Sentences with phrase «education reform initiatives»

Examples include specific education reform initiatives, job skills programs, and community - based culture / arts programs.

While large - scale education reform initiatives may succeed in the long term, a more targeted and cost - effective strategy offers potential for real impact in the near term.

The mandate requiring that teachers take the new exam was part of Malloy's anti-teacher, anti-public school education reform initiative of 2012.

She also previously worked on education policy in Senator Edward Kennedy's office and spent several years working on education reform initiatives at the Boston Plan for Excellence.

Tisch is driving the state's implementation of the tougher standards, despite that she has been critical of other education reform initiatives, particularly in New York City.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that academic resources show that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

Such cuts also have counteracted and sometimes undermined important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

George «Pinky» Nelson has been named the new director of Project 2061, the science education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

As education reform initiatives continue to advance, the responsibility for rearing educated citizens will increasingly broaden as well.

That exception, paying teachers according to their classroom performance, received support from the Obama administration when it invited states to include this innovation in their proposals to obtain federal funds from its signature education reform initiative, Race to the Top.

As part of its Children First education reform initiative, the NYC Department of Education (DOE) embarked on a number of changes in the way it recruits, assigns, develops, retains and evaluates its workforce.

She advised the secretary and assistant secretary on the Obama Administration's major education reform initiative, ESEA flexibility, which grants waivers of key provisions of the ESEA in exchange for state - led reforms in the areas of standards and assessments, accountability, and educator evaluations.

NCTR bridges the gap between practice and policy by focusing on state and federal level education reform initiatives, financial sustainability, and program scale.

The 2015 Legislature passed the Governor's education reform initiatives for Nevada's PreK - 12 education system.

The CT Mirror piece also mentions Malloy's anti-teacher, anti-public education reform initiatives although it doesn't contain Malloy's equally famous comment that he didn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.

Education reform initiatives like the Common Core State Standards, teacher rating systems, and technology infusion, to name just a few, are taxing the personal and professional practices of classroom teachers.

Today, White, once called «Jindal's boy» by political insiders, is the governor's most celebrated public enemy, and a statewide education reform initiative years in the making may end up falling by the wayside, adding chaos and confusion to Louisiana's already beleaguered school system.

To a very large degree, education reform initiatives hinge on the belief that short term changes in reading and math achievement test results are strong predictors of long term success for students.

Field experience — All L&T students are encouraged to pursue for - credit internships with public schools and education reform initiatives across Cambridge and Boston.

The mayor appears unfazed, although his broader education reform initiatives have been rejected by the city council.

The Toolkit for Parents and Families is a collection of materials and resources that will help parents and families understand education reform initiatives and how the changes will help students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

Many U.S. education reform initiatives have become fraught political fights between reformers and teacher unions.

This January, I returned on business to learn more about «government partnership» schools — an exciting education reform initiative slowly taking shape in the city.

In March of 2012, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and ten other state lawmakers flew to Florida on the dime of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), an organization known for endorsing conservative education reform initiatives, including school vouchers.

Working in partnership with public school districts, Alvarez - Ortiz successfully pioneered innovative education reform initiatives targeted at improving opportunities and outcomes for students, schools, and districts deemed at risk of failure.

There is so much at stake in this presidential race from education reform initiatives to school funding, yet thousands of Americans are still undecided heading into the 2016 elections.

Despite being an out - of - state education reform operative, Guenther testified in favor of Malloy's education reform initiative when it was proposed in 2012.

I also appreciate Brooklyn New School principal Anna Allanbrook's weekly letters to parents, which showcase her school's whole child approach and contrast sharply with NYS's test - based education reform initiatives.

Thoughtfully constructed standards guide education reform initiatives by providing consensus about what students should learn and what skills they should acquire.

Districts may launch programs to tell students about education reform initiatives simply to claim students know about what they are going through while they are going through it, without allowing students to say anything critical or otherwise respond substantively.

What Malloy and Pryor don't explain is that in order to get approved, towns were required to include certain education reform initiatives, including forcing Connecticut's largest school districts to participate in Achievement First, Inc.'s «Residency Program for School Leadership.»

NCPN is a membership organization for educators, employers and others involved in the advancement of Career Pathways, and related education reform initiatives.

Prior to joining BPS, she was the project director for the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services Education Reform Initiative at the Commonwealth Corporation, where she was responsible for the oversight and management of the agency's statewide multi-year education reform initiative in its 58 facilities.

Over the past several months Huffman has increasingly become the target of criticism from disgruntled educators and resentful local school administrators who've grown frustrated with his perceived take - no - prisoners style of implementing contentious education reform initiatives.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

And when it comes to the relationship between the Common Core, Common Core testing and the teacher evaluation systems, those who are responsible for speaking up for our children, our teachers and our schools simply say enough is enough and corporate education reform initiatives need to be dismissed and real action taken to reduce the barriers to academic success — poverty, language barriers, and unmet special education needs to name a few.

Bosetti conducts research on K — 16 education reform initiatives with a focus on education partnerships, transitions to postsecondary education, college and career readiness, and teacher development.

Rather than laws like the federal Every Student Succeeds Act and other terrible education reform initiatives, public education deserves adequate resources and more support at the federal and state level.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

On his solo politicking tour last October to promote the standards and, weirdly enough, a handful of other education reform initiatives that Jindal still backs, White, whose public style oscillates between congenial professor and government heavy, maintained a positive front, thanking teachers, business executives and principals for their steadfast support.

New findings reported at two recent conferences demonstrate the range of research being conducted by AAAS's Project 2061, a long - term science education reform initiative.