This is no minor issue, given the increasing
focus of the school reform movement on charters.
The New Normal for Federal Education Spending (3/4/10) Choice and Residential Segregation (2/23/10) Studies Find No Effects (1/7/10)
Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?
Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?
• The broader and more abstract the soft skill that is
the focus of a school reform effort, the more likely is the skill to have a dominant genetic basis.
Studies Find No Effects (1/7/10)
Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?
Hogan also supports Say Yes to Education, which has been
the focus of school reform in Syracuse in recent years.
Not exact matches
A resident physician in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health, Malik is an authority on drug policy
reform focused on public health.
More often, efforts to deal with fragmentation and pluralism
focus on
reforming the curriculum
of a
school.
First, I could not solely
focus my research on mathematics instruction; because the education I witnessed was so integrated and was indicative
of best practices, I changed the study to be part
of a growing body
of knowledge on
school restructuring and
reform.
The Obama agenda has
focused almost exclusively on systemic
school reform to address the achievement deficits
of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different,
focus on accountability.
As a clinical psychologist, a mother
of three and a co-founder
of Challenge Success, a Stanford birthed project
focused on
school reform and parent education, I have seen the impact
of excessive parental oversight and intrusion into every aspect
of children's lives.
My team and I remain
focused on
school food
reform because
of the need to continue supporting long - term solutions.
Seven
of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker
of the New York City Council convened at New York Law
School on Monday night for a forum
focused on government
reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.
He grasped the centre ground by
focusing on living standards and cost
of living policy discussion and announcements: the Pupil Premium, capping social care costs, state pension
reforms, free childcare, cutting income tax, and, his big policy statement: free
school meals for all infants.
STEM -
focused high
schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics
reform that requires whole -
school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components
of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment
of the public
school population.
But the bulk
of the city's
school reforms over the past decade have
focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high
school attendance.
Focusing education
reform plans more effectively requires an understanding
of context, in this case, key characteristics
of the Hispanic population and the
schools they attend.
In response, a number
of reform efforts are
focusing on creating small
schools or
schools within
schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.
Rather than attempt to make a summative statement about the success
of Newark
school reform, this research project
focuses on key questions at the core
of the theory
of action in Newark.
First, in its rehearsal
of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives
of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent
reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins
of the education system but on teaching as the very core
of what happens in
schools and thus
of school reform.
Last year, when HGSE selected four books that all members
of the Ed
School community could read and discuss as part of the shared reading list instituted by HGSE's Academic Cabinet, it was not a surprise that one volume in the shared reading series focused sharply on school r
School community could read and discuss as part
of the shared reading list instituted by HGSE's Academic Cabinet, it was not a surprise that one volume in the shared reading series
focused sharply on
school r
school reform.
Evaluations
of school -
reform measures typically
focus on the outcomes that are most easily quantified, namely, test scores, as a proxy for long - term societal benefit.
Building on this, Cahill proceeded to set forth a «dynamic model,» arguing that, for true transformation that will allow
schools to most effectively move forward with Common Core,
schools can not just
focus on one area
of design, but instead, need to approach
reform from a number
of different angles.
At last week's Askwith Forum, «Transformative Change in American
Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Sta
Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director
of urban education at Carnegie Corporation
of New York, — spoke to the importance
of transformative change and systemic
reform within K — 12
schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Sta
schools across the nation,
focusing largely on Common Core Standards.
Whereas business - driven educational
reform has largely
focused on the K - 12 years, recent studies, including one by the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), have now shown that the quality
of care infants and toddlers receive can significantly impact their cognitive and social development through elementary
school — and even beyond.
When it comes to the study
of implementing education
reforms, analysts tend to
focus on the formal channels
of implementation and the standard tools
of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to
school), alignment
of curriculum, assessment and other components
of the
reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.
Manno
focuses on three
of these nonprofit organizations that have had helped to lift charter
school caps, implement «parent trigger» policies, and
reform teacher effectiveness provisions.
Race to the Bottom Michael McGill
Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's
schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate
reform has actually weakened public
schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing
of «nonessentials» like art and languages.
While it's easy for those
focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban
reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think
of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help
schools go from good to great.
I was sold by HGSE's
focus on urban education, the support they provide preservice teachers through mentoring, and its renowned faculty in the field
of education and
school reform.
A longtime corporate supporter
of national
school -
reform efforts has announced plans to
focus its grantmaking exclusively on regional education initiatives.
Many
of the
reforms he championed, namely, more accountability, more
focus on standards, and growth in charter
schools, are already at various levels
of implementation in states and districts across the country.
We promote education
reforms of all stripes, with a particular
focus on
school choice and standards - based
reform.
This logic is why the new wave
of high
school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the f
school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to
School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the f
School»), has
focused on the disconnect between the reality
of big, modern high
schools and our fantasy
of them as extensions
of the family.
While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle
school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some
Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.
Schools Do Better,» that an intense
focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor
reforming middle
schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.
schools instead
of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8)
schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.
schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor
of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle
schools.
schools.»
Deeply suspicious
of the
reform groups whom he says «exploited» failing
schools, critical
of ed -
school policy experts, and antagonistic toward the independent research shop set up at the University
of Chicago, Vallas seems to have been
focused on political and managerial rather than educational priorities.
By undercutting these
reform strategies and presenting evidence on the powerful influence
of social class on student achievement, Rothstein hopes to convince us that we can expect little from
focusing on
reform within the
school system.
With phrases like «inevitable failure» and a complete
focus on out -
of -
school reforms, it is clear that Rothstein believes we can expect little from
school reform.
The current wave
of innovation in charter
schools differs from earlier
reforms by
focusing on governance, with charter
schools freeing educators from oversight by elec ted
school boards.
Alonso served as CEO
of Baltimore City Public
Schools (City
Schools) for six years, where he led a
reform effort marked by a rebalancing
of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building
of a coalition in support
of City
Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a
focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive
reform strategies in other districts.
So I hope I will be forgiven, although I'm certain I will not be, for wanting the full force
of reform efforts to
focus on what happens inside
of schools and classrooms.
I told this story to a group
of two dozen or so
of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and
school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed
reform efforts still
focus far too little on what kids do in
school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause
of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart
of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.
And with that
focus comes the possibility
of more action at the local, state, and national levels to implement a mix
of reforms that will support all students through high
school graduation.
«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should
focus both on the impact
of school discipline
reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective
school discipline
reform but that changing
school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.
The
focus of education
reform discussions has shifted from the question
of which
school a child should attend to the learning that takes place within a
school.
The
reform movement has not
focused enough on making
schools bias free for all students, and it must do so if it is to succeed, a coalition
of educators and activists says in a report to be released this week.
Her research
focuses on educational policy and politics, and urban
school reform, including the development and implementation
of education policy and the impact
of policy on the educational opportunities for at - risk students.
We know that teachers matter, as this has been a
focus of the past decade
of school reform.
Mathematics and science
reforms at the state level over the past five years have
focused on curricula and alternative assessments, a national survey by the Council
of Chief State
School Officers has found.
Urban
school districts tend to lose their
focus, hopping from
reform to
reform, as new leaders with ideas
of their own take the helm.