Sentences with phrase «education reform strategy»

Reducing class sizes is one of today's most popular education reform strategies.
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.
September 4th, 2013 Secretary Arne Duncan U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC, 20202 Dear Secretary Duncan: We, the undersigned, are again writing to convey our strong support for the Obama Administration's teacher education reform strategy as described in «Our Future, Our Teachers» and urge you to advance your policy through...
Standards - based reform has been the de facto national education reform strategy for more than two decades.
NCLB was partially based on education reform strategies instituted by President Bush during his tenure as Texas governor.
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.
Let's hope he finds the right education reform strategy, because the payoff could be much bigger than even most optimists believe.
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.
Current education reform strategies amount to a Taylorist carrot and stick approach, resented by teachers, particularly the most thoughtful ones.
These ambitious efforts will require a careful reexamination of the leverage and limits of federal education reform strategies, an appreciation for the state and local functions in education, and an understanding of the importance of input from education leaders who know firsthand the ongoing challenges students and schools face, as well as how to develop innovative solutions to address these challenges.
Developing and sharing our implementation plans for the CCSS, teacher evaluation systems and other education reform strategies
- 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.
The dominant education reform strategy of the Gates Foundation before 2006 was to break large high schools into smaller ones, often using school choice and charter schools.
This report by Geoff Marietta provides an overview of how Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland developed a successful PreK - 12th Grade public education system by using local and federal dollars to craft, implement and improve a system - wide education reform strategy built on a foundation of providing high - quality PreK education.
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.
We, the undersigned, are again writing to convey our strong support for the Obama Administration's teacher education reform strategy as described in «Our Future, Our Teachers» and urge you to advance your policy through Executive action as quickly as possible.
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.
Redmond: The value of arts integration can not be realized until there are broader changes in the culture and politics of academics and schooling in the U.S. Arts integration is an education reform strategy that requires real commitments and hard work from educators, practitioners, parents, and policymakers.
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.
As an education reform strategy, federal regulation is dead.
They have an education reform strategy with which I have some important differences, but they are nevertheless interested in hearing criticism of their approach, so they invited me to present my critique to their board.
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.
Each education reform strategy can be accepted by educators of the gifted as an opportunity rather than a barrier.
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.
Orwell's definition of «doublethink» explains Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's education reform strategy.
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.
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.
«In Michigan, we're taking it piece by piece,» Pratt previously told HuffPost about the state's education reform strategy.
It's just about the only thing that makes sense of their Bizarro choices with respect to 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.
School reconstitution as an education reform strategy: A synopsis of the evidence.
The fact that pre-K chronic absence affects both K - 12 attendance and school performance and that many states are choosing chronic absence as the school quality indicator opens the door to an education reform strategy that plays to the strengths of early childhood education.
, The future of school integration: Socioeconomic diversity as an education reform strategy (pp. 1 — 26).
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