Sentences with phrase «at systemic reform»

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

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Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Earlier this month, at the annual meeting of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Fuzhou, CAST President Han Qide quoted from the editorial and said that the country should «solve some of the problems by systemic reform.»

I had been working on supply - side reforms for a long time at that point so I was happy to participate in reform at a more systemic level since both kinds of reform (choice and systems) are very important to me.

At last week's Askwith Forum, «Transformative Change in American Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core StandardAt last week's Askwith Forum, «Transformative Change in American Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Standardat Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Standards.

And yet that books» application has been muted at best, never influencing governance and systemic reform as it should have.

October 27: Higher Education, the Cost Disease, and Systemic Reform with Professor Mark Yudof, University of California at Berkeley School of Law and president emeritus.

The programs are aimed at supporting systemic reforms without dictating what such reforms should look...

As Dr. Chard indicated, the efforts of individual groups like CAEP are not enough: we must approach education reform holistically and at a systemic level.

In this section we address our second question about the state «s leadership role in efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

True systemic reform will always be another decade away, the proverbial carrot at the end of the stick.

How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping educational reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

In «Statewide Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Employing Partnerships and Systemic Strategies for Addressing Critical Teacher Shortages,» the University of Cincinnati's Stephen Kroeger was joined by Mary Brownell, director of the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center at the University of Florida, and Jessica Mercerhill, director of P - 16 initiatives at the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

The state is now engaged in systemic reform, which seeks to change the culture of low expectations in state, to prepare all students with rigorous coursework at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.

In 2005, Oakland embarked on a set of systemic reforms aimed at preparing every student for success in college and the workplace.

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.

The problem with that strategy is that even the Gates Foundation does not have nearly enough money to buy systemic reform one school at a time.

He also served as the director of the Systemic Supports for School Reform program at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University and as a member of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners.

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

Taking a bit of offense at Petrilli's statement that reformers should use Lewis» challenge as an opportunity to win teachers over to systemic reform, Weingarten declares that Petrilli and others should «change course» and «try listening to what Karen and the Chicago educators are saying about how to improve schools».

What Pondiscio thinks they should do is ignore other systemic reforms and tout his silver bullet: A national curriculum with Core Knowledge at its heart.

At the same time, we also must be mindful of solutions — systemic reform that can be nurtured in all local school districts — that promote high - quality education for all of the students in our state.

In the process, both (along with the reform movement itself) have wasted an important opportunity to reshape systemic reform in a way that puts black children and families at the center.

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.

Smith convinced Basam Shakashiri, then director of the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use the concept of systemic reform for a grants competition for states to take on building standards - based reform in K - 12 science.

Ivannia Soto, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Education at Whittier College, where she specializes in second language acquisition, systemic reform for English language learners (ELLs), and urban education.

She has presented on literacy and language topics at various conferences and has provided technical assistance for systemic reform for ELLs and Title III.

Over the course of her distinguished career at CTL, Dr. Hargan has done extensive state and national consulting work in systemic reform, and has served on national and local organizations including the President's Task Force on USAID to Education in Underdeveloped Countries, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, the Early Childhood Task Force of the National Arts Education Partnership and the Prichard Committee Task Force on Teacher Qureform, and has served on national and local organizations including the President's Task Force on USAID to Education in Underdeveloped Countries, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, the Early Childhood Task Force of the National Arts Education Partnership and the Prichard Committee Task Force on Teacher QuReform, the Early Childhood Task Force of the National Arts Education Partnership and the Prichard Committee Task Force on Teacher Quality.

At the end of the day, reformers must give up on the fanciful notion that NEA and AFT leaders can embrace systemic reform on anything other than a tepid level.

October 12 - November 18, 2016: At its core, Raising a Riot is an exercise in institutional criticism; it is an active attempt at disrupting and reforming systemic inequities within pedagogical and educational structureAt its core, Raising a Riot is an exercise in institutional criticism; it is an active attempt at disrupting and reforming systemic inequities within pedagogical and educational structureat disrupting and reforming systemic inequities within pedagogical and educational structures.

In 2007, the Pentagon began to look at military energy reform in a more systemic manner.

During this time Mary also volunteered at the Workers» Action Centre, where she provided assistance with employment standards matters and took part in worker and advocate - organized campaigns to raise the minimum wage and achieve systemic legal reform.

«The Coalition for Patent Fairness applauds the House of Representatives for debating the issue of patent reform, but cautions that current approaches may misdiagnose America's systemic patent problem and puts jobs at risk.