Sentences with phrase «in education policy agendas»

Researchers will be looking at this data for years to come, but for now, one thing is clear: This time period also saw one of the most dramatic changes in education policy agendas this nation has ever seen.

The first step for policy makers is to make tackling low performance a priority in their education policy agenda.

The Need to Address Noncognitive Skills in the Education Policy Agenda is from The Economic Policy Institute.

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She has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

This neoliberal agenda of deregulation and privatisation, currently promoted in almost every sphere of human activity — from food production to health and education — poses a serious threat to food sovereignty and the ability of food producers and consumers to define their own food systems and policies.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

And in Niger state, we remained on track through delivery of people - oriented policy and programmes in tune with APC manifesto and in line with the Restoration Agenda in Agriculture, health, education, peace and security, youth and women empowerment and infrastructural development».

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

In part, that's because Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature have been increasingly willing during King's tenure to legislate education policy, even though the State Board of Regents and education department are statutorily tasked with shaping the state's schools agenda.

The education policy component of the so - called «Opportunity Agenda, Uptown» enunciated by Governor Cuomo, in of all places, the Malcom X / Shabazz Center, is only an opportunity to court disaster.

The lecture would have given him a fine chance to relate the free market, minimal state, individual empowerment agenda Joseph was so fond of to modern education policy, illustrating how the ideas that underpin the CPS have permeated through to Gove's own thinking in the area.

In his address to conference, after another hard - hitting attack on Michael Gove and Coalition education policy (it was, after all, the Education session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs firseducation policy (it was, after all, the Education session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs firsEducation session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs first».

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

In a joint letter on Friday, June 17, the officials together urged the DOE to withdraw the co-location proposal from the June 22nd Panel for Education Policy meeting agenda and to work on an alternative location to accommodate the new school.

Because the education - reform agenda has not focused on this type of policy to date, as Finn notes, there would not be a strong coalition in place to counter the opposition.

American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K — 12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy changes.

And in the days leading up to the national conventions, education policy, though hardly at the top of the public agenda, did assume a more prominent role in both campaigns.

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach teducation policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach tEducation Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

Cristian Bellei, Cristian Cabalín and Víctor Orellana, «The 2011 Chilean student movement against neoliberal educational policies,» Studies in Higher Education 39, no. 3 (2014): 426 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.896179; and Andrés Bernasconi, «Policy path dependence of a research agenda: the case of Chile in the aftermath of the student revolt of 2011,» Studies in Higher Education 39, no. 8 (2014): 1405 - 1416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.950448.

Last week's surprisingly strong Democratic electoral results may give President Clinton's education agenda a boost, but observers are quick to note that Republicans will still lead — and have control over education policy — in the new Congress.

There it's fairly obvious that the GOP doesn't know what it stands for on education anymore — partly because much of its reform agenda has been co-opted by Messrs. Duncan and Obama, partly because it has long tended (at least in Congress) to ignore this topic, partly because it has much else on its none - too - robust policy platter.

As recounted in a new book on NCLB by Drew University political science professor Patrick McGuinn (No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965 — 2005), GOP pollster David Winston attributes Bush's 2000 victory to his educatioEducation Policy, 1965 — 2005), GOP pollster David Winston attributes Bush's 2000 victory to his educationeducation agenda.

Foreign leaders, in countries from the United Kingdom to Japan to Brazil, have also committed their nations to expanding international educational exchange and comparison as a component of both foreign policy and their broader education reform agendas.

The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to expand access to private schools.

Jindal casts himself as a «policy wonk» and reformer, and his agenda for education features several ideas unfathomable in previous administrations: teacher pay for performance, school vouchers, and tax credits for private school tuition.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing cEducation Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing ceducation, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

There was a twinkle in the eye of one of our US advocacy directors when the Obama administration's... education policy framework came out... this person said... «aren't we lucky that the Obama Administration's education agenda is so compatible with ours, you know?»

Yet, at the same time, Republicans in Washington are embracing the worst elements of the teachers unions» national education agenda, by insisting that the federal government should have a limited, possibly nonexistent, role in school policy.

It should be noted that Pence's education policy agenda has not veered wildly away from others in his party.

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education advances a comprehensive, research - based policy agenda to mitigate those impacts and, thus, even the education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school Education advances a comprehensive, research - based policy agenda to mitigate those impacts and, thus, even the education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school and life.

Creating new resources, processes, and values is hard and gradual work — The temptation of any reform agenda — especially one as rational and intuitive as competency - based education — is to imagine that vis - a-vis policy change or of their own will, schools can simply flip a switch and suddenly exist in this new, mastery - based paradigm.

Principals from across the nation recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to help launch a comprehensive advocacy agenda that elevates the principal's voice in federal education policy.

Her goal is to use her school nursing expertise and education in assisting with the national agenda and national policy to shift the juvenile justice process from a punitive reform to one that includes a focus on physical / behavioral health and family engagement.

«Parents will rightly question the motives of a Secretary of State for Education who appears hell - bent on pursuing a policy agenda that isn't evidence based and clearly not in the interests of children and young people.»

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher pPolicy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher ppolicy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policypolicy.

So far, in spite of much (well - deserved) criticism of the gimmicks posing as serious education policy, no alternative agenda has surfaced.

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»

The school choice movement is gaining momentum and is becoming an accepted public policy option in the education reform agenda.

Her current research agenda centers on the politics of tuition - free community college policies as well as performance - based funding in higher education.

As a policy center within Education Commission of the States, AEP has a unique and powerful opportunity to work with key state leaders to advance the 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education and promote AEP's mission to ensure every child has access to a complete and competitive education that includes Education Commission of the States, AEP has a unique and powerful opportunity to work with key state leaders to advance the 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education and promote AEP's mission to ensure every child has access to a complete and competitive education that includes Education and promote AEP's mission to ensure every child has access to a complete and competitive education that includes education that includes the arts.

I was also interested in opportunities to develop and implement a national agenda on assessment education and to contribute to publications and policy formation.

Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, said that what happens next will depend on replacements for the two leaders and the agenda of the mayors who hire them.

While traditional foreign policy experts might not place education at the top of the agenda, the truth is that it's one of the greatest tools in our national security toolkit, and one that could use some sharpening.

He described three matters policymakers must understand before taking action: principals» place on their state's policy agenda; six possible levers that could trigger change; and their state's unique context, including the ways in which key education - related institutions interact.

SMHC is pressing for a comprehensive and substantive national policy agenda on human capital reform in education.