Sentences with phrase «country about education reform»

But, her most significant achievement was that she shifted dialogue in the country about education reform.

Seattle Education has timely blog posts about Seattle's public school system, and like most of the regional blogs, they provide excellent information for the country about education reform.

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Second, he let Sen Landrieu take the heat and be called a whore by his GOP minions for aquiring additional funds for Medicade - althought it was at his bequest Third - he goes around galavanting around the country fundraising» instead of governing - He blasts government for all of the ills and blamed the BP oil mess on Washington - yet he went licking up to DC for funds so he could build berms that wold be mysterious for the coast and let BP off the hook Cut funding for education - although he was afforded a damn good one He sides with his GOP pals about health care reform - REMINDER his child has a pre existing condition - heart problem

I very much look forward to continuing to learn about Singapore's remarkable achievements in education reform, and to a rich dialogue with leaders of thought and practice, as well as students, in that beautiful country».

In the end, the country still finds itself divided about education reform.

Twenty years ago A Nation at Risk set off alarms about the quality of America's schools, and ever since our country has been caught up in a frenzy of education reform.

From the country's philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the previous decades, and the secrets to its success.

I consider myself probably as strong of an education reform advocate as anyone else in the country, and I'm not in a bad mood about it.

Clearly the US has much to learn about education from this, for it is concluded that the research on these high success countries includes no evidence that any of them have gotten there «by implementing any of the major agenda items that dominate the education reform agenda in the United States, with the exception of the Common Core State Standards» (p, 209).

With the practice of spending only about 5 % of assets each year and given the large (and effective) efforts the Foundation makes in developing country health - care, Gates only spends a couple hundred million dollars on education reform each year.

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

As California and many regions across the country grapple with crippling education budget deficits, Wolk hopes this book will inspire discussion not only about instructional reform in education circles, but also about education funding with policymakers.

In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's children attend public or private school?

Today, DeVos is the country's top education official who no longer has to be careful about pushing her school reform vision.

«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.»

Christine Campbell writes about the history of the Portfolio strategy and how it continues to influence education reform throughout the country.

The film talks about the kinds of real reform — inside schools and in society as a whole — that we urgently need to genuinely transform education in this country.

In other news, another corporate education reform industry leader, Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis, returned to twitter last night to continue his rant about the country's leading public school advocate, Diane Ravitch.

See also here about how this logic is impacting other countries across the world, as per the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM).

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testEducation, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testEducation and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testeducation reform industry's Common Core testing scam.