Sentences with phrase «education leaders on both sides»

Mediocre PISA and TIMSS results plus persistent domestic achievement gaps have caught the eyes of policymakers and education leaders on both sides of the pond, as it's become clear that yesterday's so - so expectations just aren't good enough and that today's testing - and - accountability regimes do not produce nearly enough world - class, college - ready graduates.

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Labor leaders from across the city rallied on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sept. 9 in support of Robert Jackson, a longtime education advocate and former City Council member running for the Democratic nomination to represent the 31st District in the state Senate.

Teles cited a paper by Sheara Krvaric and Melissa Junge, in which they argued that «the multiplicity of overlapping and bewildering federal programs for K - 12 education creates a compliance mentality among school leaders, making them wary of new ideas and pushing them to focus on staying on the right side of the rules rather than on improving their schools.»

«There's a realization and understanding on the clients» side that the factory model school that most of us went to — where you've got similarly sized classrooms marching down either side of the hallway — is not going to support the kind of teaching and learning that they're after,» says Steve Turckes, principal and K — 12 education global practice leader for Perkins + Will.

SOS12 Karran Harper Royal: How [some] African Americans and Civil Rights Leaders Got on the Wrong Side of the Ed Reform Movement from Grassroots Education Movement on Vimeo.

On the performance side, education leaders need work toward the retention of students, just as much as test performance.