Sentences with phrase «advancing systemic reform»

If anything, the administration's latest moves confirm what your editor pointed out over the past seven months: That the federal government — especially the Department of Education — can no longer be trusted to play a role in advancing systemic reform.

After all, No Child is just the first step in advancing systemic reform and not the end - all.

But we need to step up on advancing systemic reform so that all families can provide their children with the high - quality education they need and deserve.

The second: That Common Core's promise as a key solution in advancing systemic reform is only achievable if its standards and goals are linked to — and reinforced by — common accountability systems.

In fact, it allows for Romney and conservative and Republican reformers acting as surrogates for his campaign to make a strong case that neither Obama nor Duncan are fit to take on the tough task of advancing systemic reform from the federal level; given that swing states such as Virginia have been granted waivers despite their poor records on advancing reform, they can even argue that the waivers are politically - motivated by the president's re-election concerns (even though there is no evidence of this).

Now the Democratic National Committee must show that it is strong on advancing systemic reform.

But they better get to work advancing systemic reform at the state level.

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

In his latest essay, Smarick takes a wrong turn by arguing that it is time for what he calls an «energized retrenchment» that involves scaling back the federal role in advancing systemic reform embraced since the 1980s by Ronald Reagan and his successors.

All in all, counterproductive to advancing systemic reform that our children need and deserve so they can be connected to brighter futures.

Sure, as your editor has long explained ad nauseam, the No Child waiver gambit is a grand misadventure that is damaging efforts at advancing systemic reform.

Given the role of NEA and AFT affiliates as prime campaign financiers of state legislative campaigns, along with the fact that districts are often the centers of political power in southern states, the federal lever is critical to advancing systemic reform.

But as RiShawn Biddle says, there can be no denying that this lawsuit «is another important step in developing new strategies for advancing systemic reform.»

Centrist Democrats, in particular, are worried that civil rights - and progressive reformers will drive out conservatives in the movement (as well as White moderates such as themselves), weakening long - term support for advancing systemic reform.

But it is what he deserves for weakening the accountability that is key to advancing systemic reform for our children.

Instead, it is about an important lesson reformers should be learning today from Doug Jones» victory yesterday over the notorious Roy Moore in yesterday's Alabama U.S. Senate special election: The need to rally poor and minority communities in advancing systemic reform to help all children.

And Parent Trigger laws can help advance systemic reform by addressing an aspect of education that many reformers, especially those from white households that aren't religious, don't have to consider.

Anyone expecting the Obama Administration to further advance its education policy agenda — or advance systemic reform — shouldn't stop their wishful thinking.

Because of this flexibility, which states have figured out how to game since No Child signed 13 years ago, reformers in states still under its provisions must work as hard as in waiver states to advance systemic reform.

But if reformers are looking to actually advance systemic reform, they need to spend less time in the Beltway and more in the nation's statehouses, where much of the action on education will play out.

But they still haven't figured out how to mobilize communities and families to help advance systemic reform.

Jackson in particular has done almost nothing to advance systemic reform in his own hometown, and has offered little in the way of ideas on how to end an educational crisis that condemns half of all young black men to the economic and social abyss.

Since taking office three years ago, McDonnell has been reluctant to aggressively leverage his political capital (and general popularity) to advance systemic reform.

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

The McKay voucher scandal is an important opportunity for choice supporters and school reformers altogether to advance systemic reform.

Parent Trigger laws can help advance systemic reform by addressing an aspect of education that many reformers, especially those from white households, don't have to consider.

The reality has become increasingly clear that Clinton will not advance systemic reform if she wins entry into the Oval Office.

Not exact matches

The second intellectual model for state standards and testing, referred to as «systemic reform,» was advanced by Marshall «Mike» Smith, who later became Undersecretary of Education in the Clinton Administration.

More importantly, the accountability provisions have proven to be useful to reformers, as well as reform - minded policymakers, researchers, and families in advancing the systemic overhaul of American public education.

These days, Hess seems to be more - obsessed with making «bold» and «contrarian» pronouncements that do little to advance much - needed systemic reform than the rigorous, thoughtful scholarship on education issues that once were his stock and trade.

Her platform, which included the embrace of education traditionalism (symbolized by her close working relationship with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have voted for her.

With 149,817 more fourth - graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels, systemic reform efforts focused on stemming achievement gaps have also helped children from the middle class and high - performing students as by those who have been given the worst American public education provides.

I have spent the past 24 years seeking to advance systemic education reform for all learners and families.