Sentences with phrase «among education reformers»

A major debate among education reformers over how best to reduce the achievement gap broke out during the 2008 presidential campaign.

This used to be a universally recognized and supported idea among education reformers.

There is increasing agreement among education reformers that critical thinking is an essential ingredient for long - term success for all of our students.

The Midwestern governor had become a darling among education reformers for making school choice and quality teaching his top priorities.

The divide among education reformers over how much regulation and oversight are needed for school choice to work is highlighted as reformers react to Betsy DeVos's nomination as education secretary.

In Savage Inequalities he attempts to rebut what is perhaps the most popular critique among education reformers — that over the past 30 years there has been a doubling in real dollars in education spending and no significant progress in education achievement measured in test scores or graduation rates.

Attention to soft skills among education reformers is presently skewed towards attempts to enhance and measure broad student dispositions that are abstract, context - free, not directly observable, assessed through self - report questionnaires, and dominated by genetic influences.

There's a tendency among education reformers and economists who study data on teacher effectiveness to say, «See, teacher effectiveness varies dramatically from one teacher to another, even in the same school.

It is common among education reformers to describe the country's current education crisis as «the civil - rights issue of our time.»

The report adds cold, hard data to what has long been known among education reformers and the high - achieving charter schools they champion: Getting low - income «first - generation» kids into college is hard.

The selection of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education has exposed longstanding tensions among education reformers who are united in their support for expanding educational choice but divided over the government's role in regulating such programs.

As this new sobriety over the issues animating Trump supporters, if not Trump himself, settles in, I'm hoping for a parallel rethinking among education reformers.

Such quotes were bound to circulate among education reformers and give traditional opponents of school choice, such as teachers unions, heartburn.

The data - driven approach resonates with Wall Street but remains controversial among education reformers.

A flurry of activity among education reformers across the country exposes a growing bifurcation within its ranks, uncovered by recent challenges to teacher tenure in New York.

«Disruption» — the philosophy that's worked its way through so many industries — has become a buzzword among education reformers.

«Transformation was a popular word among education reformers,» she writes.

While Perry has been outspoken against the Common Core, he and his education commissioner have pulled the quality of Texas tests up to a level respected among education reformers.

His use of the word «paternalism» sparked a raucous debate among education reformers and reform critics about «No Excuses» schools like KIPP, Amistad Academy, and Cristo Rey.

RH: It's been quite a year for school choice, what with Trump's presidency, the criticism of Secretary DeVos, and stark divides among education reformers.

he attempts to rebut what is perhaps the most popular critique among education reformers — that over the past 30 years there has been a doubling in real dollars in education spending and no significant progress in education achievement measured in test scores or graduation rates.

Mr. Hirsch's ideas were long dismissed as encouraging a reactionary cultural tradition, but they are now beginning to command new respect among education reformers.

«The ouster of Bridgeport superintendent Paul Vallas has become a «cause celebre» among education reformers, who claim it is part of a broader conspiracy to perpetuate the «status quo.»