Sentences with phrase «conversations about education reform»

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.

However, within current conversations about education reform, accountability has become an issue of contention.

The project aims to influence the national conversation about education reform by making the educational standards set by states more visible — explicitly connecting standards with student work that is characterized by depth, complexity, and imagination.

In my experience Rhee changed the conversation about education reform from one of a very big and gloomy confusion created by the No Child Left Behind Act that all public schools are failing to one about her.

It is a simple but urgent plea to put the real needs of children at the center of the national conversation about education reform, which in its ideological divisiveness is in danger of leaving them behind.»

Not exact matches

Mayor Byron Brown says he is open to mayoral control if that's what it takes to improve Buffalo's schools, but feels a conversation is needed with parents and others in the city — and statewide — about how to reform public education.

Although a varied and massive array of programs comprise the Harlem Children's Zone, its charter schools have garnered perhaps the most attention, particularly in the context of controversial New York City school reforms and the larger conversation in the education world about high - stakes tests, charters, and No Child Left Behind.

Race to the Top asked states to create their own unique blueprints for education reform — and then, by publicly posting everyone's plans and the judges» scores, got the nation involved in a conversation about what high - quality education systems look like.

That question currently looms over the national conversation about school reform... [and] it is time for educators and policymakers to rethink the boundaries distinguishing the public and private in education.

However, Levinson believes conversations about the plethora of ethical issues have been missing from the contemporary education reform debate.

Now more than ever, conversations about race, privilege, and inequity are happening on a national stage and within education reform organizations.

As an American abroad and working in the field of political - education reform in Central and Eastern Europe, I have been following the conversations about U.S. civics education — or, more precisely, education for democracy — with great interest over the past year.

Richard Rothstein's American Prospect investigation into the details of Joel Klein's childhood (no, I'm not kidding here) is really not worth reading, but it unfortunately exemplifies two of the most toxic aspects of the current education reform conversation (fwiw it also contains some interesting information about the history of post-war public housing in NYC):

An array of education leaders had a hard - hitting but remarkably civil conversation about race and school reform at AEI this week.

Now that districts have more flexibility in how they use their resources under the Local Control Funding Formula, «we wanted to seize the moment» to steer the conversation about how to reform education toward community schools, Niebuhr said.

The detailed story of her son, who is now grown and living in another state, must be saved for a different day, but the myriad questions that even the synopsis raises about accountability over federal special education and disability services funds is important to keep front and center during the current reform conversation.

Finland's high - achieving public school system is now part of the conversation about U.S. education reform these days.

Along with Steve Barr and Marshall Tuck, I was part of important conversations about how labor leaders, truly progressive labor leaders, could work for educational justice through our education reform work.

Struggles and triumphs are all part of the conversation at this annual conference by NSVF, a venture philanthropy that supports education reform and puts on a conference filled with networking, internal debates and plenty of soul searching about what is working in schools.

Fund Education Now's co-founder, Kathleen Oropeza, participated as a panelist in the Orlando Sentinel and UCF Metro Center's public forum titled «Florida Forward Conversations about the Future: Education Reform.»

We think of parent trigger not as a new law, but as a new paradigm, as an entirely new way of thinking about public education and education reform and a break from the debate that has dominated the conversation around education reform for a good part of the last decade.

Last week in a post for the Fordham Institute's Flypaper, Erika Sanzi wrote a compelling piece about imposter syndrome in education reform — and began the conversation about who the real imposters are when it comes to education reform: Impostor syndrome is «the fear that you'll be found out at any moment as an impostor who doesn't belong in your...

About the coalition: A + Denver, Democrats for Education Reform Colorado, Latinos for Education Reform, Padres & Jovenes Unidos, Stand for Children Colorado and Together Colorado collaborated this past year to write the report and to start an important and urgent conversation in southwest Denver.

On Monday I posted our conversation about the Chicago teachers» strike, the politics of education reform, and the myth of a crisis in public education.

In this conversation Dr. Fuller — a civil rights activist and champion for the people of New Orleans, spoke candidly about education reform in New Orleans and the need to empower the communities most impacted by reform efforts over the past 10 years.

This dishonest conversation about racism isn't only happening in education reform.

Last week in a post for the Fordham Institute's Flypaper, Erika Sanzi wrote a compelling piece about imposter syndrome in education reform — and began the conversation about who the real imposters are when it comes to education reform:

Pondiscio's piece, «The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform,» has triggered an important conversation about race, power, politics, and school reform.

Eva joins AEI resident scholar Rick Hess for a conversation at AEI about her new book and efforts to reform America's education system.