Sentences with phrase «state education policymakers»

Critics disagree, [5] arguing that state education policymakers need to take into account not only the challenge teachers and school administrators face from rigorous content and performance standards, but also the damage that low standards would bring to the state's reputation for having a trained workforce and the damage to the policymakers» own reputations.

The Education Commission of the States — beset by management and financial problems in the past year — should concentrate on being a nonpartisan information clearinghouse for state education policymakers, rather than an advocate for policy changes, members of a consulting firm told the organization's steering committee last week.

This critical work can inform the work of state education policymakers by sharing best practices from districts that took steps to focus their work, and promote shared instructional practices that make a difference for all students.

program thus explicitly recognizes that superintendents, state education policymakers, nonprofit advocates of school reform, and even private investors are all involved in enhancing education — and that the leaders in each sector need to master multiple skills and disciplines, not just education content.

A RAND guide to ESSA funding unpacks what local and state education policymakers need to know about creating logic models showing the link between activities to promote school leadership and hoped - for outcomes.

The webinar is designed for local education agency staff, state education policymakers and administrators, superintendents and assistant superintendents, school board members, teachers, and all other educators.