Sentences with phrase «u.s. education reform effort»

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

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The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieveeducation in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by AchieveEducation (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

A 2001 Nobelist for creating a new form of matter known as a Bose - Einstein condensate, Wieman has since become a leader in the effort to reform U.S. undergraduate education.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school dEducation Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school dEducation Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school deducation in the nation's urban school districts.

Nsf officials characterized the project as «perhaps the most far - reaching science - education reform effort in the U.S. since the Sputnik era of the 1950's.»

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

Moreover, with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan making the replication of successful charter schools a key component of his school - reform plan, the District's efforts could well serve as a model for the nation.

For schools and districts across the U.S., family engagement is becoming an integral part of education reform efforts.

«Only though a clearly defined and appropriate federal role, a willingness to explore a revised charge of the U.S. Department of Education, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levelEducation, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local leveleducation in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levels.»

The report, «What the U.S. Can Learn From the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts,» found that in high - scoring countries like Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and South Korea, teachers have higher status and are typically paid better relative to other workers.

With the promise of local accountability and coordinated efforts to improve, the district is one of nine in a consortium called the California Office to Reform Education — which includes Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco — seeking a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reformEducation Arne Duncan delivered featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reformeducation reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reform efforts.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reformEducation Arne Duncan will give featured remarks, highlighting recent progress on education reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reformeducation reform, the difficult work still ahead, and the need for innovation to help advance reform efforts.

In the early 1990s, in an effort to promote standards - based reform through Goals 2000, the U.S. Department of Education made competitive awards available to states to develop curriculum frameworks in the core subject areas.