Sentences with phrase «decisionmaking power»

WHAT»S WRONG: Too many «reforms» remove schools from local control, muting the voices and decisionmaking power of parents and local communities.

Rating states on this aspect of Parent Power alone would have been quite revealing about how far we have to go to provide families real decisionmaking power in education.

Moreover, research suggests that changes in school culture and classroom instructional practice are necessary requirements for improving pupil achievement, and that just redistributing decisionmaking power and resources is not enough.

Lauenstein - Denjongpa has changed the command structure at Taktse to give teachers more decisionmaking power.

Instead, Brown has promoted an approach that gives local school districts more control and decisionmaking powers, including over how their progress should be assessed.

Not exact matches

Arnulf Grubler, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, wrote in a 2010 paper published in the journal Energy Policy that France's success in nuclear energy stemmed from establishing a standard design for reactors, centralized decisionmaking and certainty that the government was committed to nuclear power.

GLEP executive director Gary Naeyaert criticized the proposal as «anti-choice» with «czar - like power» that would take decisionmaking away from families and place it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

For example, one characteristic of successful principal leadership is the ability to delegate power throughout the school and create networks of decisionmaking teams.

Today, reformers still pin their hopes on other strategies that count on the power of decentralized decisionmaking, such as school choice, charter schools, and vouchers.