Sentences with phrase «more about education policies»

An active volunteer in Brookline Public Schools and a nurse with over 25 years of experience, Mowschenson, 48, enrolled in the Ed School's Education Policy and Management Program on a quest to learn more about education policy.

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A huge number of doctors — 89 percent — said they believed that consumers had not been adequately educated about how the exchanges» policies will function, and more than 9 percent didn't know if there had been adequate education of consumers.

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The Education Secretary has outlined plans to stop campaign groups complaining about the admissions policies... More

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood education, school food, and disaster readiness by doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and policy - makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.

This policy brief outlines the reasons educators need to learn more about adoption issues, explains the negative consequences of a lack of knowledge, and proposes steps that teachers, schools, curriculum developers and institutions of higher education can make progress toward placing all children and families on a level playing field in the classroom and beyond.

«It's always to my dismay when education policy gets discussed in Albany, because it's usually more about politics versus substance and research.»

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

Some of them are concerned about creating more checks and balances on the city Department of Education's spending, while others want to increase parental involvement while weakening the mayor's ability to make appointments to the Panel for Educational Policy.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

At the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, she declared, «Federal education policy must be about a lot more than testing....

To find out more about the transition and what we can expect in the coming months, Usable Knowledge spoke with policy analyst Martin West, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and editor - in - chief of Education Next.

In his brief visit to what is more commonly called Andover, Mr. Bush made no major policy statements about the place of private schools in American education.

They discuss the Coleman Report's finding that family background explained more about student achievement than factors within the control of the school or other things that education policy can influence.

There's a vibrant online community of educators sharing their expertise in writing, and the topics that get covered offer insights into just about everything, including practice, policy, education technology, and many more.

More than that, it made us curious about the priorities of our readers — those most likely to be affected by the policies and actions of the Department of Education.

In order to learn more about what states should think about in this process, I reached out to Christy Hovanetz, a Senior Policy Fellow for the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

More tellingly, the door has been opened for enthusiastic Trump appointees to get creative about pressing states to adopt school voucher programs, abstinence - only sex education, biologically - aligned locker rooms, curbs on PC - speech - restrictive policies on college campuses, and whatever else they can dream up.

By being able to consider all the necessary goals of a 21st Century curriculum at one time, policy makers, curriculum designers, teachers, and parents can more effectively make decisions about the future of education.

As for viewpoint diversity, which I refer to as «learning through disagreement»: I believe we can and should do more to prepare our students — and ourselves as faculty and staff — to have meaningful and respectful conversations about education policy and practice across intellectual and political differences.

It urges more discussion with higher - education officials about how such reforms affect the admissions process, as well as how changes in admission policies can drive reforms at...

Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Those governing our schools are generally unhappy with the direction of government education policy: with more than six times the number of respondents negative about the government's policies than positive.

John O'Dowd, Northern Ireland's Education Minister, said: «The sustainable schools policy has been tested in court on several occasions and was found to be a competent policy upon which to make decisions both about the future of individual schools and area planning more widely.

The Center on Education Policy surveyed districts in the spring and found that 46 percent expect funding decreases of 5 percent or more in the 2011 — 12 school year (the poll asked districts about their «total funds available» for the year, excluding federal stimulus monies).

But it is possible to imagine that voters passionate about these issues could persuade their elected officials to address them, and it is also possible that action may be more feasible at the state level where the politics may be less toxic and where most of the policy action on K - 12 education is located anyway.

Partnering with Data Quality Campaign (DQC) to redesign the organization's website and create a user - friendly online space to learn more about education data policy and use

More than half of California voters say they know nothing or very little about the state's new Common Core standards for English language arts and math, according to a new report by the Policy Analysis for California Education / USC Rossier School of Education.

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What's more troubling, though is the extent to which our national education debates have come to focus on the character, motivation, experience, and relationships of those who hold different views — rather than on the substance of those views or evidence about how different policies and practices do or are likely to impact kids.

The next wave of education policy will therefore need to direct itself toward even more fundamental questions, challenging long - held assumptions about how education is managed, funded, designed, and overseen.

Some of what we write about is just good education policy (small schools and more / better counselors) and some is security.

For more than four years now, we at the Fordham Institute have been arguing for a federal education policy of «Reform Realism» — one that is reform - oriented but also realistic about what Washington can effectively achieve.

Rotherham is the author or co-author of more than 150 published articles, book chapters, papers, and op - eds about education policy and politics and is the author or editor of four books on educational policy.

The policy reduced teacher absences on an annual basis by about 10 percent and cut the number of teachers with 15 or more annual absences by 20 percent, according to the report by Brian A. Jacob, a professor of education policy and economics at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.

Because, at least when it comes to education policy, just about everything he wants the federal government to do involves things that can't be done successfully from Washington but that well - led states can and should do: raise academic standards, evaluate teachers, give kids choices, and more.

The more I learned about systemic challenges but also opportunities to shape a more equitable education field, the more I wondered whether museum education versus community organizing versus policy work would be the best career pathway for change.

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.»

I knew that museum education could be an exciting platform for the kind of work I wanted to do with young people, but I knew I first needed to learn more about the public school system, educational policy, and curriculum design.

The report about the fourth year of the law's implementation, issued by the Center on Education Policy, also found that the law is having the positive effect of spurring schools and districts to more closely align instruction with their states» curriculum standards, and...

8:30 AM — 9:15 AM Keynote: Dr. Joshua Starr, CEO, PDK International Understanding Public Attitudes About Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and About Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and more.

State policy makers and education agencies need to be more responsive to legitimate district concerns about unforeseen inequities arising from the implementation of well - intended government policies.

Here are some more great questions for policy makers from Diane Ravitch («Do politicians know anything about schools and education?

They also includes articles about curriculum design and professional development, national, state and local education policy, job openings and much more.

The profound lack of knowledge about public education, as reflected in comments about public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high - quality education for more than 50 million students.

For more information about poverty's influence on education, see the latest issue of Policy Points (PDF).

More than a decade ago, when I headed the Center on Education Policy, we produced reports presenting basic data about American schools that was not commonly known.

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

We'd be better off if we all worried a little more about how our plans for education affect our children, and less about the politics behind the policy.

I had the opportunity to attend and relished the chance to meet education leaders from around the country and learn more about other states» innovative education policies.