Sentences with phrase «concern about education reform»

Scathing Purple Musings has a great blog heavy on Florida issues but important for anyone concerned about education reform.

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Two grandparents on opposite ends of the continent each had a concern about the direction of education reform and its effect on their grandchildren.

«The real story is that Michael Gove's plans for A-level reform are not based, as he appears to be claiming, on evidence of widespread concerns in the higher education sector about the rigour and relevance of A-levels.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

«We're overly concerned about things like funding for education, highways roads and bridges,» said Flanagan who says it's more «prudent» to address ethics reforms after the budget is finished.

McKinney said he likes Malloy's education reform plan, but is concerned about continued spending increases.

Rather, in his eagerness to belittle my findings, he shows a defensiveness that raises concerns about the capacity of teacher education to reform itself.

Responding to the Government statement that the Education for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned educationEducation for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned educationeducation reforms.

To be sure, mistakes were made: Not understanding the limitations or unintended consequences of federal leadership on education; a disastrous, ill - timed excursion into teacher evaluation reform; a technocratic impulse that was insufficiently sensitive to parents» concerns about issues like student privacy; and on and on.

If Republicans and Democrats disagree strongly on the options for school reform, changes are unlikely — despite clear signs that the public is concerned about the quality of public education.

NEA Launches NCLB Reform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress toReform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress toreform the law, which it wants Congress to hear.

«We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned education reforms.

Those concerned about high taxes or the impact of reforms on their own children's education are deemed selfish.

Those concerned about the future of public education should not be fooled: the agenda of these players is about privatization and market - based reform.

A government re-elected; impatient to press on with education reform; concerned about the way schools respond to change; determined to implement radical curriculum and assessment change.

During the two - and - a-half hour session, «Teacher Evaluation In the Classroom,» attended by about 200 people, stakeholders affected by the ongoing reform effort shared their perspectives with the audience while answering questions from both moderator John Mooney, education writer and co-founder of New Jersey Spotlight magazine, and audience members comprised largely of concerned parents and educators.

Given that government ministers pray PISA in aid of even their most contentious education reforms, the evidence presented by Schliecher should give them cause for concern about the current direction of educational travel in England.

Likewise, Democrats for Education Reform, a national group of education advocates that support a range of education options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns aboEducation Reform, a national group of education advocates that support a range of education options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns aboeducation advocates that support a range of education options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns aboeducation options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns about DeVos.

Day after day and week after week, Riccards and the other corporate reformers returned to their constant refrain that anyone who raised questions or concerns about Malloy's ill - conceived education reforms was not only a supporter of the status quo but a supporter of failure and an enemy of our children.

«Just as a good parent is always concerned about whether he is being good parent, authentic education means we are always «reforming» what we do.

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What would be your priorities in reforming the predominant conventions you are concerned about in education today?

But if we're really concerned about quality — responding to Shelton — Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform Now (DFER), said we need to call for a «moratorium on the traditional public schools that have been failing [our children] for generations.»

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutionEducation Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutioneducation reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

Conversations about education reform have generally avoided or minimized the impact of poverty on student success, either because of the belief that poverty is too difficult a challenge to address directly or out of concern that poverty will be used as an excuse for poor performance.

Recently, Carmen L. Lopez, a retired Superior Court judge, raised a series of concerns about Excel Bridgeport, a corporate funded education advocacy group that has been actively pushing an «education reform» agenda.

In response to the growing public concern about the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the inappropriate and unfair use of standardized test scores when evaluating Connecticut's public school teachers, a growing number of state representatives and state senators are stepping forward and introducing legislation that would stop, or at least slow down, the damaging Corporate Education Reform Industry's agenda that is undermining public education in ConEducation Reform Industry's agenda that is undermining public education in Coneducation in Connecticut.