Sentences with phrase «former education policymaker»

As a teacher - educator and former education policymaker in New York, I was not completely unprepared for Elizabeth Green's Building a Better Teacher.

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He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agenda.

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.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said teachers are often scapegoated to explain low - student achievement when policymakers refuse to properly fund K - 12 education — and she doesn't appear to see unions as the driving force behind keeping less - than - stellar teachers at low - performing schools.

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.

While my minimal social media presence (follow me @RyanEReyna) will keep me out of that heavyweight fight, I would like to use my vantage point as both a «doer and talker,» in Hess parlance, to provide some feedback to my former policymaker and state education agency staff colleagues.