering efforts to prepare these students to take part in and succeed in large - scale assessments, thus ensuring that the mandate is implemented in the best interests of the students and their families.

Gutierrez and his team of experienced education consultants are working with researchers from Bellwether Education Partners, a nationally recognized education advising and support nonprofit, to accomplish the effort, which is backed by a $ 100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of education consultants are working with researchers from Bellwether Education Partners, a nationally recognized education advising and support nonprofit, to accomplish the effort, which is backed by a $ 100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of Education Partners, a nationally recognized education advising and support nonprofit, to accomplish the effort, which is backed by a $ 100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of education advising and support nonprofit, to accomplish the effort, which is backed by a $ 100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.