Specifically, her research and teaching integrates these three fields to examine how organizational factors constrain and enable the success of
U.S. public school reform.
Not exact matches
STEM - focused high
schools are important because they constitute the first
U.S. science and mathematics
reform that requires whole -
school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the
public school population.
Despite decades of educational
reform and legal efforts, many
U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of
public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.
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.
Thomas Toch, the education correspondent for
U.S. News and World Report, visited more than 60
public schools across the United States while completing his overview of the
reform movement, In the Name of Excellence.
Or as Buttenwieser says, summing up what he thinks the degree is for: «It's training the next Arne Duncan,» referring to the
U.S. secretary of education, who Buttenwieser says created many successful
reforms in Chicago, where he served as CEO of the
public school system before joining the Obama administration.
This survey reveals a
U.S. public that continues to support its
public schools, but also one that wants these
schools to become more effective and is willing to endorse a wide variety of
reforms it thinks will bring that about.
Jack Jennings, author of the new Harvard Education Press title Presidents, Congress, and the
Public Schools: The Politics of Education
Reform, was witness to the evolution of federal policy, working closely with Congress, first as a subcommittee staff director and then as general counsel for the
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.
In this, the second annual national survey of
U.S. adults conducted under the auspices of Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University, we observe a
public that takes an increasingly critical view both of
public schools as they exist today and, perhaps ironically, of many prominent
reforms designed to improve them.
Yet
U.S. public schools just keep chugging along, resisting serious attempts at
reform.
It should come as no surprise that many countries have the same draconian
reforms foisted on their
public schools like the
U.S. I find it interesting to learn how other countries run their
schools and the similarities and differences between their systems and ours.
Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private
school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of
public schools and into unaccountable private
schools — a
school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing
schools.
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.
Finland's high - achieving
public school system is now part of the conversation about
U.S. education
reform these days.
Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign
schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every
School: Transforming
Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the
U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure
Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring
schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing
Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
Schools; Importing Leaders for
School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best; the
Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success;
School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?
Emphasizing the need for additional effective education entrepreneurs to join the work of
reforming America's lowest performing
public schools,
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charter
schools.
NSBA and 62 other organizations, as part of the National Coalition for
Public Education sent this letter to the
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform opposing the reauthorization of the D.C.
School Voucher Program.
«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 levels.»
Good Morning The
U.S. Senate's tax
reform bill passed over the weekend includes an amendment filed by Sen. Ted Cruz that will expand 529 College Savings Plans to include K - 12 elementary and secondary
school tuition for
public, private, and religious
schools, including K - 12 educational expenses for homeschool students.
With Gallup data showing 72 percent of the
U.S. public having «trust and confidence» in its teachers, bold leaders from the classroom may present an «inconvenient truth» to
school reformers and their more restrictive
reform agendas.
A common assumption inside the
school -
reform movement, one often repeated in the wake of America's sobering performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment exam — the
U.S. ranked 17th in reading and 23rd in science — is that our nation's
public -
school teachers tend not to be high achievers themselves.
With enrollment projected to grow between 20 and 40 percent over the next 20 years, charter
schools have established themselves as a fixture in the
U.S. public education system and can no longer be viewed as an experiment or pilot
reform.
The election of President Barack Obama and his appointment of Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago
Public Schools, as the
U.S. Secretary of Education, marked the pinnacle of hope for our work in education
reform.
STEM - focused high
schools are important because they constitute the first
U.S. science and mathematics
reform that requires whole -
school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the
public school population.
The report also proposes recommendations for investments, innovations and
reforms to improve learning environments for children in all
U.S. public schools.
Understand proposed recommendations for investments, innovations, and
reforms to improve learning environments for children in all
U.S. public schools
Co-hosted by the Indianapolis Urban League, 100 Black Men,
School Choice Indiana, Stand for Children, La Plaza, Education
Reform Now, Lacy Leadership Association and UNCF, the event attracted stakeholders from across the community to hear Dr. Fuller's ideas and observations about
public education in the
U.S.
CHICAGO — Chicago teachers stayed away from
public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that
U.S. education
reform advocates see as crucial to fixing urban
schools.
The Department of
Public Instruction released a draft application to the
U.S. Education Department for a waiver from the 10 - year - old federal No Child Left Behind Act, which State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Tony Evers said «has shackled
schools by being overly prescriptive and prohibiting creative
reforms.»