Sentences with phrase «national education policy research»

Jordan M&E Partnership In this 4 - year project, 12 national education policy research studies will be implemented, including national student assessment, TIMSS and PISA studies, Teacher Observation, School over - and under - capacity Study, etc..

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«DNA is so unique, and there are so many data sources out there, that it is incredibly hard to fully anonymize — and more so to promise and provide any absolute guarantee that the data are anonymized,» says Laura Lyman Rodriguez, the director of policy, communications and education at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

ARI is a national, not - for - profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio - economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.

To establish a national, broad based, community of Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators in Canada and connect them to their peers and the greater early - stage funding ecosystem so they can support the growth and development of innovative Canadian entrepreneurs and companies, and to support the ongoing evolution of that community through research, education and public policy.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

He is also the senior advisor for policy, research, and education at SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), an organization he served as national chairman and chief executive officer for more than fifteen years.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute will be the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in sports.

The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute is dedicated to being the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in sports.

The 2012 National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention provides actions in surveillance, research, communication, education, health care, and public policy to guide efforts in saving lives by reducing injuries.

Kate Mulley, Director of Research, Education and Policy at Sands, said: «I am thrilled that we are able to start work in Scotland and continue to develop the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

At 1:15 p.m., the National Institute for Early Education Research releases its annual «State of Preschool Report» for the 2014 - 15 school year, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to speak, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Early Learning Dr Libby Doggett, AFT President Randi Weingarten and others, Sugar Hill Museum Preschool, 898 St. Nicholas Ave., Manhattan.

This is a fellowship program designed for genetics professionals with an advanced degree who are early in their careers and interested in the development and implementation of national genomics literacy efforts, informal science education, science education policy, program development, or science education research.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

Panelist James Duderstadt, former president of the University of Michigan, suggested that the country needs a national education policy that encompasses its research universities.

Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand, released in October by the Urban Institute (UI), a policy - research organization in Washington, D.C., retains the U.S. National Academy of Sciences» report's meteorological metaphor but rejects its analysis and conclusions.

Such issues came to mind during remarks by Daryl Chubin, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Action Coalition for Minorities in Engineering, and Shirley Malcom, director of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources.

He went to NIMH from the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he held a variety of senior positions, focusing on basic research in the biological, behavioral and social sciences, science policy and science education.

The French government is rolling out its new policies after an extensive, 4 - month national consultation on research and higher education that ended in November.

The legislation, which sets policies affecting research programs at NSF and the National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as science education activities across the federal government, would replace the 2010 America COMPETES Act, which expired last year.

The board has the statutory authority to set policy for NSF and to advise the president and Congress on national research and science education issues.

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► Wednesday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out a long - expected and controversial «reauthorization» bill covering NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, research at DOE, and federal science education policy.

«A national synthetic biology organization could convene scientists and stakeholders from commercial entities, philanthropy, academia, and government to discuss policy, develop regulation, prioritize the development of tools and fundamental research, engage the public on education and ethical issues and create infrastructure.»

The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) is a not - for - profit professional society that advances the various roles of genetic counselors in health care by fostering education, research, and public policy to ensure the availability of quality genetic services.

The Administrative Services Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) obtains and provides the resources and services essential to the efficient operation of the Office of the Director, the Division of Management, the Division of Policy, Communications, and Education and the Extramural Research Program.

While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks.

Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Director, Division of Policy, Communications, and Education, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), USA

I am the Special Assistant to the Director of the Division of Policy, Communications, and Education at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

BETHESDA, MD — The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is pleased to welcome the 2016 - 2017 ASHG - National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Fellows in Genetics & Public Policy and Genetics & Education.

The Council of the Great City Schools, based in Washington, is a national policy and research organization in urban education that represents 65 urban public school districts.

«Right now, classrooms are the telecommunications ghettos of American culture,» said John Yrchik, a senior professional associate for research at the National Education Association and an author of the policy statement.

HGSE doctoral student Amy Crosson was recently named a 2008 Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellow for The National Academy of Education (NAEd), an organization dedicated to the highest quality education research and its use in policy formulation and Education (NAEd), an organization dedicated to the highest quality education research and its use in policy formulation and education research and its use in policy formulation and practice.

Author Bio: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Rresearch associate at the National Bureau of Economic ResearchResearch.

National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Fellowship, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard University, (2003)

He is now vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an executive editor of Education Next.

• Anya Kamenetz education reporter for NPR and author of «The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be» • Elaine Weiss national coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washingteducation reporter for NPR and author of «The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be» • Elaine Weiss national coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washingtonational coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League WashingtEducation • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League WashingtEducation Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington policy and executive director of the National Urban League WashingtoNational Urban League Washington Bureau

The Research Alliance for New York City Schools, housed at New York University, will be run by James Kemple, the former director of K - 12 education policy at MDRC, a national social - policy research organization in New YoResearch Alliance for New York City Schools, housed at New York University, will be run by James Kemple, the former director of K - 12 education policy at MDRC, a national social - policy research organization in New Yoresearch organization in New York City.

Matthew G. Springer is research assistant professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College and director of the federally funded National Center on Performance Incentives.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new analysis of two recent reports, one by a committee of the National Academy of Science's National Research Council (NRC), the other by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, finds that both reports made factual and analytical errors in their examination of the record of Michelle Rhee as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia from 2007 - 2010.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

He has also won multiple awards for his research including the Association for Education Finance and Policy's Outstanding Dissertation Award and a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation.

Evers is a past member of National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, a past commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, past trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School.

The survey was produced by the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP), a collaboration among the University of Colorado Boulder, the Harvard Center for Education Policy Research, and the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K — 12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy changes.

David Figlio is Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Rresearch associate at the National Bureau of Economic ResearchResearch.

Called Strategic Management of Human Capital, the organization was unveiled June 11 by Allan R. Odden, the director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, or CPRE, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and James A. Kelly, the founding president of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Try to think of an education policy that 1) has been shown, in dozens of studies across multiple decades, to positively affect student outcomes; 2) has the overwhelming support of parents and voters; 3) reinforces many other policies and facilitates quality research; and 4) has been used widely at the district, state, and national levels for decades or more.

In a 2016 survey on research use by state and district decisionmakers by the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice, more than half reported that they «never» or «rarely» used the federally funded What Works Clearinghouse, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Regional Educational Laboratoriesresearch use by state and district decisionmakers by the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice, more than half reported that they «never» or «rarely» used the federally funded What Works Clearinghouse, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Regional Educational LaboratoriesResearch in Policy and Practice, more than half reported that they «never» or «rarely» used the federally funded What Works Clearinghouse, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs).

The Case, released by the Dusseldorp Forum, brings together the findings of national consultations, a review of research evidence, and a review of current education policy and practice.