By using these five key strategies, a healthy relationship with
the different education reform efforts becomes possible.
Not exact matches
Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the
education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in
different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12
reform efforts.
In a new article for
Education Next, Joanne Jacobs looks at one of these
reform efforts from a
different angle.
Since the 1960s,
efforts to
reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and
different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the
reforms fail to deal with a
different definition of learning.
Jacobson's chapter, «School - Community Partnerships: A Typology for Guiding Systemic
Education Reform,» draws on the experiences of the Coalition for Community Schools and other partnership
efforts to help policymakers and researchers understand the value and
different types of partnership approaches.
Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s,
efforts to
reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and
different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the
reforms fail to deal with a
different definition of learning.»»
To that end,
reforming for - profits should be part of a larger
effort to make American higher -
education less wasteful and more rewarding for college students, whose diverse needs will lead them to attend very
different institutions.