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?
Professor Moses is a philosopher of education who is centrally
concerned with education policy studies, especially as related to race, ethnicity, and equality of educational opportunity.
Brown spoke
with the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP)-- she was a member of the 1984 Texas cohort — and shared her thoughts on what policymakers and higher education leaders should know about Latino students and how they can be better supported in colleges and universities, as well as leadership lessons learned and the value of her EPFP experience.
TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to
do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.
Despite the proclamation of a deal, several details remained in flux and three bills
dealing with education policy, capital appropriations and state operations had yet to be introduced.
The Occupy the DOE events reflect educators» mounting
frustrations with education policy and practice that doesn't appear to take their views and expertise into account (see the Report Roundup in this issue for more on teachers» increasing job dissatisfaction).
She
spoke with the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP)-- she's a 1985 alum of the North Carolina cohort — and shared her thoughts on the value of career and technical education, being a female education leader, and lessons she's learned throughout her career.
As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise
unconcerned with education policy.
Today, Education Commission of the States continues to partner
with education policy leaders to address issues by sharing resources and expertise.
Viewers can expect to see the contenders
grapple with education policy, taxes, gun control, upstate economic development, Albany corruption and whether New York should authorize hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.
With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.
An hour before the meeting was set to begin, Families for Excellent Schools — an advocacy group closely tied to Ms. Moskowitz — emailed reporters with a provocative open letter accusing the mayor of hurting the city's most vulnerable
children with his education policies.
Still, Petrilli, who thinks the Obama administration made a power
grab with its education policies, called the new law «much, much better» than No Child Left Behind, since it returns more responsibility to the states.
«What we're talking about here is the financialization of public education,» said Alex Molnar, a research professor at the University of ColoradoBoulder School of Education who is
affiliated with the education policy center.
Few, if any, legislators have more
experience with education policy than Alexander, a former U.S. education secretary and president of the University of Tennessee.
The report's release coincided with a series of education - related actions initiated by the group, including a call for the ouster of one Education Department official it says has mixed religious
goals with education policy.
The survey, which was conducted in November, found that only 10 percent of superintendents thought the federal government had done a good or excellent
job with education policy over the last five years.
Read about their experience and what they told the president in the Education Week article — «President Obama asks teachers for
help with education policy.
The purpose of the Rural Education Advocacy Award is to recognize outstanding leadership in legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of rural school districts
consistent with the education policies supported by the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools.
Now, as the 2015 - 2016 North Carolina Teacher of the Year, the Public School Forum has prepared and equipped me yet again for the policy
realm with the Education Policy Fellowship Program.
In the run - up to the 2008 presidential election, two coalitions concerned
with education policy emerged: the Education Equality Project, aligned with the lobbying organization Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), and endorsed by big - city superintendents such as Joel Klein of New York City and Michelle Rhee of Washington, D.C., and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, whose signatories included many prominent education scholars.
As for the topic at hand, I am not
acquainted with education policy very well (if at all), but believe items as critical as education need comprehensive reform and input.
This is not a promise he's going to be able to keep,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a leading education think tank, adding that Mr. Trump also would run into philosophical problems in telling states what to
do with education policy.
The governor has promoted from within his administration to fill positions
dealing with education policy and public safety — the new deputy secretary, Terry O'Leary, was announced last week at a Cabinet meeting — but other vacancies remain.
Laura Bornfreund is director of early & elementary education
policy with the Education Policy program and co-director of the Family Centered Social Policy program at New America.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt says a Conservative pledge to make primary school children resit Sats is «a terrifying admission of failure»
with their education policy.