Sentences with phrase «decades of reform efforts»

A renewed commitment to those goals, rather than to the particular means pursued during the past several decades of reform efforts, may help both liberals and conservatives see their way to bold, constructive ideas for improving American schools — and toward alternatives to schools as we know them.

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The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

If Republicans, many of whom are allied with SNA in this effort, win control of the Senate this fall, we may well see decades of work on school food reform go up in smoke.

Top Democrats in Albany still won't tell survivors where they can stand on the decade - old effort to reform the state's statute of limitations law on child sex abuse claims.

It is not for the lack of effort to reform over the past decade.

Nowhere is that effort more lacking than in the realm of reform, a decades - long need in New York exacerbated by the embarrassing fall from power of two of the three men in the room with Cuomo only a few years ago and now magnified by the conviction of a one - time gubernatorial buddy in a blistering corruption trial.

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

Larry Cuban is a prolific and insightful chronicler and analyst of our efforts at urban school reform and improvement over the last few decades.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

After a decade of efforts to improve public schools incrementally, the initiative for education reform has shifted to outsiders who propose radical measures.

The text - based chat followed the release last month of Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform, the 10th annual Education Week report on state policy efforts for improving education (Jan. 5, 2006).

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives.

Instead, it builds on at least a decade's worth of federal reform efforts.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

But it is a tad difficult to take the president seriously on his commitment to systemic reform in light of his effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have helped spur a decade of systemic reforms.

By engaging in this waiver gambit, the Obama administration has lost plenty of high moral and intellectual ground on the reform front — and has weakened reform efforts for at least a decade.

The move to ditch AYP and the underlying goal of forcing states and districts to take responsibility for how they educate poor and minority kids, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very initiatives Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

Wilson is paddling upstream against the current in an effort to reform the culture of a school district that has been dysfunctional for decades.

As Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone told education philanthropist Katherine Bradley when she began her school reform efforts a decade ago, it is critical to overhaul the schools at the center of the lives of children and their communities.

School vouchers and related efforts like tax credits, scholarship grants, and education savings accounts, have become popular tools of the education reform movement's agenda during the past few decades.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

For local educators, the assessment consortia's work adds to a running list of education reform efforts that spans more than a decade, but has accelerated in the past few years.

It's no surprise that we have large and diverse range of Coalition members in Memphis, which has been the epicenter of education reform, with multiple large - scale efforts at innovation over the past decade.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

Despite the last few decades of intensive school reform efforts, «even the most ardent reformers must admit that public schools and student learning have improved only slightly, if at all,» writes Wolk.

Decades of research and reform efforts in K - 12 and higher education have yielded one area of near - universal agreement: exceptional educational institutions have excellent leaders.

As Dropout Nation has argued for the past year, the waiver gambit weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which No Child's accountability provisions have helped usher (including Obama's own initiatives).

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

But evidence had been mounting for some time that the state's tests, which have formed the basis of almost every school reform effort of the past decade, had serious flaws.

As 1991 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and 1996 New Hampshire Media Educator of the Year, Kim has been actively involved in local, state, and national education reform efforts for over two decades, including Souhegan High School, Monadnock Community Connections School, Five Freedoms Project, and most recently, the Q.E.D. Foundation.

By the end of that decade, southern governors and chambers of commerce successfully launched a wave of curricula standards, standardized testing regimes, and teacher quality efforts that would be at the heart of the school reform movement of today.

And so, in the second decade of the 21st century, reform efforts to both standardize and customize curriculum and instruction present themselves anew.

The issues covered by the framework illustrate the new approach to poverty in the context of the last several decades of efforts to reform and improve public schools:

As I'm sure you know, even the hint of testing irregularities and misconduct in the test administration process could call into question school reform efforts and undermine the State accountability systems that you have painstakingly built over the past decade.

By effectively ditching No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very reforms Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

Ithaca, NY About Blog Peter R. Breggin MD is a Harvard - trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at NIMH who has been called «The Conscience of Psychiatry» for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field.

That's going to require the kind of effort that should have started decades ago, and, at this late hour, a near - Herculean push for major reform.

About a week ago, The Legal Intelligencer made an heroic effort to unpack insurance data to see the effect of the changes in medical malpractice liability law from a decade ago, but ran into a serious problem: those very same medical insurance companies that cry the loudest about the need for tort reform also refuse to make public the data that would tell us the most about the malpractice system.

Ithaca, NY About Blog Peter R. Breggin MD is a Harvard - trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at NIMH who has been called «The Conscience of Psychiatry» for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field.

Ithaca, NY About Blog Peter R. Breggin MD is a Harvard - trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at NIMH who has been called «The Conscience of Psychiatry» for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field.