Sentences with phrase «education policy agenda»

A progressive education policy agenda should focus on putting economic mobility and opportunity within reach for all.

Researchers will be looking at this data for years to come, but for now, one thing is clear: This time period also saw one of the most dramatic changes in education policy agendas this nation has ever seen.

«I voted against the Economic Stimulus Bill that essentially gave the Department of Education a blank check that was used for Race to the Top, and I have been very critical of how the Department of Education used those funds to push a specific education policy agenda from Washington on the states without specific input from Congress,» Senator Grassley told me via e-mail.

The outcome will be a collaborative and mutual Whole Child education policy agenda for Texas.

These four items can and should form an alternative education policy agenda for Tennessee.

Over the course of two days members learned about the current education landscape in Tennessee, helped identify shared education priorities for the coalition, developed a common education policy agenda, and advocated at the state legislature for students in our local communities and across the state.

«There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people,» Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian and analyst, wrote in The Death and Life of the Great American School System, a recent book that criticizes many currently influential education ideas.

Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today's dominant education policy agenda.

Before joining Joyce, Beth served as Deputy for Education in the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, working collaboratively with education and community leaders to define the city's education policy agenda from birth through college.

Jon Schnur, cofounder and executive chairman of America Achieves, provided a rare personal window into President Obama's education policy agenda — including an up - close look at the origins and content of the President's policies and how they developed — at the Askwith Forum on Tuesday, February 5.

The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to expand access to private schools.

It should be noted that Pence's education policy agenda has not veered wildly away from others in his party.

She worked closely with the secretary on the coordination and development of the governor's education policy agenda.

Improving the teacher workforce is now high on the education policy agenda, and most policymakers draw on research to inform their positions about teacher quality.

Efforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade.

Intended Policy Impact: Develop a cadre of teacher leaders well versed in education policy and equipped with advocacy tools to drive an education policy agenda that reflects input from teachers of color.

E fforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade.

In a bid to change that, the National School Boards Action Center (NASBC) helped sponsor a forum Thursday to give presidential candidates and their campaigns an opportunity to highlight their education policy agendas.

Given the above, it is hard to see how the emergence of increased competition, division and fragmentation within the teacher trade union movement is going to help teachers (and school leaders) reclaim the initiative in relation to the education policy agenda.

The vote to delay Common Core and PARCC ended a particularly bad week for Governor Haslam's education policy agenda.

The first step for policy makers is to make tackling low performance a priority in their education policy agenda.

A cap on charter schools has nothing to do with the «bread and butter» fundamentals of wages and employment policy, but it has everything to do with the union's education policy agenda.

Both bills were on the education policy agenda Wednesday.

At the same time, school workforce and teacher retention are high on the education policy agenda.

The Need to Address Noncognitive Skills in the Education Policy Agenda is from The Economic Policy Institute.