Sentences with phrase «for excellent education»

The GradNation Campaign leverages a strong network of dedicated partners, in - depth research, and proven tools and tactics to combat the high school dropout crisis across the United States Together with America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, Everyone Graduates Center at John Hopkins University, and the Alliance for Excellent Education, the GradNation Campaign is rapidly progressing towards its 2020 goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate, with all students prepared for college and careers in the 21st century workforce.

Future Ready Schools ® is a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education featuring leadership institutes co-hosted by our coalition partners.

Leading in and beyond the library, Alliance for Excellent Education, Jan. 28, 2014.

Alliance for Excellent Education, 2014.

Resources: On the Path to Equity: Improving the Effectiveness of Beginning Teachers, Alliance for Excellent Education Eight Questions on Teacher Recruitment and Retention: What Does the Research Say?

«We're not quite seeing the bold jump to innovation that we would like to see,» Chip Slaven, a senior advocacy advisor for the Alliance for Excellent Education, which works to improve high schools, tells the publication.

«Currently, states spend a combined $ 1.3 billion annually to develop, publish, administer, score, and report on their own state tests,» the Alliance for Excellent Education writes.

The first is to insist that schools implement interventions with strong evidence of success and support their efforts to identify research - based practices, but stop short of prescribing a specific intervention (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2017; Herman, 2017).

Under Pletnick's leadership, the Dysart Unified has earned recognition at the state and national levels, including being named as a model district by the Alliance for Excellent Education and being accepted into the League of Innovative Schools.

In fact, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education, teacher attrition costs the U.S. up to $ 2.2 billion annually.

According to the Alliance for Excellent Education (2004), only about one percent of teachers actually receive what they deem as comprehensive induction.

Prior to joining NASBE, Mr. Parsi held a number of policy, research, and school - based positions at the Alliance for Excellent Education, the National Service - Learning Partnership, Policy Analysis for California Education, and Fair Oaks Community School in Redwood City, California.

Alliance for Excellent Education President Bob Wise tackles the topic of American education and shares his book, «Raising the Grade.»

Robert Rothman is a senior fellow at the Alliance for Excellent Education and the author of Something in Common: The Common Core Standards and the Next Chapter in American Education (Harvard Education Press, 2011).

Prior to her role at CEP, Ferguson served as the Vice President for Policy at the Alliance for Excellent Education, Director of the National School Boards Foundation, Director of Field Operations for New American Schools, and director of Communication and Outreach Services for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education during the Clinton Administration.

They can mask the actual score changes that students are making,» said Robert Rothman, senior fellow at the Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, D.C.

As school districts around the country consider investments in technology as a way to improve student outcomes, this report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that technology — when implemented properly — can produce significant gains in student achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.

According to the Alliance for Excellent Education, the teacher turnover rate in poor schools is about 20 percent per year — roughly 50 percent higher than the rate in affluent schools.

Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, announced Future Ready Librarians, an expansion of the FRS initiative aimed at positioning librarians as leaders in the digital transformation of learning.

p. 1 (August 2006) The Alliance for Excellent Education, Washington, DC.

The rest are silent on this topic — including papers by groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Alliance for Excellent Education, Association of Public Land Grant Universities, and Institute for College Access and Success.

A new report by the Alliance for Excellent Education estimates the economic costs to cities of having high drop - out rates.

Experts at the GradNation campaign — led by America's Promise Ailliance, Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Alliance for Excellent Education — provide this FAQ to help explain what's behind the increase in high school graduation rates.

In concise and clear - eyed prose, the Alliance for Excellent Education's Robert Rothman lays out exactly how the new standards could change current instructional practices — and aims to speak directly to educators, whose efforts will determine whether or not these changes will occur.

The summit, one of many across the nation, is sponsored by the US Department of Education and the Alliance for Excellent Education to help ensure that we, as leaders in public education, are proactively planning for the future of education.

The NM State Plan has been widely recognized as one of the best in the country by independent groups and commissions on both sides of the aisle, and I would like to extend our state's appreciation to the Collaborative for Student Success & Bellwether Education Partners, the Alliance for Excellent Education, Results For America and other leading educational organizations that have weighed in with both praise and critique in the spirit of advancing student outcomes.

She has served on the boards of directors for the Spencer Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Alliance for Excellent Education Association for Middle Level Education National Association of Elementary School Principals National Association of Secondary School Principals National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades...

Gov. Bob Wise - Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise is president of the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance), a nonprofit organization that has become a national leader for reforming the nation's high schools so that all students graduate from high school prepared to succeed in college and a career.

Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College - and Career - Ready Instruction, Policy Brief (Washington, D.C.: Alliance for Excellent Education).

The Alliance for Excellent Education says that the «effective use of data and learning analytics are both critical components of a digital learning strategy to personalize learning for many more students, especially to increase student retention and achievement in the highest - need schools (page 2).»

As the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) continues to support public school and district leaders in aligning their policy and practice with SAL, this webinar will highlight one of many successful partnerships working to ensure SAL - based approaches are used systemwide.

Our nation is dependent on this future workforce that needs increased access and opportunity for an excellent education.

«In many ways, [No Child Left Behind] is a compact disc in an iPod world,» Bob Wise, president of the Washington - based Alliance for Excellent Education, said in a statement.

Signing onto the letter: the Consortium for School Networking, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, the Alliance for Excellent Education and Common Sense Kids Action.

WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC — based national policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring all students, particularly those traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship.

Hosted by the Alliance for Excellent Education, this was a powerful day — one that I hope inspired the policymakers to think harder about how we can craft federal policy to encourage strong integration of rigorous academics with career and technical education, engage students in challenging authentic projects, and expand opportunities for young people to interact with working adults.

Civic Enterprises and Everyone Graduates Center at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University; in partnership with America's Promise Alliance and Alliance for Excellent Education

The Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) also highlights specific state methods for closing gaps in access to high - quality teachers and recommends a comprehensive induction program for novice teachers.

«That's why the Alliance for Excellent Education is holding PISA Day: Global Lessons for the U.S. Education System and Economy, a series of panel discussions on December 7 highlighting important lessons to learn from PISA 2015.

The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) invites school district superintendents to demonstrate support for funding to support Wi - Fi in schools by adding their name to the Re: WC Docket No. 13 - 184 Memorandum which will be submitted to Chairman Pai of the Federal Communications Commission.

The Alliance for Excellent Education and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) will join forces with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to host a joint U.S. release of the OECD's new report Supporting Teacher Professionalism.

Panelists Deb Delisle, Assistant Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education Dan Losen, Director, Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA Martens Roc, Policy and Advocacy Associate, Alliance for Excellent Education Karen Webber - Ndour, Executive Director, Student Support and Safety, Baltimore City Schools Darryl Briggs, BSW Candidate, Lehman College

On behalf of the OECD, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future and the Alliance for Excellent Education I am very pleased to welcome you to today's event.

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As many of you know, the alliance for excellent education mission is for success in life.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

How Blended Learning Can Help Turnaround Struggling Schools is a panel discussion the Alliance for Excellent Education held in May 2011.

In a statement, Alliance for Excellent Education President Bob Wise calls the latest PISA rankings the «shiny bow on top of the PISA present,» and stresses that the additional data and analysis contained in the PISA results will «prove invaluable to policymakers in the coming months and years.»