Sentences with phrase «research school governance»

In 2014 he visited Finland to research school governance and teacher education, sponsored by an Endeavour Executive Fellowship.

But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»

Not exact matches

Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University; a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University; director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory Uniresearch at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory UniResearch Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory University.

Stanford University professor David Larcker, who directs the school's governance research program, says the case of Apple and Jobs's health has convinced more shareholders and institutions to demand that corporate boards establish detailed succession plans.

Vasilis Kostakis is Senior Research Fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.

He is also the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Arctic Research Foundation.

He is also a major philanthropist and the founder of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Arctic Research Foundation (which found one of the lost Franklin ships in 2016), the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

The set will include practices of teaching and learning, practices of research, practices of governance of the school's common life, practices having to do with maintenance of the school's resources, practices in which persons are selected for the student body and for the faculty, and practices in which students move through and then are deemed to have completed a course of study.

The association offers research and trend analysis, leadership and governance guidance, and professional development opportunities for school and board leaders.»

In the research conducted by the Department which focused on democratic governance, 49 % of the 5000 voters sampled, endorsed the Free Senior High School [SHS] programme, making it one of popular initiatives of the government.

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

Virginia Echoes Harvard as Faculty Rises Up to Rehire President Bloomberg, June 25, 2012 «The core issue at Virginia may have been the speed and direction of change, as business - focused trustees have a different sense of urgency than academics do, said Richard Chait, a research professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who studies college governance.»

Author Bio: Martin West is an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, deputy director of Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, and Editor - in - chief of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

In an effort to make a potentially dry subject («governance and politics in education») come to life, I asked each of my students to identify one at - risk student and research the student's life, trying to determine how schools meet or fail to meet such...

Using an innovative technique made possible by Internet surveys and geo - coding technology, Martin West and his colleagues at Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance («Grading Schools,» research) were able to match each member of a nationally representative sample of adults to the specific elementary and middle schools that serve his or her neighbSchools,» research) were able to match each member of a nationally representative sample of adults to the specific elementary and middle schools that serve his or her neighbschools that serve his or her neighborhood.

An associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, deputy director of Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, and, when Congress was drafting the Every Student Succeeds Act, a senior policy advisor to the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Marty stands tall within the education research and policy communities.

In 2016, after a year's worth of research and an original survey of Kentucky's principals and superintendents, the Student Voice Team released Students as Partners, a policy report detailing the state of student voice in existing school governance bodies.

Scott, B. «The Role of School Governance Efficacy in Building an Equity Context for School Reform,» IDRA Newsletter (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, June - July 2009).

During the same time that the Legislature was considering Senate Bill 1566, TASB hosted the first eXceptional Governance (XG) Summit in Austin, presenting research that shows the positive effect a school board's beliefs and behaviors can have on student achievement in a district.

When studying student voice for my dissertation research on school governance, I was only able to locate one distributed leadership study including students perspective, ideas, and actions.

Kris De Pedro ([email protected]) and Michelle B. Nayfack are doctoral students in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and Research Associates with the Center on Educational Governance.

«Getting Down to Facts» is a research project of more than 20 studies designed to provide California's citizens with comprehensive information about the status of the state's school finance and governance systems.

Explore current research into school governance and what it suggests for your district.

Getting Down to Facts: A Research Project Examining California's School Governance and Finance Systems

From the introductory chapter through the conclusion, the reader is presented with research that supports meaningful student involvement in school decision - making and research, students» perceptions of detracking, gender, school support, and learning environments, students» experiences of identity - based curricular reform and school governance.

«What this research suggests is that while the interest of mayors in public schools can bring benefits to public education, a mayoral takeover risks disengaging community interests and disregards the governance responsibility of elected school board leaders,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA's Executive Director.

Perhaps they would be better spending time publicising and researching the failings of the academies programme and what really does affect the success or otherwise of schools — it is not the form of governance.

The research for this project is outlined in a new book to be published by Routledge in June 2016, entitled Modernising school governance: Corporate planning and expert handling of state education.

Between 2012 and 2015 I led an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)- funded project looking at school governance in England.

Topics to be explored include how organizational culture influences such things as making staffing decisions, using data driven professional development, understanding the barriers to organizational reform, managing and changing culture, understanding governance structures for public and private schools and other organizations, and creating principles of equity, diversity, inclusivity, accountability as well as researching future educational visions.

We also conduct research and analysis on a variety of policies that affect talent supply and infrastructure and shape the context in which education leaders do their work — including school leadership, school governance, and accountability.

New research is starting to examine what some charter schools actually do as school organizations — from teaching and learning practices, to governance structures, to resource use — that may result in better schools.

Henry M. Levin gives a research - based argument that teachers might find useful for developing a democratic school governance model.

Ali's prior research has included assessment of early care and education programs in New York City, analysis of professional development interventions in Head Start classrooms, and studies of local school governance.

At IELP, she researched and wrote publications including «Governance and Urban School Improvement: Lessons for New Jersey from Nine Cities;» «Shared Services in School Districts: Policies, Practices and Recommendations;» and «Guide to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.»

The letter cites the Illinois School Code and research criticizing the outsized move to «right size» the District, specifically, that the law of the land squarely asserts that «the primary responsibility for school governance and improvement is in the hands of parents, teachers and community residents at each school.&School Code and research criticizing the outsized move to «right size» the District, specifically, that the law of the land squarely asserts that «the primary responsibility for school governance and improvement is in the hands of parents, teachers and community residents at each school.&school governance and improvement is in the hands of parents, teachers and community residents at each school.&school.»

The research highlighted here illustrates that school turnaround is possible in the presence of a concerted strategy that incorporates evidenced - based best practices: Aggressive action on the part of school districts, resources and requirements, governance and staffing changes, data - driven decision making, and a focus on school culture and nonacademic supports for disadvantaged students.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Not according to years of research findings, notably from an unprecedented set of California school finance and governance studies prompted by the student outcome urgency.

The forum was sponsored by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a research and policy collaboration jointly run by USC, UC Davis and Stanford University, and the Center for Education Policy, Equity and Governance, a new institute at the USC Rossier School of Education.

Including assisting schools with marketing, promoting charter schools, promoting teacher professional partnership, promoting school reform, promoting student centered, democratic centered schools, promotion of small schools with democratic forms of governance, and educational research and analysis.

The CCEE is a small yet dynamic team consisting of the state's foremost leaders in education research, strategy, school governance, and professional development.

The EPI research examined the governance arrangements, religious character and other characteristics of grammar schools.

New research co-authored by London Business School's Elroy Dimson suggests that investors who actively engage with the companies they own to improve governance and strategy outperform more pa...

Since 2010 Nigel has been engaged in research on CE at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada), The Oxford Martin School (UK), and the University of Waterloo (Canada).

Before joining the IASS he spent two years as research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and four years as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, where he led the production of the 2009 report «Geoengineering the climate» and the development of the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI).

Prior to coming to Wageningen, she was a Research Fellow for two years at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, where she participated in the Global Environmental Assessment Project, and focused on the role of science and expertise in global biosafety governance.

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.