Sentences with phrase «what federal education policy»

As the education blogosphere turns its attention from Secretary Duncan's Race to the Top fund to his Investing in Innovation fund, economist Eric Hanushek offers his take on what federal education policy can and can not accomplish.

As the education blogosphere turns its attention from Secretary Duncan's Race to the Top fund to his Investing in Innovation fund, economist Eric Hanushek offers his take on what federal education policy can and can not accomplish (and what NCLB got right and how it could be improved) in an interview on John Merrow's blog.

Not exact matches

Elia said the only thing she knows for sure is that state's now will have to enact what she called a substantially different federal education policy, approved a little over a year ago.

At the end of the day, no matter what 50 state departments of education discover in the many complex pages of federal legislation and then promulgate as official policy to local districts and schools, teachers may continue as they please.

With it comes the chance for greater sway over policy for states that have long chafed at what they viewed as an overly expansive federal role in K - 12 education.

Federal courts have played a key role in the development of special education policy by interpreting what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summeducation policy by interpreting what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summeducation» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, SummEducation» legal beat, Summer 2017).

What does the appointment of Betsy DeVos mean for future federal education policy and initiatives?

Mike Petrilli talks with Hill and Jochim about this proposal, what it would mean for policy and practice at the federal, state, and local levels, and the prospects for its adoption in this edition of The Education Next Book Club.

What does the appointment of Betsy DeVos mean for future federal education policy and...

The question at the heart of federal education policy is what the federal government ought to require to ensure that the money is well spent.

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

Follower's of Fordham's work know that for the better part of three years, we've been pushing an approach to federal education policy that we call «Reform Realism «-- a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in education.

What evidence shows that federal courts would produce better results than the state and local governments that have been designing and experimenting with education policy for years?

Higher education has taken K - 12's place in the hierarchy of federal policy issues — due both to weariness with what well - intended federal efforts have wrought in K - 12 and to public concerns about tuition prices and student debt.

But the successor regime of Bush, in an overcorrection, reacted sharply against the perceived fecklessness of federal education policy, was indifferent to what the states had in place, and demanded impossibilities.

«This book was designed to show what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality of educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options,» write Frankenberg and Debray.

The marathon campaign in the lead up to July's Federal election has already yielded some indication of what to expect from the major parties with regard to education spend and policy.

The federal government is most certainly guilty as well for creating an alphabet soup of acronyms that bogs down stories about national education policy with explanations and parentheticals about what all the abbreviations mean before readers ever get to the point of whether the policies are actually working.

Just as we came together to transform federal education policy, it's time — guided by our innovation, our experience and our collective wisdom of what works — to work together to build that system of great neighborhood public schools.

For at least six years, we at the Fordham Institute have talked about «reform realism» in the context of federal education policy — recommending that Washington's posture should be reform - minded but also realistic about what can be accomplished from the shores of the Potomac (and cognizant of how easy it is for good intentions to go awry).

For more than four years now, we at the Fordham Institute have been arguing for a federal education policy of «Reform Realism» — one that is reform - oriented but also realistic about what Washington can effectively achieve.

I've already explained what last night's election results will mean for federal education policy.

• Only 19 % supports the federal government holding schools accountable for what students learn, a major premise underlying both the Bush and Obama education policies.

The move marks the latest battle between states and the Obama administration over what has been perceived to be heavy - handed federal education policy that will continue for the next few years.

In combination, these initiatives have progressively increased the demands on teachers and their students and have laid the groundwork for what was to come next - an unprecedented federal intervention on state level education policy - making that directs all states toward a single goal (i.e., 100 % of students reaching «proficiency») via a single system of implementation (i.e., standards - based assessment and accountability).

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.

«What was originally thought of as an organic, state - led initiative became something with a federal heavy hand associated with it,» said Michael McShane, a research fellow in education policy at the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

What ESSA sets out to do is strike the right balance between the respective roles of the federal, state and local governments in formulating education policy.

Released by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a federal initiative that aims to inform educators and policymakers as they work toward improving education, the compiled resources also include an instructional video that shows how to use the WWC when making decisions about new math programs, policies, and practices.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can... Read More

«The frustration of the court matches the policy movements across the states and across the federal government over the same time,» said Eric A. Hanushek, a fellow in education at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, who testified for the State of Connecticut in defending what it spends on schools.

«We know a lot less about what works in early childhood programs than the prevailing policy narrative would suggest,» said Grover J. Whitehurst, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former federal education official.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

Those Republicans thought that someone who keeps insisting that states and local school districts should make education policy should not be overseeing a process in which the federal government tells states what to do.

The role is a paid position in which Fellows, in turn, share what they've learned with other teachers in their professional networks, contributing to a larger understanding of federal initiatives and gaining broader input into policy and programs designed to improve education at all levels.

I'm also quite sure of how difficult a task it is to push the standards rock up the status quo hill, particularly in a day and age when we are wary of testing in general and many are waiting to see what will become of the accountability standards in NCLB as wishes move to reauthorization, multiple measures, and a new look on federal education policy.

And if you haven't been paying much attention to what has been happening in federal education policy for the past decade, you may actually even buy into Petrilli's argument.

While DeVos acknowledged that not every state will choose to implement programs that give parents the most choices, she noted that the federal government will encourage such programs, and she emphasized the value of federalism, regardless of what states choose to do in the realm of education policy.

What I would argue is that a much larger share of the federal education research dollars... should be devoted to helping states begin to use the data that they've been accumulating to start evaluating their own programs and policies.

However, more information is needed about how federal policies support indigenous language and culture in education, what CBE programs are currently in use, and how to evaluate and scale up the most effective strategies.

Alyson Klein and Andrew Ujifusa, Assistant Editors, Education Week, authors of Politics K - 12 • Title of talk: Inside ESSA — the Nation's New K - 12 Law • EdWeek's expert team on federal policy will walk you through the main features of the new federal K - 12 law — the Every Student Succeeds Act — what's new, what's the same, and what a smaller federal role will mean for school districts and their leaders.

But for school reformers and others, the big question that must be confronted lies not with Clinton's penchant for avoiding transparency, but with what steps she would take on federal education policy if she wins the White House next year.

The 2016 — 17 school year is sure to bring plenty of developments when it comes to education policy, and like you, we're eager to see what decisions are made at the federal and state levels.

In turn, Fellows share what they've learned with other teachers in their professional networks, contributing to a larger understanding of federal initiatives and encouraging broader input into policy and programs designed to improve education at all levels of government.

Managing Director of the AccessLex Center for Education and Financial Capability, Lyssa Thaden, will join our Director of Policy, Nancy Conneely, to explain the ins and outs of financing a legal education, and what students should know about federal policies that could affect theiEducation and Financial Capability, Lyssa Thaden, will join our Director of Policy, Nancy Conneely, to explain the ins and outs of financing a legal education, and what students should know about federal policies that could affect theieducation, and what students should know about federal policies that could affect their future.

To examine what the outcomes might look like, Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos — fellows at the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy — used the best available federal data of student loan borrowers.

In this new year, there's a lot to know about what's happening with federal education policy and how it affects your state, your classroom, and you.