Sentences with phrase «education reform efforts from»

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.

He has over twenty - five years experience leading education reform efforts from the classroom to the statehouse.

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Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioEducation, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioeducation reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

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

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

In a new article for Education Next, Joanne Jacobs looks at one of these reform efforts from a different angle.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuringEducation Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuringeducation reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.

Far from being a «dead end» (as asserted by Marc Tucker in Education Week recently), better teacher evaluation systems will be vital for any broad reform effort, such as implementing the Common Core.

Therefore, it does not represent a stark departure from current reform efforts, but instead presents a framework for science education that has evolved from those previous efforts.

Investment in educational hardware and software, while «a major component in educational restructuring and reform initiatives,» has not been matched by coordinated efforts to train teachers to use the equipment effectively, a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board concludes.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reforEducation Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reforeducation reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

From the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school refFrom the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reffrom the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reform.

Unfortunately, many efforts to reform education through standardization of teaching and learning, and shifting control from classrooms to boardrooms have served to disenfranchise educators.

Since the Milliken ruling, there has been a vast effort to improve public education for students from kindergarten through high school with an extensive range of reforms.

Results from the first independent evaluation using student - level data of Newark's education reform efforts

Their efforts to reform education «from the top down» are revealed as an embarrassing fiasco.

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

Insight in action As part of collaborative reform efforts to improve K - 6 science education across multiple urban school districts, a teacher leader was selected from each participating elementary school based on his / her knowledge of science.

Independent public charter schools remained the norm as the public charter school movement grew from a fledgling reform effort into a major force in public education, now affecting 2.7 million students and families nationwide.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

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.

During the two - and - a-half hour session, «Teacher Evaluation In the Classroom,» attended by about 200 people, stakeholders affected by the ongoing reform effort shared their perspectives with the audience while answering questions from both moderator John Mooney, education writer and co-founder of New Jersey Spotlight magazine, and audience members comprised largely of concerned parents and educators.

Also on the list are Dale Russakoff's tome on Newark's school reform efforts, a Parent Power book from Tom Vander Ark and his team at Getting Smart, and a tome on education governance from famed education policy wonk Paul Hill.

Within the past year, Common Core opponents have managed to keep states such as Texas and Virginia from embracing the curricula reform effort, and have managed to lead nearly - successful efforts to overturn decisions by state education officials in South Carolina to enact them.

In New Zealand, school reform efforts from the 1980s and 1990s led to a transformation in the education system.

This is because it can be difficult for even the most reform - minded governors, with strong support for his efforts from activists and wonks on the ground, to overhaul public education.

They've done this through a range of efforts, from creating startup - style school incubators to attract the best education talent to Indianapolis, to hosting informational tours showcasing the city's top schools so the community understands the impact of education - reform work.

The nine finalist states from the second round of Race to the Top have another shot at winning money to support their K — 12 education reform efforts, albeit at much more modest funding levels.

The report, «What the U.S. Can Learn From the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts,» found that in high - scoring countries like Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and South Korea, teachers have higher status and are typically paid better relative to other workers.

Still, as constituents and politicians demand more accountability from schools, and dissatisfied parents seek more education options for their children, charter schools have become the most identifiable and popular effort for school reform and improvement.

With the promise of local accountability and coordinated efforts to improve, the district is one of nine in a consortium called the California Office to Reform Education — which includes Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco — seeking a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

It is not what the story says, but what it doesn't say that is noteworthy and representative of an issue that has plagued the «education reform» effort from the beginning.

Thanks to the Obama administration's own effort to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions through its waiver gambit, the president (and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) have done more to weaken the very reform efforts centrist Democrats embrace than any opposition from traditionalist circles.

Lessons learned from these efforts must inform the future direction of education reform through the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Educaeducation reform through the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary EducationEducation Act.

He drew them directly from the school - based decision - making model adopted by the state of Kentucky as a main component of their education reform efforts in the 1990s.

Clinton, who once supported charter schools, has come out against them in her 2016 presidential campaign and has won support from teachers» unions opposed to education reform efforts.

Multiple benefits would result from separating most education - reform efforts from the SEA, whether via contracts or wholly independent organizations.

Massachusetts Parents United receives funding from the Walton Family Foundation and the Longfield Family Foundation, both known for supporting education reform efforts.

Combine these realities with moves such as the AFT's failed lawsuit against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's school reform efforts and revelations such as those last week by Dropout Nation, and suddenly, the pitch from teachers» unions is as failed as their vision for American public education.

Puckett, who taught at Chipman and quit because of the changes following from NCLB, also contextualizes the eventual closure of the school, and the devaluation of what it stood for, in the broader context of education reform and accountability efforts nationwide.»

C. M. Rubin's Global Education Report In May, I continued my conversations with thought leaders from China to New York who sketched out for me the conflicting overlaps between creativity, innovation, reform, and testing, and shared their efforts to create coalescence between them.

Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both sides.

Unfortunately, too often we see well - meaning education reform efforts fail because their supporters didn't cultivate buy - in, not only from educators, but from the...

From high standards to aligned assessments, data transparency to school accountability, advocates for reform are championing efforts in their states to ensure that kids get the great educations they deserve.