Sentences with phrase «about the education reform movement»

Bradford says these are the families that may have the most to gain from additional education options and may be the ones most eager to learn more about the education reform movement.

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You've written in the New York Times Magazine about the education - reform movement — organizations like Teach for America and the KIPP network of charter schools.

That it's long; — RRB - In all seriousness that movie really captured the education reform movement in New Jersey right as it was about to crest.

As everyone knows, Kevin Carey has a long essay in The New Republic about Diane Ravitch's apostasy of the education reform movement, much of it fair and on point.

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

When I became involved in education reform more than two decades ago, the movement was about empowering parents to make choices for their own children rather than having choices made for them by well - meaning but distant bureaucrats and professionals.

Although more work remains if we are to fully understand this complex education reform «movement,» a growing body of data and research is being compiled about its strengths, weaknesses, and impact.

, spoke at HGSE's Askwith Forum about the global education reform movement.

With Republicans waiting to pounce on anything that looked like further expansion of the federal government, Clinton used the second education summit, in 1996, to make clear that the education reform movement wasn't about enforcing federal standards on the states.

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.

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

In these uncertain economic times where American families put an ever - higher premium on a good education, and with nagging doubts about flaws in funding in the public education system, the education reform movement has become a red - hot button.

She celebrates 20 years of reform movement success, but never tempers such self - congratulatory narcissism with unpleasant questions about why those who have no interest in disrupting the American class structure — such as Bill Gates and the heirs to Sam Walton's fortunes, by far the most generous education reform philanthropists — are so keen to support the TFA insurgency.

At worst, it's a Trojan horse for all that is unseemly about the contemporary education reform movement.

Corporate education reform foe Diane Ravitch will visit Madison next month and activists are using the occasion to inform local citizens about the movement to privatize schools.

This so - called reform movement is all about accountability but no one seems to be responsible for the education stifled and careers ruined by NCLB, not to mention the billions of dollars wasted.

Stephanie Simon, of Reuters News, has written extensively about the «education reform» movement, including articles about Connecticut's new «reform» law.

His straight - talk about the absurdity of America's test obsession, failure to meet or even acknowledge the needs of an increasingly diverse student population, and a «reform» movement that has reformed nothing, failed at much and distracted from students» very real needs is a telling portal on what's really going on in American education today.

Education writer Andrew Rotherham speculated in Time this week about the current data analysis «trend» that is sweeping the education reform Education writer Andrew Rotherham speculated in Time this week about the current data analysis «trend» that is sweeping the education reform education reform movement.

Baraka «tapped into misgivings about the previous mayor,» now U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who had turned Newark's schools into «a laboratory for the education reform movement.»

Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama about the inappropriate use of standardized testing and the failings of the corporate education reform movement.

If there is one article to read about Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and the rise of the corporate education reform movement in Connecticut, this is the one.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

With every passing day, it is becoming increasingly apparent that «education reform» isn't about providing children with the quality education they need and deserve to live more fulfilling lives in the 21st Century, but a way for the individuals and companies associated with the education reform movement to get rich off taxpayers at the national, state and school district level.

Parents are slowly learning about one of the most disturbing and, quite frankly, scary elements of the education reform movement....

Jeanne Allen, president of the Washington - based Center for Education Reform, spoke to an audience of school leaders, education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North Education Reform, spoke to an audience of school leaders, education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North CarReform, spoke to an audience of school leaders, education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North Carreform in North Carolina.

This results in much EEF research into effective approaches to learning being ignored by our government because it does not conform to the ideology of the Global Education Reform movement (GERM) that is the source of the degradation of your school system that Nancy writes about.

Survey results show progressive stances toward education reforms, particularly with regard to school choice, technology, teacher preparation, leadership, and collective bargaining.Following the release of the survey, AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner penned an opinion editorial about the changing teacher sentiments and the disconnect between teacher unions and the growing non-union teacher movement.

Education blogger Anthony Cody has written about scams rife in the corporate reform movement, citing librarians as an antidote to destructive policies.