Sentences with phrase «term federal education policy»

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With Whitehurst moving to the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution after his term expires this month, and as drafts for IES reauthorization begin to make the Beltway rounds, it is time to assess the contribution of IES to the history of federal education research and look ahead to itEducation Policy at the Brookings Institution after his term expires this month, and as drafts for IES reauthorization begin to make the Beltway rounds, it is time to assess the contribution of IES to the history of federal education research and look ahead to iteducation research and look ahead to its future.

Federal policy plays an important role in the financing of postsecondary education at institutions by providing grants to low - income students and access to loans to all students, in both cases on similar terms regardless of whether the funds are to be spent at a public, for - profit, or private, non-profit college.

Despite Mitt Romney's charge that «President Obama's policy response to every education challenge has been more federal spending,» on - budget K - 12 education expenditure has grown during Obama's first term at the slowest pace in two decades (aside from the massive, but unlikely to be repeated, infusions of ARRA and Edujobs).

«They've gone from the debate over NCLB in terms of the goals being unrealistic, to saying we're not going to require you to have goals at all,» said Charlie Barone, director of federal policy for Democrats for Education Reform.

We hope to be talking a lot more with policymakers, whether it's at the federal level or at the state level like Lindsey had mentioned, to see what possibilities there might be for any new kinds of programs or policies and really to educate those key stakeholders in terms of learning more about the different types, what education savings accounts do and how they can be useful for families.

But while NEA officials and teachers say they strongly support Obama for a second term, there is widespread dissatisfaction among teachers about federal education policies — especially concerning Obama's promotion of charter schools, and accountability policies that they say unfairly penalize teachers.

According to the National Council of Teachers of English, «Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term «formative -LSB-...]

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The current Australian Indigenous health policy environment has developed in parallel with increasing recognition of broader concepts of health that involve social determinants — including peace, education and social justice, and equity — as enunciated in documents such as the Ottawa Charter11 and repeated in Australian strategic documents such as the Ways forward blueprint for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health.12 Unfortunately, the implementation of such strategies appears to be held back by a lack of coordination between federal and state governments and departments in terms of effective administrative responsibility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social determinants.