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

Many U.S. education reform initiatives have become fraught political fights between reformers and teacher unions.

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U.S. Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos, a longtime donor and activist with an extensive history of funding school reform initiatives, was grilled on a plethora of educational policies and her financial background Tuesday evening during her confirmation hearing before a U.S. Senate committee.

Before going to Stanford, she was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), where she coordinated national evaluations of school choice initiatives, comprehensive school reform, and bilingual eEducation (ED), where she coordinated national evaluations of school choice initiatives, comprehensive school reform, and bilingual educationeducation.

Previously, she coordinated Walter H. Annenberg's $ 500 million «Challenge» to reform America's schools — at the time the largest private initiative to reform public education in U.S. history — from its inception in January 1994 until June 2000.

One of Dropout Nation «s constant bits of advice to President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan over the past two years has been to open up the Race to the Top school reform initiative to participation by school districts, charter schools, and community groups.

We have also conducted implementation and impact studies of school reform initiatives focusing on math achievement in k - 12 schools funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

We have also served as the external evaluator for numerous K - 12 school reform initiatives funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Prior to joining the Partnership, Jennifer spent eight years as an appointee of President Bill Clinton at the U.S. Department of Education, where she supported implementation of numerous initiatives including student loan reform, School - to - Work, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

Developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Policy Council, the initiative aims to demonstrate that high - quality, integrated arts education boosts academic achievement, motivates student learning, and improves school culture in the context of schooEducation and the White House Policy Council, the initiative aims to demonstrate that high - quality, integrated arts education boosts academic achievement, motivates student learning, and improves school culture in the context of schooeducation boosts academic achievement, motivates student learning, and improves school culture in the context of school reform.