Sentences with phrase «on educational»

«I not only fell in love with the classroom, but I also recognized how important it is for students to experience and determine their role in the world,» says Benson, who returned to the United States inspired to launch a summer reading program where she took parents and children on educational trips around their hometown — and hers — Washington D.C.

Additionally, the declining rates of births have also led to increased spending on children and on their educational cost.

Many more students are now old enough that the voucher program's effects on their educational attainment can be tracked.

It links James Coleman's seminal report on education and poverty to the latest findings on school choice and to some of the economics literature on educational achievement.

Research has been carried out over the years on the impact of well designed buildings and it's proved hard to measure, in terms of its impact on educational attainment, low pupil truancy, better staff retention and productivity, or perhaps a combination of all these factors.

This past fall Ippolito began working as an assistant professor at Salem (Mass.) State College, where he teaches courses on educational leadership and school change, as well as adolescent literacy and curriculum design.

This past fall Ippolito began working as an assistant professor at Salem (Mass.) State College, where he teaches courses on educational leadership and school change, as well as adolescent literacy and curriculum...

Why the School «Accountability Movement» Based on Standardized Tests Is Nothing More than «a Charade» (The Washington Post) Professor Daniel Koretz quoted as expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

Offered by Project Zero in collaboration with Programs in Profession Education (PPE), FoL, now in its second year, focuses exclusively on how societal changes and technological advancements affect students» abilities to learn and their impact on educational practice.

Reading skills The report provides evidence of successful programmes to boost reading skills in primary schools, and shows that targeted support for children who struggle to read in primary school can have a lasting impact on their educational attainment.

Do you ever feel that you are on an educational island?

As the 80 - minute conversation came to an end, a pro-voucher resolution seemed to have just barely emerged, the outcome turning as much on educational facts as constitutional questions.

At Bett Academies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Government.

«Effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.

Lee went to South Korea and founded a consulting program that became the subject of a HGSE case study on educational entrepreneurship.

Energy and the environment are key topics on the educational curriculum for children as young as seven, but the schools in which they are learning account for a major proportion of energy usage in non-domestic buildings across the UK.

In his original taxonomy, he stressed that a successful democracy relies on an educational system that provides opportunities for genuine problem solving.

Schools don't yet have reliable measures for how to develop and assess so - called «noncognitive» skills like these, although a number of researchers and educators are working on approaches, reflecting a growing recognition of their importance not just on labor market outcomes but on educational attainment.

Boosting learner confidence, morale and return on educational investment.

A national center based on the educational concepts of philosopher Mortimer Adler is being planned at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

As far as I know, none of them subsequently apologized for offering a mistaken and unfair attack on our educational system once the economy recovered, nor did anyone credit teachers for the turnaround.»

Moreover, the exact channels through which family resources have their impact on educational and lifetime successes remain uncertain.

There are some wonderful un-conferences that focus on educational technology throughout the country, including EduCon or EdCamp.

«I think everybody who's focused on at - risk kids believes you have to restructure schools, because it's just not working,» says Cynthia G. Brown, director of the resource center on educational equity at the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Here, we focus on educational data analytics technologies for supporting data - driven decision making in schools.

Further information If you are a teacher and would like to contribute your feedback on educational apps, please email [email protected] or visit www.educationalappstore.co.uk

Have the last 50 years of education research led us to fundamentally different conclusions about the impact of teachers on the educational achievement of students?

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

Keeping in mind the challenge of finding unbiased research on the educational impact of one - to - one computing, as well as the difficulty of isolating one variable (such as technology) in such a complex and hard - to - quantify concept as student achievement, what does the research show?

Consistent with NCES» mission, IPEDS data collection will continue to acquire new higher education data that can affect how college students decide on their educational and career pathways.

It's one thing to create a classroom atmosphere based on your educational beliefs but to build a school on them?

Its primary recommendation is that the accountability system for special education be redesigned to focus on educational outcomes.

Our findings are consistent with some research on the efficacy of Catholic schools, which finds substantial positive effects of attending a Catholic high school on educational attainment.

It demonstrates that effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.

The Harvard Educational Review, published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group, is a leading journal on educational research read by researchers, educators, and administrators around the world.

Because we could follow the same children over a period of time, we could do a better job of ruling out the role of influences other than middle - school attendance on educational outcomes.

A course in media education at the Ed School led Gillim to writing and working on educational television shows.

These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.

According to the review, I see teachers as «major villains on the educational scene.»

That makes teachers «less ready to assert their authority on educational matters and less able to respond to demands from society,» he wrote.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

Although a number of recent studies analyze the relationship between charter school attendance and student achievement, this is the first analysis of the impacts of charter school attendance on educational attainment.

All this is reported in the 4th annual survey of public opinion on educational issues by Harvard's Program on Educational Policy and Governance and Education Next, which I, with William Howell and Martin West, help to direct.

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Daniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

Since these traits are not easily measured, the estimated impact of charter high schools on educational attainment could be biased.

In 2003, the provincial government of Ontario, Canada initiated a focus on educational improvement as one of its key strategies for the future success of its people and its economy.

It provides educators with an opportunity to reflect on research that can have an impact on their educational practices.