Sentences with phrase «education reform movement»

The corporate education reform movement initially started as an initiative to bring strong accountability to education.

This is a direct consequence of the current global education reform movement.

One area the unions block at all costs is school choice, the cornerstone of the growing education reform movement.

A Nation at Risk helped to launch the modern education reform movement.

The modern era's two great education reform movements, for school accountability and for school choice, attempt to bring major changes to the traditional structure of the American education system.

Like healthcare reform efforts of the past, education reform movements intended to improve teaching quality often focus on the extreme minorities of the performance distribution.

We are excited about the potential inherent in current teacher education reform movements.

The corporate education reform movement is fond of claiming that poverty is no excuse for children failing to succeed in school.

His expertise and research interests include global education reform movement, future of schooling, and teaching and learning.

Much of the modern education reform movement has centered around the drive for data.

She sets the school's challenges in context, giving a brief overview of education reform movements in the U.S. and arguing that top - down, nationally mandated policies and procedures ultimately hurt schools like Mission rather than help them.

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Preus (2007) observed that the national education reform movement in China has moved its educational system toward a decentralization of elementary and secondary education.

WASHINGTON — The standards - based education reform movement calls school change «the civil rights issue of our time.»

Let's be honest, the entire education reform movement needs to move past nice talk and figure out how to turn students» ideas and input into policy.

That said, the truth is hardly a concern when it comes to the slick marketing and public relations tactics of the charter school industry and their allies in the corporate education reform movement who consistently — and wrongly — claim that American public education is a failure.

Charter schools are an active component of the contemporary education reform movement's pursuit of accountability and flexibility in public education.

In his first five years in office, Cuomo aligned himself with the centrist, bipartisan education reform movement.

Student congresses and student - led education reform movements are popping up all over the country as students actively try to influence positive change in their education experience.

With Bloomberg on his way out, opponents hope this is a moment to slow a transformational education reform movement.

Starting in the mid-1980s, a standards - based education reform movement emphasized beefed - up subject - matter content, with a test given at the end of the year to see whether students had «gotten» it.

The success of the current education reform movement hinges on the compliance of millions of children who sit for annual accountability tests designed to rank their performance, and on the acquiescence of their schools and teachers to this vast public - policy experiment.

Sharon provides cutting edge information and exposes scandals in the corporate education reform movement including charter schools and the Broad Foundation (from whose leadership academy our new CEO, JC Brizard, is a graduate).

While in the New York Senate, Senator Johnson served as the acknowledged leader in New York State and New York City education reform movements, both in efforts to expand charter schools in New York State and to protect incubators of education reform.

«The STEM education reform movement — hands - on, inquiry - based, standards - based — grew out of AAAS activities, meetings we convened,» said Holt, who spoke at the conference, adding that STEM education is important, not only to provide the workforce needed in the 21st century, but also to ensure that citizens understand the importance of basing policy decisions that determine our future on sound evidence.

Eden argues that the technocratic education reform movement provides structural and social incentives for fraud.

Truth be told, few in today's K — 12 education reform movement look to the PTA to fight for dramatic change or engage in direct conflict with the public education establishment.

Accepting this position with the National Board gives me the opportunity to lead one of the most important education reform movements in this country.

This certainly has been true for many education reform movements in U.S. education.

While not the only donors, Gates, Broad and the Waltons have emerged as the highest - profile deep - pocket benefactors of what has become a nationwide education reform movement.

Bush is a major figure in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.

The report's findings spurred the subsequent education reform movement, including efforts to write curriculum standards.

The establishment of the Livingstone Academies is part of a wider education reform movement both in the UK and the US.

Lacking any evidence that their so - called «reforms» are working, many in the corporate education reform movement resort to bullying as a way to force the changes that are presently threatening the quality of education in our public schools.

With the truth proven by the very measures we were forced to use, test scores, our duty to stop the Orwellian education reform movement should be clear.

««In general, African American voters are suspicious of this whole education reform movement,» said political consultant Eric Hacopian.

«In these pages you will find an account of a remarkable, unconventional education reform movement, and the philosophy of a charismatic and tough - minded progressive.

Years before Louisiana's post-Hurricane Katrina education reform movement and the establishment of the Louisiana Scholarship Program, a New Orleans businessman would ride through the public housing developments of city.

New York's charter school leaders and advocates, some of the national education reform movement's most vocal and influential supporters, have remained resolutely on the sidelines throughout the debate over Trump's education secretary pick, Betsy DeVos.

the entire education reform movement needs to move past nice talk and figure out how to turn students» ideas and input into policy.

Though Cuomo and de Blasio are both Democrats, they have differing philosophies on education, with Cuomo supporting the so - called education reform movement and supporting the expansion of charter schools.

Pasi Sahlberg, director general of the Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation (CIMO) in Finland, called the global education reform movement a «wicked germ» spreading around the world at the Askwith Forum on April 23.