Not exact matches
Most importantly, then, test results provide parents and teachers with vital information
about student learning, and accountability
policies challenge districts and schools to meet
individual student needs with effective teachers, strong curricula, choices for families and
students, and break - the - mold interventions for failing schools.
Too often the needs of
individual students get lost in the complex discussions
about education
policy and
student funding.
After 30 years of work, the Coalition of Essential Schools has one of the most extensive mailing lists of
individuals in K - 12, higher education, research and
policy who care
about animated, engaged,
student - centered learning.
Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal
about, based on analysis of actual
policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant
student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the
individual teacher level» (p. 89).
This concentration prepares
students who are interested in supervising others who work directly with young children and / or
individuals who have professional goals to learn more
about leadership issues and
policy / advocacy in early childhood education.