Sentences with phrase «on school districts across the nation»

Up to now, the parent perspective has been almost entirely missing in the policy proposals being imposed on school districts across the nation.

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In 2012, John was elected to a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education (MD), the nation's 17th largest school district, where he advocated technology modernization across over 200 schools.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

Previous Voucher Research The IES evaluation of the DC OSP adds to a growing body of research on means - tested school voucher programs in urban districts across the nation.

To isolate the effects of an SFJ on districts within each poverty quartile, we focus on changes in spending over time within specific school districts after taking into account changes from year to year in average education spending across all of the nation's school districts.

The District of Columbia's public schools, once considered among the worst in the nation, continued its trend of steady, across - the - board gains on the 2015 NAEP.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

While hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on technology solutions across the nation's schools, sadly, too many districts have failed to see those investments deliver on the desired outcomes.

Public education in America is far from one - size - fits - all, and there is dramatic diversity within the more than 13,000 school districts across the nation — from the 1 million students in New York City's more than 1,500 public schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8 school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high school shared with the nearby town of Jonesport.

Governor Christie on Friday called for schools across New Jersey and the nation to emulate the performance - pay provisions in Newark's new teachers» contract, but some skeptics were asking how other districts could afford to follow suit.

Like many school Districts across the Nation, APS has focused in on how it can better its engagement of stakeholders.

The Education Technology Board is comprised of respected and influential connected educators and edtech specialists who are passionate about education technology and have their fingers on the pulse of which apps, teaching tools and web site resources are most popular with educators and school districts across the nation.

His daily work involves developing partnerships with school districts across the nation focused on providing curriculum resources and facilitating professional development opportunities.

For these reasons, the 2017 EdCan Network Indigenous «Innovation that Sticks» Dropout Prevention Case Study Research Program will focus on one alternative school, public school or school district with a specialized dropout prevention program for students who identify as First Nation, Inuit and Métis, anywhere in Canada to share with educators facing similar challenges across Canada.

Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding Chairman and Executive Director of The Commit Partnership, the nation's largest collective impact organization with over 190 institutions (including 15 school districts and eight higher ed institutions educating over 790,000 students) focused together on meaningfully improving post-secondary completion levels across the Dallas / Fort Worth area.