Sentences with phrase «center of the reform effort»

This change allows director Daniel Barnz — who describes himself as «extremely pro-union» — to place teachers at the center of the reform effort.

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Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

One effort to reform the Port Authority, the agency at the center of the Bridgegate scandal, died this year when the state Senate failed to override a veto by Christie (New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a parallel bill; each state must pass identical laws to reform the bi-state agency).

At the same time, the findings from the study, by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communities.

20 National Center on Increasing the Effectiveness of State and Local Education Reform Efforts - University of Pennsylvania

There are no easy solutions, but the principle of equal pay for equal work should be front and center in any responsible reform effort.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

After almost a quarter century of leading the fight for expanded educational opportunities for all students, the Center for Education Reform will refocus is efforts on coalescing all involved around the principles in this Manifesto.

EW: How does the current emphasis on standards and accountability affect efforts of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented to encourage whole school reform?

For reform - minded educators to the center and right of the political spectrum, calling Payzant's efforts a success refutes the notion that radical changes are needed to improve urban education.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

Previously she was Co-Director of SRI International's Center for Education Policy where she led research studies on the preparation and induction of new teachers, teacher professional development and teacher leadership, and systems reform efforts.

In a series of studies, literacy researchers at the National Reading Research Center (NRRC)(Afflerbach, Almasi, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1996; Almasi, Afflerbach, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1995; Guthrie, Schafer, Afflerbach, & Almasi, 1994) investigated the effects of the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), a multipronged reform effort that includes learning outcomes, a performance assessment, guidelines for school decision - making, and suggestions for staff development.

We've collaborated with the Collaboration for Effective Educators Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Center and The National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) as well as launched a diverse coalition of organizations to support states in their efforts to develop teachers and leader who can successfully prepare students with disabilities to achieve college and career - ready standards.

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) is the most comprehensive, state - of - the - art education reform effort at the secondary level to date.

As Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone told education philanthropist Katherine Bradley when she began her school reform efforts a decade ago, it is critical to overhaul the schools at the center of the lives of children and their communities.

«Teacher effectiveness is critical to the success of education reform efforts,» said Cynthia Brown, Vice President for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

By providing a thorough examination of current reform efforts and intentions, the authors place the necessity of student inclusive school change in the center of any movement for education excellence.

You have folks such as Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort will hold.

The center is a leadership academy for school administrators, which is funded by Eli Broad, a longtime Deasy supporter and powerful financier of California education reform efforts.

Transforming science learning through student - centered instruction that engages students in a variety of scientific practices is central to national science - teaching reform efforts.

Eversince, «Students at the Center» has gained steam and strengthened the power of other reform efforts, from the Common Core to social - emotional learning.

The college's federally funded CEEDAR Center has selected the final five of 20 states that have joined together in a sweeping reform effort to vastly improve teaching and learning for students with disabilities.

Here are some that align perfectly with CEP's Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education and our Center's school climate reform efforts.

The report, titled «Subtraction by Distraction: Publishing Value - Added Estimates of Teachers by Name Hinders Education Reform,» published by the Center for American Progress (CAP), argues that publicly identifying teachers with value - added estimates of their abilities actually will undermine efforts to improve public schools.

Bitter experience has shown that the self - anointed experts of NSP, NARE, NCEE, the New American Schools Development Corporation, the National Education Goals Panel, the Center on Student Learning, the Learning Research and Development Center, the National Alliance of Business, and others of their ilk have been exceedingly adept at eventually hijacking and taking over all of the so - called «reform» efforts - if they haven't controlled them outright from the beginning.

I faithfully read the education blogs written by Jonathan Pelto and Diane Ravitch; I follow the writing of Wendy Lecker, senior attorney at the Education Law Center as I grapple with so much of the misguided education reform which is strangling the efforts and morale of excellent teachers.

The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center has released a new report, Realizing the Full Vision of School Discipline Reform: A Framework for Statewide Change, which documents how five states have reduced their reliance on suspensions while moving toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environReform: A Framework for Statewide Change, which documents how five states have reduced their reliance on suspensions while moving toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environreform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environments.

Among the bloggers who attended the «discussion,» which centered on financial reform, the Treasury's efforts to stabilize the financial system, and the challenges ahead, were the publishers of Naked Capitalism, Interfluidity, Marginal Revolution, Kid Dynamite's World, Across the Curve, Accrued Interest, The Aleph Blog, and Financial Armageddon (one of my two blogs).

In addition to parallel legal education systems and outdated curricula, lack of educational materials, research centers, legal clinics, and a dearth of qualified professors have held back efforts of legal education reform in Afghanistan, which, if addressed, could significantly improve the justice sector.

Addressing the Needs of Multi-System Youth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice (PDF - 2580 KB) The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform & Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps (2011) Provides communities with a consolidated framework for serving crossover youth that incorporates the most up - to - date research, lessons from ongoing reform efforts, and an innovative collaborative management struReform & Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps (2011) Provides communities with a consolidated framework for serving crossover youth that incorporates the most up - to - date research, lessons from ongoing reform efforts, and an innovative collaborative management strureform efforts, and an innovative collaborative management structure.

Previously she was Co-Director of SRI International's Center for Education Policy where she led research studies on the preparation and induction of new teachers, teacher professional development and teacher leadership, and systems reform efforts.