Sentences with phrase «education reform initiatives at»

Dr. Wood - Garnett is an accomplished educator with extensive experience in leading complex P — 20 education reform initiatives at the local, state, and national levels.

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.

They also impede 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.

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.

Sandy Kress is Senior Advisor in the Education Reform initiative at the Bush Institute.

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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.

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.

I became aware of this fact some years ago, when I started writing about education issues and found that every reform initiative I read about — standards, testing, whatever — referred me back to a seminal text entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

Happily, this sort of common sense is starting to re-enter the conversation (thanks, in part, to the persistence of the folks at Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity initiative, who called in 2011 for a broader approach to education reform, one that includes high - quality career technical education).

I also oversee about 200 employees at our state education agency, and we are in the midst of major initiatives and reforms.

Its flagship initiative, the new National Education Emergency Program («Plan D'urgence» 2009 — 2012) introduces a series of comprehensive educational reform at all levels, with specific emphasis on education for all and improving quality of Education Emergency Program («Plan D'urgence» 2009 — 2012) introduces a series of comprehensive educational reform at all levels, with specific emphasis on education for all and improving quality of education for all and improving quality of outcomes.

Building off of Boston Public School's (BPS) successful PreK initiative, this project aims to operationalize the recommended PreK - 3rd grade reform strategies and pioneer their implementation at scale, all the while examining this particular case of education reform and its incremental progress towards better meeting young children's needs.

Before going to Stanford, she was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), where she coordinated national evaluations of school choice initiatives, comprehensive school reform, and bilingual eEducation (ED), where she coordinated national evaluations of school choice initiatives, comprehensive school reform, and bilingual educationeducation.

Brad Mitchell is a senior director at Battelle for Kids, where he focuses on building and leveraging philanthropy to fund innovative education reform, especially around rural collaboratives that can serve as learning laboratories and pilot improvement initiatives.

In «Statewide Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Employing Partnerships and Systemic Strategies for Addressing Critical Teacher Shortages,» the University of Cincinnati's Stephen Kroeger was joined by Mary Brownell, director of the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center at the University of Florida, and Jessica Mercerhill, director of P - 16 initiatives at the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

At the next meeting, Elizabeth Shaw, who works for Education First, Inc. and is one of Commissioner Pryor's $ 60,000 short - term consultants to help him with his «education reform» initiative, announced «Something is different at this meetinAt the next meeting, Elizabeth Shaw, who works for Education First, Inc. and is one of Commissioner Pryor's $ 60,000 short - term consultants to help him with his «education reform» initiative, announced «Something is different at thisEducation First, Inc. and is one of Commissioner Pryor's $ 60,000 short - term consultants to help him with his «education reform» initiative, announced «Something is different at thiseducation reform» initiative, announced «Something is different at this meetinat this meeting.

What started as an exciting interest in public charter school performance eventually evolved into work at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational choice and reform initiatives in K — 12 education.

Previously, she coordinated Walter H. Annenberg's $ 500 million «Challenge» to reform America's schools — at the time the largest private initiative to reform public education in U.S. history — from its inception in January 1994 until June 2000.

As Director of the Bailey - Sullivan Leadership Institute at the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), Offiong Bassey is spearheading the Bailey - Sullivan Advocacy Leadership Fellowship, which addresses the need for more Black advocates equipped to champion parental choice and transformational education reform initiatives in the Black community.

Jason is a senior fellow at Bellwether Education Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, anEducation Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, aneducation reform initiatives, governance, innovation, and talent.

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.

Another Board member is Dudley Williams, a senior executive at GE Asset Management who once worked for the Connecticut Department of Education and has been one of the most outspoken proponents of Malloy's Education Reform initiative.

The most successful Prosperity for Connecticut PAC fundraiser was the one targeted for supporters of the corporate education reform industry and held at the home of Jonathan Sackler the day Malloy's education reform initiative became a Public Act.

These same spheres of influence have also had a significant role in legislative initiatives directed at the «reform» of public education, resulting in a number of innovative structural changes, the charter and contract school movements being prominent examples.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

The book details, and provides a systematic critique of, the shaky assumptions at the foundation of the market - based reform initiatives that dominate the contemporary education scene.

A House appropriations subcommittee voted along straight party lines to maintain funding for key K — 12 education programs at current levels while completely eliminating three of the Obama administration's signature reform initiatives.

Over the past three years, these so - called reformers have spent a record breaking $ 6 million plus lobbying on behalf of Governor Malloy's education reform initiatives, many of which have been aimed at promoting the privatization of public education in the state.

Prior to joining the Partnership, Jennifer spent eight years as an appointee of President Bill Clinton at the U.S. Department of Education, where she supported implementation of numerous initiatives including student loan reform, School - to - Work, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

The final reports from Bridgeport's November 2012 education reform referendum are in and it turns out that the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent at least $ 562,955.16 in their effort to pass Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's anti-democracy initiative, a proposal that would have eliminated the City's democratically elected board of education and replaced it with one appointed by the mayor.

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton Uneducation, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton UnEducation Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

Great State Leaders: A Competency Framework for Growing Talent in a State Education Agency [PDF, 1 MB] Reforms of the scope and scale of those being undertaken by States today require the development of strong leaders at all levels of organizations to manage the change required by these and other initiatives.