Sentences with phrase «educational reform which»

In my opinion it is the paradigm itself which is bankrupt, not the attempts at educational reform which issue from it.

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

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For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

This leads to the negation of the earlier concepts of education as laid down in the Constitution of India which put priority to «promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people» and to the development of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform» in every citizen.

This is being done by African students who study in the higher educational institutions in Cairo and North Africa and go back to their countries with new ideas acquired from the reform movements which are being advocated by enlightened Muslims.

Peter Dada, Akure Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has said that the educational reform, which took place in Kaduna, will also be carried out in other northern states after the 2019 elections.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

The Board of Trustees — which the Mayor and I reformed in 2014 thanks to prompt state legislation — continues to move the Library in the right direction consistent with its educational purpose.

Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has said that the educational reform, which took place in Kaduna, will also be carried out in other northern states after the 2019 elections.

A business executive and founder of Emerson Collective (which advocates for policies on educational reform), Laurene immersed herself into her work and causes after her bereavement.

In Utah, which has the fastest - growing school - age population in the United States, a task force studying educational reform has found «an education system locked into a network of operating procedures by a multitude of traditions, decisions, practices, and attitudes which have evolved slowly over the years,» and has recommended 27 steps «to dislodge or alter some of the procedures.»

Ravitch points to Dewey's school in Chicago (which closed in 1904, when Dewey left the University of Chicago for Columbia), the Lincoln School at Teachers College in New York, and the Winnetka, Illinois, public schools of the 1920s as admirable models of educational reform.

If anyone wants the documentation, I will send it to them, since I am the author of «Back - to - Basics Reform or... Skinnerian International Curriculum,» which is based on official documents out of the U.S. Education Department's office of educational research and improvement,...

Which was that we wanted to make a commitment not just to the accountability side of the reforms, but also to what might be called the instructional core and to invest in capacity and the capacity of people on the front lines of the educational systems; to give them better preparation, to give them better tools, to give them better professional development.

Javier Collado submitted a proposal for educational reform at global level (you can read it here: proposal for Rio +20) which was one of the most voted throughout the world in the group of Sustainable Development for Eradication of Poverty.

Dean James Ryan comparing the ruling in Vergara v. California, which stated that the state's strong teacher tenure laws were unconstitutional, to school finance reform, which said you had to have equal resources in order to have equal educational opportunity.

The studies should be at the center of any discussion of educational reform, because they offer by far the clearest evidence about which parts of it are working and which are not.

When talk turned to educational equity, panelists stressed the need for comprehensive school reform which incorporates academics with school safety measures, curricula that encourages teachers to operate creatively, policies that promote safe local housing, particularly when involving children under age 5.

She is directly responsible for the development and advocacy of NJPSA's legislative agenda which covers a broad spectrum of educational issues including the preparation, support and development of school leaders, school finance, collective bargaining / employment issues and school reform issues.

True educational equity comes from comprehensive school reform, which incorporates academic improvements along with health care, housing policy, funding changes, family support and other policies that allow students to go to class safely and actually focus on their work, and that provides teachers with a work environment and enough support to operate creatively, not like infantilized robots.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

The bill, which mirrors most of Governor Tom Corbett's educational reform plan, creates an opportunity scholarship program for low - income students, expands the current Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program to provide for a variety of options for students and families and contains several charter school reform provisions.

The real «reforms,» here, pertained to the extent to which value - added model (VAM) or other growth output were combined with these observational measures, and the extent to which districts adopted state - level observational models as per the centralized educational policies put into place at the same time.

More than 40 states are working on reforming their educational systems, a process which began with the publication of «A Nation at Risk», a landmark 1983 study of American achievement which put the nation's policymakers on notice that America's schools were failing students.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «Too many young people still aren't being given a fair shot to succeed because of where they live, which is why our education reforms are focused on delivering educational excellence everywhere.

This is a must read, as she also talks about two unintended consequences of educational reform in her school about which I've never heard before: splits and rotations.

That immediately got us thinking, how can we better serve these families who have served us so well, which of course, led us to thinking about surveying them, hearing more about their experiences, and ultimately, getting their insights and perspectives on this broader question of how we can reform education and provide some educational choice options for them.

In pre-recessionary times, Kentucky was a leader in educational development, creating new plans for an increase in adolescent literacy and passing the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which redistributed over a billion dollars towards low - income school districts.

Our statistical study examines the compelling case of Sweden, the world's best known social democracy, which in 1992 adopted a policy reform that was traditionally supported by libertarians: a nation - wide educational voucher.

While NCLB focused primarily on educational standards, more recent reforms are focusing on reorganizing school power structures and letting parents decide which school their children attend — the ideas behind the buzzword «school choice.»

We must wage an unequivocal fight for a democratic and responsive educational system, overturning mayoral control and resisting corporate «education reform,» which have disenfranchised communities from the governance of their schools.

And it is not acceptable that the major emphasis of educational reform is on bubbling in Scantron test booklets, the results of which will be used to rank and sort schools and teachers, so that those at the bottom can be fired or closed — not so that we will invest the resources needed actually to provide good education in these schools.

The recent reforms to special educational needs, which aim to help children who have specific requirements to learn effectively, have been described as the biggest for a «generation».

Mayrowetz studies the ways in which organizational and institutional factors influence the creation and implementation of educational reforms.

But the teachers union, which doesn't like the fact that most charter schools aren't unionized, has been eagerly awaiting Bloomberg's departure so that it can roll back his educational reform policies.

In 2008, Former State Senator Gloria Romero authored and guided to passage the «parent trigger» law, which allows a majority of parents in a failing school the option to petition the local educational agency (LEA) to implement reform in the school.

Apparently Duncan may not have been referring to all tutoring, just the tutoring provided by the private companies, which would certainly be a bit of an embarrassment for the «education reformers» who claim privatizing educational services is the key to successfully reforming America's education system.

The methods behind the educational success of this community, which encompasses four blink - and - you'll - miss -»em towns stretched out on the flat plains of north - central Kansas, provide a stark contrast to popular education reforms playing out across the United States.

New Jersey Charter School Program Act «The Legislature finds and declares that the establishment of charter schools as part of this State's program of public education can assist in promoting comprehensive educational reform by providing a mechanism for the implementation of a variety of educational approaches which may not be available in the traditional public school classroom.

The impetus this time was the famous A Nation at Risk report, which framed the educational problem in dire economic terms and launched an avalanche of state - level efforts at reform.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

Virginia, which gained a waiver last month despite its lack of aggressiveness on the reform front, reaffirmed its reputation for being more - concerned with not disrupting the state's educational ancien regime by approving AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017.

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

In addition, he sponsored or co-sponsored several major pieces of educational legislation which included Smart Start, More at Four (a Pre-kindergarten program), the Excellent Schools Act for school reform, and the Safe Schools Act.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

After learning from the educational experiences of top - performing countries, which aspects of education in the United States are in the greatest need of reform?

Jon Hage, the CEO of Charter Schools USA and Center for Education Reform board member, said, «I am hopeful Governor Scott will continue to demonstrate his ability to rise above politics and support the very priorities upon which his legacy will be built: support for educational choice for families, dedication to students with special needs, and rewards for highly effective educators.»

The most recent green paper in education was the 2011 paper on special educational needs reforms, which set the path for recent changes in the way children's needs are identified and funded.

I thought Part II was important to share with you all, especially given this particular post captures that in which followers of this blog are most interested, although I do recommend that you all also see what the ESSA means for other areas of educational progress and reform in terms of the Common Core, teacher education, charter schools, etc. in her Parts I - IX.

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