Sentences with phrase «based education reforms»

RTTT explicitly rewarded applicants for implementing market - based education reforms, including high - stakes testing, support for charter schools, large data systems for evaluations, and restructuring plans for «failing» schools.18

To be clear, it is standards - based education reforms that we have been witness to and victims of for the last two decades.

The NRC conducted a nine - year study of the standards based education reforms mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.

Declaring accountability - based education reforms as «test and punish» probably polls well for the AFT, but as the writers note, it is misleading.

Some advocate combining the two forms of accountability, attempting to harness the dynamism of market - based education reforms while tethering it to a single standardized test that allows for apples - to - apples comparisons.

Some argue that market - based education reforms should be tied to standardized tests, but such tests require participating providers to conform, limiting the number of existing choices for the parents.

ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, which outlines the association's public policy priorities for the year, calls for whole child — based education reforms.

Education policy can be designed to maximize the potential benefits of competition - based education reforms, or not.

Our new report for the Friedman Foundation, Pursuing Innovation, takes a deep dive into that proposal by documenting how much and what types of competition currently exist in K — 12 education, predicting which forms of competition are most likely to generate pressures for improvement in K — 12 education, and brainstorming policy attributes that will maximize the effectiveness of competition - based education reforms.

Among the school choice - based education reforms enacted in recent years, the Parent Trigger Act may be the most drastic.

• Growing and sustained support for both standards - based and choice - based education reforms has the potential to leverage changes that are farther reaching than those the commission envisioned, though both reform strategies face staunch resistance from established education interests.

Advocates of standards - based education reforms can point to accomplishments.

Her current research focuses on market - based education reforms in urban communities, and its cultural and pedagogical impact on teacher dispositions, teacher professional autonomy and identity, and the development of inclusive classroom practices.

In an essay titled «School Choice through a Foucauldian Lens,» published last year, Stacy Smith, a professor of education at Bates College, seized on the ideas of Michel Foucault to dispute the notion that supporting charter schools means supporting market - based education reforms.

At the same time, Revolution at the Margins will offer little comfort to promoters of market - based education reforms who believe that markets, by themselves, are the answer.

Hess's dispassionate, balanced analysis will disappoint both opponents and advocates of market - based education reforms.

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

As an independent, nonprofit, education - reform organization, Achieve has a mission of supporting standards - based education reform, and it offers both content and policy resources.

«Each of these audiences will be critical in building a broader - based education reform movement that goes beyond the wonks, advocacy groups, and charter folks.»

Is it possible that we're on the cusp of a new era of evidence - based education reform?

Core courses and electives are taught by recognized leaders from across Harvard's graduate programs in fields like data - based education reform, organizational change and innovation, and effective leadership strategies for urban schools.

On this matter, Jennings may have lost touch with the thinking of one cadre of D.C. elites, whose disillusionment with federally based education reform has become palpable.

By the early 1990s, attempts to improve public education had morphed into the standards - based education reform agenda, often called test - based accountability.

WASHINGTON — The standards - based education reform movement calls school change «the civil rights issue of our time.»

His research interests lay at the intersection of social justice, policy, and market - based education reform.

Standards - based education reform is in deeper trouble than we knew, both the Washington - driven, No Child Left Behind version and the older versions that most states undertook for themselves in the years since A Nation at Risk (1983) and the Charlottesville education summit (1989).

She currently teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder and studies market - based education reform in urban communities.

The new standard - bearer for market - based education reform is the Pakistani province of Punjab.

A group calling itself the «Badass Teachers Association,» citing opposition to what it considers market - based education reform, plans a June 26 protest outside the Gates Foundation's headquarters in Seattle.

Jindal, a wonkish former Rhodes Scholar who had long since sought to establish himself as a cutting - edge leader in accountability - based education reform, had enthusiastically supported creating the new reading, writing and math standards as a way to teach students to think analytically, better prepare them to compete in a global economy, and quantify their progress using common tests.

A fearless champion of classroom - based education reform generally, and content - rich curriculum in particular, Barbara is a tactical leader with a keen ability to translate strategic initiatives into desired results.

In an unprecedented partnership announced Tuesday night, locally based education reform group The Mind Trust, the mayor's office and Indianapolis Public Schools are teaming up to try to improve the district's poorest performing schools.

Starting in the mid-1980s, a standards - based education reform movement emphasized beefed - up subject - matter content, with a test given at the end of the year to see whether students had «gotten» it.

Already at 28 members from coast to coast, CEE - Trust launched from Indianapolis - based education reform organization The Mind Trust in 2010, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Joyce Foundation.

A landmark study released in December by The Mind Trust, the locally based education reform group, calls for dramatically downsizing the central IPS office and pushing the resources and grass - roots governance to individual schools.

To give context around the ongoing connection of former trustees Arnold and Mincberg to high - stakes, test - based education reform, take a look at Center for Reform of School Systems, an education governance consulting firm on which Paula Arnold serves as a board member along side the Godfather of No Child Left Behind, Rod Paige.

We are at the point where for a variety of reasons I believe it has become necessary for us to restore and rebuild the consensus among Texans and particularly our opinion leaders that for over 25 years made Texas the national leader in standards and accountability - based education reform.

We are writing to distance ourselves from a set of policies that have come to be known as market - based education reform.

I also appreciate Brooklyn New School principal Anna Allanbrook's weekly letters to parents, which showcase her school's whole child approach and contrast sharply with NYS's test - based education reform initiatives.

Interestingly Microsoft, whose chief Bill Gates is a major player in test - based education reform, lobbied heavily against state taxes that would have helped finance the public schools.

In this policy brief, Allan Odden argues that it may be time to redesign state and district school finance systems to align them more closely to the standards - based education reform movement and the

Observers say it speaks to how mainstream broad - based education reform has become, although it's not likely to be a defining issue in the presidential election, where the economy and the broader role of government dominate.

Report by The National Academy of Education Panel on Standards - Based Education Reform.

Professor Ellen Brantlin of Indiana University was an early critic of standards based education reform (SBR).

For as long as the United States has been engaged in standards - based education reform, we have achieved only modest gains and failed to close the achievement gap (Dee & Jacob, 2012; Hanushek & Raymond, 2005).

Parents and paid organizers with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution managed to work mostly under the radar while gathering signatures from some 60 percent of parents whose children attend McKinley Elementary School.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

A NEW YORK - BASED education reform nonprofit funneled nearly $ 2.5 million to a related group in Massachusetts, according to new disclosuresunearthed as part of a legal settlement.

Once a George H.W. Bush education official and an advocate for greater testing - based accountability, Diane Ravitch has in recent years become the nation's highest - profile opponent of Michelle Rhee's style of charter - based education reform (one also espoused by Barack Obama).

Market - based education reform means seeing education as a commodity so reforms are based on demand, supply, and pricing.