Sentences with phrase «federal education research»
With Whitehurst moving to the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution after his term expires this month, and as drafts for IES reauthorization begin to make the Beltway rounds, it is time to assess the contribution of IES to the history of federal education research and look ahead to its future.
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Dr. Ruth Neild, deputy director for policy and research at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), spoke about federal education research policy issues.
New legislation that guides federal education research and evaluation is one step closer to becoming law.
- Maris A. Vinovskis is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and the author of Revitalizing Federal Education Research: Improving the Regional Educational Laboratories, the R&D Centers, and the «New» OERI (University of Michigan Press, 2001).
The Education Sciences Reform Act reauthorization bill, which was just approved by the Senate Education Committee, would make federal education research more relevant and timely for educators.
Now that the House has passed its Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization bill, the House education committee is tackling reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA), which established the Institute of Education Sciences and guides federal education research and evaluation.
A policymaking board should be established and charged with responsibilities for monitoring the needs and accomplishments of federal education research and guiding the agenda - setting process of the O.E.R.I.
Federal education research and development has been fragmented and disorganized for most of its history.
Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.
What I would argue is that a much larger share of the federal education research dollars... should be devoted to helping states begin to use the data that they've been accumulating to start evaluating their own programs and policies.