Sentences with phrase «dominated school reform efforts»

In its current incarnation, NAS is almost indistinguishable from the foundations and government agencies that have dominated school reform efforts for decades.

Not exact matches

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

But that would mean convincing Fulton County's legislative delegation (which can put a stranglehold on any reform effort, as they did during the 1990s with efforts by residents in what is now Sandy Springs to form their own city government), as well as working with the Republican - dominated legislature and new governor Nathan Deal (who is no exemplar on school reform).

The school reform efforts of the past generation have been dominated by the language of human capital deployment, with too little attention given to human capital development.