Sentences with phrase «education status quo»

They are fed up with the public education status quo and are organizing to do something about it.
Facing a public that is increasingly skeptical of her failed education status quo, it seems Randi Weingarten has adopted that model.
Osborne warns of vast inequality in education, but his doomsday scenario more appropriately describes the public education status quo.
No longer is it a faceless, bloodless bureaucracy protecting the education status quo.
The frustrating comes from the way the effort was spun by, let us call them the education status quo.
With many of the «guardrails» of No Child Left Behind removed, nothing would keep vested interests in the education status quo from dismantling consequential accountability.
Voters recognized that the education status quo was failing too many children.
Don't be misled by the provocative title and subtitle, which might lead one to expect in these pages a back - to - the - future, Diane Ravitch — like defense of the education status quo — and which likely account for the book's fawning jacket blurbs by Jonathan Kozol and by Lily Eskelsen García of the National Education Association, among others.
The irony here is that the education status quo that some of these civil rights groups support has not been good to African American adults either.
Throughout his political life, Fuller has remained a disrupter of the education status quo for inner - city children.
Critics (often including ourselves) typically assert that these organizations are the prime obstacles to needed reforms in K — 12 schooling, while defenders (typically, also, supporters of the education status quo) insist that they are bulwarks of professionalism and safeguards against caprice and risky innovation.
Despite countless stories like Jamal's, in the end nothing — and I mean nothing — was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.
Defenders of the education status quo often have little use for wealthy philanthropists, labeling them the «billionaire boys» club» and «deformers.»
The legislation also authorized the state's first charter schools, an innovation designed to challenge the education status quo.
No Child Left Behind and its state testing mandates have always been maligned by protectors of the education status quo.
Reasonable but uncommitted policymakers and influential elites have their doubts about the education status quo, but they are unsure about what the nature of the problems are or how to fix them.
Last night, four legislative incumbents in Desoto County who were aligned with the education status quo and fought against student - centered education reforms fell to conservative challengers supported by Empower PAC.
A Great Night For School Choice In Mississippi August 5, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last night, four legislative incumbents in Desoto County who were aligned with the education status quo and fought against student - centered education reforms fell to conservative challengers supported by Empower PAC.
While these new programs will benefit families, one of the arguments regularly made by the education status quo is that these programs are «too new» or they «haven't been tested.»
The voters made education a key issue in last night's primary and they chose to support candidates who stood up for children rather than the education status quo.
Last night was Waterloo for the education status quo in Mississippi, a powerful statement that the voters of Mississippi support the bold education reforms of these last four years and do not want to go backwards.
Initiative 42 Defeated November 4, 2015 by Grant Callen Last night was Waterloo for the education status quo in Mississippi, a powerful statement that the voters of Mississippi support the bold education reforms of these last four years and do not want to go backwards.
Yet sadly, this has been the education status quo in Mississippi for decades.
With the education status quo fighting many of these changes, the Empower PAC is designed to support candidates who took these often difficult votes - as well as to support challengers against those who have not stood up.
Defenders of the education status quo see a corporatist bogeyman behind not only teacher quality reform, but the entire North American school reform movement.
While proponents of the education status quo argue that school choice dismantles public education, what is the truth?
We agree the education status quo must change.
Rather, it's that they work all too well and thus present a threat to the education status quo and the teachers unions who control it.
He was an unapologetic antagonist to the education status quo, and that meant shepherding through laws that benefitted charter schools and forced cash - strapped public schools to look for pennies in the seat cushions.
New Leaders co-founder Jon Schnur participates in an NBC Education Nation panel about reinventing the education status quo.
Thank you in this case and others for not «neglecting» to point out what the champions of the education status quo seem to keep forgetting.
«The results of this poll demonstrate that the public is ready to change the education status quo and allow children and families to customize their education to meet their unique learning needs.»
He was the hero of the stunning film Waiting for Superman that ripped the education status quo.
It's not easy, or cheap, to challenge the education status quo.
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