Sentences with phrase «dominate education debates»

Common Core The multistate education standards will continue to dominate the education debate.

Both reactions are a testimony to how much he has come to dominate the education debate - as, in a breakneck four years, he turned most secondary schools into academies and re-wrote the exam system.

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Two hostile camps dominate debate about the future of American public education.

ED in ’08 may also have contributed to Obama's decision to press forward with national standards and performance pay for teachers once he was in office... Teacher effectiveness and national standards [would] come to dominate the Obama education agenda and the education debate for the next four years.

Frustration over inequities in higher education dominated the annual College Board conference, as educators and administrators debated strategies to ensure fair admissions procedures and financial - aid processes.

«Testing has become enormously important with an extraordinarily powerful influence on schooling, and it increasingly dominates public debate about education,» he says.

Two reforms have dominated the education policy debates of the past decade: school choice as epitomized by charter schools, and testing and accountability as symbolized by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

A problem facing many child and youth programs is that they are largely absent from mainstream education conversations and the popular media, which are dominated by debates about teacher unions, test scores, and school budgets.

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.

Until 2001, debate over the allocation of funding often dominated efforts to revise the main federal K - 12 law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

These and other results suggest that some of the most prominent ideas that dominate current policy debates — from supporting vouchers to doubling down on high - stakes tests to cutting federal education funding — are out of step with parents» main concern: They want their children prepared for life after they complete high school.

One reason the media ignored the implementation of Common Core is that the Indiana education debate was dominated by Governor Daniels's high - profile effort to expand school choice.

Educators, Businesses Need to Collaborate on Job Skills San Francisco Chronicle, 2/21/14 «Beyond the arguments typically dominating the education reform debate is the simple fact that students are not being set up to participate in today's changing economy.

Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools.

The public debate on education, which is too often dominated by those same special interests and their spin machines.

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.

As charter schools have dominated public discussion on education in the past several years, the debate at times has appeared to be between charter schools for the whole country or no charter schools at all.

Much in the same way that Colbert broke through the cheap dialogue about «patriotism» and «strength» that surrounded the Iraq War, Louis C.K.'s plain speaking about his daughter's education seared through the bland rhetoric about «standards, expectations, and achievement» that dominates the debate about education policy.

Utah Legislature will tackle high - profile issues Politics» While the state budget and public education will dominate discussions as usual, lawmakers are expected to debate tougher ethics laws, weaker gun - control laws.

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.

Mary Burke deserves credit for being a voice of maturity in the school voucher debate, which is too often dominated by those who think vouchers are the death knell of American education and those who think vouchers are the cure - all for American education.

From Keystone Crossroads The dust has settled on the 2016 - 17 Pennsylvania budget, and, as usual, debates over education funding and policy dominated much of the negotiations.

Education and development aside, its hard to imagine that the blocksize debate won't come up or even dominate some of the conference discussions.