Sentences with phrase «secretary of education terrel»

In a May 20 letter, Secretary of Education Rod Paige said the action was driven by Georgia's decision to delay starting high school end - of - course testing under the 1994 version of the ESEA.

Washington — Despite the scant attention paid to vocational education in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory programs.

Washington — The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in strongly worded letters to the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General, has warned that a recent decision by a federal district judge could be interpreted as exempting local school programs funded under the new federal education block grant from compliance with civil - rights laws protecting the rights of women, the handicapped, and minorities.

Washington — Eileen M. Gardner and Lawrence A. Uzzell, senior advisers to Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, resigned without comment last Thursday following a clash with the chairman of a key Senate panel, who called their views on laws for the education of the handicapped «offensive.»

Ron Huberman, who was appointed Chicago Schools CEO by Mayor Richard Daley after Arne Duncan became Secretary of Education, has told Mayor Daley that he will leave his position before the mayor leaves office in May rather than serve under another mayor, according to the Chicago Sun - Times.

He must ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch a major campaign (as part of the I - 3 initiative, perhaps) to give schools incentives to take advantage of new technologies that are rapidly coming on line — broadband, powerful computers, 3 - dimensional presentation of material (ala Avatar), and open - source curricular development (ala Wikipedia).

Michele Forman, 55, a teacher at Middlebury High School, was recognized by President Bush and U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige for her passion for teaching.

Accountability proponent Margaret Spellings, U.S. secretary of education from 2005 to 2009 and now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, defends the testing regime as a critical source of information, for educators as well as the public, and argues for holding the line.

«This is a giant step,» said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who has been pushing states to adopt common, rigorous standards.

For example, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), chairman of the Senate Education Committee and a former secretary of education himself, decried the transformation of the Department of Education into a «national school board.»

In 2013, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pointed to modest gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as evidence that the Common Core was working.

Washington — Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell has asked his newly appointed «Task Force on Educational Technology» to prepare a report that, like the much - heralded «A Nation at Risk,» will convey its message «so powerfully and eloquently that there will be attention paid to it.»

This bus was decorated with the United States Department of Education seal and was carrying Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his team, of which Waldo is a member.

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings last week urged her Commission on the Future of Higher Education to be «as bold as you possibly can» in recommending changes.

He was recommended to then - AEI president Chris DeMuth by former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Chester Finn, M.A.T.» 67, Ed.D.» 70.

A former U.S. assistant secretary of education, she's now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

A teacher who wants to learn more about the Common Core can watch a video featuring Professors Dan Koretz, Heather Hill, and Paul Reville that delves into the issue of assessments from the perspectives of an expert in educational measurement, an expert in teacher quality, and the former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, respectively.

The unusual delay prompted two key Congressmen to write a letter of protest earlier this month to former Acting Secretary of Education Gary L. Jones.

Without Klein's record and influence, Democrats for Education Reform and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would have been without their first serious standard - bearer.

President - elect George Bush announced last week that he would retain Lauro F. Cavazos as secretary of education.

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, in the department's first comment on the bill, said in a letter to the House Committee...

In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Michael B. Horn and Paul E. Peterson discuss Arne Duncan's decision to resign and what his legacy will be as Secretary of Education.

Rhode Island's basic profile had changed little by the time U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a crowd of Rhode Island stakeholders in late 2011, «In math, Rhode Island's white students trail Iceland, Estonia, Slovenia.

Before joining AEI, he served as commissioner of education for the State of Florida and secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

Chosen from among the nation's more than 2.5 million elementary and secondary school teachers, Ms. McBrayer received the traditional crystal apple from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at a dinner on April...

A bipartisan group of House education leaders signed a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings that raises concerns over why the test scores of some students are apparently not being counted under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Among the speakers at the event was Jacqueline Jones, president of the Foundation for Child Development and former senior adviser on early learning to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

On Wednesday, president - elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of Betsy DeVos as his secretary of education.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan demonstrated an unfortunate knack for making it appear that the Core was a pet Obama project — initially, when he excoriated South Carolina in 2012 for expressing second thoughts, but most famously when he futilely blasted the dozen states that announced their «implementation hiatus» in 2014.

U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley has named Daniel A. Domenech, the superintendent of the Fairfax Count, Va., schools, and Michael E. Ward, North Carolina's state superintendent, to the 25 - member National Assessment Governing Board.

The one - day meeting, billed as a «bipartisan national education summit,» was organized by Sen. James M. Jeffords, R - Vt., who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary Terrel H. Bell.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appeared before the Senate on Wednesday to defend his budget request and was given a hard time by Senator Lamar Alexander over his decision to revoke Washington state's NCLB waiver.

Washington — The National Institute of Education ought to devote a greater percentage of its dollars to efforts to define a common core of knowledge for American students, a panel of nine prominent educators told Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week.

The film includes a Q&A with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Known in education circles and beyond as an aggressive agent of change, Barr has been in talks with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about how to boost failing schools and whether Green Dot's methods can serve as a blueprint for fixing schools across the country.

Derthick observes, «there is a lot of prescription woven in among the principles» that U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, stipulates.

Conjuring up memories of a similar battle of words in the 1980s, the Republican secretary of education and the Democratic mayor of Chicago recently traded criticisms of the No Child Left Behind Act.

If enacted, the fiscal 1985 budget would be the largest federal appropriation for education ever, notes Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in draft remarks accompanying the budget.

Also in this issue, new research findings on how teacher proximity impacts collaboration; an American journalist's take on sending her son to a Chinese school while living abroad; and an assessment of the tenure of former New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera that looks ahead to whether her legacy will last.

«That means,» says Massachusetts secretary of education Paul Reville, «building a system to make sure all kids have access to the education and have time to master it.»

Twenty - two Democratic senators are telling U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that he should make sure rural schools get a fair shot at the roughly $ 3 billion in new competitive - grant money the Education Department is seeking in the president's fiscal 2011 budget request.

Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley delivers his first «State of American Education Address,» starting a series modeled after his annual education speeches as governor of South Carolina.

Betsy DeVos has been confirmed as Secretary of Education, while the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) guides the federal role in education.

The assembled crowd of educators, who have just greeted their local hero with loud cheers and a standing ovation, know what to expect next from this U.S. secretary of education, inveterate storyteller, and consummate grandfather.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan argued that new standards typically experience an «implementation dip» in the early days of teachers actually trying to implement them in classrooms.

Former New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how she approached education reform and what she accomplished in nearly seven years on the job.

In his back - to - school speech, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised several states for their progress in developing new teacher evaluation systems.

The conference opened with an urgent call from U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Anthony Miller that action be taken.

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos approved Delaware's plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act, Ed Week's Alyson Klein reports.