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For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real powFor our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real powfor, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

Alcoholics Anonymous, drug rehabilitation centers, coalitions for social and political reforms, therapy clusters, the adult education movement — these and other activities provide opportunities for people to «get involved,» without the benefit of clergy.

Certainly those forces included the Crusades, the rise of nationalism, the broadening of opportunities for education, various political reform movements, the rise of democracy, the Reformation, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of humanism and the birth of a new interest in the natural sciences.

They became centers for the reform movements of the frontier, they poured men into the ministry, and they brought education to the west.

You've written in the New York Times Magazine about the education - reform movement — organizations like Teach for America and the KIPP network of charter schools.

Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

McInerney is also a supporter of the charter schools movement and has donated $ 575,000 to New Yorkers for Independent Action, an education reform group pushing for a state tax credit for individuals who donate to charter or religious schools.

Anti-reformers have trotted out the hoariest bugbear in New York politics — the evil of Wall Street — and constructed a hilarious lie: that the education reform movement is actually camouflage for a hostile takeover of the city's public schools.

Driven by anger at education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children home from school, rather than sit for state tests.

Cornegy compared the fight for education reform to the Civil Rights movement, saying it was «apropos» that the rally was taking place during Black History Month.

The Facebook post was eventually sent to members of Families for Excellent Schools» board by several people involved in the education reform movement.

Indeed, Cuomo has regularly been criticized from the left for embracing the charter school and education reform movement, with its big - money donors often connected to Wall Street.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Allen runs the Center for Education Reform; Smarick is affiliated with Bellwether Education Partners and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and served in the George W. Bush administration; Cody is a former Oakland teacher who blogs at edweek.org; and Klonsky is a former Students for a Democratic Society leader and an activist in the Chicago small - schools movement.

A movement born in opposition to public schools ironically might offer public education its most promising reform paradigm for the 21st century.

What it did most importantly though was show our education reform movement here for what it was: bipartisan and passionate.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

Obviously, the education reform movement was too white for too long.

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.

Or, as Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries told Richard Whitmire: «I can't think of anything more potentially harmful to the charter school movement, or anything more antithetical to its progressive roots, than having Donald Trump as its national champion.»

Despite the rhetoric of it being the «civil rights movement of our time,» education reform has in fact been a centrist project for at least twenty - five years.

My own book, Education Myths, may have bolstered efforts to enact the incentive - based reforms that dominated the decade, but it did not provide the conceptual rationale for the movement.

When I became involved in education reform more than two decades ago, the movement was about empowering parents to make choices for their own children rather than having choices made for them by well - meaning but distant bureaucrats and professionals.

For going on two decades now, the twin movements to expand parental choice and foster accountability have been the major drivers of reform in the K - 12 education system.

Wayzata, Minn — Some of the leading figures in the school - finance - reform movement met here last week to discuss the place of equity concerns in the current push for improvement of elementary and secondary education.

By making equal opportunity a central theme of the movement, organizations such as the BAEO, the Friedman Foundation (established by Milton and Rose Friedman and now known as EdChoice), Democrats for Education Reform, and other groups in favor of school choice have put Republican support at risk by emphasizing the role that vouchers can play in opening school doors to the disadvantaged.

The annual report offered a way for policymakers to track central tenets of standards - based reform, a movement continuing to come into its own as a major force in K - 12 education.

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

In the current movement for school reform, few proposals have addressed the status of the education provided to minors in correctional institutions and its relationship to mainstream public education.

In Commentary, Sohrab Ahmari makes the case that Teach for America, once a leading light of the education reform movement, has now «transformed itself into an arm of the progressive movement» and «functions as a platform for radical identity politics.»

Despite its lofty goals for every student and the support of some of the most powerful national players in education reform, the modern standards and accountability movement has hit a rough patch, if you haven't noticed.

The reform movement's curriculum mandates may be appropriate for high schools, but they «are not the recipe for excellence in middle - level education,» the panel warned.

Thomas Toch, the education correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, visited more than 60 public schools across the United States while completing his overview of the reform movement, In the Name of Excellence.

The question of how we can most effectively broaden school choice for America's families lies at the heart of the movement to reform K — 12 education.

He established his Foundation for Excellence in Education in 2008 «to ignite a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st centurEducation in 2008 «to ignite a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st centureducation for the 21st century.»

As education policymakers consider lengthening the school year and face trade - offs and uncertainties, it is important to recognize that expanding instructional time offers both opportunities and hazards for another reform that is well established, the accountability movement.

In addition, Robert capitalized on his ties to such national figures in the voucher movement as Wal - Mart heir John Walton and his American Education Reform Council; Howard Fuller, the former Milwaukee superintendent who now heads the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and the Institute for Justice, the voucher movement's legal brain trust.

I would argue that MI theory has offered an important check on the standards - based reform movement that has dominated American education for the past decade.

In the last year, Republican enthusiasm for education reform on Capitol Hill has evaporated in the face of the Tea Party movement's extreme anti-federalism.

Despite the pendulum swings, despite the critics and reform movements, the American public continued to be grateful for public education and to admire its community schools.

As our graduate pool grows, BTR is building a powerful movement for change within the BPS and the larger education reform community.

NACSA's Board of Directors is comprised of a revered group of education advocates who have been on the forefront of the reform movement and who represent a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, districts, school boards, and not - for - profits.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

I think it does a decent job of capturing, at least at a very general level, what John will be most known for in the decades ahead as people reflect on the history of the education reform movement and its prime movers.

What has become clear is that explicitly focusing on the educational concerns of poor and minority children regardless of where they live, and expanding that to the criminal justice reform and other the social issues that end up touching (and are touched by) American public education, is critical, both in helping all children succeed as well as rallying long - terms support for the movement from the parents and communities that care for them.

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

His own conversion to the school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestionededucation such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestionedEducation Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned support.

The school reform movement must also embrace explicit and constant advocacy for poor and minority children and their communities as a critical component in advancing the transformation of American public education.