Sentences with phrase «including educational researchers»

This discussion group brought together a wide range of stakeholders across education and youth - serving systems, including educational researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, to expand participants» understanding of research application in educational policy and practice.

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The researchers also revealed some disturbing forward - looking calculations should major reform not be implemented: If healthcare costs rise to a predicted 20 percent of GDP by 2017, eight industries, including educational services, communications, and manufacturing, would shed more than 20 percent of their workforces over the same period.

It heard testimony from 31 persons, including researchers, producers, directors, writers, actors, corporate executives, legislators, and leaders of national educational and public interest organizations.

In the other group, researchers made visits and calls and sent monthly newsletters encouraging parents to replace violent TV with educational programming - including specific program schedules and recommended shows, such as Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer and Curious George.

Starting this past summer, groups within public universities and research institutions — including contract researchers — began holding educational events to alert their communities about the law's implications.

The more than 30 pages of proposed rules for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, include protections for educators who seek to share information to protect a student's health or safety, new guidelines for school districts on sharing student data with educational researchers, and a proposed requirement that schools safeguard electronic and other records, including from some school staff members.

The application packet includes dozens of questions developed by approximately 200 researchers, practitioners, and staff members from state and federal educational agencies, professional associations, and large foundations.

The committee included 15 nationally recognized educational researchers and practitioners, a number of whom live in Washington D.C. and have deep knowledge of the city and its schools, and its report was independently reviewed by 13 more experts before revision and public release.

The literature that describes proficiency - based education systems includes the work of Dr. John Hattie, professor and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Dr. Michael Fullan, Canadian educational researcher and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

These individuals represented a range of organizational affiliations, and included 16 current CSSS members, 7 former CSSS members, 8 state department of education leaders, 7 local educational leaders, 29 individuals working for educational non-profit organizations, and as many as 75 university researchers.

If you were holding out hope that the expansion of educational measures to include non-cognitive skills would give policymakers, researchers, and pundits a stronger ability to prescribe how and where students should be educated, I have some bad news for you.

IES program officers will describe the funding opportunities for educational leadership researchers that are currently available for Fiscal Year 2014, including those under the «Improving Education Systems» and «Partnerships and Collaborations Focused on Problems of Practice or Policy» program areas.

Though not exhaustive, the review includes stories and reports of research, most of which are not available in their original form but are reported by the researchers in books and articles in popular educational journals.

Promisingly, researchers have found that it is possible to orient students toward positive learning mindsets through low - cost interventions, including online programs that teach students about growth mindsets and purpose.29 According to Carol Dweck and her colleagues, ``... educational interventions and initiatives that target these psychological factors can have transformative effects on students» experience and achievement in school, improving core academic outcomes such as GPA and test scores months and even years later.»

In the current landscape where standards, accountability assessments, and use of student value - added measures to evaluate teachers prevail, the researchers expanded survey respondents to include students to better understand their awareness and what value — if any — they perceive in educational testing.

Researchers have posited that preparing science teachers to use educational technology in appropriate ways requires a multifaceted approach that includes subject - specific preparation, examples, and resources (Flick & Bell, 2000).

Prior to her work with LEED, she served in multiple capacities to support educational organizations in their efforts to achieve educational excellence including School Improvement Facilitator, School Coach, External Evaluator, Education Researcher and Director of School Redesign.

She is a passionate empirical researcher and writer in the areas of deeper learning, cognitive development, creativity, play, 21st century student outcomes, and educational technology; she has blogged for multiple national education blogs including the George Lucas Foundation's Edutopia and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning.

MarGrady Research study «Moving Up: Progress in Newark's Schools from 2010 to 2017,» by educational researcher Jesse Margolis of MarGrady Research and NYU, analyzed the district's progress since 2010 — including both NPS and charter schools — looking specifically at the effectiveness of educational reforms pertaining to student outcomes and achievement.

Through coursework in social studies education, educational theory, and research methods, we prepare our students to be teacher educators, researchers, scholars, and curriculum developers in social studies education, which includes the disciplines of history, government / civics, geography, economics, and the other social sciences.

FastBridge is the brainchild of leading educational researchers in the country, including those from the University of Minnesota — the birthplace of CBM and CAT methodologies.

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Dr. Blum's previous experience includes: Supervising Psychologist at the Institute for Girls» Development in Pasadena; Supervising Psychologist for Children's Hospital - Los Angeles; Staff Researcher at the UCLA Center for Adolescent Health Promotion; and Director of Education for the HiTOPS Teen Health Center in Princeton, NJ, where she designed educational programs for teens, parents, and teachers on healthy adolescent development.