Sentences with phrase «higher education reform agenda»

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Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

More than a decade has passed since 29 European countries adopted an ambitious agenda of reforms with the view to create the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

The process of reform — known as the Bologna Process, which has since expanded to include the current 47 countries — has subsequently added to this agenda additional ideals such as equal access to higher education, student - centered learning, and student participation in quality assurance and governance within their institutions.

Skandera was best known as a former deputy education commissioner in Florida under Governor Jeb Bush, who had been pursuing a high - profile, accountability - focused agenda of education reforms.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

Education is high on the agenda of societies, governments and international development organizations and there is an urgency for innovation and reform that can help all people improve their circumstances.

Together, they pushed an education reform agenda, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that emphasized higher standards and more accountability, a results - based approach that parents liked.

Unless major steps are taken immediately — and nothing on the horizon suggests strong gubernatorial or other high - level political leadership on education — the reform agenda will be buried.

«This review is a timely opportunity to demonstrate how the national reform agenda can be successfully tailored to the specific needs and context of high performing state education system.

Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

Weingarten has launched major efforts to place real education reform high on the nation's and her union's agendas.

In the months immediately following her election, Weingarten launched major efforts to place education reform and innovation high on the nation's agenda.

Clearly the US has much to learn about education from this, for it is concluded that the research on these high success countries includes no evidence that any of them have gotten there «by implementing any of the major agenda items that dominate the education reform agenda in the United States, with the exception of the Common Core State Standards» (p, 209).

But when will the truth come out that high stakes testing, which is the core of Rhee and corporate education reforms agenda, is really a form of entrapment.

And three high - profile party stalwarts announced the formation of Democrats for Public Education, to contest the reform agenda with a public - centered alternative.

readers know Commissioner Pryor has been on an unrelenting campaign to remove, undermine and destroy the professional staff and professional capabilities of the Connecticut Department of Education and replace experienced and dedicated professionals with high - cost, out - of - state consultants and staff who have little to no educational experience except for their loyalty to the corporate education reforEducation and replace experienced and dedicated professionals with high - cost, out - of - state consultants and staff who have little to no educational experience except for their loyalty to the corporate education reforeducation reform agenda.

Wallace's efforts in school leadership helped put an important but marginalized issue — the need to better train and support principals — high on the national education reform 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.