I feel like this call of action is waging a war
between educational advocates and civil rights activists.
Not exact matches
In reaction against the authoritarian formalism of classical education, modern
educational progressives have
advocated a relationship of essential equality
between teacher and student.
New York City's progress in narrowing the achievement gap confirms that policymakers and
advocates can no longer use demographic factors like race, ethnicity, income, or zip code to excuse differences in
educational achievement
between high - and low - needs students.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link
between educational opportunity and zip code and
advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.
As a former paid blogger for a communications company and an
educational leader, I also know the coziness that can exist
between superintendents, funders and other politicos, which limits what an
advocate can say or do.
Historically, tension has existed
between gifted education and middle school education (Tomlinson, 1992), leaving some
advocates of each
educational practice suspicious of the other, and leaving middle school students who are advanced in one or more dimensions of learning in a sort of
educational no - man's - land.
To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to
educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to
advocate for equitable resource distribution
between districts and schools.
In other states, the movement is often splintered
between those who
advocate for private school scholarships and those who support charter schools — and, for that matter, those who take advantage of other
educational options.
The Energy
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between an
educational blurb and a bottle of salsa.
Advocate for child's
educational needs and acted as the liaison
between family and community resources
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