Sentences with phrase «education reformers who»

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

The study revealed that, in fact, education reformers who tout charter schools have actually moved away from enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education.

Our donors are longtime education reformers who want nothing more than to see children receive better educational opportunities.

The question is key given that charter - school proponents are often data - driven education reformers who advocate using test - score data to rank traditional public schools and the teachers who work there.

In other words, as the corporate education reformers who have unsuccessfully attempted to do with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RTTT) by falsely highlighting so - called «failing» public schools, now want more of the same medicine with Common Core.

If so, you didn't miss much — except a revealing glimpse into the Hollywood - style fantasies of education reformers who believe they have found a new panacea for saving public education: parent - trigger laws.

While Democratic Party centrists in Clinton's mold have been some of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for charter schools, Clinton's comments come as many within the Democratic Party are pushing back against so - called education reformers who want to dismantle teacher protections and increase the number of charter schools.

By Jesse Hagopian, first published in The Progressive magazine Corporate education reformers who seek to reduce teaching and learning to a single score are beginning to realize they are losing the public relations battle.

Do you see what happens where your tear down the status quo and bring in education reformers who know how to get things done?

The bulk of the creative work was done by Achieve, Inc., a DC - based nonprofit that includes many progressive education reformers who have been advocating national standards and curriculum for decades.

Adversaries to ending high - stakes testing are not always misguided education reformers who worship big data, but other parents.

We need more education reformers who embrace the whole of human beings.

Although some education reformers who support vouchers can be quick to create a false narrative around the reasons why, it is true that many of us, including myself, believe that school choice should be public school choice.

Although the total magnitude of the consulting contract with Mass Insight hasn't been reported, that initial six figure payment is chump change compared to the amount of taxpayer money that is being spent on the salaries and benefits of the consultants and education reformers who have been hired to surround Pryor at the Department of Education.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

And there are plenty of well - intentioned civic leaders, philanthropists, and education reformers who view charters as a sideshow, one that deflects energy and resources away from the majority of needy children who remain in district - operated schools.

SLP faculty members are experienced teachers, influential researchers, and passionate education reformers who are dedicated to developing the next generation of transformative school leaders.

Education reformers who are reflexively critical of DeVos are framing a narrow set of policies — the ones they prefer — as the very definition of «school choice,» «justice,» «morality,» or «accountability.»

Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.

Reville is a leading education reformer who served as Governor Deval Patrick's top adviser on education for the past five years, and was chair of the State Board of Education for a year prior to his service as secretary.

That quote comes from an education reformer who used to teach in a high - powered classical school.

The October issue of CTA's magazine, California Educator, is full of anti-Tuck blather, including an editorial by union president Dean Vogel in which he solemnly proclaims that the challenger is a «well - funded corporate education reformer who supports the privatization of public schools and efforts to obliterate due process for teachers.»

About the Author: Gloria Romero, a Los Angeles resident, is an education reformer who served in the California Legislature from 1998 to 2008, the last seven years as Senate majority leader.

Other speakers included Joe Nathan, a Twin Cities education reformer who personally worked with Lamar Alexander in the early 1980s to shape the school choice recommendations in the National Governors Association (NGA)'s Time For Results report.

In January 2011, McAdams was replaced as president and CEO by Cathy Mincberg, a longtime education reformer who has worked as a high - level administrator in two urban school districts and served alongside McAdams on the HISD board.

McQueen, formerly the senior vice president and dean of the college of education at Lipscomb University, took over the school system last year upon the departure of Kevin Huffman, the divisive education reformer who oversaw significant changes to the state's K - 12 system.

In late November, an estimated thousand mourners, including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, gathered at Memorial Church at Harvard University to honor the life and work of Theodore R. Sizer, the internationally recognized education reformer who died this past October.

Not exact matches

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

The recent emergence of home education is linked to the influence of educational reformers who published in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

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.

«I know this is an enormous leap, but I believe there's a yearning for a strong manager who's an education reformer,» Allon, of the Upper West Side, told the paper.

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformereducation reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformerreformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformerEducation Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformerEducation ReformersReformers.»

This isn't the first time the 36 - year - old scholar, who directs education policy studies at the Washington - based American Enterprise Institute, has taken on what he terms «status quo» reformers.

The Republican governor, Charlie Crist, supported the board's decision, prompting education reformers to lament the loss of Jeb Bush, who they believed would not have been so submissive.

There's a tendency among education reformers and economists who study data on teacher effectiveness to say, «See, teacher effectiveness varies dramatically from one teacher to another, even in the same school.

The positive responses came not from the reformers but from the field, mostly from folks who work in leadership roles in state education agencies and local districts.

Thus, in addition to the political leaders, the real leaders in Indianapolis and all of Indiana are the few private donors who have supported education reformers in developing their dream schools.

Jeb Bush, who has been a tireless education reformer since the mid-nineties, is no Etch A Sketch.

Remembering David Tyack, who showed contemporary education reformers a nuanced view of American schooling's past

The education reformer — who has also played a role in North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, N.J. — reminded the crowd that we are not the only education reformers but that many came before us, just as there will be many who come after us.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

The education reformer — who has also played a role in North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, N.J. — reminded...

Those same progressive «education reformers» who are worried what a President Trump might do should recognize that the same stuff they've cheered under Obama has opened the door for Trump — or future imitators.

We believe that the market based reformers are practicing a kind of crude social Darwinism — treating education as a commodity to be bought and sold, creating a hierarchy of winners (the elite who get a rich curriculum of questioning) and losers (the oppressed classes, the Black and Brown and immigrant and low - income children who need to be taught passivity and compliance).

Quoting from my recent blog «It's Easy to Become «The Man,»» she expressed concerns about reformers who «become just another breed of bureaucrats — a new education establishment.»

As we have reflected about the impact of the NBPTS and its board - certified teachers, who still constitute only 1 percent of all teachers, it seems that the National Board and education reformers need to give far more attention to trying to increase the cost - effectiveness and the multiplier effects of board - certified teachers as leaders and exemplars.

But I'm also holding out hope that leaders, reformers, and advocates without any profit motives whatsoever, but who are deeply invested in changing the education system, can likewise take a page from Competing Against Luck.

We'll leave the argument for prisons to sociologists and political activists, though it was early education reformer Horace Mann who noted, «Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»