Sentences with phrase «many education policy wonks»

Two years ago, when I wrote about top tweeters, I posted two lists: One for education policy wonks, and another for teachers.

Twenty three education policy wonks (or teams of wonks) answered this question as part of Fordham's 2018 Wonkathon

With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA / NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization — and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches.

But educators and education policy wonks should read it nonetheless, because it provides one of the most compelling depictions you'll ever find of poor teenagers struggling (often heroically) to make the transition from high school to adulthood.

Whenever I hear education policy wonks arguing about the topic of student suspensions, I'm reminded of the Rorschach tests I learned -LSB-...]

The «best practices» method that is gaining popularity among more - impressionable education policy wonks and that Tucker used in Surpassing Shanghai simply can not support causal claims about «what works.»

Whenever I hear education policy wonks arguing about the topic of student suspensions, I'm reminded of the Rorschach tests I learned about in Psychology 101.

Also on the list are Dale Russakoff's tome on Newark's school reform efforts, a Parent Power book from Tom Vander Ark and his team at Getting Smart, and a tome on education governance from famed education policy wonk Paul Hill.

Every two years, education policy wonks like me wait with bated breath for the release of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

«Principals and schools didn't seek innovation status to make wholesale changes,» lead researcher Kelci Price told a crowded room of lawmakers, education policy wonks and others during a legislative briefing Wednesday at CEA headquarters.

To people who are not education policy wonks, «the level 2 inclusive» means the number of 15 - year - olds getting five GCSEs A * to C, including English or Welsh and maths.

Education policy wonks and observers are so pessimistic, they've declared it will never be updated, though it's already seven years overdue for a rewrite and considered broken by those on the left and the right.

She, like many education policy wonks, has her reservations about the Common Core.

(Underscoring how divisive this issue is among right - leaning education policy wonks, take a look at this post on Jay P. Greene's Blog, where Jim Stergios takes issue with Porter - Magee's arguments.)

DeVos shocked some education policy wonks tonight when she suggested that states should decide when schools must comply with requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Not exact matches

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

This is a boon to us policy wonks because we can study the progress (or lack thereof) of individual states and use sophisticated research methodologies to relate score changes to differences in education policies or practices.

So the policy wonks in education should not expect their work to get much coverage in the mainstream media.

This was an exciting occasion for us Washington - based policy wonks, starved as we are for any legislative action on education.

As Nevada implements its groundbreaking education savings account (ESA) program, policy wonks were asked to say what the state must get right.

But they didn't want the Futures of School Reform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of education.

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.

Once upon a time (OK, it was 2007), we D.C. policy wonks were gearing up for a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind), and all the buzz was about the new federal requirements that would be added.

When the National Assessment of Education Progress results are released on Tuesday, reporters, educators, and policy wonks will have a lot to digest.

This, in turn, points out a reality that neither the Obama Administration nor Beltway wonks such as Petrilli fail to admit: That No Child has been the single - biggest advance in education policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education Acteducation policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education ActEducation Act of 1958.

The Academy is comprised of a diverse cadre of prominent leaders from virtually every primary sector of the education community: parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, state departments of education, school boards, PTA organizations, policy wonks, early childhood professionals, advocates, deans and professors at education schools, education columnists, afterschool programs, researchers, school nurses, school facilities managers, philanthropists, visionaries, and pioneers.

Today's speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other poliEducation Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other polieducation law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other policy wonks.

Every two years, education - policy wonks gear up for what has become a time - honored ritual: the release of the Nation's Report Card.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Eeducation policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in EducationEducation.

TIME.com — The source list in Steven Brill's Class Warfare may read like the Who's Who of modern education reform, but the chapters that precede it often feel more like The Real Housewives of Policy Wonk County.