Sentences with phrase «many education policymakers»

The Center for Safe and Healthy Schools was established in 1987 in partnership with the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide guidance and assistance to state and local education policymakers and administrators.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

New York education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure school success and failure based on factors other than test scores.

The Regents will see further change when the three new members take their seats under a new chancellor and vice chancellor, marking the end of an era in New York State education, and, according to education policymakers, a new time of thoughtful progression.

But it seemed the state's top education policymaker could not avoid a brush with politics this week, one that a visit to the state's most politically involved charter network may have exacerbated.

The question for education policymakers is, How can states improve access to high - quality early childhood education while supporting the wide variety of childcare options available to parents?

At a minimum, education policymakers should consider experiments that provide actuarially fair alternatives to traditional DB plans for new teaching recruits, and evaluate their utility for recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers.

If research continues to show that comprehensive character education has positive effects on student achievement as well, then the movement may in time gain more robust political and financial support from education policymakers.

Yet for educators and education policymakers to ignore the issue of marriage seems irresponsible.

Payne's book is brilliant and should be read by all education policymakers, but today, in honor of Martin Luther King, I want to call attention to the Epilogue (as I have done before), where Payne tells the story of William J. Moore, «grandson of a fugitive slave,» who opened a «first class elementary school» in West Cape May, New Jersey, for the black «yard men, delivery «boys», dockhands, truck drivers, casual laborers, and factory workers» who serviced the white tourists of Cape May.

SOURCE: Matthew M. Chingos, «No more free lunch for education policymakers and researchers,» Brookings (June 2016).

We limited the indicators to only those factors for which a reasonable empirical base of evidence shows an association between the indicator and our definition of success and that are plausibly under the control of education policymakers.

As a teacher - educator and former education policymaker in New York, I was not completely unprepared for Elizabeth Green's Building a Better Teacher.

Since its creation five years ago its analysts have produced a steady stream of thoughtful, thought - provoking papers and posts on the most important issues facing education policymakers today.

Teachers, principals, superintendents, and education policymakers face questions such as these every day.

In the current data - driven reform environment, more and more education policymakers are asking for reliable evidence of the effectiveness of new and existing policies and programs.

Consider a more realistic set of objectives for education policymakers, one that is based on experiences from within the United States itself.

Education Redesign is an online professional development program for school leaders, education policymakers, K - 12 teachers, and those committed to helping all students achieve success.

Washington — The Education Department's top special - education policymaker has suggested that schools be allowed more flexibility in allocating resources to special - needs students.

For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools.

The survey report makes several recommendations to education policymakers.

There can be no doubt that expanding the amount of time American students spend in school is an idea popular with many education policymakers and has long been so.

To optimize these policies, education policymakers should continue to examine the latest from psychology and behavioral economics.

As education policymakers consider lengthening the school year and face trade - offs and uncertainties, it is important to recognize that expanding instructional time offers both opportunities and hazards for another reform that is well established, the accountability movement.

Garcia says educators and education policymakers could use the results of their study in several ways.

These are amusing little infights unless you have some responsibility as an education policymaker and you need to know if the unions favor or despise CCSS or edTPA.

This difference manifests itself as two messages: an internal one, meant for the unions» leaders and activists, and an external one, meant for education policymakers and the public at large.

In the last decade a turning point in this debate occurred as education policymakers in several states launched initiatives to discourage tracking.»

For over 20 years, she has been a teacher and an education policymaker.

program thus explicitly recognizes that superintendents, state education policymakers, nonprofit advocates of school reform, and even private investors are all involved in enhancing education — and that the leaders in each sector need to master multiple skills and disciplines, not just education content.

So, what are the implications then for school communities and education policymakers here in Australia?

This chapter addresses an important issue for education policymakers and practitioners in the United States.

Their successes have led community organizers and a growing number of education policymakers to see California's fledgling community schooling movement as a holistic, bottom - up reform that can restore equality of opportunity and the democratic promise of the state's system of universal public education.

In «On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service,» author Craig D. Jerald argues that education policymakers should take a closer look at another accountability system — on - site inspections.

Yet the education industry — including federal, state, and local education policymakers, plus all those who work to deliver teaching and learning to students — has recently made a sizable bet on the power of professional support to change teaching and boost student learning.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

The Proving Ground approach offers a more responsive, pragmatic, and agile analytic cycle that empowers education policymakers and administrators to:

As part of our mission, CUBE creates educational opportunities for urban school board leaders to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to serve as effective local education policymakers and as advocates for excellence and equity in public education.

If education policymakers at the state and district levels are committed to building leadership development into reform efforts, they must build in sufficient resources to support high - impact programs.

Education policymakers, postsecondary educators, public school principals, secondary academic and vocational teachers, state and local education personnel, and teacher - educators, are invited to participate.

If education policymakers, and indeed the readers of Education Next, are willing, they have much to gain from a dip into the first few chapters of this book.

By the time my daughter was nearing kindergarten age, I had already spent nearly 50 years in schools: 20 as a student; 8 as a teacher; and 20 as an education policymaker and adviser to schools and school systems, especially in the area of standards and curriculum.

And what lessons do Waterford's rise and partial fall in Los Angeles offer education policymakers, not only in other states but also in Washington?

For educators and education policymakers Cohen's lengthy misadventure should be read as a cautionary tale: If anything, the controversy about Moynihan's 40 - year - old report — and the subsequent «comeback» — is less a story about political correctness than it is about intellectual lethargy.

On the contrary, education policymakers have the tools within their own hands to address the problem at hand.

The authors of «Debunking a Special Education Myth» (check the facts, Spring 2007) appear to misinterpret what school officials and education policymakers are saying about the cost of educating all children.

In some states, education policymakers are still using the equivalent of paper roadmaps.

The state is being watched closely by education policymakers across the country, and teachers are suing the state.

Fixing this problem will require coordinated efforts among teachers, administrators, and education policymakers.

With a quickly growing national network of over3, 500 educators united by the E4E Declaration of Teachers» Principles and Beliefs, E4E teachers can learn about education policy and research, network at E4E's event series with like - minded colleagues and important education policymakers, and take action by advocating for teacher - created policy recommendations that lift student achievement and the teaching profession.