Sentences with phrase «american education reformers»

For the past several decades, American education reformers have focused on reading and math test scores as the primary means of holding schools and teachers accountable for improving student performance.

As American education reformers try again, under the Common Core State Standards, to create a sensible system of standards, assessments, and accountability, what can we learn from our earlier mistakes?

«I am an African - American education reformer, a mother of two boys, and my race matters all day, every day, in everything that I do for me, for the students and families that I serve.

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Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

This isn't the first time the 36 - year - old scholar, who directs education policy studies at the Washington - based American Enterprise Institute, has taken on what he terms «status quo» reformers.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

«The American education system is not evidencing the «crisis» that modern corporate - minded education «reformers» are pushing as the very foundation for promoting CCSS and its assessments,» she writes.

Remembering David Tyack, who showed contemporary education reformers a nuanced view of American schooling's past

On the one side, reformers sought to introduce more competition into American K — 12 education through charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits.

To many education reformers, the passage of the federal government's massive stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), appeared to be a final bright star falling into alignment.

Since the success of Singapore's programs relies in many ways on more traditional approaches to math education, such as explicit instruction and giving students many problems to solve, in some ways its very success represented a slap in the face to American math reformers, many of whom have worked hard to eliminate such techniques from the teaching canon.

Before I am an education reformer, a Latino, or a member of any party — even before I am an American — I am a father to my children.

Can education reformers overcome these four barriers and place American schools on a sure - footed path to effective civics education?

Letters to a Young Education Reformer, by Frederick M. Hess, is published by Harvard Education Press, which is offering American Educator readers a 20 percent discount off the purchase of the book through January 31, 2018.

Even worse is that these conditions are aided and abetted by defenders of traditional public education practices, who argue that the problems of American public education can not be solved until poverty is eradicated and parents and other reformers are kept out of schools.

Frederick M. Hess is director of education - policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas.

This means not only fighting to loosen the stranglehold of the teachers» unions, as many reformers have tried to do for years, but also rethinking some of the premises and timeworn organizational arrangements of the American system of education.

NCLB transformed the federal government from funder to would - be reformer of American public education.

AAE prides itself in facilitating an open dialogue between our member teachers, education reformers, policy makers and the public to promote more autonomy in American education.

When you consider all the ways in which American public education harms the lives of children black and brown as well as denies them brighter futures, it is critical that reformers put as much energy into transforming the systems as some are doing in taking down Confederate statues in public parks.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

More importantly, the accountability provisions have proven to be useful to reformers, as well as reform - minded policymakers, researchers, and families in advancing the systemic overhaul of American public education.

For most of the past decade, NCATE, the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education and the ed schools they represent have spent more time criticizing school reformers, decrying the presence of alternative outfits such as Teach For America, and defending their shoddy offerings, than on improving the quality of their teacher training.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

Helping these kids, many of whom are fleeing from violent and impoverished conditions in Latin America, gain the high - quality learning they need to succeed in this country is an opportunity for school reformers to humanely help these kids and transform American public education for all children at the same time.

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy: Be they school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to believe that their favored solution will transform American public education.

After all, reformers (along with traditionalists) go on an on about the importance of «teacher's voice» in shaping the transformation of American public education — even though the reality of how teachers work (in silos, out of sight of one another, often without the strong subject - matter competency needed to help kids succeed) makes them far less expert on education than they may think.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

For one, there remains a core group of influential reformers — including former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveEducation Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveeducation than any other policy decision in the past five decades.

But reformers must not think that lawsuits alone are the most - important or even only tactic necessary for transforming American public education.

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

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After all, neither Brill nor Guggenheim (or even other reformers, including those in the Parent Power movement) hold ed school degrees, are ensconced in think tanks, or have spent a day in a classroom — even though it doesn't take the possession of either credential to know that American public education is in crisis.

«Carlyle is an education reformer at heart and a passionate defender of the rights of the Native American people and other marginalized groups,» said Christina Martínez, DFER - AZ state director.

Challenging school reformers» beliefs that a wholesale restructuring of the education system will create a better society, Perry added that all social conditions that plague New Orleans» poor and African - American neighborhoods still persist even after 10 years of school reforms.

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If, as «reformers» suggest, the public school system or the presence of organized labor was really the key factor in harming American education, then those wealthy schools would be in serious crisis — and wouldn't be at the top of the international charts.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Given the collapse of the Campaign for High School Equity (which once served as the convening body for civil rights - based reformers) and the efforts by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to co-opt such groups by peddling a version of accountability that lets states, school operators, and adults off the hook for failure, Ed Trust deserves praise for rallying so many civil rights players to stand up for our most - vulnerable children.

It's about time American politicians and education reformers did the same.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

Certainly the presence of American Enterprise Institute fellow Gerard Robinson, a former education official in Florida and Virginia (and onetime president of Black Alliance for Educational Options), on Trump's education transition team gives conservative reformers some hope that they can have some sway in the incoming administration.

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

American primary and secondary education offers a complicated challenge for reformers.

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And this aspect of the nation's education crisis — one that the No Child Left Behind Act and its accountability provisions have helped expose — is one that reformers must address as part of transforming American public education.

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Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

Given that at the time of the law's passage, most Americans not engaged in education though traditional public schools were generally serving their kids (and all children) well, there was no way that reformers could pass a law that would serve to fully overhaul the super-cluster.

But scandal - plagued voucher programs allow for centrist and liberal Democrat reformers to indulge in such fallacious thinking, and, in the process, weaken the multi-partisan coalition needed to overhaul American public education.