Sentences with phrase «debates about education reform»

You know this when their debates about education reform are centered around teacher rights, and not student rights.

Dr. Glass is known for his Twitter savvy and willingness to have public online debates about education reform.

Diane Ravitch has brought the real facts and a commitment to quality public schools for all back into the debate about education reform.

And that is the real question in the ongoing debate about education reform in Philadelphia: School choice is a fact of life for wealthy, mostly white families in Philadelphia.

«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 institutions.»

Not exact matches

Paul joins us today at the Ed Next Book Club to talk about his book, the impact he hopes it will have on the education reform debate, and what it means for the broader war on poverty.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

I'm excited about building an institute in New York that will be a real center for discussion and debate of educational values and reform direction, and again hope to have a voice in national education reform.

His use of the word «paternalism» sparked a raucous debate among education reformers and reform critics about «No Excuses» schools like KIPP, Amistad Academy, and Cristo Rey.

Parents» perspectives on education reform are often missing from the education policy debate, with technocrats typically arguing with one another about what parents want or what's best for them.

As for the suggestion about offering more opportunities for discussion and debate about different visions of education reform, I should first point out that we hosted close to 90 speakers just this year.

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

The Democratic - dominated legislature's unanimous override of the Republican governor's veto, part of a $ 250 million package of cuts to the $ 20.8 billion state budget for fiscal 2000, touched off an intense debate about Mr. Cellucci's commitment to the 1993 Education Reform Act.

Overwhelmed, dispirited, eager for distraction, I allowed myself to be dragged briefly into a Twitter «debate» about education reform that instantly devolved into familiar rants about who is or is not qualified to set standards or policy, who's funding whom, and who stands to make a buck.

The eleven - member task force first met in 1999 and established as its mission to present pertinent facts about K — 12 education, contribute to the debate with constructive commentary, and generate new ideas for education reform.

This week, Mike Petrilli talks with Jay about his book, Work Hard, Be Nice, about what KIPP means for the larger education reform debate, and whether Hollywood has bought the rights to his story.

In the education reform debate, school choice options — namely charter schools — are among the most buzzed about topics.

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.

Chris Stewart of Education Post and blogger extraordinaire gives us food for thought about how to approach the ed reform debate; and it happens to fits nicely with the March 29th Volume and Light post «They Planning for Our Future, None Of Us Involved.»

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.

Because discussions about teacher pay rarely reference these data, the policy debate on education reform has proceeded without a clear understanding of these issues.

These legislators, some of the finest and most dedicated in the General Assembly, had important things to say about the «education reform» debate.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

Whitney Tilson and I are engaged in a pretty fierce debate about the key issues in education reform.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

In the end, this information is not so much about who is right or who is wrong but it certainly begins the process of explaining who is who in this upcoming education reform debate.

Achievement First Inc. one of the nation's larger charter school management companies with 20 schools in New York and Connecticut, is rapidly expanding in Connecticut, despite the fact that the 2012 education reform debate is supposed to include a discussion about whether the state should make greater use of the charter school model.

Fact # 6: This is not about whether Commissioner Pryor, a well - regarded leader and change agent, should be involved in the great education reform debate of 2012.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

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.