Sentences with phrase «about education reform issues»

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Forget about the fact that Nixon has worked hard on substantive issues like education and political reform.

In response to a letter the Cuomo administration directed at outgoing education commissioner John King and Board of Regents chair Merryl Tisch about introducing education «reforms» through the budget process, UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement questioning the governor's motives.

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.»

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

To be sure, mistakes were made: Not understanding the limitations or unintended consequences of federal leadership on education; a disastrous, ill - timed excursion into teacher evaluation reform; a technocratic impulse that was insufficiently sensitive to parents» concerns about issues like student privacy; and on and on.

«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.

To read more about the reforms occurring in New Orleans post-Katrina, read «New Schools in New Orleans,» from the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next.

I do not have a litmus test or require people who believe as I do about the necessity of reforming education to support all of my ideas and approaches to addressing these other critical issues.

Click here to learn more about New Mexico's education reform story, or, to learn more about teacher evaluation reform, read «The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, in Hindsight,» by Chad Aldeman from our Spring 2017 issue.

However, Levinson believes conversations about the plethora of ethical issues have been missing from the contemporary education reform debate.

Other than former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education and seems even more committed to reform than his brother was, and Lamar Alexander, another former governor who «gets» this issue and cares deeply about it, party leaders seem uncertain as to what needs to be done or how to go about it.

Winning states made bold promises about implementing the reforms they'd enacted, and Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, issued stern statements about their intention to pull dollars away from jurisdictions that fell short.

There are also issues about wider changes to education policy that are incongruent with the SEND reforms; notably those policies in the areas of accountability and assessment.

Gregoire and Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn jointly issued a self - congratulatory statement about pursuing education reform «our way, the Washington way.»

Please consider joining me at these upcoming events to hear about and talk about the Common Core SBAC Testing Scheme and other «Education Reform» Issues

Scathing Purple Musings has a great blog heavy on Florida issues but important for anyone concerned about education reform.

However, within current conversations about education reform, accountability has become an issue of contention.

Because discussions about teacher pay rarely reference these data, the policy debate on education reform has proceeded without a clear understanding of these issues.

With the regular Texas legislative session about one - third complete, the battle lines in public education are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reforeducation are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education ReforEducation Reform (TIER).

While reasonable people can have different opinions about an issue as complex as «education reform,» we are left to wonder, yet again, just who are some of those «public servants» are actually advocating for?

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

Whitney Tilson and I are engaged in a pretty fierce debate about the key issues in education reform.

As the DFER - TN state director, in 2013 Kamrani will focus on educating Tennesseans about the stance of their local and national Democratic leadership on education reform issues.

Sarah Darer Littman goes on to explain more about Malloy's «two - faced» approach when it comes to the issue of «education reform» and «social justice reform.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

«As charters take hold in our communities, questions will be raised about the quality issue,» said Harrison Blackmond, who heads Michigan's arm of Democrats for Education Reform.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

I was sure that he didn't believe all that stuff about «the civil rights issue of our time,» but he felt it had to be said to make us all swallow the bitter pill of «education reform.»

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

He has been with the Washington Post since 1971, and for many of those years he has written about education issues, often arguing for sensible reforms.

We invite everyone to come learn more about our organization, the issues we address, and how to connect with people that are working to reform education like you.

School reformers have rushed to push through huge changes in public education in recent years without sufficient thought about the reforms themselves, implementation issues and unintended consequences.

Aside from voting favorably for the interest rate reform in 2013, Bill Posey does not focus on college affordability issues, but he has quite a bit to say about the spending of the Department of Education.

Her goal is to reform the entire legal system by helping as many people as possible to understand their general rights, encouraging individuals to be proactive about legal issues, increasing access to justice for low and middle income individuals, and providing education to the community so that re-entering individuals can have seamless and successful returns to the community.

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