Sentences with phrase «making policy evaluation»
Behavioral economics points to consumer error to justify energy efficiency policies, making policy evaluation difficult and potentially validating large - scale market preemption.
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Moreover, the federal government wasn't making its evaluation results public — missing opportunities to inform federal and state Medicaid policy discussions.»
In addition, each school district and charter school is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness policy.
Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.
NYSUT's spending came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a series of changes to the state's education policies, including a new criteria for teacher evaluations, a strengthening of charter schools and making it easier to close schools deemed to be «failing.»
State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.
The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The state budget included changes to New York's education policies, ranging from making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure, new evaluation criteria and a plan for schools to enter receiverships.
The Programme of Action calls for the participation of young people in the development, decision making, implementation and evaluation of SRHR policy at all levels.
The Manhattan judge who has been getting the best of an unlimited sick time policy for nearly three years could be making a comeback as he faces an evaluation by court officials and the state agency overseeing judicial conduct, his lawyer said.
«Far more must be done to ensure money injected into implementing these policies is tracked and policy design must be sufficiently improved so that effective and accurate evaluation can take place, so that policy - making is based on sound evidence.»
Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.
At the conference, she also spoke out against the teacher evaluation system backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying that politics should be kept out of education policy - making.
«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»
StudentsFirstNY made a number of policy recommendations to address the findings of the report, including the implementation of a robust and comprehensive teacher evaluation system in accordance with State law.
Cuomo has told lawmakers that they must accept education policy changes — including adding authorization for 100 new charter schools and making teacher evaluations more dependent on standardized tests — in order for him to agree to give the state's schools more money.
The study, published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, is one of the first to examine how reclassification rates vary — and to document how educators make decisions in schools.
Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.
James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).
The 2,308 students in the OSP study make it the largest school voucher evaluation in the U.S., making the achievement results even more compelling when compared to results from other, similar experimental evaluations of education policies undertaken by the federal government.
And while foundations fund evaluation, convening, policy analysis, and dissemination, very few show any inclination to make any particular effort to develop multi-skilled scholars or support the whole panoply of activity.
A high - school English teacher in her ninth year, Keigan and other fellows have been involved in shaping the details of SB 191, the Colorado reform bill that made major changes to teacher - related policies, including evaluations and tenure.
Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.
His research focuses primarily on (1) strengthening economic evaluations of preventive interventions, (2) facilitating evidence - based policy - making through strategic investments in preventive services, and (3) evaluating the utility of performance - based financing to access new resources for improving health.
Though the decision received wide coverage (per above) and throws New York school districts a curve (they are supposed to have an evaluation policy in place by September 1), it's not clear that the decision will have any major implications for other states that are considering linking teacher evaluations to test scores (except as inducement to make sure their regulations correspond to their laws).
As Adam Strom, director of research and evaluation at Facing History and Ourselves, told International Education Policy Program (IEP) students last week, the important aspect of teaching history to students is making a connection to their lives.
RTT encouraged states and districts not only to revamp their teacher and principal evaluation policies but also to use evaluation results to make personnel decisions.
Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).
Once introduced, information on state and national rankings was available to the respondent throughout the survey, allowing respondents to make use of the data while contemplating their evaluations of schools and considering their views on policy matters.
It may be wise to wait until the dust settles on other issues before making moves on teacher evaluation policy.
For all these reasons and more, we haven't seen the widespread changes President Obama or his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, might have hoped for when they made teacher evaluation one of their signature policies.
Unfortunately, state and local decision - makers — who play the critical role in the U.S. system — too rarely make the connection between the lessons learned in federally - funded evaluations and their own policy decisions.
However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.
Results from the Digital Innovation Index, a practical evaluation tool by Michael Fullan and Katelyn Donnelly, will be used as a guide to focus policy making and decision making around digital innovations.
We know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take teacher voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.
My survey included one experimental question and three universal questions, with each providing a nuanced understanding of whose voices state education policy makers value when making teacher evaluation policy decisions.
And it sends back to the states and local districts major policy - making authority on issues such as standards and teacher evaluation.
Some also argue that the recent spate of heavy - handed edu - policies (some cite NCLB, teacher - evaluation reform, ESEA - waiver requirements) should make us leery of wading into the world of private - school regulation.
In the program evaluation literature, this is known as selection bias, and it makes it very hard to infer the impact of a particular program or policy from observational data.
Losing comparable data would be a blow not just for accountability, evaluation, and research, but also for communicating about the state of our education system and making smart policy decisions.
And while foundations fund evaluations, convenings, policy analysis, and dissemination, few make any particular effort to develop multi-skilled scholars or support this whole panoply of activity.
But blunting the policy's potential impact, the union also made clear that it continued to oppose the use of existing standardized test scores to judge teachers, a core part of the federally backed teacher evaluation overhauls already under way in at least 15 states.
Essential Voices: Including Student and Parent Input in Teacher Evaluation On June 18, 2012, AFC released this policy paper, which makes the case for student and parent input in teacher evaluation in New York City and describes efforts other states and districts are undertaking to incorporate student and / or parent feedback into their own teacher evaluatioEvaluation On June 18, 2012, AFC released this policy paper, which makes the case for student and parent input in teacher evaluation in New York City and describes efforts other states and districts are undertaking to incorporate student and / or parent feedback into their own teacher evaluatioevaluation in New York City and describes efforts other states and districts are undertaking to incorporate student and / or parent feedback into their own teacher evaluationevaluation systems.
Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.
On 7-1-95, NC State Board of Education adopted policy entitled «Special Health Care Services» that requires each local school district to make a registered nurse available for assessment, care planning and on going evaluation of students with special health care needs.
«While the last five plus years have seen most states make significant changes to their teacher evaluation policies, California has not been part of the national movement to connect teacher evaluation to classroom effectiveness,» Sandi Jacobs, senior vice president for state and district policy for NCTQ, said in an email to LA School Report.
Although some changes in evaluation and accountability can be made at the school and district levels, our accompanying brief looks at those that require a policy fix at the state level.
Through the Afterschool Matters Initiative, the National Institute on Out - of - School Time (NIOST) offers out - of - school - time (OST) professionals unique opportunities to expand their own research, evaluation, program development, and policy - making skills via the National Afterschool Matters (NASM) Fellowship Program and Afterschool Matters Journal.
During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.
Our response to Secretary Duncan expresses other concerns as well, stressing the importance of evidence - based policy making, and explaining why pilot evaluation studies are preferable to the large - scale adoption of unproven state - mandated evaluation systems based on untested assumptions.