Sentences with phrase «education reform efforts over»

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

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Even though Powell Jobs stands squarely on the reform side of education's long - running civil war over how to make things work better for American students, the XQ effort seemed to represent a refreshing change of direction.

None of this offers much succor to those hoping for bipartisan efforts on NCLB / ESEA reauthorization, and it might just be raising eyebrows over at Democrats for Education Reform.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Her book, The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995) ignited parent - led efforts for education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995) ignited parent - led efforts for education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + years.

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.

In his effort to «win» over (aka snow) teachers, parents and public school advocates, Malloy's plan appears to be to push off a couple of elements of his corporate education reform industry agenda until he can make it past November's election for governor.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Green says that «the Connecticut Education Association is at war with Gov. Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the statEducation Association is at war with Gov. Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the stateducation reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the state.»

It's no surprise that we have large and diverse range of Coalition members in Memphis, which has been the epicenter of education reform, with multiple large - scale efforts at innovation over the past decade.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

In this conversation Dr. Fuller — a civil rights activist and champion for the people of New Orleans, spoke candidly about education reform in New Orleans and the need to empower the communities most impacted by reform efforts over the past 10 years.

Over the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bOver the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bover $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill.

The anti-testing, pro-teacher position these college deans are taking is especially important in light of the fact that Governor Dannel Malloy's administration has been engaged in an effort to force the University of Connecticut to turn its School of Education over to the Corporate Education Reform Industry.

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.

Over the past year and a half, Families for Excellent Schools — using a variety of aliases — has spent nearly $ 1.5 million in a record - breaking effort to lobby and persuade Connecticut legislators to support Governor Dannel Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory «education reform» initiatives.

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

Bitter experience has shown that the self - anointed experts of NSP, NARE, NCEE, the New American Schools Development Corporation, the National Education Goals Panel, the Center on Student Learning, the Learning Research and Development Center, the National Alliance of Business, and others of their ilk have been exceedingly adept at eventually hijacking and taking over all of the so - called «reform» efforts - if they haven't controlled them outright from the beginning.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

Then, not to be outdone, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor took the stand calling Vallas the «shining light» of the education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over theEducation, Stefan Pryor took the stand calling Vallas the «shining light» of the education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over theeducation reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over the country.

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.