Sentences with phrase «policies impact student»

To the extent that such policies impact student achievement, the causal chain between the unions» political power and student achievement (up or down) is circuitous indeed.

The research section offers two articles that address how education policies impact students over the long term.

These interests lead her to New York for the Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was able to dive deeper into understanding issues and policies impacting her students.

The leader of Farragut Career Academy (FCA) since 2012, Tonya joined the Principal Advisory Council to be a voice for neighborhood schools and learn how CPS policies impact her students, as well as other children around Chicago.

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Studies also show that these policies do little to improve school safety and disproportionately impact students with EBD (as well as students of color).

Elected officials, activists, advocates and university students have a number of actions planned for this week to decry the president's policy dictates targeting Muslims and undocumented immigrants, as well as to provide support and guidance to impacted people.

• In a policy forum in Science, Keith E. Maskus, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Eric T. Stuen explored the impact of foreign doctoral students and graduates on innovation in the United States.

Bell and Webster of Oklahoma State say that the NRC and U.S. News surveys have had little impact on their university's research policies not because they fared badly but because the yardstick — the research reputation of its faculty — was seen as tangential to the university's main mission of educating students.

Now, a Penn State researcher is looking at how student assignment policies may be impacting the diversity of public schools.

She is beginning a research project that she hopes will quantify the impact that the policy has had on international students» enrollment in US universities.

The lead author, Hathairat Sawaengsri, M.S., a doctoral student in the biochemical and molecular nutrition program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and a member of the HNRCA Vitamin Metabolism Lab, explained, «Our aim was to look at excess folic acid and its impact on immune function.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

When will those who decide the financial aid policies realize that each dollar devoted to increasing access will have a lifelong impact on students and families everywhere?

None of the studies, though, attempted to measure fully the impact of the policy on students who might have been motivated to work harder to avoid being held back, or on teachers and schools; nor did they parse the effect of student retention on overall system performance.

Q: What about the impact on future Ed School students who come here to study and who then go out into the field to do research, to lead early education policy, or to work directly with children?

This study makes an analysis of the impact of a civic and intercultural education methodology requiring students to analyze the situation of the Roma community at local revel and formulate a public policy proposal related to an issue affecting members of Roma communities.

Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute John Hattie has warned that some of the UK government's key education policies, such as performance related pay for teachers and increased academy conversion, are a «distraction» that will only have a «minimal» impact on student's learning.

Did the group bonus program operating in this policy environment have an impact on student achievement?

«This is the best evidence to date on the impact of retention on a student's likelihood of graduating from high school, the chief concern raised by critics of test - based promotion policies.»

«I then walked through state and federal policies that impact undocumented students,» Cuevas says, including Plyer v. Doe, the national dream act, and daca.

To identify the policy's average impact, we compared the gains in developmental - scale scores made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2002 and scored below the FCAT benchmark with gains made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2001 and scored below the FCAT benchmark.

This is the best evidence to date on the impact of retention on a student's likelihood of graduating from high school, the chief concern raised by critics of test - based promotion policies,» says West.

The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

This is a comprehensive analysis of past and current neurological research that may (or may not) provide policy makers and educators with evidence that impacts on students in a classroom setting.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

«Our focus right now is on asking the question, What is our impact on student achievement, on educator practice, and on policy?»

Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.

A 17 - page workbook explaining and encouraging students to evaluate the impact of different government policies on the public services.

«SDP offers districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to working closely with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to help education leaders make policy decisions that are likely to have significant impact on raising student achievement.»

Studies also have shown that the retention policy — the focus of those who charge that Florida's exceptional gains are inflated — has itself «had a positive impact on the performance of students who were retained.»

As he explains; «probably the most robust finding to date from research on accountability policies is that the strongest initial predictors of the impact of policy on student performance are the attributes of schools rather than the attributes of the policies themselves.»

, American Economic Review, 2005; Anna Egalite, Brian Kisida, and Marcus Winters, «Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own - Race Teachers on Student Achievement», Economics of Education Review, 2015; Stephen Holt and Seth Gershenson, «The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions», IZA discussion paper 9554, 2015; and Constance Lindsay and Cassandra Hart, «Exposure to Same - Race Teachers and Student Disciplinary Outcomes for Black Students in North Carolina», Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017.

One stated objective was to address the «disparate impact» of policies that might lead to racial minorities taking fewer challenging classes than their peers, totally ignoring the obvious fact that African American and Hispanic students are, on average, much less prepared for AP courses by the time they reach 11th and 12th grade.

Assessing the Trump administration's early impact on education Have the President's policies helped or harmed U.S. students?

Moreover, even where districts have taken these steps in an effort to buffer the impact on their lowest achieving students, such policies have been only partially effective.

A Progressive Policy Institute study of D.C.'s charter experience summarized the situation perfectly: «There is no clear evidence that charter schools have had a direct impact on student achievement in DCPS schools or otherwise driven systemic reform.»

Even though most education policy debates have focused on school quality and student achievement, most research on the economic impact of schooling has focused narrowly on the number of years students remain in the educational system.

«This policy will have a real and meaningful impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of students.

West's research examines the politics of K - 12 education policy in the United States and the impact of policy on student learning and non-cognitive development.

Policy makers, politicians and media too often discuss data about class sizes and their impact on student learning without an evidence base, relying largely on second - hand research or anecdotes.

His current research topics include teacher pension policy, fiscal impact of school choice, longitudinal analysis of student achievement, and methodologies for school funding estimation.

With the help of a few high - profile media stories and some legal cases, this view has shifted, and now most schools have an acceptable use policy covering all online communications between students, parents and teachers that impact on the school community.

Her research focuses on educational policy and politics, and urban school reform, including the development and implementation of education policy and the impact of policy on the educational opportunities for at - risk students.

A new report assembles evidence documenting the disparate impact of exclusionary disciplinary policies like suspension and expulsion on certain groups of students: minority students, students with disabilities, and gay and lesbian students.

In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at largeStudent Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at largestudent learning at large scale.

He also suggests that the disparate impact guidance would limit responses to fighting even though the examples in the guidance are policies calling for suspending students for minor non-violent behaviors.

What impact have the various policy machinations over the past generation had on today's students and teachers?

Furthermore, when federal investigators come knocking, you must demonstrate to them that (a) your discipline policy serves an educational purpose and (b) there's no better approach that could have a less adverse impact on students.

Organize focus groups of parents to discuss any changes you may want to make to the schools behavior management plan or other school - wide policies that impact students and, therefore, parents.

He's right, but of course, the biggest impact of the policy was probably on the many, many more students who worked that much harder to make sure they would not be held back.