Sentences with phrase «at education reform»

But I sincerely hope that any efforts at education reform in any state address the teaching colleges as well.

His Big Idea is that economic forces, especially inequality and poverty, largely determine the outcome of American social projects - including attempts at education reform.

With teachers leaving the profession in large numbers and a drop in candidates applying to teaching programs, it is time to take a fresh look at education reforms.

And to do that, it needs a seat at the table and especially at the education reform negotiating sessions that will be taking place behind closed doors over the next five months.

He supports a permanent state tax cap, delivered an $ 18 million increase in state education aid for 9th District schools in the recently approved state budget, and has also introduced legislation aimed at education reform and ending the reign of Common Core.

And of course, par for the course with these folks who love to throw shade at education reform groups while disclosing NONE of their own funding sources — they don't talk about where the funding comes from for the new endeavor, but let's see what we can piece together.

Throughout the program, fellows also have a chance to analyze issues and problems on deeper levels by getting involved with case - based «think tank» seminars, including one led by Reimers that is looking at education reform in Brazil, among other «cutting - edge education challenges and solutions,» he says.

Fred LeBrun says Cuomo faces a significant backlash if his latest effort at education reform fails.

Driven by anger at education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children home from school, rather than sit for state tests.

Researchers at Education Reform Now used the most recent data collected by the U.S. Department of Education through the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey and Beginning Postsecondary Student survey.

Other children are captured in broader looks at education reform concepts: «Failing Schools or Failing Paradigm?»

The story behind the story isn't clear yet but the CEO of Mass Insight did come down to «facilitate» a panel at an education reform conference Malloy sponsored in 2012 and despite running a company based outside of Connecticut, the same CEO submitted legislative testimony in favor of Malloy's «education reform» legislation.

Randi Weingarten of the AFT responded to the suit by taking potshots at the education reform group that helped file the claims.

There may not really have been anything on the line at the Education Reform Idol event in Washington — other than a trophy the organizers had bought on Craigslist, that is, and the title of «Reformiest State 2011» from the right - leaning Fordham Institute.

«While our recent efforts at education reform have yielded some great successes in certain places, overall, we have failed to achieve equity, we have failed to eliminate persistent achievement and success gaps,» said Professor Paul Reville, founding director of the Education Redesign Lab and former Massachusetts Secretary of Education.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

Supporters say momentum is building because without such legislation, Kentucky could lose out on up to $ 200 million in federal stimulus money aimed at education reform and innovation.

This book, and this review, will be published while the presidential campaign is in full swing, and whether there will be anything more to be said about President Obama's efforts at education reform, still fragmentary now, depends on the outcome of the election.

James Caradonio can barely contain his odium for the federal government's latest efforts at education reform.

There were periodic national efforts at education reform, such as Goals 2000, but the unions weathered these storms, and the winds eventually died down.

These developments should have sent a warning to NASDC leaders about the politically charged and therefore tenuous nature of such broad efforts at education reform.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?