Sentences with phrase «prominent education researchers»

A nine - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 27 large established urban charter school systems and found that Achievement First, KIPP Foundation and Uncommon Schools had the best overall student academic performance in recent years.

This year's finalists were selected from among 75 of the largest districts in the country by a review board of 13 prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from leading universities, education associations, civil rights advocacy organizations, think - tanks and foundations.

A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.

A nine - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 27 large established charter school systems.

A 10 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 20 of the country's largest public charter management systems.

The 10 - member Broad Prize review board — consisting of prominent education researchers, policy leaders and practitioners from around the country — chose Success Academy based on the CMO's student outcomes and scalability.

Although principals have long been seen as important to the success of schools, a new set of working papers from some prominent education researchers aims to promote a better understanding of the extent to which school leaders matter and why.

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More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

And today, growing segments of the education sector — not just teachers, but also their unions, lawmakers, parents, and prominent researchers and advocacy groups — seem to be forgetting (or willfully ignoring) the value of statewide standardized testing.

The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C. — based organization supported by conservative foundations, coordinated the placement of a full - page ad in the New York Times, in which a number of prominent researchers both criticized the methodology of the AFT study and took the newspaper to task for failing to subject the report to a more rigorous and skeptical review.

The appointees, each an expert and prominent voice in the field, included current and former education officials from all levels of government, academic and policy researchers, civil rights leaders, the presidents of the national teachers» unions, education policy advocates and associations, and public interest lawyers.

Featuring keynote addresses by prominent Project Zero researchers who have been exploring questions about education in the digital era, the sessions discussed practical and relevant ways to help young people make important connections — to curriculum, to the world beyond the classroom walls, to their peers, and to their mentors.

The Academy is comprised of a diverse cadre of prominent leaders from virtually every primary sector of the education community: parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, state departments of education, school boards, PTA organizations, policy wonks, early childhood professionals, advocates, deans and professors at education schools, education columnists, afterschool programs, researchers, school nurses, school facilities managers, philanthropists, visionaries, and pioneers.

Today, several notable social workers, counselors, and academic researchers from prominent Illinois and Chicago organizations and universities submitted a set of statements to the members of the Chicago Board of Education detailing their serious concerns about the potential negative impact of school closings on Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students» social - emotional health.