Sentences with phrase «based reform agenda»

The standards - based reform agenda has made it virtually impossible for educators to give all students the varied attention and resources needed to engage them in a meaningful learning process.

Our policymakers, starting with President Obama, must lead with a supports - based reform agenda focused on creating the learning environments and conditions in which all children will have an opportunity to learn and succeed.

Not exact matches

The Center works to focus the nation's juvenile justice and related systems of care on the key principles embodied in an evidence - based juvenile justice reform agenda, utilizing a multi-systems approach.

They're not popular and they'll make barely any difference - but are presumably being taken forward on the basis that there's not much else on the coalition's constitutional reform agenda.

Termed the «New York Promise Agenda,» the broad - based proposals include criminal justice reform, voting access, women's rights protections, fighting homelessness, preventing faith - based discrimination, protecting the environment, and improving immigrants rights and access to education.

«You need a portfolio of approaches in managing water security,» says James Cameron, acting CEO of the National Water Commission, the Canberra - based government agency in charge of the country's water reform agenda.

Is it a fundamental principle on which to base an entire education reform agenda?

After many years of bipartisan support, key elements of the reform agenda — higher standards, better teachers, test - based accountability, parental choice — are starved for oxygen in both the Republican and Democratic party platforms.

I mention it only to make the point that when I became deeply involved in implementing standards - based accountability in Virginia, I had no preordained agenda to fulfill other than to make Virginia's reform agenda, the Standards of Learning (better known as the S - O - Ls), work not only in theory but also in practice.

Together, they pushed an education reform agenda, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that emphasized higher standards and more accountability, a results - based approach that parents liked.

Additionally, Reville was the executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agBased Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agbased, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agBased Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agbased, national education policy «think tank» which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national «standards» agenda.

Republicans have a significant opportunity in next year's election to win on the education issue by continuing their push for a reform - based education agenda and arguing against the idea that more money without real structural reform can fix the ills of our education system.

But test - based outcomes, merit pay for teachers, rewards and sanctions, and voucher and charter alternatives have been part of the reform agenda of most states for years.

It explains reformers» enthusiasm for test - based accountability; for «college and career - ready standards»; for teacher evaluations based, in significant part, on student outcomes; for «data - based instruction»; and for much of the rest of the modern - day reform agenda.

Since then, as I've noted, one of these reforms --- performance - based - evaluations — has become the centerpiece of the nation's reform agenda.

Its signature Race to the Top program (RTT) asked states to compete for $ 4.35 billion in federal grants based on their commitment to implement a 19 - item reform agenda.

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

Thus, while the analyses upon which the report is based have some technical merits, the narrative seems more of an attempt to advance a political agenda opposed to the reform studied than to improve understanding of complex policy issues.

This response committed to a reform agenda for teacher education that aimed to add rigour to the system and provide a stronger evidence base for ITE in Australia.

In December, a New York - based nonprofit research organization called Public Agenda released a report about trustee engagement that concluded that most board members believe their role is to select and support a good institutional leader rather than directly question administrators or initiate reform.

Furman University professor Paul Thomas says that choice - based reforms became law in impressive numbers in 2011, but these reforms lack an agenda for comprehensive change.

Creating new resources, processes, and values is hard and gradual work — The temptation of any reform agenda — especially one as rational and intuitive as competency - based education — is to imagine that vis - a-vis policy change or of their own will, schools can simply flip a switch and suddenly exist in this new, mastery - based paradigm.

President Obama's education agenda includes two key programs that reward states that adopt or expand these test - based reforms of teacher evaluation.

Florida's application reads: «Florida is better poised than any other state to implement RTTT successfully because Florida has learned from prior reforms and has built a valuable knowledge base of what is necessary to implement a successful comprehensive RTTT agenda.»

Those concerned about the future of public education should not be fooled: the agenda of these players is about privatization and market - based reform.

We need to help them keep afloat — not have them filling out long applications to compete for grants based on a reform agenda that they're not able to pursue in this economy.»

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

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

«On every issue, they offered counters to his «reform» agenda of privatization, charter schools, longer school day, and test - based teacher evaluation....

«NewTLA endorsed Warren — it wasn't based on having a reform agenda, it was primarily because we thought it would be an opportunity for greater democratic dialogue within the union, and hearing the voice of multiple perspectives,» said Michael Stryer, one of the founders of NewTLA who currently works for Teach Plus.

The use of these phrases is especially galling when the same critics» own reform agendas are based on inconclusive or vested - interest research.

There were some victories, we laid the groundwork for further work, and our reform coalition is well armed to continue with our agenda, but as much as I would like to put a positive spin on the overall outcome for our priorities, it is difficult to find a basis for a grade higher than a D.

The content and tone of the Statement to the Commissioner and the communication surrounding the development of this document make it very clear that while some school superintendents» support «reform efforts» and others raises serious concerns about particular elements of the reform agenda, there is broad - based opposition about the way Commissioner Pryor and his leadership team have been operating.

Unsurprisingly, a person with such a low regard for teachers has bought in to the entire corporate education reform agenda of test based accountability and choice.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.

Pushing his education reform agenda, Bush called for ending teacher tenure, implementing teacher evaluations and compensation based on standardized test scores and utilizing alternative paths to certification / licensure.

More significant, Duncan has said that some of the billions in more traditional annual federal aid that has flowed to states according to population formulas should now be based on Racelike competitions aimed at various pieces of the reform agenda.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

Indicators are selected because of their evidentiary base and alignment with Massachusetts» reform agenda and updated at least every two years.

We want Medicare reform but it must be based on a wider debate about a national health care plan that puts patients first, and a new narrative that gets us back on to setting the health agenda based on good policy principles,» Ms Wells said.

Based on a broad survey of Head Start stakeholders, the NHSA Policy Agenda lays out priorities for legislation, regulatory reform, and program funding for the 115th Congress.