Sentences with phrase «education bureaucrats»

The leading state education bureaucrats in New Jersey, and some of their supporters, do not seem to understand the complex nature of human development, classroom instruction, learning, or educating the whole child.

Its school system had long been regarded as a failure; for years it served as Exhibit A for congressmen and U.S. Department of Education bureaucrats who pointed to their hometown as the poster child for underperforming schools.

However, state education bureaucrats in New Jersey, and other states, have put their faith in untested standardization programs.

But the wise education bureaucrat knows that any problem here must be the teacher's — he must not have differentiated his instruction enough.»

Instead, he argued such cuts merely imperil education bureaucrats.

But a Board of Education bureaucrat somewhere deep in the bowels of 110 Livingston Street had decided that it was too complicated to evaluate Mr. Simion's doctoral - level training in Romania (partly because some documents had been lost in his flight from his homeland).

That is why leading Republican candidates for president like Virginia senator George Allen now pepper their speeches with potshots at «federal education bureaucrats.»

Now that most state education bureaucrats adopted the CCSS, national testing is scheduled to begin in 2014 or 2015 in 42 states.

I think next year we may need a bill to stop the Governor and state education bureaucrats from bullying local school boards.»

On the night of December 13, 2011, dozens of protesters slept out in the cold and rain in front of CPS headquarters at 125 S. Clark St., and on the morning of December 14 people halted the meeting of the Chicago Board of Education and held a two - hour «Peoples» Board» meeting after the Board members and the city's top education bureaucrats fled.

But they also favored regulations that, in their view, would ensure low - income families had real power over education bureaucrats and real access to new education environments.

The union representing Department of Education bureaucrats is crying foul after the agency constrained union privileges following months of delays in negotiation.

Whereas government - run schools are primarily accountable to elected school boards and unelected state education bureaucrats, private education providers are accountable directly to parents, and the same market forces that place competitive pressure on other kinds of businesses operate on these education providers as well.

In many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in it.

Some education bureaucrats, like Secretary Duncan, might say after reading this article: «Wait, U.S. fourth - grade students ranked 11th in mathematics, not 8th.»

Education bureaucrats, pundits, business profiteers, and policymakers dispense fraudulent claims about how the performance of teachers, school administrators, students, higher education faculty, and parents are causing economic Armageddon for the United States.

It seems as if some state education bureaucrats and so - called education reformers are trying to «teacher - proof» assessment through the use of standardized tests like PARCC.

Ms. Ravitch's basic idea is that the education bureaucrats, the politicians, and the heads of a group of fabulously wealthy foundations have cleaved to the latest fads and theories, most of which can be subsumed under the business model of public education.

«Not because he chose another education bureaucrat who knows all the acronyms and knows the arcana known to people who have been brought up within that establishment,» Cornyn said.

The question before the Senate is whether to reassert the role of Congress vis - à - vis Department of Education bureaucrats and whether to ensure, as far as possible, that school accountability is primarily the province of state and local leaders.

«Teachers are dedicated to their students and sometimes we just want to stay in our classrooms and keep our heads down, but over time corporations and education bureaucrats have taken over,» Nott said.

So after rebranding himself as an education expert to become an education bureaucrat, Pryor is branding himself for the second time as a business leader — a «re-rebranding» — to become a business bureaucrat.

In a letter dated July 7, 2015, Lynn Mahaffie, a Department of Education bureaucrat, issued a letter advising creditors like ECMC not to oppose bankruptcy relief for student debtors if the cost of fighting a bankruptcy discharge did not make the effort worthwhile.