Sentences with phrase «by education reform»

So where can we look for examples of successful policies and practices that offer the promise of actually addressing the problems caused by the education reform agenda?

A new report by the education reform organization Achieve finds large «honesty gaps» between state - reported proficiency rates in math and reading compared to those on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is also known as the Nation's Report Card.

Apparently threatened by the education reform movement taking hold across the country, the National Education Association has decided to join the party.

It's supported by education reform advocates.

Force teachers deemed fully or partially ineffective to face layoffs, even if they have seniority, a key element demanded by education reform advocates.

The mobilizing began in late June and early July, when wealthy donors like hedge fund managers Paul Tudor Jones and Daniel Loeb, Wal - Mart heirs Jim and Alice Walton, and financier Roger Hertog donated heavily to committees backed by education reform groups.

On November 20, 2014 former Florida Governor Jeb Bush discussed the Common Core State Standards at a Washington D.C. education summit hosted by his education reform organization, the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Colorado's law and similar ones in other states appeared to be sound, research - backed policy formulated by education reform's own «whiz kids.»

In recounting the history of charters, the report reveals how a cause originally supported by education reform advocates, including the leader of a national teachers» union, was hijacked by libertarian ideology, advocates for big business, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who view the public education system as a playground for exerting their influence and ideas.

Noted Lecker, «Voters in the cities most affected by education reform are joining together to speak truth to power... a genuine grassroots movement.»

A recent poll by Education Reform Now, a non-partisan partner of DFER - DC, showed that 76 % of voters and an overwhelming 86 % of parents believe that public charter schools should be part of the solution to the city's supply of vacant school buildings.

In addition, the award will support general operational needs of The Mind Trust, including its aggressive community engagement efforts to ensure those most affected by education reform are engaged in conversation.

In many states, politicians have argued that teachers should be held personally responsible for the failure of students to progress academically, bolstered by education reform advocates who push for more teacher accountability.

Wendy Lecker's column successfully lays out the historical context and the real issues surrounding our nation's failure to close the academic achievement gap, and by doing so, she lays bare the lies and deceit being perpetrated by the education reform industry.

Voters in the cities most affected by education reform are joining together to speak truth to power.

Instead, our government, egged on by the education reform industry, claims that the new Common Core tests will assess those «higher order» skills that universities and employers demand.

That retreat, called Camp Philos, is hosted by Education Reform Now, which has given $ 65,000 to Cuomo since 2010.

Six of the leading candidates vying to replace Rybak laid out their visions for the city's schools at a debate Monday night sponsored by education reform groups.

The protest, the latest move in a campaign by education reform organizations to draw attention to the city's southwest schools, follows...

But to ensure these efforts are sustainable, it is critical that the parents and communities most impacted by education reform are invested in the changes.

He was also named one of the 2010 «best of» education reformers in Colorado by Education Reform Now.

The poll of 445 likely voters sponsored by Education Reform Now, a nonprofit group that supports President Obama's agenda on education reform, was conducted in February before Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek a sixth term.

Tuck is supported by the education reform community and charter school supporters.

As part of the campaign, MBAE and Brightlines are working with business, education and policy leaders across the state to finalize a new education agenda designed to overcome lingering challenges that have yet to be addressed by education reform.

They require different skills from the intellectual ones posited by education reform, new apps of all kinds, the myriad proliferating school choices, and data - driven teaching.

Hudson, who last performed Friday at Madison Square Garden for Pope Francis» Mass, will sing no fewer than four songs for the upcoming rally organized by education reform group Families for Excellent Schools.

Cuomo is the «honorary chairman» of Camp Philos, «a philosopher's camp on education reform» presented by Education Reform Now, a group that has donated $ 65,000 to Cuomo since 2010 through its political action committee.

Cucco, meanwhile, has been backed by education reform advocates.

That retreat, called Camp Philos, is hosted by Education Reform Now, which has given $ 65,000 to Cuomo since 2010.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

The political action committee supported by the education reform and pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY, has spent heavily in the race backing Republican Chris McGrath, with records showing the group has spent more than $ 1 million the Nassau County district.

A first time candidate for office, McGrath has benefited from an independent expenditure campaign supported by an education reform and pro-charter school organization, which has spent an additional $ 1.2 million knocking Kaminsky.

Not exact matches

Weaker elements include a filler chapter on education reform, and a one - sided screed about YouTube and Spotify that could have been written by the entertainment industry.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

The Federal Government's higher education reform package is still being analysed by universities nationwide, and the reforms are yet to be passed by parliament, but benefits and concerns have already been identified by the State's universities.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

To be successful in addressing issues of justice, land reforms must be accompanied by the development of «infrastructures» such as credit for the poor, agricultural extension services, conservation education, and supportive industrial development.

The liberal optimism, which largely had abandoned the concept of sin and believed that the world could be put right by education and social and economic reform, was challenged by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966) and other continental European theologians.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

She'll be joined in the department by Nick Gibb who returns to Government as Minister of State for Schools, «to ensure no let up in education reforms», according to a tweet from the Prime Minister as David Cameron announced his appointment.

The «Berlin» type of excellent theological education, which 1 comprises the two distinct enterprises of Wissenschaft and «professional» education for ministry, came to dominate Protestant theological education in North America by the middle of the twentieth century, in large part in the wake of a series of major studies of theological education that were widely read and sometimes led to significant reforms.

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioEducation, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioeducation reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.

10 Ways to involve your children in their personal health reform... LIVE HEALTHY by education and responsibility.

Yesterday, Education News published a critical opinion piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow regarding Jamie Oliver's recent foray into educatioEducation News published a critical opinion piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow regarding Jamie Oliver's recent foray into educationeducation reform.

BARRINGTON Karen Rogers, professor of gifted studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and author of «Reforming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child,» will talk about four things parents must ask of schools for their gifted children at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hough Street School, 310 S. Hough St.. The program is sponsored by the Barrington Council for the Gifted and Talented, and there is a $ 5 fee for non-members at...

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

The bill would overhaul a key component of a contentious education reform bill that was pushed through by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015, much to the consternation of the New York State United Teachers.