Sentences with phrase «higher education reformers»

Higher education reformers might find such students and do all they can to get them across the finish line.

Higher education reformers are keen to find fixes for remedial education, some of them aggressive state policies, because students who are assigned to the courses are unlikely to make it to graduation.

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Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the conservative resistance they met in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.

To reformers it seemed that colleges had to be freed from clerical control, and hence usually from traditional Christianity, in order to achieve something that we take for granted — the emergence of higher education as a separate profession, distinct from the role of clergy.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

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

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.

Having said that, I think that the business community and education reformers must do everything they can to educate citizens, opinion shapers, and civic and political leaders about the urgent need to set higher standards.

Why is it so hard to get education reformers to support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families?

The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce.

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.

Norman Atkins, who has been involved in founding several education reform organizations shared some provocative questions and modest advice for the next generation of education reformers seeking to remake schools, the teaching profession, learning technology, and higher education at the Askwith Forum on March 11.

It wasn't until reformers created nondistrict charter - school sectors — a space for public education outside of the traditional system — that we saw a proliferation of high - performing high - poverty schools.

Kirp sees the beating - the - odds story of Union City, New Jersey — a high - poverty school district that turns out high test scores and graduation rates — as a challenge to the agenda of «education reformers.»

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

Montclair High School's parents and juniors didn't fall for the lies and absurd rhetoric coming from those education reformers — in fact — 68 percent of the students there actually refused to take the Common Core test.

But while the «education reformers» say their goal is to get all children «college and career ready,» they are trying to force high school juniors to take a Common Core test that is purposely designed to label the majority of juniors as failures.

The 1st Annual Empower Mississippi Awards Luncheon will honor Lt. Governor Tate Reeves with our «Education Reformer of the Year» Award and recognize key members of the state legislature for their hard work in ensuring more Mississippi families have access to high quality educationEducation Reformer of the Year» Award and recognize key members of the state legislature for their hard work in ensuring more Mississippi families have access to high quality educationeducation options.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The misuse of and over-emphasis on test scores caused by pressures from media, corporate - style education reformers, and misguided federal laws has forced schools nationwide to teach to these tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.

Far too many education reformers seem to think that if only we were to improve the number of high performing charters or effective teachers we might rectify all of the inequality in this country.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

Education reformers believe that teachers will produce higher test scores if they are «incentivized» by merit pay.

Helping these kids, many of whom are fleeing from violent and impoverished conditions in Latin America, gain the high - quality learning they need to succeed in this country is an opportunity for school reformers to humanely help these kids and transform American public education for all children at the same time.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

The network and its leaders have developed a deep understanding of what it takes to catalyze education reform at the city level, as evidenced in the 2012 report Kick - Starting Reform — co-authored by CEE - Trust and Public Impact — which drew on profiles of three high - impact CEE - Trust members to identify lessons for reformers in other cities.

For students in middle and high school the education reformers describe what they mean by a capstone project.

In an effort to start a new school that provides the type of education being advocated by education reformers like Tony Wagner, Sir Ken Robinson, and Daniel Pink, I am preparing a charter application for Da Vinci High School which will provide an opportunity for students to discover their passions and pursue them.

Today's education reformers don't want teachers who cost more, or who speak their mind about untested curriculum changes, who bitch about Common Core State Standards, high - stakes testing or crummy student treatment.

Meanwhile McDonnell gave his now - former Secretary of Education, Gerard Robinson, little in the way of political backing or cover to push for any significant reforms; instead of seeking out a strong reformer with national credentials (which he could have actually found living in the state's northern region near Washington, D.C.), McDonnell chose as Robinson's successor, Laura Fornash, who has more experience with higher education than witEducation, Gerard Robinson, little in the way of political backing or cover to push for any significant reforms; instead of seeking out a strong reformer with national credentials (which he could have actually found living in the state's northern region near Washington, D.C.), McDonnell chose as Robinson's successor, Laura Fornash, who has more experience with higher education than witeducation than with K - 12.

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

Adversaries to ending high - stakes testing are not always misguided education reformers who worship big data, but other parents.

The long - term goal of many education reformers is to create a teaching force in which nearly all teachers are high - performing.

Before her tenure began, DeVos was known as a reformer in the K - 12 space, but her views on higher education were not well known.

But other reformers have sat on the sidelines, cowardly silent about the problems of the waiver gambit, inexcusably failing to remember that education policymaking is about clear communication in action of the expectations we have for our society to ensure that every child is provided high - quality education.

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.

Inside, the reader will find participants» thoughts on how education reformers might address challenges in four distinct areas: 1) allocation and alignment of resources to support standards - based reform and higher expectations for all students, 2) generating resources for the interventions and specialized programs necessary to support the learning of students with special needs, 3) allocating resources to support learning in alternative education settings, and 4) developing funding strategies for dual enrollment programs.

By March of 2016, education reformers had toned down their public rhetoric and goals, emphasizing that they'd support expanding all types of high - quality schools, not just charters.

Now, nobody seems surprised that «reformer» Marshall Tuck, running for California schools superintendent in the country's most high - profile education election contest, has pulled in every single major newspaper endorsement in California — despite the fact that California and national teachers unions are throwing everything they have against Tuck.

Patricia A. Brantley is an education reformer, charter school advocate and supporter of the right of all children to receive a high - quality education.

The diverse array of school reformers that believes public education is broken beyond repair have created a shopping list of reforms / solutions that includes the following concepts: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and Common Core standards.

It's called predictive analytics, and its potential has higher - education reformers excited.

This setting of low expectations by the state, which has been criticized by reformers in the state such as former Commissioner for Higher Education Stan Jones (now the head of College Complete America), makes a mockery of the otherwise strong efforts by the state to transform education for Education Stan Jones (now the head of College Complete America), makes a mockery of the otherwise strong efforts by the state to transform education for education for children.

In 2016, pro-test education reformers were also frustrated to learn that despite the widespread implementation of new evaluation systems under Obama's tenure, the overwhelming majority of teachers were still receiving high ratings.

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.