Sentences with phrase «education policy wonk in»

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In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

This is a boon to us policy wonks because we can study the progress (or lack thereof) of individual states and use sophisticated research methodologies to relate score changes to differences in education policies or practices.

So the policy wonks in education should not expect their work to get much coverage in the mainstream media.

Jindal casts himself as a «policy wonk» and reformer, and his agenda for education features several ideas unfathomable in previous administrations: teacher pay for performance, school vouchers, and tax credits for private school tuition.

The «best practices» method that is gaining popularity among more - impressionable education policy wonks and that Tucker used in Surpassing Shanghai simply can not support causal claims about «what works.»

This, in turn, points out a reality that neither the Obama Administration nor Beltway wonks such as Petrilli fail to admit: That No Child has been the single - biggest advance in education policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education Acteducation policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education ActEducation Act of 1958.

Whenever I hear education policy wonks arguing about the topic of student suspensions, I'm reminded of the Rorschach tests I learned about in Psychology 101.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Eeducation policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in EducationEducation.

TIME.com — The source list in Steven Brill's Class Warfare may read like the Who's Who of modern education reform, but the chapters that precede it often feel more like The Real Housewives of Policy Wonk County.