Sentences with phrase «tank learning policy»

The Coalition, together with the new education think tank Learning Policy Institute, also convened its Community Schools Research Affinity Group during AERA.

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The May 23 conference at the Urban Institute, a think tank based here in the nation's capital, examined the policy implications for value - added statistical designs, which typically measure students» learning gains from one year to the next.

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

They tend to employ teachers who are more inexperienced than the hires at affluent schools, and they often are not adequately trained for the intense environments they will face, making them more likely to leave, said Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor emerita at Stanford who heads the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank.

«There's a sense that is a lot more mainstream now and we need to take a closer look at it,» said Michael Horn, an advocate of digital learning at Innosight Institute, a think tank focused on education policy.

Over the weekend, we learned that Cambridge Analytica collected data from some 50 million Facebook users without their consent back in 2015, a revelation that has led to a public outcry about Facebook's data policies, a tanking stock price and fear of increased regulation.