Sentences with phrase «education policy elite»

Last February, in a speech in Washington, D.C. that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

The school board and the education policy elites (maybe) are tired of toxic warfare.

Not exact matches

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

Test - based accountability was initiated by policy elites frustrated over rising education costs and subpar results.

It's too bad that so many of our media and policy elites live in these two atypical places because they are giving us a very distorted picture of special education.

And judging by the admissions policies of the nation's great universities, our elite higher education institutions hold this holistic view, too.

It is hardly surprising that the apparent exhaustion of the education - reform consensus has been accompanied by exhaustion on the part of the American public (whose children have been caught in the middle of the debate), not to mention many policy elites and politicians.

Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity through three policy strands: 1) the racial politics of public education, 2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and, 3) the role of elite and community - based advocacy in shaping public education policies and research evidence utilization.

It would be a mistake, however, to use these findings to guide policymakers, researchers, and elites for identifying which schools are «good» or «bad» and which policies, education programs, or schools are working or failing.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Closely associated with Governor Dannel Malloy and his anti-public education policies, the elite behind the education reform and privatization movement are engaged in a broad based effort to control the dialogue and votes in the Connecticut legislature.

Back in May 2010, hundreds of the nation's education foundation, policy, and practice elites were gathered for the NewSchools Venture Fund meeting in Washington to celebrate and learn from the most recent education...

Even advanced education in this subject would deny her certain wisdom in our captivity to policy made by and for our scientific elites.