Sentences with phrase «offer education policymakers»

And what lessons do Waterford's rise and partial fall in Los Angeles offer education policymakers, not only in other states but also in Washington?

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It's one thing to make a health or education app, but another thing to actually integrate it with hospitals and schools — that requires policymakers, AOL co-founder Steve Case said on 15 April at the 41st annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. Drawing on lessons from AOL's first days when the web broke ground, Case offered his views on the future of science and technology policy and stressed the need for would - be Internet entrepreneurs to engage productively with government partners.

As Congress now works to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which will replace NCLB, a new article from Education Next offers policymakers the first look at the long - term impacts of test - based accountability on students» future gains.

In a sign that the once far - fetched notion of «charter districts» is gaining traction, a forthcoming series of papers from the Education Commission of the States offers policymakers advice and encouragement in setting up their own versions of that emerging governance arrangement.

The annual report offered a way for policymakers to track central tenets of standards - based reform, a movement continuing to come into its own as a major force in K - 12 education.

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.

Public Agenda's recent poll of education professors offers an answer to a question that has troubled citizens and policymakers for more than a decade.

As education policymakers consider lengthening the school year and face trade - offs and uncertainties, it is important to recognize that expanding instructional time offers both opportunities and hazards for another reform that is well established, the accountability movement.

The Proving Ground approach offers a more responsive, pragmatic, and agile analytic cycle that empowers education policymakers and administrators to:

The «exhaustion and anger of teachers» referred to in the article is seldom directed at the «educational establishment» but more often at policymakers - and most frequently at those who offer unbalanced and poorly substantiated criticism of the education system and whose own policy ideas are so obviously ideologically driven.

To affirm NASSP's belief that federal funding of middle level and high school education is necessary to prepare students for postsecondary success, and to offer recommendations for federal policymakers to help improve schools and student achievement.

The Alliance for Excellent Education's The Deepest Learners report offers four recommendations based on practices in high - performing countries that can inform policymakers about PISA's implications for deeper learning.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

It offers research - based advice for teachers who wish to improve their own performance, as well guidance for teacher leaders and supervisors, school administrators and department heads, staff development specialists, teacher and administrator educators, human resource specialists, and education policymakers and their staffs.

ESSA offers education leaders and policymakers a unique opportunity to support students» learning mindsets and skills.

The policy brief urges policymakers to support programs for the parents of English language learners, implement nontraditional programs that offer reciprocal involvement by schools and parents, sponsor targeted teacher professional development, and provide community - based education to inform parents about school values and expectations and help parents become advocates for their children.

As policymakers continue to debate the federal role in education, the Bush Institute offers these Accountability Principles on the importance of...

Together, the reports offer policymakers and other education stakeholders a roadmap for overhauling NCLB.»

An iNACOL Issue Brief by Dale Frost and Maria Worthen provides an overview of competency - based education and offers state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to enable and support competency - based education.

For more than 75 years, NSBA, a federation of 49 state associations and one territory association, has been working to ensure our public education system is appropriately supported by federal policymakers, so public schools can offer the best possible environment for students to realize their dreams.

The council's joint statement offers recommendations and next steps for policymakers; high school teachers, leaders, and counselors; business and industry; higher education; parents and students; and communities.

Instead of honestly acknowledging the root causes of struggling schools and investing in real equity in public education, today's policymakers and deep - pocketed corporate education «reformers» offer misguided strategies that fail to address the central problem: a failure to invest in Black, Brown and poor children, the educators who teach them and the communities in which they live.

Education Strategy Group Senior Associate Ryan Reyna offers his thoughts on state ESSA plans and where he believes «work remains to deliver on the promise of college and career readiness for all students,» while also highlighting «some promising examples from state ESSA plans that can be useful reference points for policymakers and practitioners as states turn from planning to implementation.»

This paper examines lessons from higher education and the civil service and applies fresh thinking to offer new «elite» and «inclusive» tenure designs and a framework for policymakers who want to make tenure meaningful.

Yun says builders and policymakers need to offer education to address the shortage of skilled construction workers.