Sentences with phrase «about education reform initiatives»

Districts may launch programs to tell students about education reform initiatives simply to claim students know about what they are going through while they are going through it, without allowing students to say anything critical or otherwise respond substantively.

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Some years ago, when AAAS launched an effort to reform science education, it said that true reform will take about as long as Halley's Comet's orbital period [of about 76 years]-- that's why they labeled their initiative Project 2061.

I became aware of this fact some years ago, when I started writing about education issues and found that every reform initiative I read about — standards, testing, whatever — referred me back to a seminal text entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

I also oversee about 200 employees at our state education agency, and we are in the midst of major initiatives and reforms.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

What started as an exciting interest in public charter school performance eventually evolved into work at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational choice and reform initiatives in K — 12 education.

Jason is a senior fellow at Bellwether Education Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, anEducation Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, aneducation reform initiatives, governance, innovation, and talent.

posted Madison Superintendent Thomas Scarice's letter to legislators about the fundamental flows associated with Connecticut's «education reform» initiative and what Connecticut's students, teachers and public schools really needed from state government.

For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.

Thoughtfully constructed standards guide education reform initiatives by providing consensus about what students should learn and what skills they should acquire.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

During the question and answer period following Malloy's talk, Jennifer Alexander, the CEO of ConnCAN and co-founder of A Better Connecticut, the corporate education reform lobbying group, tossed Malloy a soft - ball question about the town meetings Malloy held around the state to promote his education reform initiative in 2012.

In his book As Good as It Gets (2010), education reformer Larry Cuban talks about the difficulty of sustaining even the most innovative reforms, let alone starting universal initiatives.