Sentences with phrase «choice improves education»

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But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

The piece, titled «School Choice Improves Education System,» can be viewed on The Miami Herald website here or can be read in its entirety below.

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The authors show how parental choice of school is not just the best way to improve education but is a parental right.

Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

New Yorkers now have a choice — keep our money in - state — creating jobs, improving education, and providing resort entertainment experiences; or help Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.

A new report by the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public educatioEducation Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public educationeducation system.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

We should be encouraging school choice and encouraging schools to provide students with opportunities to improve their education rather than forcing students to accept sub-standard options.

Education on diet choices, ways to reduce cravings, essential foods for baby's development, and steps to improve digestion

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

But true educational choice, and the educational market it could help foster, promise to radically improve education for many children.

Let's expand our choices, but never lose our passion to work with and improve all of education.

Washington — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week offered a broad and emphatic defense of tuition tax credits and compensatory - education vouchers, saying that increased parental choice would be «one of the best catalysts» for improving publicEducation William J. Bennett last week offered a broad and emphatic defense of tuition tax credits and compensatory - education vouchers, saying that increased parental choice would be «one of the best catalysts» for improving publiceducation vouchers, saying that increased parental choice would be «one of the best catalysts» for improving public schools.

Hess succeeds in posing a challenge to those who see choice and competition - the manipulation of incentives, if you will - as a way of improving schools without getting bogged down in the nitty - gritty issues of providing a quality education.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation, school accountability, school choice, etc.) more and more states will feel the pressure to abandon the standards.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

In «A Strong Start on Advancing Reform,» Burke argues that the administration has already made some positive strides in improving K — 12 and higher education through policy changes, rescissions of Obama - era regulations, and rhetorical support of school choice.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

With the current focus on data - driven decision - making, leaders at all levels of education are expected to make informed choices about what kind of data is useful, how to collect it, and how to apply it in improving daily instruction.

And second, giving these kids a choice will force the entire public - education system to improve.

This superb short report by Lake and Schnaiberg on special education in NOLA shows how a system of choice and autonomous schools can, if wisely organized, offer improved services to high - need kids.

«The state of Connecticut has done a number of things and committed hundreds of millions of dollars to improving the quality of schools and education as well as providing more choices for Hartford students and their families,» Murphy said.

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.

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

Legislatures around the country have enacted various forms of school choice with the intent of improving student achievement throughout the education system, seeking innovative methods of instruction and school governance, and providing parents with an alternative to neighborhood schools.

Mark Murphy was Delaware's Secretary of Education adopting rigorous educator preparation standards into law, updating the state's charter school law to improve school accountability and support, tackling college readiness and retention challenges, implementing the Common Core State Standards and assessments and promoting school choice.

In my book I gather the evidence that persuaded me that accountability and choice are not likely to improve American education.

The Foundation is a trusted voice promoting school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K — 12 education in America.

To improve education, choice is the only «common standard» that is needed.

In the clunky, incremental manner of real - world social systems, school choice is improving public education in Arizona.

The traditional arguments in favor of school choice - that it will allow children to escape failing schools; that it will improve public education through competition - are well known.

Simply by virtue of the presence of charter schools in our state, we are going to solidify that contract, that choice, that parents are making with their children to improve the quality of their education.»

They were hailed as an opportunity to offer more families choice in their education, and a way for educators to innovate and improve the quality of education all students receive.

Most states adopted only modest measures to improve charter schools as a result of the «Race to the Top» competition and no new substantive charter school laws were passed, said Jeanne Allen, president and founder of the Center for Education Reform, a school choice advocate based in Washington, D.C.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

Evidence, statistics and results continue to show that school choice is our best approach to improve the education system locally and nationally.

The authors examine the current performance of America's K — 12 education system, identify the market share of different types of educational choice options and analyze how effective open enrollment, charters, and educational choice programs are at improving student outcomes.

Since 2001, a total of 33 empirical studies have looked into how education choice affects the academic outcomes in public schools and 31 found that choice improves public school academic outcomes.

By introducing more competition for education dollars and students, school choice provides incentives to public schools to improve their academic performance.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

In all, with the stakes high and changes already underway in public education, the governor's race has brought a clear choice between two distinct approaches as to how to improve and support the schools.

School choice is a positive reform that will help improve public education.

On this week, National School Choice Week, we the undersigned endorse this champion of choice and the education reforms needed to improve the future of every child in AmChoice Week, we the undersigned endorse this champion of choice and the education reforms needed to improve the future of every child in Amchoice and the education reforms needed to improve the future of every child in America.