Sentences with phrase «education reform advocates do»

Considering Malloy and his corporate education reform advocates don't want the Common Core testing and teacher evaluation issues to even be discussed in public, it will take a lot to convince Democratic rank and file legislators that they should put their constituents ahead of Malloy's politics.

Not exact matches

While ethics reform may be dominating much of the conversation in Albany, education advocates are hoping the public and lawmakers don't forget there's much work to be done regarding teacher evaluations.

Zak Malamed (@zakmal), founder of the #stuvoice Twitter chat and an outspoken advocate for bringing student voice into education reform, didn't always have the confidence he exudes as an 18 - year - old freshman at University of Maryland.

In the late 1990s, education - reform advocate Geoffrey Canada began an ambitious social experiment, pledging to do whatever it took to improve the lives of New York City's poor children.

So why do I, and why should education advocates, invest in pension reform?

When launching the latest grand reform du jour, education leaders and advocates have frequently made the mistake of overselling the benefits and ease of adoption to teachers, parents, community members, and other stakeholders.

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For educators unfamiliar with it, the mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.

Advocates of integrating technology education in teacher education face a significant obstacle that may not be experienced by other curriculum reformers — they probably do not know much about curriculum reform.

Some long - time Mississippians and education advocates say that the reforms alums are focusing on, like charter schools, will simply perpetuate a revolving door of teachers and do not necessarily improve schools.

,» Wait, What explored the latest move by Stefan Pryor to bring in more inexperienced, out - of - state, education reform advocates to tell Connecticut's Alliance Districts what to do.

It turns out that it took less than 24 hours for Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to make it clear that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's departure IS NOT a sign that Connecticut's anti-teacher, pro-corporate education reform Democratic governor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in ConEducation Commissioner Stefan Pryor's departure IS NOT a sign that Connecticut's anti-teacher, pro-corporate education reform Democratic governor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in Coneducation reform Democratic governor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in Connecticut.

Designed for distribution at black churches around the state, «A Stone's Throw» relies exclusively on testimony of African American parents, students, educators and education - reform advocates, each with praise to sing about the wonders of charters schools or a lament about the lack of charters in Mississippi — even though the phrase «charter school» doesn't appear until a quarter through the film.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

There is an opportunity for education reform and charter advocates to respond to legitimate concerns in ways that don't shame or defame black people and our organizations: Be accountable to black people.

«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»

In the area of criminal law, the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) has a mandate to identify, advocate for, and exonerate individuals who have been convicted of a crime they did not commit and to prevent wrongful convictions through legal education and reform.