The findings from this study emphasize the importance of providing school leaders with the knowledge, skill, and will to engage with
state education policy makers.
The study recommends that other policymakers can take additional actions, such as supporting collaborative programs that increase the depth and breadth of arts learning and advocating for change
in state education policy.
We have found little further research that builds upon and extends these early studies in the evolving context
of state education policies and standards - based reform.
We have spent far too much time
on state education policy with little or no attention to what school districts can and should be doing to improve achievement.
She has since conducted research on
state education policy implementation, standards - based assessment and school finance, and developed state - wide training for the supervision of certified staff.
My survey included one experimental question and three universal questions, with each providing a nuanced understanding of whose voices
state education policy makers value when making teacher evaluation policy decisions.
In conducting this type of study, one must rule out other differences, such as those in family background or those
in state education policies that might also affect student performance over time.
Today, the Education Commission of the States (ECS), a national organization of
state education policy leaders, released a report that reviews state policies related to teacher license reciprocity.
New
York State education policy makers had a difficult task when they sat down to grade the first high school Regents exams linked to the Common Core standards, in algebra and English, last month.
One
state education policy analyst wrote to say that my figure was «out of line with credible information,» and that I gave my critics «too much ammunition with this clearly questionable set of statistics.»
Conservatives and tea party supporters accuse the federal government of intruding
into state education policy with the Common Core, which was originally adopted by 45 states.
• Empower county superintendents to enforce accountability rules, make the independently elected state superintendent of public instruction a sort of «inspector general» for school quality,
place state education policy under the governor, and make the state board of education advisory to the governor.
However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and
how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.
New accountability systems under ESSA and strengthening Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are two of the leading topics in
state education policy today.
By dangling the chance to win millions of dollars before hard - pressed states, the Obama administration leveraged changes across the nation, aligning
state education policies with the requirements of Race to the Top.
Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that
drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.
Rosa helps
create state education policy as Chancellor, but the matter of who controls the city schools is ultimately decided by state legislature.
For the second consecutive year, reform groups, including charter and tax credit advocates, outspent unions on lobbying, contradicting the argument often made by reform groups that unions
dominate state education policy by pouring money into their lobbying efforts.
Imagine taking a course on
state education policy taught by the former secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; analyzing policy interventions in developing nations with a World Bank economist; learning multiple intelligences theory or universal design from the people who invented them; or discussing college affordability with a presidentially appointed member of the National Board of Education Sciences.
Report cards track and
compare state education policies and outcomes in six areas: chance - for - success; K — 12 achievement; standards, assessments, and accountability; transitions and alignment; the teaching profession; and school finance.
Most federal and
state education policies ignore rural America's many natural advantages and force rural school districts to operate in ways similar to those in urban centers.
An assumption implicit in
existing state education policies is that the quality of schooling will improve sufficiently to enable high school graduation rates to rise even as graduation requirements are stiffened.
State boards of education were elected or appointed to
govern state education policy, not to surrender educational authority to a centralization movement.
To analyze the experimental question data, I
modeled state education policy makers» policy preferences (0 = support; 1 = oppose) as a function of the control / treatment group to which they were randomly assigned.
While state education policy makers differed by party in their responsiveness to teacher voices, they did not discriminate between the value of individual and organized voices of school leaders.
The Arlington, Va. - based National Association of State Boards of Education argued for keeping its members» place at the table, since they «play an integral role in developing and
implementing state education policies.»
Over the past fifty years, there have been swings in
United States education policy between didactic, basic - skills reading instruction and constructivist, whole language reading instruction.
Previously, she worked on high school redesign initiatives at the Council of Chief State School Officers and researched
state education policy issues at Education Week's Editorial Projects in Education.
Veteran North Carolina education policy expert Kris Nordstrom has authored a new and vitally important report about the path that state elected officials have taken during recent years in
crafting state education policy.
Two members of the Board of Regents, the body that
sets state education policy, said they had also heard that Mr. Cuomo was urging a moratorium on the use of test scores in evaluations.
c) Write your members of Congress or your legislature and tell them federal /
state education policy needs to fundamentally change course and regain a sane and reasonable approach to assessment and accountability.
But «no matter how good your pedagogical skills,» says Redelman, who
watches state education policy for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, «it is simply not possible to be an effective educator if you don't know the subject you are teaching.»
The Pennsylvania Clearinghouse for Education Research — or PACER — is designed to
inform state education policy discussions through rigorous, objective research; regular policy briefs; and research - based commentaries in leading media outlets statewide.