Sentences with phrase «of effective education policy»

Similar efforts are underway in states and districts from Maine to Mississippi, New Mexico to Wyoming, often led by networks of NBCTs that recruit and support candidates for certification and advocate on behalf of effective education policy that benefits students.

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Yes, immigration policy is out of control; illegal immigration needs to be sharply stemmed, even if it can not be entirely stopped; and the effective assimilation of immigrants requires major changes in welfare and education policies in order to avoid the welfare dependency syndrome and the cultural balkanization of «multiculturalism.»

Stable rice prices means rice that can withstand production challenges, well informed rice - based policies, effective and inclusive value chain, minimal losses, and effective education of new generations of rice scientists.

Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh (IBCLC) Comprehensive lactation support to mothers and infants through clinical excellence, effective education, policy reform, and political advocacy.

Parliament should also pay for and promote the UK Youth Parliament, while effective and consistent citizenship education were put at the heart of government's educational policies.

The authors conclude by offering eight recommendations for employers, ranging from suggestions for effective drug - testing and employee - education programs to policies regarding off - work use of marijuana.

«Although acceleration is widely supported by research as an effective strategy for meeting the needs of advanced learners, it's still rarely used, and most schools do not systematically look for students who need it,» said study co-author Paula Olszewski - Kubilius, director of the Center for Talent Development at the Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

Effective policies for education, research, antitrust and a variety of other elements of the entrepreneurship environment ought to complement a skills - oriented immigration policy,» Hart and Acs write.

These paths for further research would benefit public policies aimed at increasing the awareness of food waste, and would contribute to more effective nutritional education initiatives since messages could be framed based on insights tested in scientific studies.

Based on input from the Bash working group and on the work of both the education and policy panel and the Panel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground, the committee recommends a new paradigm for ground - based astronomy that it believes will lead to the most effective use of ground - based facilities and optimize the science opportunities for the astronomical community.

DAAD supports the internationalization of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, assists developing countries in establishing effective universities and advises decision makers on matters of cultural, education and development policy.

The upshot is that, when school boards make decisions about policy or money or about the myriad rules governing school operations, they tend to give heavy weight to the interests of unions - and may often depart, as a result, from what is best for children and effective education.

They advance innovation harnessing the lessons from comparative experience, the power of solid research evidence, the clarity of good analytic thinking and the influence of their leadership to advance effective policy reform and execution to make education more inclusive, effective and relevant.

In the International Education Policy (IEP) Program, you will explore some of the most challenging issues facing teachers and learners worldwide — how to educate students in refugee camps; how to improve girls education in Afghanistan; how to deliver effective HIV / AIDS education in Malawi; how to help young people develop the skills they need in the 21st century — and be constantly challenged and asked, «What would you dEducation Policy (IEP) Program, you will explore some of the most challenging issues facing teachers and learners worldwide — how to educate students in refugee camps; how to improve girls education in Afghanistan; how to deliver effective HIV / AIDS education in Malawi; how to help young people develop the skills they need in the 21st century — and be constantly challenged and asked, «What would you deducation in Afghanistan; how to deliver effective HIV / AIDS education in Malawi; how to help young people develop the skills they need in the 21st century — and be constantly challenged and asked, «What would you deducation in Malawi; how to help young people develop the skills they need in the 21st century — and be constantly challenged and asked, «What would you do?»

Recently, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) conducted a policy experiment to test whether merit pay given to all teachers at an effective school could increase student achievement.

«Lizzie Adelman exemplifies well the leadership and service orientation that is characteristic of students in the International Education Policy group, and their skills and creating effective networks for distributed thinking and learning,» says Professor...

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Ravitch, who has long been an effective polemicist, must have felt increasingly irrelevant and ignored over the last decade, as rigorous quantitative analyses, which she is not capable of producing or even understanding very well, increasingly displaced clever rhetoric as the primary mechanism for influencing education policy.

Strictly Education's team of qualified and experienced premises managers partner with schools to provide a professional and cost - effective solution to premises management, including premises condition assessments, fire risk assessments, external competent person visits and policy support.

Ronald Ferguson, an expert in education and economic development, has been appointed senior lecturer on education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective Julyeducation and economic development, has been appointed senior lecturer on education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective Julyeducation and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective JulyEducation effective July 1, 2009.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Instead of trying to limit robots and computers, effective policy responses to job loss will need to start first with education and then move to income redistribution as automation becomes more advanced.

Thoughtful and effective policies for developing a professional workforce will have to include a mix of incentives for pre-K teachers that may be different from those designed for teachers in K — 12; provide training that is focused on classroom practices and the specific challenges of teaching young children; and improve the alignment of early childhood education with K — 12.

«Lizzie Adelman exemplifies well the leadership and service orientation that is characteristic of students in the International Education Policy group, and their skills and creating effective networks for distributed thinking and learning,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of the IEP.

They advocate and share their thoughts on effective use of technology in education with both peers and policy makers.

Instead of the proposed plans to bring selection back into England's education system, Milburn recommended a series of policies that would be more effective for improving social mobility.

In this webinar, join California Secretary of Education Dave Long and a pair of leading environmental experts for an examination of effective green policies and actions you can take today to deliver a positive economic, ecological, and societal impact for your students and schools.

A new study from Harvard University could substantially transform our understanding of what works in early childhood education in the United States, creating clearer avenues to bring effective practices and policies to scale.

guidelines and programs for in - service education programs for all district staff members to ensure effective implementation of school policy on school conduct and discipline

Mandy Savitz - Romer, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who organized the conference, said that making college counseling more effective is a key bridge to making other higher education policies work, such as college ratings or the net price caEducation who organized the conference, said that making college counseling more effective is a key bridge to making other higher education policies work, such as college ratings or the net price caeducation policies work, such as college ratings or the net price calculator.

Strangely, education leaders speak about «effective professional development» in the same way that foreign policy experts speak of Middle East peace: everyone says it's essential, but no one seems to believe it can work!

guidelines and programs for in - service education programs for all district staff members to ensure effective implementation of school policy on school conduct and discipline, including but not limited to, guidelines on promoting a safe and supportive school climate while discouraging, among other things, harassment, bullying and discrimination against students by students and / or school employees; and including safe and supportive school climate concepts in the curriculum and classroom management; and

The Council's eighteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and have designed a professional development «blueprint» to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students.

With a membership of nearly 1,000 educational agencies statewide, CSBA brings together school district governing boards and county boards of education to advocate for effective policies that advance the education and well - being of the state's more than 6 million school - age children.

As the national voice of every state education leader, we advocate for the development and implementation of effective policies.

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

Developed by Karen L. Mapp, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Education Policy and Management Master's Program at HGSE, the program details strategies for establishing a culture of systematic, integrated and effective school - family partnerships.

If policies did result in disproportionality — and thus had an adverse impact on certain groups of students — schools would have to justify them by proving to the Department of Education that their policies were «necessary to meet an important educational goal» and that there's no «comparatively effective alternative policies or practices» that the schools could use instead.

For example, comments like those made by U.S. Representative Buck McKeon are representative of the support shown by some federal policy makers: «We should incentivize charter school expansion at the state level while increasing awareness about the most effective strategies employed by charter schools, because charter schools rest on the pulse of education» (McKeon, 2011).

These sections of the federal law place identifying and addressing childhood trauma and other variables linked to poverty alongside policy options for recruiting and retaining effective teachers and school leaders, maximizing the impact of early childhood education, using data to improve student achievement, and serving students with disabilities.

Advocating for system - wide adoption of effective school - based reforms and public education policies

Effective January 1, 2014, AB 1266 (Education Code § 221.5) establishes that it is the policy of the state that school classes be conducted without regard to the gender of the pupil enrolled in these classes.

Dr. Paul Manna, a recognized scholar of education and author of the new Wallace Foundation Report, Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning: Considerations for State Policy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective princPolicy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective princpolicy levers available to states to promote effective principals.

The parallel for the Chetty propaganda is the non-peer reviewed Measures of Effective Teaching study, funded at about $ 64 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and directed by Thomas Kane, Professor of Economics and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research.

Effective teacher policy has to have at least three levels: It must provide clear goals for teacher education and skill development, it must provide «support to local institutions for the education of teachers» and it must address national demands for high quality education.

An effective policy requires changes at the level of teacher recruitment, teacher education and long - term support for professional development.

The 13 - teacher policy team, members of a teacher - led education policy organization called Educators 4 Excellence (E4E - LA), spent the past several months researching the most effective way to improve the feedback and support teachers receive to improve their performance in the classroom.

We deliver actionable, meaningful research and development that advances the field of educational assessment and evaluation, promotes effective and equitable education policy, and improves evidence - based inferences.