Sentences with phrase «educational reforms since»

Having spent 40 years in K - 12 education, I found the book to be a detailed trip down memory lane of attempted educational reforms since the 1950's.

Not exact matches

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

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,...

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

Since 2000, the CTA has spent more than $ 200 million on political activity, with their largest expenditures going to opposition against educational reform initiatives.

Since 2007, Education Next's annual poll has provided insight into public opinion on school reform, educational standards, and other issues in education.

Community schools have taught us since their resurgence in 2000 that most past educational reforms have produced only marginal results in comparison, largely because they focus almost exclusively on the instructional side of teaching and learning (IEL, 2014).

The educational establishment — school boards, teachers unions and other special interest groups, dubbed the «Government Education Complex» by Bruno Behrend, director of the Center for School Reform at The Heartland Institute, don't like the law since it allows a group of parents to trump their power.

She's the most prominent educational historian since her predecessor, Lawrence Cremin from Teachers College and somehow people believe this should somehow enable her to lead our schools down the path of credible reform in her name's sake.

Since 2010, the UNC system's Board of Governors has become somewhat more conservative and more interested in serious educational reforms.

Now here we are; four years have come and gone since the profound «educational reforms» that transformed the Milner School and that 13.3 percent statistic about Milner's fifth - graders and their ability to score at a proficient level in reading comes from the 2011 Connecticut Mastery Test.

Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) have contributed to social and educational reform in American culture since the seventeenth century.

Since 2015, Alec has continued to work for educational equity as a Regional Development Strategist with Kiwanis International, and Deputy Director of NorthCarolinaCAN, where he successfully advocated for equity - focused reforms at the state and local level.

MarGrady Research study «Moving Up: Progress in Newark's Schools from 2010 to 2017,» by educational researcher Jesse Margolis of MarGrady Research and NYU, analyzed the district's progress since 2010 — including both NPS and charter schools — looking specifically at the effectiveness of educational reforms pertaining to student outcomes and achievement.

Since then, the «opt out» movement has grown across the country and Connecticut as thousands of parents and students across the country are refusing to take state tests in protest of educational reforms associated with high - stakes testing.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

Since California did not win Race to the Top funds, I feel that the impetus to push additional educational reform in California has already substantially waned.