Sentences with phrase «broad education agenda»

The Broad education agenda emphasizes the promotion of charter schools, the adoption of corporate methods for school leadership, and changes in the way teacher are compensated.»

«Can she translate success as a charter school operator into a broader education agenda, let alone other issues?»

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I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Termed the «New York Promise Agenda,» the broad - based proposals include criminal justice reform, voting access, women's rights protections, fighting homelessness, preventing faith - based discrimination, protecting the environment, and improving immigrants rights and access to education.

Broad - based consultations on the post-2015 education agenda have confirmed the continued relevance and importance of EFA beyond 2015.

A broader agenda for education advocates might be more justifiable if we had actually accomplished our more narrow set of goals.

While one segment has coalesced around a broad social justice agenda, including education, housing, economics, and criminal justice advocacy, a contrasting group of center - right leaders say the presence of «social justice warriors» will marginalize their voices.

But supporters» fondness for using the language of civil rights can not obscure a broader agenda to defund and, eventually, destroy public education.

The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.»

Foreign leaders, in countries from the United Kingdom to Japan to Brazil, have also committed their nations to expanding international educational exchange and comparison as a component of both foreign policy and their broader education reform agendas.

ukactive Kids will work closely with Ofsted, the Department for Education and the broad range of stakeholders with an interest in this agenda because it will take our collective effort to raise awareness of children's inactivity and plant the seeds of change to improve the health of this nation's children.

We will work closely with Ofsted, the Department for Education and a broad range of stakeholders with an interest in this agenda because it will take our collective efforts to raise awareness of children's inactivity and plant the seeds of change required to give this generation a healthier future.

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education advances a comprehensive, research - based policy agenda to mitigate those impacts and, thus, even the education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school Education advances a comprehensive, research - based policy agenda to mitigate those impacts and, thus, even the education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school education playing field so that all US children have a true opportunity to thrive in school and life.

Mr. Broad tells me, «we're at a golden moment now,» with a president and an education secretary who, he says, agree with his reform agenda.

Despite the fact that the Broad Foundation has assets of $ 2.1 billion, the state of Connecticut is paying these two so they can work on Pryor's education reform agenda while they are doing their Broad Foundation Residency.

Hillary and Bill Clinton have been taking advice from Eli Broad on promoting his corporate reform education agenda for many years.

The law gives the secretary of education broad authority to waive some of its provisions, but some Republicans have insisted that it does not empower him to condition waivers on states» adopting a particular education agenda.

To accomplish such a broad agenda, the key ingredient is mixing up education leaders and trainers from a wide range of implementation types and durations.

Opponents, primarily Democrats and public school advocates, say the program isn't accountable to taxpayers and is part of a broader agenda to defund public education.

The NEA and AFT don't just care about education issues affecting their members but have a much broader agenda — including abortion, gun control, gay marriage, and so on.

The comments were hardly ringing endorsements of the state's plans, either, with some sharply critical of Cerf and what they see as his and Christie's broader political agenda to privatize public education.

Her ethnographic research agenda has three broad areas of focus: (1) Theories of the state and state - society relations; (2) Social movements, critical pedagogy, and learning; (3) Latin American education and development.

Today the broad agenda to facilitate access and participation for all students in education, not just students with disabilities, influences the roles and responsibilities of special educators.

This report outlines a set of strategies state and district leaders can leverage to ensure the implementation of Common Core State Standards engages, informs, and benefits from the career and technical education (CTE) community, a critical partner in the broader college - and career - ready agenda.

Of course, the proponents of corporate education reform have been riding high for more than two decades thanks to the policies and politics of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom used their time in office to promote charter schools and the broader corporate reform agenda.

Instead, the new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is successfully diverting scarce public funds away from teacher - student instruction to private companies.

Topic: Setting an agenda for education A new commission created last year — My Future NC — wants to develop a broad - based education agenda for North Carolina aimed at making the state more competitive.

Rather than requiring that any candidate seeking political support from teachers have a solid progressive record on public education and articulate clear - cut policies and positions that are diametrically opposed to the corporate education reform industry, there is a growing acceptance of candidates who have thrown their support behind the charter school industry and the broader education reform agenda.

This new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is crippling public education in Connecticut and across the nation.

As Anthony Cody and others have detailed, billionaires such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, set the education agenda, wrote the policy, worked political backchannels, and lined up the corporations who would profit.