Sentences with phrase «as education reformers»

One would think Democrats who identify themselves as education reformers would fight for immigrants in state houses and in Congress.

«As education reformers, it is important to strive to innovate education so every child in our country can compete in the 21stcentury with the rest of the world.

This does not mean that as education reformers we have to abdicate having an agenda.

Support Betsy DeVos For Secretary Of Education January 2, 2017 by Grant Callen As education reformers and school choice supporters, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to express support for one of our own to become the U.S. Secretary of Education.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

FERA would seal their fates as education reformers when Virginia Gilder, then the wife of one of their major political reform benefactors, Wall Street financier Richard Gilder, asked Carroll what she could do to help fix the schools.

That is the case in 2016, as education reformers struggle with the meaning of choice and opportunity two decades after founding the first charter schools and voucher programs.

As chair of the Education Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the air.

Significantly, neither of them likely views himself as an education reformer since their work is not specific to a particular setting, demographic, or type of school.

It matters a great deal whether these claims are true not simply because the truth matters, but because DeVos was nominated due to her record as an education reformer.

Indeed, as an education reformer, I find the survey encouraging.

Eager to showcase his compassion, he drew upon his record as an education reformer in Texas to make the case for educational accountability.

After a tenure that earned him a reputation as an education reformer, Vallas was replaced in 2001 by Arne Duncan, who later became U.S. Secretary of Education.

The article focuses on Vergara's guiding light — David Welch, a tech titan who has found a second career as an education reformer.

Brill is a fan of Shanker as an education reformer (and says nice things about my biography of Shanker), but throughout the book, Brill unfortunately voices much of same class bias reflected by NEA members.

While President George W. Bush left office with an uncertain education legacy — his signature initiative, No Child Left Behind, has had mixed results — Governor Bush of Texas achieved genuine success as an education reformer, and the state's schools still bear the mark of his influence.

Not exact matches

Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the conservative resistance they met in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.

To reformers it seemed that colleges had to be freed from clerical control, and hence usually from traditional Christianity, in order to achieve something that we take for granted — the emergence of higher education as a separate profession, distinct from the role of clergy.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

At a press conference Wednesday Mayor de Blasio was asked whether Governor Cuomo's characterization of mayoral control of schools as an «experiment» and his proposal that mayoral control be renewed for a shortened three year period «raises questions about whether or not he's a true reformer on education.»

Cuomo is headlining a three - day Adirondack education retreat in May billed as a «philosopher's camp for education reformers.»

As Tory MPs showed their support for the former education secretary by giving him a warm welcome at meeting of the backbench 1922 Committee, Vine tweeted a link to the article which described her husband as a more remarkable reformer than Margaret ThatcheAs Tory MPs showed their support for the former education secretary by giving him a warm welcome at meeting of the backbench 1922 Committee, Vine tweeted a link to the article which described her husband as a more remarkable reformer than Margaret Thatcheas a more remarkable reformer than Margaret Thatcher.

ALBANY — Pro-charter school education reformers and the real estate industry emerged as the big winners Tuesday night when New York voters elected a majority of Republicans to the State Senate, leaving teachers» unions and tenants» rights advocates worried about what the next two years will bring.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association and a nationally recognized labor official, civic leader and reformer, said to Feerick: «As a community district leader for many years, you have demonstrated a strong commitment to fighting for affordable housing, to creating a better education system, quality health care, and achieving economic stability.

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

Now a materials scientist and a science education reformer at Yale University, Ramirez appreciates Lady Liberty as much more than an iconic tourist destination.

All the reformers such as SCODA (the Standing Conference On Drug Abuse) and the Prison Reform Trust favour it, provided clear education is given on how to use it.

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Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.

Prominent education historian Diane Ravitch, for example, has gone so far as to allege that reformers are waging a «war on teachers» that threatens to undermine, rather than improve, teacher quality.

Most education reformers didn't see Illinois as ground zero for a major school - choice initiative.

As I observed last year in Letters, three decades as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn'As I observed last year in Letters, three decades as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn'as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn't.

Education reformers who are reflexively critical of DeVos are framing a narrow set of policies — the ones they prefer — as the very definition of «school choice,» «justice,» «morality,» or «accountability.»

Many have cited the series of accountability and choice reforms that Florida adopted between 1998 and 2006, under the leadership of Governor Jeb Bush, as the driving force behind the large and rapid improvement in student achievement (see «Advice for Education Reformers: Be Bold!»

The vignettes of teaching practice, the illustrations of any research that supports their efficacy, and the story of how well - networked reformers such as Deborah Ball (dean of the education school at the University of Michigan) and others learned from one another, are the best reasons to read the book.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacheEducation Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacheeducation reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

Supporters of this idea include math education reformers, civil right leaders such as Robert Moses, and even President Clinton during his time in office.

• The domain of student soft skills as conceptualized by most education reformers is dispersive.

As University of Arkansas Professor Jay P. Greene recently cautioned, education reformers must avoid «pursuing reforms that are likely to re-create the same dysfunctional system they oppose.»

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As Terry Moe documents in his recent book, Special Interest, for decades the politics of school reform have been dominated by the education establishment, the collection of teachers unions and other school employee associations derisively called the «blob» by reformers.

The legislature's leadership and commitment for the past six years, combined with Mayor Peterson's and Ball State University's ability to authorize charters (and willingness to do so), along with reform - minded superintendents such as Eugene White working to improve the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), demonstrate to the country's education reformers that Indianapolis is prime territory for innovation and investment.

But when David Steiner, a reformer's reformer, announced last week that he was giving up the reins as New York state's Commissioner of Education, the education world seemed to take a collective deeEducation, the education world seemed to take a collective deeeducation world seemed to take a collective deep breath.

And by coincidence I was lucky enough to spend some time with the popular two - term Florida governor (1999 — 2007) just last week as partEducation Next's «Conversation» series with important education reformers (see my conversations with John White, Whitney Tilson, and Chris Cerf).

«The American education system is not evidencing the «crisis» that modern corporate - minded education «reformers» are pushing as the very foundation for promoting CCSS and its assessments,» she writes.

Bringing in a «trust buster» to help reinvent a monopoly public school system was hailed by many education reformers (myself included) as a stroke of genius and more proof of Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to radical change.

Over the years, Steiner quietly built a reputation as a reformer's reformer, willing to challenge the education system's multiple vested interests — from the inside.

In this interview Mike Petrilli talks with Rick about the book, Shanker's fascinating life, his role as a union leader, and whether he deserves the mantle of «education reformer.»

It is hard to see what else the administration could have done, given the failure of Congress to make corrections itself, the manifest impossibility of carrying on with the law as written, and the protest that would have come from Democrats in Congress and the army of education reformers if the administration had simply settled for waivers.