Sentences with phrase «education reformers rely»

Furthermore, as Brooks says, his serious education reformers rely on partisan think tanks for validation, as clowns would (clowns upon clowns, of course) instead of on professional organizations (the AAUP comes to mind) where real understanding of needs and possibilities lie:

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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.

Because it's hard to tear down a cornerstone asset like public education, reformers rely on issuing a series of unfounded «studies» in the hopes that the press and politicians will quote their theoretical «findings» as fact.

The result of the Torlaskon - Tuck contest is yet another sign that strongly Democratic constituencies are increasingly uncomfortable in supporting education reform, and reformers will have to rely more on Republicans to carry their water.

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.