Sentences with phrase «as an education reform»

As an education reform strategy, federal regulation is dead.

As far as the education reform industry is concerned, there are two standards of Accountability.

In policy terms, the education reform book is dead, even as education reform thrives.

Our approach to school and district transformation is built on a strong foundation of theory and research, as well as nearly 25 years of experience as an education reform organization.

As education reform continues to be a topic of debate across the country, more attention is being focused on charter school accountability and results.

The need for new markers is expected to increase over the next few years as education reforms place more emphasis on exams as opposed to coursework.

It's been a long time since a politician pronounced trust as an education reform policy.

Tell me again how THAT qualifies as education reform?

While the governor's positions are frequently embraced by Republicans and what has become known as the education reform movement, it is difficult to say whether they would hurt Mr. Cuomo, who is widely seen as having presidential aspirations, among Democrats nationally.

While the governor's positions are frequently embraced by Republicans and what has become known as the education reform movement, it is difficult to say whether they would hurt Mr. Cuomo, who is widely seen as having presidential aspirations, among Democrats nationally.

The Community Guidebook also addresses other important issues such as education reform, school transformation, Common Core State Standards, multiple pathways to graduation and the importance of quality out - of - school opportunities.

As we mark the silver anniversary of the first charter law, it is worth looking back at the ideas that spurred the movement, the evolution of the concept and rationales for charters, and the status of charters as an education reform today.

As a sponsor, you will hear directly from a teacher about students» progress and her first - hand experience as an education reform leader.

«The Senate supports enhanced disclosure to ensure transparency and accountability in government, and will modify the Governor's ethics proposals, as well as the education reform initiatives advanced as part of the Executive budget,» the Republican conference stated.

As education reform initiatives continue to advance, the responsibility for rearing educated citizens will increasingly broaden as well.

The reception comes at the same time as an education reform retreat in Lake Placid, of which Cuomo was named an «honorary chairman.»

The reception comes at the same time as an education reform retreat in Lake Placid, of which Cuomo was named an «honorary chairman.»

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

During his first term, Gov. Bryant was a strong proponent of school choice measures including the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act and the Charter Schools Act of 2013, as well as education reform legislation including A-F grading for schools and school districts and the Literacy Based Promotion Act of 2013.

This issue examines the ideas that spurred the charter school movement, the evolution of the concept and rationales behind them, and their current status as an education reform.

Some Tory voices want a new coalition agreement, focusing on such areas as education reform, welfare, and tax cuts for low earners; others want out, and fast.

The fact is that the unproven, business - model, and privatization practices they propose as education reforms have no chance of being adopted as an «integrated system,» especially in the present political climate.

Better still, under each heading the authors offer a handful of «propositions» that, in their judgment, support the data, such as «Across - the - board teacher salary increases may not stand alone as an education reform solution»; or «Summer school gives clear evidence that accountability is changing the way we educate.»

Charter schools have been traditionally been seen as an education reform effort championed by conservatives.

When the numbers result in a Blue State: Red State ratio of 9:1, one suspects, with even more than 90 percent confidence, that RttT is as much or more a partisan boondoggle as an education reform strategy.

Previously known as Advocates for School Choice, AFC rebranded itself in March 2010 and also joined with the Alliance for School Choice, which was previously known as the Education Reform Council.

With a smaller crowd than predicted, at just 3,000 people, teachers and anti-reform advocates rallied to protest everything from No Child Left Behind, to standardized tests, and everything in between somehow labeled as education reform.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

CHICAGO — As education reform takes hold, we find ourselves traveling through another dimension — one not only of hysterics but also of childish behavior.

By Rosemary Carey, Michigan Education Association In just a short period of time, Romulus Middle School went from being one of the 108 Michigan schools labeled «Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools» to the center of national attention as an education reform...

We hope that going forward, Wisconsin will once again reclaim their position as an education reform leader» noted Moralez.

(Hames is Deal's former ed adviser who has now hung out a shingle as an education reform consultant.

If you genuinely don't believe in the use of extensive testing as the education reform movement does to judge schools, then don't base your «debatable» on test scores to judge his school.

School reconstitution as an education reform strategy: A synopsis of the evidence.

, The future of school integration: Socioeconomic diversity as an education reform strategy (pp. 1 — 26).

The school commission's response is built on the same logic as the education reform legislation President Bush steered through Congress last year: It trades greater flexibility for tougher accountability.

In other words, in order for Student Voice to live up to it's true potential as an education reform movement, there needs to be a broader buy - in that goes beyond the student and classroom level; school leaders and administrators need to get on board and support these initiatives.

Charter schools are an important educational model to consider as the education reform debate proceeds — but Achievement First does a great disservice to the charter school effort when it makes claims that something is a FACT when it is not.

The reading passage was about the alleged superiority of charters as education reform and named a fictitious «multi-millionaire» who sends his own children to a charter.

Broader questions remain on school aid, however, even as education reforms such as teacher evaluation criteria are no longer linked to funding.

Careening down the wrong path as Education Reform Industry spends more money to buy public policy

This issue of Policy Priorities examines the ideas that spurred the charter school movement, the evolution of the concept and rationales behind charters, and their current status as an education reform.

The Community Guidebook also addresses other important issues such as education reform, school transformation, Common Core State Standards, multiple pathways to graduation and the importance of quality out - of - school opportunities.

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.

Backers of what is known as the education reform movement embrace charter schools because the flexibility inherent in their structure is said to allow innovation.

There is growing consensus in the charter school sector that the success of chartering as an education reform will be measured not by the number of schools in operation (as was the...

Legislators across the state have heard from, and will continue to hear loudly from, educators about what is referred to as education reforms.

When Mr. Fulop takes office on July 1, Jersey City could join New York City, Newark and Bridgeport, Conn., as another local laboratory for a national movement known as education reform that emphasizes tougher standards for teachers, uses test scores to grade schools and educators and promotes alternatives such as charter schools.