Sentences with phrase «in education policymaking»

After a stint with Teach for America, she went on to co-found Educators for Excellence (E4E) in 2010 to ensure that teachers have a leading voice in education policymaking in order to provide all students the opportunity to succeed and elevate the teaching profession.

It wasn't until I encountered the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, a group of students from across Kentucky working to boost the narratives and voices of students in education policymaking, that I began to redirect my frustration.

Hope Street Group seeks to engage Tennessee teachers in the education policymaking process.

And although the city and the teachers» union cut a deal on layoffs, the episode established E4E as a voice in education policymaking.

The fact the federal government should hold states accountable for the subsidies they are given under No Child — part of the whatever government is doing it should do well that is an oft - forgotten tenet of modern conservatism — also forces it to take a more - prominent role in education policymaking.

The Key's survey gives an insight into the widespread nature of fears over the current funding system, with 68 per cent of respondents calling for a «greater focus» on children with SEND in education policymaking.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

Today, as it was true three decades ago, school boards continue to face challenges regarding their role in the community and in education policymaking.

And all too often judicial interventions in education policymaking seem to have produced unintended consequences.

Their analysis of 13 federal, state, and local improvement efforts in rural schools suggests that a longstanding «urban bias» in education policymaking has resulted in programs that do not take the variety and special characteristics of rural communities into account — and thus are less effective than they could be.

His most recent book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary's Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press), looks at the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years.

Mr. McFann elicited those viewpoints from a survey of 240 education leaders and interviews with 15 individuals, primarily legislators, identified as the most influential in education policymaking.

These constraints stem from state government's role in education policymaking, limits on available resources, and tensions within progressivism itself.

Not exact matches

A private, non-profit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure continued citizen support for public education.

Endrit's DPhil research draws on Global Governance and the role that International Organisations play in shaping education policymaking in Europe.

Tisch and her colleagues on the 17 - member education policymaking board have argued that Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers set an unrealistic timeline for putting the new evaluation system in place.

Although the authorized spending levels in the law, the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, expired in 2010, the rest of its science policymaking provisions remain in effect.

It is critical, then, that education reformers begin recruiting, grooming, and mentoring potential leaders not just for key policymaking positions in the hierarchy of education, but for positions in which they would lead, innovate, teach, and inspire.

The study trip was designed to help participants gain insight into both the educational policymaking process and the different and innovative policy initiatives implemented in the Colombian education system over the last 20 years.

students who intend to pursue managerial leadership of districts, state education departments, or policymaking agencies will be able to think more boldly and systematically about their work in a way that fosters new approaches, thoughtful initiatives, and gives them the ability to engage and manage entrepreneurs in their work.

Two states are pulling out of a leading national education group in the most visible sign yet of the political tensions rippling through many policymaking organizations since the 1994 elections.

EdPolicy Leaders Online has launched a new online course that will take a close look at PISA data and explore how the data can be used to improve education policymaking in the U.S.

Richard Colvin has written for Education Next about Leading Educators and other organizations that try to increase the voice of teachers in policymaking.

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

Policymaking for public education in a democracy inevitably is shaped by politics, and any reform proposal will inexorably be subject to compromise and modification.

It was in Elmore's course, Politics, Policymaking, and Political Action in Education, that Quang first began to envision College Preview, although his personal story was the inspiration.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

We offer a comprehensive curriculum that will serve you in every facet of higher education administration, policymaking, and research.

Clearly, these suggestions run counter to prevailing preferences for immediate gratification in policymaking, but they are essential if we are to see sustained improvement in education.

Lagemann's efforts have resulted in a school of education that is now more influential in the areas of policymaking and research, not only in Boston and Cambridge, but across the nation.

With one notable exception (spurring long overdue changes in some state laws), the implementation of this mammoth statute has confirmed several humbling, hoary lessons of federal policymaking, including the limited ability of Uncle Sam to drive education reform.

On the positive side of the ledger, I can think of no other area of education in which policymaking and discussion rely as much on appeals to evidence.

More high - quality evidence on the nation's most prominent voucher program has the potential to inform education policymaking in the capital and across the country

At issue is $ 102,000 earned by Mrs. Clinton in 1991 as a consultant for the National Center on Education and the Economy, a not - for - profit education - reform and policymaking group based in RochesEducation and the Economy, a not - for - profit education - reform and policymaking group based in Rocheseducation - reform and policymaking group based in Rochester, N.Y.

«Some degree of order needs to be brought out of this chaos,» wrote James B. Conant, the former President of Harvard University, in 1964, in reference to education policymaking in the nation.

His research focuses on judicial policymaking and in particular the influence of the courts on education.

Congress can take significant steps in the next Higher Education Act toward designing a system that will better serve both borrowers and taxpayers and generate evidence to support bolder policymaking in the future.

States are increasingly at the center of education policymaking in the United States.

A nonprofit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity and ensure continued citizen support for public education.

Welner's present research examines the use and misuse of research in policymaking and explores various issues concerning the intersection between education rights litigation and educational opportunity scholarship.

With the focus of education policymaking increasingly on local control, mayors and state policymakers play a significant role in improving our Nation's schools.

Assistant Professor Felipe Barrera - Osorio, who sits on the three - person IEN executive committee, stressed the importance of conducting sound evaluations in the context of continuing and expanding programs — both for education and policymaking.

In matters of K — 12 education policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but recent decades have more often found governors and legislators driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct controIn matters of K — 12 education policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but recent decades have more often found governors and legislators driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct controin direct control.

«It is my expectation that serious research can inform policymaking in Mexico for improving the quality of the education that indigenous children receive,» he says.

The leaders in this movement demonized Mississippi's elected leaders and argued that education funding and policymaking authority should be taken away from them.

Her failure in policymaking at the federal level (as well as inability to fill key jobs at the Department of Education) has also become quite clear.

Our Deputy Director Ben Boer joined Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk on the «Education Gadfly Show» for a «master class in state policymaking» this week.

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Few would have thought that John Kline would be just a month away from assuming the most - important education policymaking role in Congress — that of Chairman of the House Education and Labor Ceducation policymaking role in Congress — that of Chairman of the House Education and Labor CEducation and Labor Committee.