Sentences with phrase «education reform efforts»

Despite years of education reform efforts, many urban public schools are falling short, unable to raise student achievement.

(f) Get behind corporate education reform efforts.

While there, I represented the district on education reform efforts undertaken by the superintendent, such as changing educational programs and implementation of reforms at the school.

This testing lies at the very heart of current education reform efforts because it provides the fuel that the current education reform machine relies upon: data.

Look Who's Talking Now provides necessary support for the inclusion of students in education reform efforts by detailing a variety of research practices across the country.

I've always been in an office or organization where we've supported education reform efforts.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

I am a strong proponent of successful education reform efforts at the state and local level.

The new merit pay language mirrors the evaluation policy: both seem to align the union with education reform efforts more than ever before, but come with major caveats.

Most education reform efforts focus on what teachers are doing — professional development, new curricula, bonuses and incentives to raise scores, and so on.

Very helpful in understanding the challenges facing modern education reform efforts.

The bad news: Many of those initiatives still focus on the same flawed assumptions that have undermined education reform efforts for years.

Recent education reform efforts commonly aim at improving teacher effectiveness.

On the one hand, education reform efforts reflect those approaches deemed necessary to accomplish that goal.

Participants identified eight education reform efforts affecting services to highly capable students.

By using these five key strategies, a healthy relationship with the different education reform efforts becomes possible.

She was a member of the team that won a federal Race to the Top grant for the city, and was instrumental in one of the nation's most visible education reform efforts.

Those who are teaching our children, and who are leading important education reform efforts, should be held to the highest standards.

Some hope that current education reform efforts — raising standards, holding teachers accountability, creating more charter schools — could help persuade these parents to keep the faith with big cities.

The effort to release questions won praise from business leaders who have been supportive of education reform efforts.

Awards recipients become Fellows of the Golden Apple Academy of Educators who mentor Golden Apple Scholars, lead science instruction at our STEM Institute, and contribute to major education reform efforts in Illinois and nationally.

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

Mr. Arambula is currently leading education reform efforts in his hometown of Fresno.

However, providing financial support is only part of the Meyer Foundation's involvement in local education reform efforts.

As 1991 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and 1996 New Hampshire Media Educator of the Year, Kim has been actively involved in local, state, and national education reform efforts for over two decades, including Souhegan High School, Monadnock Community Connections School, Five Freedoms Project, and most recently, the Q.E.D. Foundation.

Nonetheless, I believe the recent nationally inspired education reform efforts from No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top to the most recent iteration of them − the Common Core State Standards − are leading American schools down the wrong path.

A series of failed education reform efforts over the past 50 years seemed to confirm that conclusion.

In 1972 the Ford Foundation published a remarkably frank critique of its own education reform efforts during the 1960s.

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

Prior to joining ICEF in 2004, Ravare worked for Los Angeles Unified School District Board member Genethia Hudley - Hayes and was a facilitator with LEARN, a district - wide education reform effort.

But in all of the massive education reform efforts over the past couple of decades, this largest and most important remaining area of the K - 12 reform space — educator effectiveness — has been relatively untouched in any meaningful way.

Recruiting and capacity building approaches that value the perspectives and skills of those professionals whose talents and experiences align with the needs of our children stand to be the most effective in sustaining education reform efforts throughout the city and as a model for the country.

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) is the most comprehensive, state - of - the - art education reform effort at the secondary level to date.

By extension, should we revisit the «college - for - all» rallying cry of many education reform efforts?

It will be initially funded through the Education First Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, which Dean established last year to provide private financial support for new education reform efforts in Nashville.

As more education reform efforts lean on technology to try to improve schools and lift student achievement, policy makers are grappling with a tricky reality: a digital divide in the era of digital natives.

The nine - person board has a voice on policy matters, can nix or approve big contracts and budgets, and generally helps steer the direction of Hartford's long - running education reform efforts.

If you are ready to work at the forefront of education reform efforts worldwide, we encourage you to apply to IEP.

«It's incredibly important to use data to drive education reform efforts,» said Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

Developing a successful relationship between education reform efforts and gifted education is linked to five key strategies:

Hartford, Connecticut — Last night, the Connecticut General Assembly passed Connecticut's biennial state budget, which will fund education reform efforts for the next two years.

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.

Many of the most prominent and influential education reform efforts would be hurt by proposed AmeriCorps cuts.

As a current State Senator, he has been leading Colorado's legislative education reform efforts — and has been having stunning success.

Many contemporary education reform efforts attempt to leverage teacher evaluation policy to improve teacher quality, by making the evaluation process more rigorous or by tying results more directly to student learning outcomes, for example.