Sentences with phrase «inform educational improvements»

Founded in 2008, YouthTruth works with schools across the country to use student, family, and school staff feedback to inform educational improvements.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

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Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy The Rennie Center conducts independent research to promote public discourse on educational improvement and inform policy discussions by key decision makers and opinion leaders.

Specifically, routine data and a systematic literature review will inform specific parameters that will link early interventions on infant mental health — and related improvements in quality of life — with better health, educational and occupational outcomes, lower crime rates and cost savings for the health sector and the entire society.