Sentences with phrase «about school reform»

Too often, when people talk about school reform, they never look at how the facilities themselves affect education.

Support development of innovative practices and policies to help shift the conversation about school reform and how to respond to a markedly changing labor market.

You have an education school which has access to academics who've been responsible for cutting edge research, which is shaping how all of us policymakers and practitioners think about school reform.

«We think we're having a national debate about school reform, but we're actually having a national debate about labor law,» he said.

And then I said, because if the message that people take away from this was that you should be less aggressive about school reform, that is absolutely devastating to kids.

When the leadership team presented this visual representation at a planning meeting about school reform, all staff saw clearly how human resources were distributed.

She blogs frequently about school reform on this blog.

Although this was probably billed as a talk about school reform, it's mostly an argument about an approach to governing.

Remember the last time you were part of a conversation about school reform that was balanced, respectful of different perspectives and focused on finding common ground?

One of the central debates about school reform is whether or not school choice improves student outcomes.

If people think the results of this election mean that we should be less aggressive about school reform, then the children are the ones that will lose out.

It is the unfortunate fact about school reform stories that by the third or fourth year many of the reformers are off doing other things: they have gone on to graduate school, become administrators and consultants, and the like.

Pulitzer Prize - winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy Award - winning producer, Hedrick Smith answered questions about school reform and discussed his upcoming two hour prime time special, Making Schools Work, which aired on PBS on October 5, 2005.

In Santa Fe Susana Martinez, another first - term Republican governor, uses almost exactly the same words about school reform in New Mexico and similarly credits Jeb Bush.

Parents, initially skeptical about school reform efforts, or accustomed to thinking of them as concessions aimed largely at luring parochial and private school students back into a low - income, black - majority system, flocked to the new schools, even lining up in pre-dawn hours to assure a child's admission.

The Persuadable Public The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey asks if information changes minds about school reform By William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West

Local Schools Network provides a variety of current articles describing school issues, including discussions about the school reforms taking place in England.

On February 6, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the Ed School for the Askwith Forum, «Fighting the Wrong Education Battles,» at which he discussed either - or orthodoxies about school reform, including competing claims about the importance of in - school and out - of - school influences on student achievement, and the struggle to advance both a well - rounded curriculum and school accountability.

It's easy to be skeptical about school reform, because there have been so many efforts over so many years, all replete with their own jargon, and all producing still limited, and often unsuccessful, results.

The difference between the opinions of the uninformed group and those of each of these two groups provides clear estimates of the impacts of new student - performance information on public assessments of local schools and public views about school reform policies.

The Persuadable Public The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey asks if information changes minds about school reform By William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West Fall 2009

As for second place, four developments came close to sharing the red ribbon — the use of stimulus dollars to avoid layoffs (14 %), Florida Governor Charlie Crist's veto of merit pay and tenure reform (14 %), the release of Waiting for Superman and other high - profile movies about school reform (13 %), and the L. A. Times release of teacher performance data (12 %).

By Dr. Aaron Thompson: Discussions about school reform and underachievement often portray diversity as an issue to overcome.

What does research tell us about the nature and scope of philanthropic giving today, what have philanthropists learned about school reform, and what are the positive and negative aspects of philanthropy - fueled school reform?

Given their convictions about the severity of the constraints facing schools, both Murray and Rothstein have a defeatist attitude about school reform efforts.

«I think Obama and Duncan really care about school reform,» says Terry Moe, who teaches at Stanford and is the author of a timely new book, «Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools.»

Kirwan's lawsuit is part of a much - larger debate going on about school reform in the City of Angels.

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

Assistant Superintendent for Learning in Burlington Public Schools (MA), NASSP National Digital Principal Award Winner (2012), Former MA Assistant Principal of the Year, Led First 1:1 iPad High School Implementation In MA, Passionate about school reform and technology integration.

If you're going to do a show about school reform, perhaps you should not make general, and inaccurate, generalizations about the entire educational system.

What We've Forgotten About School Reform: Courtesy of Messrs. Tyack, Cuban, and Payne, September 21, 2017: If we're going to refashion a 19th - century model of schooling for the 21st century (and I think we need to), how we go about it will be at least as important as what we try to do.

To learn more about the rubber room, please read «Great Teachers in the Classroom,» a review, by Nathan Glazer, of a book by Steve Brill about school reform.

We recently conducted a podcast with Professor Heath Brown about The School Reform Landscape.

She has published extensively about school reform and regularly consults with federal, state and local policy leaders as well as practitioners.

Billionaires, state governors, businessmen, and charitable foundation officials have had their say about school reform, and have created the school choice and test - driven accountability movements.

Save Maine Schools is an interesting blog about issues relevant to everyone concerned about school reform.

We concluded our conversation, and then, in a private moment, she stated simply and eloquently what seems so difficult to say in the midst of the current politically correct public discourse about school reform: «If we claim our goal is to educated all children, we had better mean all children — not all children except the gifted.»

We hear this refrain almost every time there is an announcement about school reform or funding.

But the now - empty building at the corner Eighteenth Avenue and Livingston Street — slated perhaps to house a charter school but with only a custodian in attendance yesterday — presents a telling and complicated lesson about school reform.

Noted education leader Paul Vallas was in town Friday talking to local business leaders about school reform, and he plans to meet with District 150 officials sometime after Christmas.

For over a decade, Charles has worked in Ward 6 neighborhoods — helping bring about school reforms, working with small businesses, and improving our community.

Still, I reject much of the pessimism and age - old apathy about school reform.

Education Next is a scholarly journal published by the Hoover Institution that is committed to looking at hard facts about school reform.

«But if you look at the past decade and think about school reform movies or documentaries, not many of them had a broad reach,» Broy says.