Sentences with phrase «education reform strategies»

As both a former teacher and a MBA, I'm struck these days by two things: first, the ubiquity of «business thinking» in today's education reform strategies; and second, the complete absence of the sort of business thinking we actually need to be heeding.

Michael Morton — the new Communications Manager who recently transferred from Texas to take on the task of explaining to Connecticut voters why charter schools, privatization and Malloy's damaging education reform strategies are what Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools need to ensure a better future.

But the truth surrounding these corporate education reform strategies fall far short of their advertising claims, a fact that is especially true when it comes to the growing online or virtual charter school industry.

It's just about the only thing that makes sense of their Bizarro choices with respect to education reform strategies.

NCLB was partially based on education reform strategies instituted by President Bush during his tenure as Texas governor.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is providing nearly $ 3 million to support key education reform strategies outlined for the Cleveland Transformation Alliance and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in Cleveland's Plan for Transforming Schools, the Alliance and CMSD announced today.

The study's release coincided with the formation of a new Education Funders Research Initiative a project of Philanthropy New York to study the results of education reform strategies over the last decade.

Current education reform strategies amount to a Taylorist carrot and stick approach, resented by teachers, particularly the most thoughtful ones.

At least $ 40,000, and perhaps much more, was diverted away from helping Democrats beat Republicans and instead it was used to silence the opponents of Malloy's education reform strategies.

Understand the complexity of the «big picture» as different education reform strategies are institutionalized in schools and beliefs about services for students who are gifted are incorporated.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

Among the education topics he discusses are the black - white achievement gap, education reform strategies, improving outcomes for African American students, and affirmative action in higher education.

It's great that more Americans are going to learn about promising education reform strategies, and the various ways that the teachers unions and the rest of the education blob tries to strangle them in their crib.

They brought teachers and their unions to the table for discussions of education reform strategy and won their trust by listening hard to what the teachers had to say and then providing the needed support.

In 1993, at the onset of the Clinton administration, only a handful of states were developing standards and aligned assessments and preparing to use them as the cornerstone of their education reform strategy.

When the numbers result in a Blue State: Red State ratio of 9:1, one suspects, with even more than 90 percent confidence, that RttT is as much or more a partisan boondoggle as an education reform strategy.

Also significant, we find that community schools are an education reform strategy that is built to last, in that they rely on partnerships that live on after individual leaders depart or funding sources change.

Within each education reform strategy, ideas were presented that respect the integrity of the research and assure appropriate learning opportunities for students who are gifted.

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 state.»

The study — being billed as the first scientific study in the U.S. of teacher performance pay — is only the latest blow to merit pay, which the Obama administration continues to advocate as part of its education reform strategy.

- Goliath victory is also significant because it was the first time a core education reform strategy was put directly before Connecticut voters — and voters rejected it.

«In Michigan, we're taking it piece by piece,» Pratt previously told HuffPost about the state's education reform strategy.

School reconstitution as an education reform strategy: A synopsis of the evidence.

Not exact matches

Evidence is emerging that the combination of law reform and public education is more effective than either strategy alone in changing parental attitudes and behaviours.54

Like Cameron in his first ever PMQs, where he marked a shift in Tory strategy by declaring he would work with the then prime minister Tony Blair on his education reforms, we must similarly mark ourselves out to the public.

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Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

While identifying guiding themes for the discussions — National strategy development and implementation; Curricular reform and education at the national and local levels; Competence development of educators; Quality support and monitoring; Campaigning and outreach — the Congress objectives are twofold:

This is a reform strategy that should be used more in education — this strategy of not being required by everyone.»

Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly used as a reform strategy designed to improve educational outcomes for K — 12 students.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

Since the U.S. Department of Education has waived many NCLB regulations in exchange for states» engaging in alternative reform strategies, states are under less pressure to keep their proficiency standards at a low level.

Nevertheless, such strongly negative results should give education reform advocates great pause about the regulatory strategies employed in Louisiana.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

Someday that may be the dominant education - reform strategy, but that day is not today.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Within the exploration of school reform, participants considered topics including high quality teachers, national education reform, public / private partnerships, and implementation strategies.

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So far, the task force has succeeded in completing the first - ever performance assessment of reform initiatives in the four provinces and continues to work closely with local governments to develop long - term strategy and action plans to improve performance of the education sector.

Too many of today's education reform debates are conducted as if they were winner - take - all contests that must leave a single reform strategy standing.

The most common type of education reform book from the period argued against the dominant strategies.

Core courses and electives are taught by recognized leaders from across Harvard's graduate programs in fields like data - based education reform, organizational change and innovation, and effective leadership strategies for urban schools.

«Adequacy litigation was devised as a strategy to reform public education.»

I spoke to Mary Jean Gallagher, (Chief Student Achievement Officer of Ontario and Assistant Deputy Minister of the Student Achievement Division of the Ontario Ministry of Education) to find out more about the reform strategies employed to cause this amazing turnaround.

«The whole controversy about the Common Core and the assessments risks becoming an enormous distraction from the much more difficult work, the central education reform work of devising effective strategies for educating children to higher levels,» says Reville.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Likewise in education, a more strategic compensation structure would tie teacher pay to education reform goals and strategies.

Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly used as a reform strategy designed to improve educational...