Sentences with phrase «corporate education reformers on»

Despite the infatuation for tests shared by policymakers, philanthropists, and corporate education reformers on both sides of the aisle, resistance continues to build.

Not exact matches

It sees education reformers outside of the union sphere as either corporate privatizers seeking to grasp some of the $ 640 billion this country spends annually on public schools, or their tools.

While you can read Bronin's political meandering on education on his website — See CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, what is far more telling is the amount of money that is pouring into his campaign from the corporate education reformers, the charter school industry and the people who are pushing the Common Core and Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

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The misuse of and over-emphasis on test scores caused by pressures from media, corporate - style education reformers, and misguided federal laws has forced schools nationwide to teach to these tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.

Bill Cibes made a fundamental difference then and does so now when he tells ConnCAN and the other «corporate education reformers» that we will not back down in our commitment and dedication to protect what is right about public education while we seek to develop and implement policies that make a real, honest and positive impact on the quality of education in our state.

A new advocacy group focused on countering corporate education reformers in Tennessee announced its formation this week.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

So it's no surprise that corporate education reformers — attempting to defend the multibillion dollar testing industry — have been launching aggressive attacks on the movement.

As silly as this scenario seems, it is what corporate education reformers (including the Walton family, which helps funds the website Sanzi writes for) are imposing on our public schools.

on ConnCAN, StudentsFirst and Corporate Education Reformers roll out new Connecticut «pro-reform» blog?

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

It must really annoy Duncan and the other corporate education reformers when Diane Ravitch and the other truth - tellers provide the public with information about what is really going on.

And if the corporate reformers have their way, their schemes to evaluate teachers and the schools of education they came from on the basis of yet another new generation of standardized tests, it will make the testing plague unleashed by NCLB pale by comparison.

The new Achievement First schools was part of a broader strategy on the part of the Hartford political leadership and the corporate education reformers to close existing neighborhood schools in Hartford and give the properties to charter school companies.

And even, in the fevered imaginings of some charter opponents, as the cat's paw of «corporate» reformers supposedly hell - bent on the privatization of public education.

This corporate education reformer claims credit for virtually everything short of the fact that the sun rises on a daily basis.

PAA proposes its «LSC model,» a form of elected parent - majority school governance, as an antidote to recent efforts of corporate school reformers to brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

A coalition of «education reformers» and corporate executives in Fairfield Country are spending a record amount of money to convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their interest to VOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schools.

«We believe that corporate school reformers are once again turning to Hollywood to sell a version of school reform that many parents reject, as they did with «Waiting for Superman» and its biased attack on public school teachers and idealization of charter schools,» said Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.