Sentences with phrase «corporate reform»

While the teacher's role is currently mentioned in corporate reform involving technology, it is diminishing.

Our schools are under assault by corporate reform efforts, standardized testing, and a governor who is eager to fire teachers and close schools.

These bears do some great up - to - date research into corporate reform of public schools around the country, and they aren't happy about what they usually find.

Yes Magazine exposes the Rocketship Style corporate reform movement: profiteering instead of education Yes Magazine's February 2014 article exposes charter school operators like Rocketship and their underlying interests to privatize the education market.

Of course, the proponents of corporate education reform have been riding high for more than two decades thanks to the policies and politics of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom used their time in office to promote charter schools and the broader corporate reform agenda.

Mr. Pryor is very informative on the agenda of corporate reform.

The Commissioner's Network is a testing ground for corporate reform policies.

However, if the vast majority of the union membership believes that corporate reform policies of privatizing education and reducing teaching and learning to a test scores is harmful to public education — as we have expressed in numerous votes in the SEA — then we need a union that more rigorously opposes these harmful policies.

Today's Chicago Tribune editorial board fronts an attack on corporate reform's next target: elected school boards.

and REGRETTING that the mayor's dictatorial corporate reform model with its emphasis on high stakes testing, a narrow test driven curriculum, competition, so called «school choice», no real public voice in decision making, school closings that punish rather than support and privatization policies has failed to uphold fundamental principles of democracy, equity, transparency, system accountability, student - centered pedagogy, and respect for diversity and our local communities;

Merida blamed support for turnarounds on a «corporate reform mentality,» she said, with businessmen managing education.

you will be rewarded with one of her best critical summaries of corporate reform propaganda.

Our legislature should work to strengthen and support LSC rather than tout ALEC - style corporate reform.

Here is one of Connecticut's leading corporate reform voices: «'' The Vergara case exposed the fact that children have unequal access to quality teachers in California.

Yet on a broader scale, Barbara Madeloni, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, said too many educators are experiencing development that originates from the «larger corporate reform movement.»

Imagine that — two corporate reform gorillas killing each other off - not exactly how they planned the takeover of education in America!

Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's right hand man and the Mayor of Chicago, is all about the kind of school corporate reform that is anti-teacher union and anti-public school.

Many of these activists have been worried that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, would back corporate reform, just as the Obama administration has.

«Why Corporate Reform Can Happen.»

Such a plan, with meaningful infrastructure development, efficiency - enhancing corporate reform, and well - considered educational and training components, could lift economic growth potential without requiring a more aggressive monetary stance.

The best part is that after Dr. Ravitch explains all things corporate reform, she provides real solutions to the challenges of public education.

Detractors also blast charter schools as a dangerous step toward a mass privatization of public schools and contend misguided business leaders are developing corporate reform policies for schools from on high.

The elected officials are beginning to make our arguments for us, and they are the ones who have been the targets of Stand for Children's money and corporate reform lobbying.

All of these simpleminded, corporate reforms pushed by profiteers, politicians and the business community are putting our children's right to a developmentally appropriate and enriched education at risk.

Current events bear this out; after the excesses of corporate reform reached their apex in 12 years of Bloomberg, the pendulum has begun, slowly, to return to center.

At the Department of Justice they filed Title VI complaints detailing the disproportionate harm that corporate reform strategies have on schools and communities serving African - American and Latino students.

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Like the situation in Bridgeport, Special Master Adamowski has pushed his extremist corporate reform political agenda over the interests of the people of Windham.

Corporate reform Chicago - style is stuck on the «agitate» cycle, while our children's education is going down the drain.

However, what Fuller appears to be trying to do is bring the Waltons (and other corporate reform investors) around to seeing that they should fund community groups and give those groups the freedom to make their own decisions - not to just toe the Walton - decided line.

We cover topics such as Betsy DeVos» fake smile and bad policies, the bi-partisan nature of corporate school reform, the process Diane went through to switch from supporting corporate reform to opposing it, how the language of school «choice» is rooted in a racist history, the wave of educator strikes around the country, and advice for Bill Gates about how to not destroy our schools.

Corporate reform plans being put forward do nothing to reduce the concentrations of 70/80/90 % poverty that remain the central problem in urban education.

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A larger corporate reform goal, in addition to changing the way schools and classrooms function, is reflected in the attacks on collective bargaining and teacher unions and in the permanent crisis of school funding across the country.

There is certainly a Pulitzer Prize in journalism waiting for the reporter who takes down the corrupt corporate reform movement.

She has told this story in The Death and Life of the Great American School System and Reign of Error; so have Noam Chomsky, Henry Giroux, and dozens of teacher bloggers exposed corporate reform.

ESSA is not as punitive as NCLB, but its worn - out test - centrism will accomplish little as it prompts states to seek creative ways to retain Title I money in the face of an increasing public resistance to the very testing on which corporate reform depends.

Let Jeb Bush and his corporate friends and politicians who drive corporate reform also teach for a month.

he Chicago Tribune, the noted corporate reform cheerleader, has requested the public's input into various phases of a proposed master plan for Chicago.

A nexus of a lot of corporate reform activity and collaboration is National School Choice Week (NSCW).

I'm sure these new governments will try and keep it under control with PMC corporate reform laws... But it ain't gonna be good enough.

The emphasis on standardized testing in corporate reform is even more amazing when you consider what Sarah Darer Littman says: that the reformers aren't even sure how to make their Common Core Standards standard in the most effective way!