Sentences with phrase «beliefs about education reform»

Just how the two candidates» early schooling informs their assumptions and beliefs about education reform is hard to know, but their stories provide an interesting window through which to view their policy beliefs (see sidebar).

NG: Every scientist ought to be a citizen two or three days a year and see their two senators and see their House member, as citizens, and legitimately represent their beliefs about science and their beliefs about research investment and their beliefs about education reform.

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The nation's School Reform Minister, Nick Gibb, has been particularly vocal about his belief that international textbooks are key to improving education standards.

Understand the complexity of the «big picture» as different education reform strategies are institutionalized in schools and beliefs about services for students who are gifted are incorporated.

Conversations about education reform have generally avoided or minimized the impact of poverty on student success, either because of the belief that poverty is too difficult a challenge to address directly or out of concern that poverty will be used as an excuse for poor performance.

The problem with reform unionism is that, as a set of beliefs about unions, it is fanciful and misguided, and it prompts education reformers to look for solutions where they don't exist.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Duncan used the bus trip, which ran from Sept. 7 - 9, to spread his gospel and passion about education reform in a harsh economic climate; to amplify his oft - stated belief that America's schools are failing as other nations» improve; and to stump for his recent decision to waive components of NCLB in exchange for favored reforms.