Sentences with phrase «educational reformers in»

Fang and Gopinathan (2009) note that educational reformers in the West are oriented toward better - structured subject content, as demonstrated in the Common Core State Standards, whereas the East is looking at how to involve students more actively in learning and how to relate learning to real applications.

Schiefelbein has been an influential policymaker and educational reformer in developing countries throughout his career.

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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.

Reformers like the eighteenth century Mary Wollstonecraft acted in a period where little progress had been made towards educational equality, and the reality for women who block marriage laws were essentially property rights and everything a woman owned belonged to her husband.

Reformers also need to engage constituents early in the process, and explain how educational change could eventually make their lives and their jobs easier, said Elorza.

In the end, while these two lawsuits might look attractive to education reformers, the federal courts are not the answer for our educational ills.

Perhaps Smarick only means that education reformers should pay attention to the details of public policy in order to expand educational freedom.

Reformers share in the blame, thanks to their habit of layering new policies upon old and shoving program after program into the current educational frame rather than replacing outmoded initiatives.

This is the very point we have argued against all the corporate reformers who say that poverty is not a factor, that only incompetent and inappropriately protected teachers result in bad educational outcomes.

By situating important academic concepts and skills in the context of projects and internships, High Tech High gives Morikawa and his classmates what John Dewey, the great pragmatic philosopher and educational reformer of the early twentieth century, called «both magnet to attract and glue to hold» their learning.

If school vouchers bettered the educational opportunities only of children who use the vouchers to attend private schools or schools in another district, many reformers would be left holding cups half empty.

From teacher evaluation systems to value - added modeling to the recent Vergara decision in California, reformers have increasingly focused on selecting, measuring, developing, evaluating, and firing teachers as the key to educational improvement.

Eager to showcase his compassion, he drew upon his record as an education reformer in Texas to make the case for educational accountability.

I have seen other educational researchers and reformers frame it in the opposite way, saying that on weekdays teachers have students for more hours of the day than their parents do.

In the thinking of most reformers these include such things as educational television, personal computers complete with «turtles,» floppy disks, ãŸäŸ's, satellite transmissions, and video games.

But «Even as alarmed U.S. reformers urge adoption of such Japanese tactics as longer school hours and stricter adherence to basics,» we wrote in 1985, «the Japanese are looking to the American educational model as a better guide for producing the kind of creative ingenuity that...

There is a story we tell at conferences about an educational reformer who holds a seance in order to call up the ghost of John Dewey.

In a perfect world, teachers would point to The Oath and feel justified and empowered to shield and protect their students from rapacious «educational reformers» as well as rented politicians.

Clowes later wrote a report for Heartland responding to the lack of improvement in educational outcomes in the Milwaukee voucher program and disillusionment of some school reformers.

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But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

ESA's, known as «Vouchers 2.0» by education reformers, offer parents the option to receive money in an account that they can use for private school tuition and other educational expenses to supplement learning or in lieu of sending their children to public schools.

«One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me «Superman» did not exist,» the educational reformer Geoffrey Canada recalls in the opening moments of «Waiting for «Superman,»» a powerful and alarming documentary about America's failing public school system.

While educational reformers seek to restructure schools, a gradual, but fundamental, shift has been occurring in the everyday communication in classrooms.

As early as 1895, educational reformers lamented Americans» «meager results» in the subject.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

Do any parents in urban school districts ever wonder why they don't read in the newspapers about a rush of educational reformers salvaging the suburban school districts?

Some reformers believe that in the short term, we might have to grudgingly accept lower graduation rates as we increase educational standards and implement true college and career readiness in the high schools.

Increasingly educational reformers recognize the critical role teachers play in increasing outcomes for students, and in making schools places where individual and collective growth is valued.

Education reformers are demanding to link compensation, in part, to teacher «merit» and the «value added» to the child's educational attainment in any given academic year.

«In the twenty - first century, standardized tests are a key feature of how wealthy educational investors and school reformers ensure that highly racially and economically segregated apartheid school districts remain lucrative.»

While strong reformers who are Republicans continue to run and win elections in states, Republicans at the national level seem not to understand that in supporting educational choice they are supporting a civil right, and that they are the leaders in this support.

In the process, they have forgotten their moral and political obligations as school reformers to the most - vulnerable children, the kids black and brown and poor and American Indian, who have been subjected to nearly two centuries of what can be best called educational genocide.

Arguing that the early optimism about No Child from reformers «proved unfounded», Carey declares that there is little evidence that the law has led to «a new era of educational opportunity for disadvantaged children» or for all children in general.

When Phillip Jackson founded the Black Star Project in 1996, few school reformers had fully focused on the crisis of low educational attainment among young black men.

Although I have been involved in the start - up and management of two charter schools, I think educational reformers who are depending on them to transform public education are overselling their virtues.

Main image: The English suffragist and educational reformer Dame Millicent Fawcett, (1847 — 1929), addressing a meeting in Hyde Park in 1913 as president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, an office she held from 1897 to 1919.