Sentences with phrase «about education reform»

The book tails off a bit at the end, but still a very good read for anyone who is passionate about education reform in urban school districts.

With the arrival of the new federal competition, Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, early childhood programs are finally getting a seat at the table in conversations about education reform.

The point is — there's a lot of talk about education reform right now.

He believes that educators need to be the primary voices at the table in discussions about education reform, with places also for students and parents.

Although I do feel passionate about education reform, the outcomes of these battles aren't actually related to my reasons for teaching.

You know this when their debates about education reform are centered around teacher rights, and not student rights.

But I had a lot of concerns about education reforms taking place in our state — in fact, I was angry.

He does not have any idea about education reform.

But, her most significant achievement was that she shifted dialogue in the country about education reform.

«If we are serious about education reform, one thing that must be on the table is compensation,» he said.

Learn the facts about education reform policy and share your knowledge with others.

I think what I keep hoping is that conversations about law reform can be more productive than the conversations I've been engaged in for 20 years about education reform.

«He's serious as a heart attack about education reform,» the ally said.

By eighth grade she was writing essays about education reform.

I've written before about education reform's love for all things new.

It is another «must read» article in the ongoing battle to reveal the truth about the education reform industry.

A common complaint about education reform is the slow pace with which it takes place.

I'd say that everyone I know who is passionate about education reform is motivated by the desire to eradicate poverty.

There are people on the left and the right who have voiced concern about education reform.

An important incentive driving the nonprofits to become curriculum publishers was not the money, but the chance to spread their ideas about education reform to more schools.

And I really asked them two questions: What do you think about education reform in New Orleans, and what do you think about black people's role in it?

We hope you will make use of the information on this site, and use GEO as a resource when you share information about education reform with your community.

Bradford says these are the families that may have the most to gain from additional education options and may be the ones most eager to learn more about the education reform movement.

In my experience Rhee changed the conversation about education reform from one of a very big and gloomy confusion created by the No Child Left Behind Act that all public schools are failing to one about her.

In fact, just last year, the union boss stepped in it big time when, speaking about education reform at an AFT conference, she said,

What can Americans learn about education reform from the Swedish experiment?

New York Sen. John Flanagan, center, with Sens. John DeFrancisco and David Valesky, attend a state Senate Education Committee hearing about education reforms at city hall in Syracuse, N.Y., on October 1, 2013.

NG: Every scientist ought to be a citizen two or three days a year and see their two senators and see their House member, as citizens, and legitimately represent their beliefs about science and their beliefs about research investment and their beliefs about education reform.

HGSE Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth, in collaboration with Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will teach one of the first courses about education reform to ever be taught at the undergraduate general education level, Taking a Stand: Dilemmas of Equity and Excellence in American K — 12 Education.

As a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, he wrote extensively about education reform, becoming one of its chief advocates in the Florida media.

In response to the standardized test hubbub and the political spin coming out of the Governor and Commissioner of Education, the Connecticut Post, which has become Connecticut's primary newspaper to provide meaningful editorial commentary about the education reform movement observed;

When reading about education reform (coded language for privatization), it is easy to fall into a deep, dark pit of despair.

Moe, who has been writing about education reform for more than two decades, argued last year that «The teachers unions are the raw power behind the politics of blocking [education accountability reform].

On Monday, December 9, leading education strategist Sir Michael Barber led a discussion for nearly 150 policymakers, researchers, educators, and business leaders at the Harvard Graduate School of Education about the education reform agenda in Massachusetts.

The project aims to influence the national conversation about education reform by making the educational standards set by states more visible — explicitly connecting standards with student work that is characterized by depth, complexity, and imagination.

ALBANY — Between the lines of a Thursday letter from a top Cuomo administration aide to state education leaders about education reform was a plan to overhaul the Board of Regents.

I refer to a recent letter about education reform sent by Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch to Gov. Cuomo's office.

How can it be that a man too dumb to know that he's comparing apples and oranges is lecturing New Yorkers about education reform?

Carol Burris, New York's 2013 High School Principal of the Year, has been talking to Zephyr Teachout about education reform and her potential primary challenge to Cuomo.

New York Education Commissioner John King Jr.'s office is looking at alternative ways to engage with parents about education reforms after canceling a series of forums following a raucous meeting in Poughkeepsie.

In this edition of the EdCast, Malone, director of institutional advancement at the Institute for Educational Leadership, discusses the collaborative process of editing a book with diverse authors who have varying opinions about education reform.

«I'm often asked why I spend so much time on this issue,» says Tilson, in a recent post, writing about his education reform obsession.