Sentences with phrase «broader education reforms»

The difference is that they're usually used in service of a larger argument about education and the economy, or to support broader education reforms.

Seeing this, charter schools and their friends in «Big Philanthropy» have invested in charter school associations and broader education reform advocates to fight to keep the world safe for chartering.

Foreign leaders, in countries from the United Kingdom to Japan to Brazil, have also committed their nations to expanding international educational exchange and comparison as a component of both foreign policy and their broader education reform agendas.

The mayor appears unfazed, although his broader education reform initiatives have been rejected by the city council.

Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas has proposed a broad education reform plan for a state that has struggled to improve student achievement in recent years, and that faces a court order to overhaul how it pays for schools.

«We believe 191 is foundational to the future success of the education system,» said Tamra Ward president of the business advocacy group Colorado Concern that is part of a broader education reform coalition critical of the move.

Rather than requiring that any candidate seeking political support from teachers have a solid progressive record on public education and articulate clear - cut policies and positions that are diametrically opposed to the corporate education reform industry, there is a growing acceptance of candidates who have thrown their support behind the charter school industry and the broader education reform agenda.

post entitled, «SFER — The $ 7 million + «student run» Corporate Education Reform Industry Front Group,» provided an update on how charter school advocates and the broader education reform industry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching profession.

This is the first step toward the broader education reform that New Democrats want to see Congress achieve this year.»

Not exact matches

For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address was light on details, but packed with broad proposals on topics that directly affect New York City such as criminal justice reform, higher education, labor and homelessness.

Gove told MPs the reforms would leave pupils with a «broad, deep and balanced education which will equip them to win in the global race».

Broader questions remain on school aid, however, even as education reforms such as teacher evaluation criteria are no longer linked to funding.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised the tenure of outgoing Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch on Monday, but at the same time indicated he will push for broad reforms to the state's education curriculum and Common Core standards.

Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

The issue is now likely to be mixed into the broader, end - of - session negotiations in Albany, which include rent reform, the 421 - a tax break and an education tax credit for religious schools.

The Assembly's budget also does not include Cuomo's broad education policy reforms, with much of those measures linked to a $ 1.1 billion proposed spending increase for education.

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Real education reform would include broader social reform that attacks poverty, segregation, and under - resourcing of schools in poor, segregated communities,» Hawkins said....

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.

«Real education reform requires broader social reform to end poverty concentrated in disadvantaged communities by race and class segregation,» Hawkins said.

That then provides us with the platform to discuss the broader reforms of legal education in the country.»

Paul joins us today at the Ed Next Book Club to talk about his book, the impact he hopes it will have on the education reform debate, and what it means for the broader war on poverty.

Happily, this sort of common sense is starting to re-enter the conversation (thanks, in part, to the persistence of the folks at Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity initiative, who called in 2011 for a broader approach to education reform, one that includes high - quality career technical education).

For the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education reform.

«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.»

In 2009, Mayor Menino tacitly supported an increase in the number of «proven» Commonwealth charter schools that could operate in Boston as part of a broader education - reform bill that invested school districts with greater authority to intervene in low - performing schools and permitted districts to establish a few Horace Mann charter schools without the required union sign - off.

«Gates, Walton, and Broad are driven by theories of action that emphasize structural reform» such as systems, incentives, and measures, says Andrew Rotherham, co-founder of Education Sector and author of the Eduwonk.com blog.

As a result, to Rothstein's mind, education reform won't be effective without far broader social reforms.

DeVos has a long history of supporting the kinds of accountability and school - choice policies that a broad swath of the education - reform community has championed over the last two decades.

When talking about broad reforms to health care, energy policy, or education, however, it's a different story.

Far from being a «dead end» (as asserted by Marc Tucker in Education Week recently), better teacher evaluation systems will be vital for any broad reform effort, such as implementing the Common Core.

Troublemaker weaves into the chronicle of Finn's life and career the broader history of education reform, in which he has played a vital and sometimes rambunctious role.

This view holds that true school reform must be part of a broader social justice campaign led by people of color, which calls for progressive changes to health care, housing, immigration, and economic policies, as well as education.

He sees education reform in broad nation - making, moral terms.

From the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reform.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and EEducation Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eeducation activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

But it's much to the credit of the current U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, that he has carefully kept his distance, insisting instead on accountability, choice, and teacher policy reforms that the Broader, Bolder group finds dispensable.

The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.»

But if the education reform movement (in reality or perception) continues to be driven by privileged, white overachievers who are not attuned to or understanding of the broader context in which we do our work, we won't achieve our goals.

For example, the Boston Foundation played a significant role in shaping Massachusetts» recent education reform legislation, which will double the number of charter schools and equip superintendents with a broad new authority to intervene decisively in underperforming schools.

Anyone hoping to see him one day create the broad consensus necessary for fundamental education reform will have to wait at least another year.

School choice reforms, which comprise a broad category of policies aimed at improving public education through the introduction of market forces that may stimulate customer choice and competition between schools, have grown particularly popular since the 1990s.

And that same question needs to be asked of all these «Education Reform» shysters; Bill Gates, Eli Broad, The Walmart Family heirs, and the numerous Hedge Funders who helped our economy to collapse in 2008: When are you going to send YOUR precious babies to «Charters» or «Digital Academies»?

But one should be careful in drawing broader conclusions about education reform from The Prize.

A national leader in education reform — and recent winner of the Broad Prize for best public charter school network in the country — Success Academy has long been committed to advancing education reform nationally by sharing its content and approach, and inviting others across the country to access and adapt what we teach and how we teach it.

Known as the Education Roundtable, the effort aims to involve college and university leaders in the school - reform movement on the broadest scale possible.

Barack Obama came to office at a time of broad bipartisan support for education reform.

In a 2010 e-mail, Booker aide Bari Mattes wrote that the Broad Foundation, a big giver to education reform, was «very interested in knowing who the Superintendent is going to be.»