Sentences with phrase «state educational interests»

This concept suggests that if charter schools don't meet defined goals or state educational interests, they will face concrete, firm, and predictable consequences.

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The State shall «make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education» (Part IV, 41), provide «free and compulsory education for all children» (45), and «promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people» (46).

Since the United States educational system usually develops policies from the local level, some districts feel that the new standards rolling out nationwide are simply too cookie cutter and won't be in the best interest of local areas.

«The successes recorded in education in Osun had showcased the untiring interests of the state towards the provision of educational infrastructure developments which the state viewed as basis for all round transformation, growth and development.

ALBANY, NY (05/17/2010)(readMedia)-- Last week the 2 1/2 million member New York State AFL - CIO unleashed a massive educational campaign targeting State Senators who have betrayed the trust, interests and well - being of working men and women.

As part of a research project, I'm interested in finding comprehensive educational records of United States politicians in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Last week the 2 1/2 million member New York State AFL - CIO unleashed a massive educational campaign targeting State Senators who have betrayed the trust, interests and well - being of working men and women.

The pro-government group accused the Nigeria Labor Congress of deliberately sabotaging the genuine commitment of the state government to transform the educational sector for their selfish interests.

That response drew yet another from the university and its public record custodian urging the state appellate court to either protect the competitive interests of Arizona's higher educational institutions by defending «the freedom, vigor, candor and integrity of the researchers who work there» or rule on its own that «the need to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the work done at Arizona's universities» outweighs the public's right to know.

Arvizu said the tool is an especially valuable resource for educators and state policymakers in understanding their state's educational landscape and for corporations and economic development officials interested in a state's workforce or technology - based business potential.

There Salaeha managed committees and interest groups related to school health and infectious diseases, orchestrated state - wide educational programming, and recruited and trained pediatricians and allied healthcare providers to engage in policy initiatives related to pediatric health.

The National Center of Education and the Economy, through its Center on International Education Benchmarking, is working to build a community of researchers interested in investigating how a small set of countries and states have managed to build and sustain educational systems that manage routinely to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for children and youth.

Honan encourages school administrators on the receiving end of grants to be cognizant that foundations often bring «different focal points of interest, assumptions, and ways of working» to an educational enterprise than they may have experienced in interactions with state or local policymakers.

Popham argues that assessment in the United States has suffered from six crucial, recurring problems: too many curricular targets; the underutilization of classroom assessment; preoccupation with instructional process; the dearth of «affective» assessments, i.e., those focused on attitudes, interests, and values; instructionally insensitive accountability tests; and the reality that educators «know almost nothing about educational assessment.»

The Education Commission of the States requires prospective commissioners to «reflect broadly the interests of the member government, higher education, the state education system, local education, lay and professional persons, and public and nonpublic educational leadership.»

As student Pooja Agarwal stated in her article, «If I Could Make a School,» published in the November 2001 issue of ISTE's publication Learning & Leading with Technology, she was excited to find other students who shared her passion and interest in improving the quality of educational experiences.

New York State allows individual districts to choose literary texts based on community demographics and students» educational needs and interests.

In formulating an agenda that cuts across the fields of measurement, teaching, and educational administration on the one hand and family and state interests on the other, we hope to begin a dialogue that will serve students, families, practitioners, and elected officials.

While states, districts, and schools have long collected certain education data for accountability purposes and in an attempt to be more data - driven, there is growing interest in leveraging new digital learning tools, online services, educational «apps,» and other technologies in the classroom.

States interested in using ESSA to increase reading ability while also creating more coherent educational systems could follow this idea to its logical conclusion: creating state - wide sequences — and sequence - based reading comprehension assessments — for grades 3 — 8.

As interest in China's economic potential grows in the United States, educators should take note of the significant educational growth made in recent years in the world's most populous nation, according to a report by the Asia Society.

The US Dept. of Ed should request that districts» and states» Boards of Education have a Teacher Ambassador Fellows program similar to the federal program as a teacher leadership career path for those interested in shaping educational policies.

With its interest in public education, the firm eventually limited its practice exclusively to the representation of public educational entities in the state of Georgia.

The states party to this agreement, desiring by common action to improve their respective school systems by utilizing the teacher or other professional educational person wherever educated, declare that it is the policy of each of them, on the basis of cooperation with one another, to take advantage of the preparation and experience of such persons wherever gained, thereby serving the best interests of society, of education, and of the teaching profession.

The purpose of school personnel certification is to protect the educational interests of students, parents, and the public at large by assuring that teachers in this state are professionally qualified.

In response to a call to AFC's national headquarters to ask why they are interested in funding election campaigns for lawmakers in North Carolina, Matt Frendewey, communications director, said via email, «as the nation's voice for educational choice, AFC and its coalition partners in states such as North Carolina support candidates on a bipartisan basis who believe in strengthening education by giving parents more educational options for their children.»

Given the action they've already taken on public school choice, Delaware's state leaders should take note of voters» strong interest in ESAs, which could further transform their state's educational topography.

DSBA's purpose is to encourage and foster unity of thought and action of school boards and to further the educational interests of the state.

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

In another, state education leaders are interested in knowing how a statewide grassroots effort they support to improve educational outcomes is doing.

Meanwhile, interest is growing in gleaning educational lessons from overseas to bring back to the United States, whether to improve teacher quality, educational equity, or career and technical education.

Additionally Nicholls State offers five areas of concentration to help you tailor your degree to meet your specific educational interests and requirements.

The Department of Education must ensure that all state plans and waiver requests advance educational equity and serve the interests of all children.

As the Department of Education proceeds with its weighty task of evaluating state plans, it must determine whether or not plans advance educational equity and serve the interests of all children.

It is important to note that the surrogate parent may not be an employee of the state educational agency or the local educational agency, or any other agency that is involved in the education or care of the student; must have no personal or professional interest that conflicts with the interest of the student; and must have knowledge and skills that ensure adequate representation of the student.

(Calif.) The state's new school funding system, with its accompanying educational priorities, appears to be signaling renewed and widespread interest in integrating arts education into core curriculum.

Arkansas State University at Jonesboro offers programs in counseling, teacher education, educational leadership, and health sciences for students interested in pursuing careers in teaching.

The Phase 1 questionnaire was distributed in 2009 to the electronic mailing lists of over 60 educational technology organizations, including ISTE, its state affiliates, and its special interest groups.

The authors offer the following recommendations for state and local policymakers interested in pursuing this path to educational quality and improvement.

If the school is meeting its goals and the educational interests of the state, then the State Board of Education can renew the school's chastate, then the State Board of Education can renew the school's chaState Board of Education can renew the school's charter.

Her interests are in the areas the areas of teacher professional development and K - 16 school reform and she has an extensive background in conducting program evaluation and educational research including evaluations of state and national grant initiatives, collaborative research and project management.

Juan is especially interested in helping states and educational entities solve intricate problems in assessment and accountability design and implementation that often result from an intersection of policy, technical, and practical issues while navigating complex relationships between agencies.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

He said that as more states use vouchers or tax credits, this improves the likelihood that other states will adopt them and noted that «the more we can demonstrate success, the easier it is to debunk the myths out there and to say it is in our best interest to put educational choice on the table.»

Membership of this Network is open to grant - makers with an active interest in funding work to address educational disadvantage within state - funded schools and colleges for children and young people aged 5 - 18.

Presenters also recommend actions for educational leaders at the state and local levels interested in successful transitions of youth from adolescence to adulthood and share lessons on implementing ILPs statewide for all students.

The information from the CRDC is used by OCR as background and context for investigations into complaints of discrimination, and is also used by other offices in US ED, other federal agencies, lawmakers, and various members of the public who are interested in understanding more about the state of educational equity in the nation's schools.

MASB was officially organized in 1949 to advance the quality of public education in our state, promote high standards in providing educational programs, help school board members keep informed about education issues, represent the interests of boards of education, and promote public understanding about school boards and citizen involvement in our schools.

The emergence of standards - based reforms and accountability systems at the state and district levels has led to renewed interest in and inquiry into the district role in educational change.

Another interesting factor is that even minority students have a far higher graduation rate than the state averages as well as achieving a far closer graduation rate to white students than one would normally predict given usual patterns of educational inequity [9].