Sentences with phrase «conservative reformers who»

So do those conservative reformers who oppose the move by states to embrace Common Core standards.

More - importantly, the movement must address its own divides, especially between centrist Democrat, civil rights - oriented, and conservative reformers who disagree over such basic fundamentals as whether the achievement gaps that trap half of our children into poverty and prison should be addressed in policy and practice.

The conservative reformers who helped shape the Common Core are trying to make incremental improvements in a deeply flawed system.

Even if the Obama Administration played no role in Common Core's implementation, conservative reformers who oppose the standards would find problems with them because they fundamentally don't believe that state governments (or any government, for that matter) should be in the business of shaping curricula and the standards that guide them.

One of the biggest challenges facing Common Core supporters — especially conservative reformers who helped develop the standards in the first place — lies in the opposition from movement conservatives who should be the first to embrace providing all children with strong, college - preparatory curricula.

Yet conservative reformers who support Common Core have not stepped up to the challenge.

Not exact matches

Former state Supreme Court and Appellate Division Justice Michael Kavanagh gave Faso his backing, calling the conservative reformer, «a public servant who shares my ideals and the ideals of the district where he has lived for more than three decades.

The Wall Street Journal obtained an advance copy and reports that Cuomo uses the book to tout his accomplishments as a «progressive reformer» who accomplished liberal goals like same - sex marriage and gun control while taking a more conservative approach to economic issues.

Rouhani, considered a moderate reformer, was under attack by his country's hardline conservatives, who opposed a potential deal.

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reforconservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformerreformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReforConservative Education ReformersReformers.»

But there are still reformers, especially those in the conservative and school choice wings, as well as some centrist Democrat players, who remain silent in the face of what is happening.

Gary, you can't honestly be siding with Arne Duncan and yet more conservative reformers, who have concluded that advanced degrees don't affect the quality of instruction.

This, by the way, isn't just a problem for conservative reformers; centrist Democrats who support Common Core have also done poorly in confronting the faulty thinking of their progressive allies.

The fact that many conservative reformers and movement conservatives no longer live in big cities and almost never live in suburbs with significant minority populations such as Prince George's County, Md., also means that they rarely have deep conversations with people who live in them or address their concerns in meaningful ways.

In Douglas County south of Denver, voters who in 2009 and 2013 supported conservative reformers for the school board voted against three of them who had pushed controversial measures, including a voucher program.

In the face of Clinton's defeat, the failure of centrist Democrat reformers to pay attention to both civil rights - oriented reformers (who warned against eviscerating No Child) and conservative reformers (who warned against Obama Administration's Rube Goldbergian approach to policy) looms larger than ever.

... Ours is, bottom to top, a «carceral state,» in the flat verdict of Conrad Black, the former conservative press lord and newly minted reformer, who right now finds himself imprisoned in Florida, thereby adding a new twist to an old joke: A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged; a liberal is a conservative who's been indicted; and a passionate prison reformer is a conservative who's in one.