Sentences with phrase «over the education outcomes»

Additionally, this bill demands greater accountability from both school district and charter school recipients of these supplemental funds over the education outcomes of African - American students.

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He has over 15 years of investor education experience, with a focus on helping people create and preserve wealth, make sound decisions and generate better financial outcomes.

A lifelong change agent and advocate for high quality education for all children, Dr. Cash comes to Buffalo, NY, with over 20 years of executive leadership experience in education, and successful outcomes for children as past superintendent in Memphis, Tennessee; and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

While this is a local election - the Democratic mayoral primary - the race is being closely watched far beyond the District because the outcome could carry significant implications for the national debate over education reform.

«Students outcomes have been stubbornly flat over time,» state Education Commissioner John King said.

«We did not see statistically significant differences between hatha yoga and a control group (health education) at 10 weeks, however, when we examined outcomes over a period of time including the three and six months after yoga classes ended, we found yoga was superior to health education in alleviating depression symptoms.»

But if the goal is improving student outcomes over the long term — not just generating short - term excitement — then policymakers may want to tie «free college» proposals to broader investments in higher education that make the college experience better, not just cheaper.

Over time, it is anticipated the program will contribute to reducing the difference in school readiness and education outcomes between indigenous and non-indigenous children.

As we await the outcome of yet another government consultation relating to parking, David Smith of the British Parking Association looks back over the last few years and then points the way forward to where the profession is heading and what this means for the education sector.

More than four decades after the first model preschool interventions, there is an emerging consensus that high - quality early - childhood education can improve a child's economic and social outcomes over the long term.

In a case that could shape the outcome of special education disputes across the country, the Supreme Court will decide in Schaffer v. Weast (Case No. 04 - 698) which side bears the burden of proof in disputes over children's individualized education programs, or IEPs.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Teacher education in community colleges should be viewed as a four - year process that combines content and pedagogical training over that time, says a report that is the outcome of a meeting between the Education Commission of the States and the National Center for Teaching Transfeducation in community colleges should be viewed as a four - year process that combines content and pedagogical training over that time, says a report that is the outcome of a meeting between the Education Commission of the States and the National Center for Teaching TransfEducation Commission of the States and the National Center for Teaching Transformation.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that NYC charter students gained an additional one month of learning per year in reading over their district - school peers; in math the advantage was five months of additional learning each year.

«General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor - Market Outcomes over the Life - Cycle.»

The Education Department has been slowly gathering itself together over the past decade to review states» mandatory annual IDEA «performance plans» on the basis of student outcomes, in addition to bureaucratic compliance with sundry procedural and data - reporting requirements.

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).

Working with the George W. Bush Institute to serve up searchable and comparable city - level reports on education data from over 100 cities in the U.S. to help empower policymakers to improve student outcomes

These kinds of questions are central to the Early Learning Study at Harvard (ELS @H), which will ultimately help us address questions about the features and characteristics of all types of early education and care settings and their links to children's outcomes over time.

Over 50 years since the Civil Rights Era, there is perhaps no issue in American education more intractable or more painful than the persistent gaps in educational outcomes between black and brown students and their white peers.

If money «causes» education outcomes to improve, test scores of students in the two groups will diverge over time.

According to the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy, the vast majority of the education experiments that have been conducted over the past decade have yielded null effects on student outcomes.

In traditional education, however, there's a nationwide war raging over accountability, with many states seeking ways to rate not only teachers and schools, but also teacher preparation and early childhood programs, based on quantifiable outcomes.

A study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school students on average gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per year than their district school peers.

The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.

This was intended to give them greater freedom over their budgets, staffing, curricula and other operations to achieve outcomes of higher quality education and increased competition.

Ken Surratt, assistant director at Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, said researchers, industry representatives and investors met repeatedly over three years and jointly released two papers outlining quality standards.

The empirical evidence simply does not support the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards and high stakes testing as effective tools to improve the education and life outcomes of over 56 million public school students in the third most populous country on the planet.

Catapult Learning, Inc. has dedicated over four decades to providing outstanding education solutions that generate demonstrable academic achievement and better life outcomes for students, regardless of their learning barriers or other challenges they may face.

With over two decades of experience in the education sector, Kathy loves helping educators find the funds needed to improve student achievement and outcomes.

Even the most visionary districts can make the mistake of over investing in one metric of success, and educational researcher Michael Fullan says, «In most of the schools and education systems we have observed, the only student learning outcome measures available for accountability purposes are measures of curricular content mastery.»

In debates over how much funding is needed to achieve certain outcomes, it has become increasingly apparent to some state leaders that the issue is mostly about how much money lawmakers are willing to invest in public education.

In a very interesting and ambitious project, last year Forbes magazine challenged experts in business and education philanthropy to single out five big ideas over the next 20 years that could make American students the most highly achieving in the world and had research and modeling specialists with no stake in the outcome analyze the -LSB-...]

Many countries have shifted away from control over education content to a focus on outcomes.

The presence of Democrats in the reform movement has led to a deepening rift within the party over the role of unions in education and teacher protections, particularly as the reform movement has so far failed to deliver on its promised outcomes.

Our latest report — Back to the Staffing Surge — measures US public school employment growth versus student growth as well as teacher salary fluctuations and student outcomes over the past 65 years using publicly available data that state departments of education annually report to the U.S. Department of Eeducation annually report to the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

Comparative results from the first Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) show that education systems can best support teachers by shifting public and governmental concern away from the mere control over the resources and content of education toward a focus on outcomes, by moving from hit - and - miss policies to targeted interventions, and by moving from a bureaucratic approach to education to devolving responsibilities and effective school leadership that supports teachers through targeted professional development, appraisal, and feedback.

The present paper charts these trends against both inflation - adjusted per pupil spending and the raw, unadjusted SAT results, providing an unprecedented perspective on American education inputs and outcomes over the past 40 years.

He dismisses education savings accounts, asserting that they come with «little or no oversight over student outcomes.»

«We have used this process to re-engage with many of our schools, districts and stakeholders across the state over the last two years to get feedback on how our current education system is working.The conversations were deep and very helpful to the department and other stakeholders as we work collectively to leverage ESSA to improve outcomes for our highest need students in Colorado.»

Using data pooled over several years, postdoctoral fellow Brian Holzman tracked the levels of graduates from the state's largest school district enrolling in and completing postsecondary education, as well as other outcomes.

The report represents an in - depth review of the current condition of arts education, including an update of the current research base about arts education outcomes, and an analysis of challenges and opportunities in the field that have emerged over the past decade.

• Over the last 10 years, when costs of public education skyrocketed, especially salaries and benefits, the schools were nonetheless generously supported by taxpayers, who believed that funds were critically needed to improve outcomes «for our children.

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A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice, found that, over time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning gains in their classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define measurable outcomes in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.

But no matter what the outcome, this represents a very important step in the growing debate over education policy in California,» Dan Schnur, director of the USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times Poll, told reporters.

They are responsible for the education of over 2500 children and young people, and they hold the schools accountable for the quality of provision and outcomes.

This is the outcome after well over a generation of students in a standards - based education system.