Sentences with phrase «about high school reforms»

She was glad to hear the chancellor talk about high school reforms because she is beginning to think about her son's future.

Sizer's contrasting portraits of schools offer powerful evidence of what needs to be changed and how much is possible when educators get serious about high school reform.

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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.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Although a varied and massive array of programs comprise the Harlem Children's Zone, its charter schools have garnered perhaps the most attention, particularly in the context of controversial New York City school reforms and the larger conversation in the education world about high - stakes tests, charters, and No Child Left Behind.

Feldman told members this morning during a live Webcast from the AFT's 76th annual convention in Philadelphia that she is concerned about those students who have not benefited from high standard reforms in their early school years and now lack the basic literacy and math skills they need.

«So this is improvement in writing, in reading and numeracy off of a high base, but the writing results are of course really a worry and I'll be talking to state and territory ministers as part of our school reforms about how we can turn that around.»

And by the end of the legislative session, he got just about everything he wanted in a school reform plan: expansion of charter schools, private school vouchers, and college scholarships for students who graduate high school early.

«We were all interested in district - level reforms and thought why not form a team and see how we could do in a high pressure, interesting situation with people who know a lot about urban school districts,» Spears explains.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

However, the highest barrier to the engagement of teachers in education reform comes from conservatives who believe that teacher unions shouldn't be involved in substantive decisions about the direction of school reform.

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First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

President George W. Bush started things off in January, when he delivered a ringing address at a suburban D.C. high school about the urgency of reforming American high schools and offered a bold $ 1.5 billion plan for doing so.

Considering all the impediments to wholesale high - school reform and the absence of true consensus as to the nature and urgency of the problem, I conclude that diversity and experimentation are a reasonable way to proceed in mid-decade, rather than pressing for elusive agreement about a single national strategy.

A number of forward looking cities have set aside contentious debates about charter schools, and have instead chosen to embrace high - quality charter schools in their reform strategies.

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She's truly inspiring,» Nelson says of Mhiripiri - Reed, the former principal of Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minn. «We look forward to staying in close touch with her to learn more about the program and its role in education reform,» one of the foundation's priorities.

Another way to frame the question is to ask how either type of reform might change the expected wage for students who were uncertain about whether they would be high - school graduates.

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So, it is frustrating to discover within this survey, posted on the website of the School Choice Campaign, a flagship project of the Centre for Civil Society to bring about reforms in schools in India, a high rate of attrition among teachers in the developing world, which averages about 19 % across the countries studied.

The money was put up as a prize for the states most serious about retooling their schools for high performance; Washington could barely budge the needle on the Obama administration's reform meter.

«A bipartisan bill will not have everything that everyone wants, but it must build on our common interests: high standards; flexibility for states, school districts and schools; and a more focused federal role that promotes equity, accountability and reform,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement about Harkin's bill Tuesday.

However, it's only part of the story, and if we are serious about reforming our high schools, we need a more complete picture in order to determine if this is a success story worth praising and, where possible, replicating.

Finland's high - achieving public school system is now part of the conversation about U.S. education reform these days.

NEW YORK — The recent resignations of high - profile school chiefs Joel Klein in New York and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., raise questions about the future of education reform at a time when school districts across the U.S. are adopting policies the two icons of change pioneered.

As part of a high school reform initiative, 10th grade English language arts teachers and literacy coaches worked with a data coach to define essential questions about students» reading performance.

«Driven by the small schools movement, more attention started to go to reforming high schools about six or seven years ago.

Winston graduates successfully attended other private and public high schools, but education reform in Texas prompted parents to ask about a college preparatory high school curriculum that addressed learning disabilities.

NEW YORK — The recent resignations of high - profile school chiefs Joel Klein in New York and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., raise questions about the future of education reform at...

Hearing these divergent voices helps us understand better what different groups mean when they talk about school reform: policymakers and business leaders want new skills and higher standards; parents in disadvantaged communities worry about their children's lack of hope and eroding values; teachers and principals want the central office to take their concerns seriously; students want schools to be more respectful and engaging.

We've created a system that allows them to validate that,» says Gene Bottoms, executive director of High Schools That Work, a reform effort now in about 1,000 schools in 30 Schools That Work, a reform effort now in about 1,000 schools in 30 schools in 30 states.

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how «last chance» high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform.

Ryan Richman: I teach at Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow, N.H., and it's wonderful to see you again, Madam Secretary... We've seen in this cycle especially a lot of talk about education, education reform, by a lot of the different candidates, everything from repealing Common Core, to college affordability.

A nationally recognized expert and practitioner in both school reform and the education of immigrant and English language learners, Claire is passionate about providing all students but particularly immigrant students, with personalized and cutting edge deep, high quality learning opportunities.

Recommendations include the need to: 1) consider school closure in the context of a larger reform effort; 2) develop a supply of higher - performing school options; 3) clearly explain to the public how current students will benefit; 4) provide support to families and students during the transition; and 5) provide staff members with clear information about next steps.

The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.

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Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

This new offering is perfectly timed to guide the national debates about dropout prevention, out - of - school - time programs, high school reforms, and expanding learning opportunities for young people.

When asked about Atlanta, noted school reform apostate Diane Ravitch pointed the finger at the federal No Child Left Behind law, saying that, when high - stakes incentives are attached to test scores, we are «virtually inviting» teachers to cheat.

As high school principals, we are deeply concerned about the direction of the Regents reform agenda, especially in regard to evaluating teachers using test scores.

The choices for him are either agreeing with the «reform» line (charter schools everywhere, no unions, high - stakes testing) or not caring about kids.

The effect is large: Finance reforms raise achievement in the lowest - income school districts by about one - tenth of a standard deviation, closing about one - fifth of the gap between high - and low - income districts.

Obviously, a complete reform of student loans would be nice, but for high schoolers looking at colleges right now, that helps about as much as a kick in the teeth.

A group of survivors of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School who refer to themselves as the «mass - shooting generation» have made it their mission to bring about gun reform

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