Sentences with phrase «of educational policymakers»

If we used the mean compensation of these educational policymakers as the benchmark for teacher compensation, we might at least approach a fair wage for teachers.

«This is a unique program because it engages a wide range of educational policymakers and...

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By prioritizing nutrition as part of a culture of health in educational settings and in funding and policy decisions, policymakers can ensure that students have access to nutritious food.

«However, state policymakers need to know what level of funding is needed to maintain current educational programs and services in our public schools and to foster student success.»

Mayer discussed the implications of this research for policymakers, claiming that there is a place for small games that focus on well - specified learning objectives, become more challenging as students learn, and fit within existing educational programs to supplement, complement, and / or extend traditional instruction rather than replace it.

If you're interested in being a part of Fashion Revolution Day next year, the website not only has a wealth of information, it also provides resources including Action Kits, tips on letters and postcards to write to policymakers, and educational toolkits.

We think that this represents gross neglect, and we compliment those states and policymakers who are trying to collect longitudinal data and base educational policy on a more careful assessment of the trajectories of children's intellectual progress over their school careers.

28 - July 1 — Dropout prevention: Summer Leadership institute, sponsored by the National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, and the College of Health, Education, and Human Development at Clemson University, for teachers, administrators, counselors, educational policymakers, researchers, and business leaders concerned about at - risk youth, at the Madren Conference Center at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. Contact: John Peters, NDPC / N, 205 Martin St., Clemson, SC 29634; [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected].

Founded in 1986, the Academy, located in Brussels, Belgium, is dedicated to strengthening the contributions of research, solving critical educational problems throughout the world, and providing better communication among policymakers, researchers, and practitioners.

The Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy, an org that aims to inform policymakers and leaders about educational issues, paints a glowing picture of the promise of the Common Core.

Policymakers must weigh these costs against the substantial educational and economic benefits such systems can create for successive cohorts of students, both through avoiding the career - long retention of the lowest - performing teachers and through broad increases in performance in the overall teaching workforce.

International education also became a priority of Ylvisaker's administration: The Project for Human Potential helped educational policymakers find the means of achieving a full range of development possibilities in a given population, and the Office of International Education was created.

In a time of educational accountability and revenue shortfalls, the first question on the minds of policymakers seeking to trim already - lean school budgets often is: How does this program improve student achievement?

The chief executive officer of EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit group that advocates upgraded Internet access for schools, articulates what many educational technology leaders like to remind educators, policymakers, parents, and students: «Schools don't have the expertise they need to effectively design and implement a network,» says Evan C. Marwell.

In a handful of states, those credits are worth 100 percent of their donations, a reflection of both the high priority policymakers place on expanding educational opportunity and the potential for the state to realize savings from the scholarship program.

With extensive analysis, this collection not only provides readers with a clearer understanding of the problems surrounding educational inequality, but also offers guidance to policymakers in addressing these problems.

Honan encourages school administrators on the receiving end of grants to be cognizant that foundations often bring «different focal points of interest, assumptions, and ways of working» to an educational enterprise than they may have experienced in interactions with state or local policymakers.

As Austin observes, «What normal people care about and what policymakers are beginning to care about is the very simple idea of giving parents real power over the educational destiny of their own children.»

Yet the sense of relief does not last, for these islands of clarity are invariably surrounded by a broad sea of circumspection and equivocation that leave one adrift, wondering just how reliable they and similar assertions are, and just how policymakers might go about using this book to improve educational outcomes for minority children.

Nonetheless, as the reauthorization debate continues, policymakers should take note that educational triage was not evident in the first statewide analysis of the issue.

Identifying the kinds of private schools that boost these outcomes could enhance policymakers» ability to design private school choice programs that expand disadvantaged children's access to high - quality educational opportunities.

A group of high - powered policymakers and educators gathered here last week to build support for a new vision of educational assessment that is less a snapshot of students» one - time performance and more like good instruction itself.

And policymakers could stand to read these briefs as well to simplify archaic, input - based regulations that don't further educational outcomes for students given today's world — but create a lot of headaches for the educators serving them.

Situations of ethics are encountered by teachers, education leaders, and policymakers regularly, but a true definition of «educational ethics» is difficult to pin down.

I am not aware of research on precisely these points, but learning the answers to these questions should be of first - order importance for policymakers and practitioners interested in facilitating minority student achievement and educational attainment.

The HGSE team was seeking an opportunity to visit schools and speak with students, staff, and policymakers, in the hopes of distilling the secrets of Finland's educational success.

Though education is often considered a tool for leveling the playing field in society, educational injustices occur often, she says, when educators and policymakers must act in the absence of good options.

«A lot of everyday quandaries educators and policymakers face are dilemmas of educational justice, but we don't support or even acknowledge their struggle to address these challenges and make ethical decisions,» she says.

Policymakers who want to expand educational choice in their states should seek to combine the advantages of each approach.

Researchers and policymakers must carefully balance the need for data - driven evidence with the reality that educational choice is, at its core, an issue of parental empowerment.

How do educational policymakers and practitioners in various high performing and rapidly improving countries conceptualize their understanding of the goals and purposes of education for an increasingly interdependent world in the 21st century?

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

For example, to simply recommend that educational curricula or assessments should reflect the author's six principles, or recent evidence from the science of learning, does not provide policymakers in state departments of education the kind of granular analysis that would actually help them choose among the myriad offerings that all claim to reflect the latest research.

The initiative establishes the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy — a group of educators, policymakers, scientists, and business leaders who will study educational issues and their relationship to the U.S. economy.

Policymakers have the difficult responsibility of honoring distinctive school cultures while ensuring an appropriate level of academic quality — one educational translation of the common good.

His research has helped scholars, policymakers, and educators better understand how legal and educational institutions shape young immigrants» educational trajectories, as well as their coming of age experiences.

Since 2008, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), under Harvard's Center for Policy Education Research, has placed fellows like Bowman in state education agencies, school districts, and charter school management organizations where they are helping policymakers to decode an avalanche of educational data.

«He has a keen interest in how diverse modes of academic research can benefit education practice and policy,» Faust added, «and how the concrete challenges facing educational leaders and policymakers, as well as teachers and students, can helpfully inform the scholarship and teaching we do here.

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

Policymakers have pointed toward school partnerships as a remedy to educational inequity since the 1980s, and interest grew in the wake of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Yet, as numerous researchers and policymakers point out, the economic health of the nation is tied inextricably to the educational success of this growing population.

Team members representing the educational sector could include school building committee members, superintendents, principals and assistant principals, teachers, directors of curriculum and instruction, parents, special educators, and local and state education leaders, and policymakers

This report, for the first time ever, provides a state - by - state breakdown of the key elements a policymaker needs in order to understand the legal environment for school choice in any given state — and to craft appropriate legislation to expand educational opportunity.

International Benchmarking: State Education Performance Standards provides policymakers international benchmarks against which they can compare and monitor the educational performance of students.

Our goals will be to deepen our own understandings of educational justice, to engage with others about complex ethical judgments across multiple lines of difference, and to learn how to enhance educators» and policymakers» capacities to make ethical decisions under challenging conditions.»

This guide is intended to arm policymakers and advocates with the essential background needed to craft constitutional school choice legislation — and to forge ahead with confidence in delivering equal educational opportunity to all families, regardless of their means.

In a separate filing, opponents of Common Core educational standards sought to put a question on the 2016 ballot that would require state standards be set by state education officials rather than national policymakers.

Rather than a model for voucher expansion, the Indiana program should be seen as a cautionary tale for policymakers seeking to strengthen the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of the nation's educational system.

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.