Sentences with phrase «us around school choice»

Initiatives in the US around School Choice offer a wealth of insights into ways we can support the transformation of educational funding.

«Paul has great respect for Gov. Bush, particularly his ideas around school choice and education,» she said.

Media coverage of such polls focuses mostly on findings around school choice.

While the strength of the theoretical arguments around school choice are uncertain, our results are quite clear: Access to private schooling around the world enhances the lives of individual students and the societies in which they reside.

-- «Lots of the opposition to DeVos centered around school choice — but the U.S. Secretary of Education is not an influential position for school choice policy,» said Nora Gordon, a Georgetown University professor and education expert.

Not exact matches

On school choice, tenant management of government housing, community policing, and drug rehabilitation, there are promising initiatives underway all around the country.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

«Today's announcement appears to be a misguided attempt to show leadership in this space by the ACT Government as the industry has already been taking proactive steps around offering healthy choices in schools,» said CEO Geoff Parker.

I would love to see some of the energy and activism around school lunch reform turn to broader topics of helping support parents to make better food choices at home.

Most school lunches revolve around the traditional sandwich because it is easy to eat, but it is wise to move beyond this obvious choice at least some of the time.

Further, she supports spending more money on charter schools, vaguely stating that parents need choices until we get this «thing» turned around.

The authors frame much of the discussion around women's choices about, for example, which high school math classes to take, what college major to enroll in, and whether to pursue an academic career.

Giving students at failing schools a choice among other schools in their district simply shuffled children around the city.

In the following debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement around this issue of school choice and school quality.

With the ascendance of Betsy DeVos and the passage of school - choice legislation in dozens of states around the country, for the time being at least, it appears that the school choice — first crowd has the upper hand.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

Rather than bouncing around from one education fad to another, our schools had no choice but to remain steadfast in their dedication to «back - to - basics» curricula and a traditional «no - excuses» culture.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

School choice actually has the potential to enhance professionalism and collegiality among teachers by allowing them to form communities of practice around some core conception of the pedagogical good.

His most recent book, School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice around the World, considers sources of international differences in student achievement.

Whereas «conservative ideologues paraded around the idea that regulation is somehow anathema to choice, and is driving away the elite schools that otherwise would have magically served these kids better than the schools that participated,» White argued that instead, «it may very well be the regulation itself — the accountability system — that is the thing that has promoted the performance.»

M. Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

Fortunately, school choice has been around long enough to have produced a large body of research to learn from.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Other Detroit families, around 14 percent, take advantage of Michigan's interdistrict choice law that allows them to send their children to nearby suburban schools.

But there is a certain crowd whose lives and thoughts revolve around what is happening in DC, so they have become all aflutter with either hope or dread about the prospects of a Trump presidency for school choice.

Just 26 % of respondents disagreed, meaning that school choice was +33 (or around 40 points ahead of Trump).

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Choices around sedentary lifestyles, health self - efficacy and literacy, and engagement with screen time are supported by skills, knowledge and understandings gained in HPE curriculum, but require reinforcement by parents and primary schools.

Cucina Restaurants Cucina Restaurants feeds over 60,000 British state school students every school day, providing them with around 50 fine food meal choices at lunchtime and a range of before - school and after - school refreshments.

With food and fuel prices increasing sharply, food and nutrition directors in school districts around the country are finding themselves facing some uncomfortable choices.

While the first year of doctoral studies can be difficult, orientation provides an opportunity for students to learn more about conducting education research at Harvard and the various opportunities around campus, to meet faculty and administrators, and to be reassured that they had made the right choice to come to the Ed School.

My colleagues and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

The basis of school reform should revolve around a few principles, he said, including school choice, diversification, autonomy, accountability, and transparency.

Finding leaders who can turn around schools full of low - income kids is usually the toughest challenge, and in Denver those making the choices have not always been on the same page.

To achieve scale with quality in Albany has required spending of about $ 500,000 per school for start - up grants, with an annual central office expense (for the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability and the Brighter Choice Foundation) of around $ 1 million.

As we move further into 2017 and beyond, it is clear to see that education around nutrition is set to grow steadily alongside a growing demand for lighter, healthier and lower - in - sugar snacks and vending machines in schools must ensure that their stock reflects this in order to provide greater choices.

He imagines an urban school system organized around five pillars: first, that great schools from all sectors are expanded and replicated; second, that persistently failing schools are closed; third, that new schools are continuously started; fourth, that there is a wide variety of schools and entities to authorize and oversee them; and finally, that families have choice between these schools.

The budget also called for a $ 1 billion increase in Title I in order to support school choice, a $ 250 million increase for Education Innovation and Research to build the evidence base around private school choice, and a $ 167 million increase for charter schools.

The nation's first modern private school choice program — in Milwaukee — has been around for more than 25 years.

While the first year of doctoral studies can be overwhelming, orientation provided an opportunity for students to learn more about conducting education research at Harvard and the various opportunities around campus, to meet faculty and administrators, and to be reassured that they had made the right choice to come to the Ed School.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could suschool children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could suSchool Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.

I keep winning the competitions to perform the most important private school choice evaluations around the country, and regularly publish my results in the very best scientific peer - reviewed policy journals (see,, and here), Ravitch's ad hominem attacks notwithstanding.

In a symbiotic and mutually reinforcing way, a robust public school choice system can help to attract young families to an urban area while an influx of young families can also create political momentum around more robust systems of public school choice.

In anticipation of this robust discussion around educational choice, here are my top 5 reasons why school choice is so important right now:

The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools; Real Leaders, Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds; Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed; School Accountability, Autonomy, and Choice Around the World; The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform

I'm biased; it's run by a friend, Kevin Teasley, who has been around the choice and charter schools movement for a long time, and once even dabbled in punditry and policy wonkery.

A recent Wall Street Journal article written by a high school student rejected from her top - choice colleges asked a controversial question that admissions officers have skirted around for years: If college admissions focus so much on diversity, are non-diverse students unfairly shunted to the side?