Sentences with phrase «about school bureaucracies»

One hears little in this book about school bureaucracies and the difficulties they create for education reformers.

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A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

In about 120 seconds, Benjamin set the stage for 120 minutes of heartfelt denunciations of outcomes - based education, federal education programs, and school bureaucracies.

In graduate school, I spent a lot of time thinking about educational politics, policy, and bureaucracy.

If we can wrap our minds around this core proposition — that accountability is about outcomes, not inputs, practices, curriculum, staffing arrangements, budgets, uses of time, etc. — and the related proposition that families have the right to choose the schools they think best for their daughters and sons, we can save ourselves an awful lot of grief, not to mention many regulations and much bureaucracy.

I wrote about the danger of hasty generalization in one of my earliest scientific publications, on the subject of representative bureaucracy and schools.

If we care about equity in our public schools, we need to stop looking at which bureaucracy is administering and instead look at who the school is serving and how well those kids are doing.

Many educators and policy makers are concerned about the potential bureaucracy needed to administer such a program and a possible loss of public school funding.

It would also help you out to ask our school leaders about networks, superintendent offices, consultants, Tweed, and if all that money being diverted to these levels of bureaucracies could be better used in the schools.

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»