Sentences with phrase «education reformers use»

Friedman argued that the nation needed to scrap its historic commitment to local public schools and replace these hallowed institutions with a system in which parents could use public funds to send their children to «private for - profit schools, private nonprofit schools, religious schools or even «government schools,»» a derogatory term corporate education reformers use to describe local public schools.

Not exact matches

All the reformers such as SCODA (the Standing Conference On Drug Abuse) and the Prison Reform Trust favour it, provided clear education is given on how to use it.

The new course, Thinking and Acting Like an Education Reformer, will use the case method to understand leadership and policy challenges in high schools.

His use of the word «paternalism» sparked a raucous debate among education reformers and reform critics about «No Excuses» schools like KIPP, Amistad Academy, and Cristo Rey.

Some education reformers and media outlets are already using the results of the new, tougher tests to brand schools as «failing» if most of their students don't meet the higher standards.

Money currently spent on rewarding teachers for valueless credentials could be used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal espoused by nearly all interested parties, from education reformers to teachers unions.

School reformers, she says, have been recklessly trying to improve education «by better use of information and incentives.»

We can, however, hope that new generations of education reformers make use of Jennings's accounts of past federal efforts in designing future initiatives that might be more effective.

For sure, some of the author's analysis rings true: K — 12 education reformers sometimes try to scare the public and policymakers into action (think «A Nation at Risk»), and the Right may use the language of a «strict father» when arguing for testing, standards, and sanctions for failing schools.

Though, unlike U.S. education reformers, Finnish authorities haven't outsourced school management to for - profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they've made excellent use of business strategies.

There are alternatives that could have been discussed: Some education reformers insist that student portfolios are a better basis for assessing student learning than standardized tests, and researchers using ethnographic methods sometimes come up with insights that we do not find in standard statistically based research.

The concept, if not the name, first came into use more than 100 years ago, when education reformers challenged the rote memorization style of learning then standard in most public schools.

It is clear, however, that testing — particularly the high - stakes use of test results to reward or penalize students and teachers — has few friends outside the ranks of professional education reformers.

That quote comes from an education reformer who used to teach in a high - powered classical school.

It seems as if some state education bureaucrats and so - called education reformers are trying to «teacher - proof» assessment through the use of standardized tests like PARCC.

He describes the work of school reformers who wish to use business solutions or technology to fix the problems of education as missing the point.

ESA's, known as «Vouchers 2.0» by education reformers, offer parents the option to receive money in an account that they can use for private school tuition and other educational expenses to supplement learning or in lieu of sending their children to public schools.

I find it fascinating that the term «education reformer» is being used in such a pejorative way by Ravitch and others (though the strategy is obvious: lump together everyone fighting to change the status quo in hopes of getting the public to dismiss them en masse.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

This matters because reformers have a penchant for not using every avenue available to tackle the failed policies and practices at the heart of the education crisis.

The «education reformer's» message; standardized test scores should be used to measure the effectiveness of teacher training programs in the United States.

Let's not forget; the corrupt corporate education reformers have found the money to pay three or four administrators where we used to pay one.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

For too long so - called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation's youth and educators.

A merit pay system that does not actually reward individual teachers is likely to add cost and produce minimal results, except as a weapon to be used against education reformers in the future.

But the reasons for this have long been far more complex than claimed many reformers claim; they consistently refuse to acknowledge the importance of factors outside school that affect students and use choice as a cover to try to destroy teachers unions and privatize education.

A gossipy playground battle of turf rights and hearsay is finally receiving the careful legal treatment it needs, while the California Board of Education mulls the Parent Trigger regulations (meanwhile extending the old ones, another Parent Revolution victory) and reformers around the nation use it as a guiding light.

That is what corporate school reformers have attempted to do — with efforts to expand school choice, elevate the importance of education technology, and use test scores to drive policy as well as the evaluation of students, schools and teachers.

Education reformers in America used his findings to argue that schools should have more power to sack under - performing teachers and attract better ones with higher salaries.

For those who say it is too early to use NAEP to judge the Common Core, I would remind them that in 2013, Education Secretary Arne Duncan used NAEP increases to do a victory dance about the states that had already implemented the Core at that time — and I never heard any reformer complain.

Especially with a cadre of new governors and legislators taking office, along with issues that intersect with education such as criminal justice reform on the agenda, reformers should use the time now to pass meaningful legislation that will help all of our children.

When the education reformers talk about using evaluations in the process of determining which teachers stay or go, they always talk about using CMT test scores to measure as a measure of effectiveness.

Here in Connecticut, we've become used to daily coverage of the failures associated with the Jumoke / FUSE charter school company and the exploits of charter school champions such as «Dr.» Michael Sharpe, «Dr.» Terrence Carter, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school graEducation Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school graeducation reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school gravy train.

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.

While Families for Excellent Schools and the entire charter school industry continue to expand their lobbying efforts, Neil Vigdor, of the Hearst Media Group, reports that Families for Excellent Schools and other so - called education reformers have set up another Political Action Committee that they will be using to reward and punish candidates who support or oppose their agenda.

The question is key given that charter - school proponents are often data - driven education reformers who advocate using test - score data to rank traditional public schools and the teachers who work there.

College remediation is often used as a weapon by education reformers.

In here latest column, entitled «Common Core using children as guinea pigs» uses the truth to condemn the incredible lies the corporate reformers are trying to force upon public education in America.

For example, Norwalk uses mclass (mentioned above) which is a product of Amplify, the massive corporate education reform industry entity owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and education reformers Joel Klein — http://www.amplify.com/assessment/mclass-reading-3d.

One of the central tenets advanced by many education reformers is that poverty is used as an excuse, a bogus justification for poor academic performance, that allows schools and teachers in poor neighborhoods to remain ineffective.

Using data to understand and improve education has been at the top of the to - do list for most education reformers in recent years.

Self - described education «reformers» advocate top - down overhauling of systems, using standardized testing in math and English as the primary measure of student and teacher performance and success, and using competition to leverage change, although neither approach has been shown to improve student achievement.

Ravitch covers quite a bit of terrain: the recent history of school reform, the major players in the reform movement, the claims used to criticize American public education, the «fixes» championed by reformers and Ravitch's suggestions for a more sane and productive education policy.

Now it seems that the CEO has already decided how the 90 minutes will be used, and in doing so he's displaying the ignorance of basic education theory so typical of the corporate education «reformers» who, like Brizard, got their marching orders at the Broad Foundation administrators boot camp.