Sentences with phrase «educational reformers who»

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

Like the proverbial drunk who hunts for his keys near the lamppost, school reformers have searched for the educational keys to success by looking where the solutions are the easiest, not where the problems are most severe.

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.

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.

Reformers are school district leaders who aim to make centralized, government - run educational systems work more effectively by imposing new rules and regulations concerning what school administrators and teachers can and can not do.

This year we are honoring Richard Strong who, for most of his career, worked privately as a teacher of teachers, educational reformer, and researcher.

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.

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.

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

Education reformers believe that performance evaluations are the key to improving educational achievement, and those who fail to receive good performance evaluations should lose their jobs.

The founding faculty were influenced by the ideas of the educational reformer John Dewey, who would serve as a member of Black Mountain's advisory council, alongside Gropius, Kline, Carl Jung, and Einstein.

Get the corporate reformers, who see our children as a business opportunity, out of educational decision - making and let teachers teach.