Sentences with phrase «of education policy wonks»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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-...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Educaeducation policy wonks tonight when she suggested that states should decide when schools must comply with requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities EducationEducation Act.