Not exact matches
Micah Ali, chair of the CUBE Steering
Committee, says, «NSBA is uniquely positioned to serve as both thought and action leaders in the pursuit of
educational equity.»
Educational Excellence &
Equity —
Educational Standards — This
committee will focus on reviewing and analyzing District
educational standards.
«This program has been selected because it prepares teacher candidates from diverse, multicultural backgrounds to gain the foundational knowledge and experiences necessary to advocate for the
educational equity for all children,» said Janine Allen, chair of the AACTE
Committee on Global Diversity, which oversees the award.
That is why collective efficacy needs to be the primary mental model and top priority of every leader who is committed to
educational equity, whether that leader's position is consultant, superintendent, principal, team leader, teacher, or
committee chair.
The
Equity and Excellence Commission, a federal advisory
committee chartered by Congress, articulated a five - part framework to reduce disparities in
educational opportunity that give rise to the achievement gap.
Since 1983, the
Committee has worked to study priority issues, inform the public and policy makers about best practices and engage business leaders, families, students, and other citizens to demand
educational excellence and
equity for all children, from their earliest years through postsecondary education.
The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a
committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the
equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre
educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.