Up against the state budget deadline, the Legislature today will consider a few last - minute items that could prove pivotal in
the debate over school reform.
Keeping the document handy may prove helpful if one wants to understand the interstices of
the debate over school reform.
Let's not politicize
the debate over school reform to find wedge issues or accentuate divisions.
Not exact matches
The food safety bill was passed by the Senate, the long - awaited child nutrition /
school food legislation is ready to be signed into law, and we had a lot of really intense
debate over school food
reform.
«Funding for New York State
schools should not be held hostage due to the ongoing
debate over how best to
reform our education system.
Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter -
school movement — and by extension a player in the national
debate over education
reform.
Watch for heightened
debate - and finally some decisions - about recurring issues: the state's Brownfield Tax Credit program, justice
reforms (see below), renewing the New York City mayor's power
over its massive
school district, and, of course,
school funding.
The syllabus required that I address the history of our current
school system,
debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.
Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countr
Over the past 20 years, many
school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education
reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in
school systems, ongoing
debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countr
over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.
One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these
debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights
over bigger
reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded
school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.
After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of
reform efforts, public evaluations of their local
schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national
debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held
schools accountable for low performance.
Those holding the neutral position declined from 44 percent to 36 percent between 2009 and 2010, likely reflecting the heightened attention to charter
schools in national
debates over education
reform (see Figure 2).
And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter
schools and other
reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national
debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.
Though
school discipline
reform is an imperative for the most ideological progressives, the
debate over the issue has revealed some rifts within the de Blasio coalition.
I think it is safe to say that Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the founders of KIPP, have had more influence on the
school reform debate than any academic or policy wonk
over the past 15 years.
In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election
debate over education
reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between
school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other.
Though this push for
reform of public
schools dates back several decades, it has steadily moved from the margins of the political
debate to occupy center stage in the tussles
over domestic policy.
Cami Anderson, the superintendent of the Newark public
school system who became a lightning rod in the
debate over education
reform in New Jersey and nationally, resigned on Monday, eight months before her contract was to expire.
Yet
school desegregation is an issue that has been virtually absent from education
reform debates and policies enacted
over the past 13 years.
Another state - operated
school district, another broiling
debate over the Christie administration's
reform plans.
For scholars and policy makers focused on
reforming urban
schools, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research over the past decade of
schools, Organizing
Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research over the past decade of
Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research
over the past decade of
debate.
The laws have become part of a broader
debate over the proliferation of charter
schools, private
school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education
reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public
school system.
Education
reform, largely a footnote in the presidential campaign, emerged at the tail end of last night's
debate in a brief exchange between the candidates
over whether D.C.
Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee supports vouchers or charter s
Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee supports vouchers or charter
schoolsschools.
Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national
debate over education
reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public
schools nationwide.
More broadly, the Renewal effort's fate will have implications for the larger national
debate over urban
school reform.
As
debate continues
over an education
reform model for Nashville's public
schools, two local groups have teamed up to offer an event that will highlight the
reform experience of the Recovery
School District in New Orleans.
When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas's death became a flash point, drawing the city's largest newspaper into the middle of the
debate over reforming the nation's second - largest
school district.
For more than a decade, the
debate over public
school reform has created friction between teachers unions, administrators,
school boards, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in public education and has fueled disagreements
over how to improve the quality of teaching and learning for children.
If you've been following the education
reform debate, you will have seen that various news outlets have reported that
over the past six years only two new charter
schools have opened even though there have been at least 20 applications from charter advocates to open new programs.
THE
debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education
reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though
school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation
over the last decade.
And the
debate over the role of law
schools in preparing students for the reality of practice continues to rage in full force, with a diverse coalition comprised of both law professors and practitioners advocating for substantial
reform.