Sentences with phrase «state educational policies»

• Prepare manuals, guidelines, and reports on state educational policies and practices for distribution to the school.

State educational policies may have a greater impact if the related professional learning opportunities are focused simultaneously on more than one level of change (i.e., classroom and building, or classroom and district).

Another implication is that state educational policies may have a greater impact if related professional learning opportunities are focused simultaneously on more than one level of change (i.e., classroom and building, or classroom and district).

Working in some of the poorest, most challenging rural places, the RSCT involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, advocates for appropriate state educational policies, and addresses the critical issue of funding for rural schools.

Many of these groups have annual conferences and monitor state educational policies with regard to social studies.

Rosa's selection could bring about a climate change in state educational policy, as she has been critical of the more arduous tests introduced under Tisch.

State courts, previously intervening significantly into state educational policy making, pushed up spending without commensurate results in student performance.

In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects of state educational policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor effect on student performance.

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Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

Since the Court found that state and local educational policy were in conflict with fundamental democratic rights as expressed in the Constitution, it ruled that local self - determination in respect to segregated schools must be overruled by national policy.

Children like Pineapple depend on educational, public health and environmental policies developed by metropolitan and state governments.

Wineries across the state will engage consumers, policy leaders, media and trade with active and educational festivities such as Earth Day festivals, organic wine trails, dog - friendly vineyard hikes, wildlife talks, horseback rides, eco-tours and more.

Section 601 of the Healthy Students Act of 2010 states that as required by federal law, each local educational agency is required to collaborate with parents, students, food service providers, and community organizations to develop, adopt, and update a comprehensive local wellness policy.

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.

Together with more than 100,000 members, we care for 35,000 acres of conservation land, provide school, camp, and other educational programs for 225,000 children and adults annually, and advocate for sound environmental policies at local, state, and federal levels.

Minnesota recently released «Prenatal to Age 3: A Comprehensive, Racially - Equitable Policy Plan for Universal Healthy Child Development» outlining specific actions the state can take to promote social, economic, health, and educational equity for all children.

Last year's event was attended by a rally by members of the New York State United Teachers Union across the street in protest of his educational policies.

«In stark contrast, under Mayor Lovely Warren's leadership our city has seen an unprecedented period of growth and progress with construction and investment, not only throughout downtown and our center city, but more importantly throughout our neighborhoods as well... Mayor Warren's careful fiscal stewardship has resulted in two bond rating upgrades for the City, she has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in investment by the state and federal governments along with progressive policies always focused on bringing more jobs, safer more vibrant neighborhoods and better educational opportunities to every resident of Rochester.»

It bypasses the existing educational policy body in New York, the State Board of Regents, chaired by former Citigroup CEO Richard Parsons.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Democratic primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, has joined up with the state's Working Families Party to criticize what she says is a Wall Street hedge fund takeover of the state's educational policies.

Tying educational funding to income inequality, she asserted that Cuomo's policies have supported the wealthiest one percent in the state, whom she said hold 45 times the money as the remaining state residents.

And to state one more point, our labor market and our educational system are globalizing at enormous speed: regarding degrees, company structures, and recruiting policies, an international orientation can now be considered normal.

The paper was co-authored by Joseph Simons - Rudolph, a teaching assistant professor of psychology at NC State; Christine Brugh and Eileen Schilling, graduate students at NC State; and Chad Hoggan, an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and human development at NC State.

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.

It is the policy of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to administer all educational and employment activities without discrimination because of race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, or national laws, executive orders, regulations, and guidelines.

We think that this represents gross neglect, and we compliment those states and policymakers who are trying to collect longitudinal data and base educational policy on a more careful assessment of the trajectories of children's intellectual progress over their school careers.

A South Carolina judge's ruling that the state must provide more educational opportunities for young children in poor and rural areas is setting the stage for an extensive legislative and policy debate on K - 12 schools in the Palmetto Sstate must provide more educational opportunities for young children in poor and rural areas is setting the stage for an extensive legislative and policy debate on K - 12 schools in the Palmetto StateState.

A new effort, Project for Policy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communPolicy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communpolicy research that will have a real impact in their communities.

Student - led conferences are emerging as a way to actively engage students in their learning process, wrote Donald G. Hackmann, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University in an ERIC Digest, «Student - Led Conferences at the Middle Level.»

His research on leadership focuses on issues of scaling up innovations from local to widespread use, and his work in policy centers on state and national level educational improvement strategies.

Much like the United States, education policy in Germany is not controlled by the central government, but by the states, where educational achievement vStates, education policy in Germany is not controlled by the central government, but by the states, where educational achievement vstates, where educational achievement varies.

Hackmann, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University and author of Student - Led Conferences at the Middle Level, has conducted research about student - led conferences.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability systems influenced student achievement.

Legislatures should make basic educational policy decisions; state education departments and local school districts should determine how best to implement educational reforms.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

- Sandra Vergari is an assistant professor of educational administration and policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

With a career forged in educational grantmaking, state education policy, and academe, Kent McGuire seems to have spent a lifetime preparing for his new role as assistant secretary of the Department of Education's office of educational research and improvement.

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

But many factors can influence a state's educational performance, from changes in state policies to changes in their demographic makeup, making it extraordinarily difficult for researchers to isolate any one cause for an increase in achievement.

When Jill Biden convened a gathering of researchers and university faculty to mark the five - year anniversary of Operation Educate the Educators last spring, they also celebrated significant policy gains, like the enactment of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which smooths transitions by eliminating conflicting state educational requirements, and the «military - student identifier» provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires states — for the first time — to track outcomes for these students.

As a result, it is unclear how different kinds of choice policies might expand the educational choices of children nationwide and in each state.

FERPA states that no federal funds shall be made available to any educational agency or institution that has a policy or practice of permitting the release of students» educational records (or personally identifiable information contained therein) to any individual, agency, or organization, without the written consent of the students» parents.

Teachers, parents, school leaders, state policy makers, researchers, and yes, even philosophers, are likely to develop far more nuanced and insightful, empirically justified, and pragmatically effective responses to dilemmas of educational ethics if they explore these issues together...

Before joining the NCEA, Mr. Parsons, 62, spent 30 years as an associate professor in educational leadership and policy studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University campuses in Blacksburg and Falls Church, Va..

If it is yes, the flowchart points to a third question, «Are there comparably effective alternative policies that would meet the stated educational goal» with less of an adverse impact on the group most harmed under the current policy?

These states, awarded no new funding, could easily have reverted to their previous educational policies.

Does a federal policy shift reestablishing the viability of single - sex education in the United States, represent an enlightened educational alternative or a relic of a less enlightened age?

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»