Sentences with phrase «educational system reform»

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And they see a president with a vision of a country that can rebuild its infrastructure, reform its health care, strengthen its educational system, and boost its economic prosperity in ways that require all citizens to contribute - and that will, in turn, allow all citizens to flourish.

«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

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.

By guiding, informing, and coordinating alternative options for parents, educators, health and human service professionals, faith - based counselors, legislators, and the public at - large, CRC is able to help reduce divorce and strengthen families through custody reform; parental mediation and training; conciliation and access; parental financial and educational support systems; legislative revision and court briefs.

A reader hoping for an in - depth analysis of inequalities in the American educational system and promising approaches towards school reform would likely be better off picking up a copy of Linda Darling - Hammond's book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future.

The bill makes common - sense reforms that will help children grow and improve our educational system.»

That will take a generation and will require a large - scale and sustainable reform of the failing Spanish educational system, a marked reduction in business regulations and a long - term commitment to innovation.

Ghana has a free education 6 - year primary school education system beginning at age six, [163] and, under the educational reforms implemented in 1987 and reformed in 2007, they pass on to a 3 - year junior high school system.

The National Universities Commission (NUC) says it is embarking on the process of reforming the country's higher educational system in order to turn out...

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

«They should monitor progress in reforming the educational system to encourage more creative and innovative thought, rather than simply counting publications and patents.»

Top 3 reforms launching in Ukraine this year Education Changes in Ukraine's educational system will come into effect...

Also, with the democratic changes that have occurred and the new reforms that are to be implemented, there has been significant political interference in the educational system.

Our faculty is studying the most pressing issues facing our educational system today — the achievement gap, language and literacy, urban school reform, new leadership models, testing and accountability, to name just a few.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

The Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have joined together to publish Education Governance for the Twenty - First Century, a new book that looks at how America's fragmented and decentralized system of education governance impedes school reform and how governing arrangements might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

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.»

Because the current system, with all of its flaws, ensures that many of America's most vulnerable children are given access to special services and, whenever possible, significant exposure to a regular educational environment, parents and advocates oppose reforms because they fear losing the opportunities that children now have.

Although the political conditions may not be ripe for major policy reform in special education this year, there is a growing consensus that we can and must design a better system for diagnosing, educating, and verifying the educational progress of special education students.

Seven months after the Kentucky supreme court held the state's entire school system unconstitutional, a task force is moving toward adoption of a comprehensive reform plan that, supporters say, could propel the state to the forefront of educational innovation.

To us, this initiative means NBU and its active - learning programs no longer exist solely as an external force challenging the educational system: There is a demand for reform within the school system, and we believe it will grow.

«Over first semester, we explored leading examples of school reform and building effective educational systems,» Elmore says.

The act offers new directions for curriculum reform, provides new systems for teacher recruitment and training, and extends national educational requirements.

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.

Washington — Proposals by President Bush and others to create a national testing system are unlikely to improve schools and could set back reforms already under way, educational researchers cautioned at a meeting here last week.

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.

Ultimately, the strides that the UAE has made in its educational reforms rely on a number of focuses, but it is fair to say that the success of the changes being made to the education systems in UAE countries reply on teachers; their skills, happiness and wellbeing all contribute to pupil, state and national achievement in an undeniable way.

The commission warned, «If only to keep and improve on the slim competitive edge we still retain in world markets, we must dedicate ourselves to the reform of our educational system for the benefit of all — old and young alike, affluent and poor, majority and minority.»

A package to support embedding the reforms made to the system of support for children with special educational needs has been announced by Minister for Vulnerable Children and Families, Edward Timpson.

The Act seeks to reform legislation relating to the following areas: adoption and children in care; aspects of the family justice system; children and young people with special educational needs; the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England; and statutory rights to leave and pay for parents and adopters.

Around that time, says Professor Graham, the federal government began a series of landmark reforms that helped equalize public education for groups that had not had a «fair shake in the educational system.»

Yet, opponents of parent choice and other transformational education reform initiatives continue to place one obstacle after another in the path of parents seeking the power to choose the best educational environment for their children and / or to fundamentally change some of the systems that purport to educate their children.

If I want people to pay attention to me, my company, our education reform proposals, and our educational products, I must avoid any suggestion of improvement under the current system.

If you're going to do a show about school reform, perhaps you should not make general, and inaccurate, generalizations about the entire educational system.

Larry and I both agree that our picture of [an improved educational system] is not the brilliant light at the end of the tunnel, but rather the «tinkering» of reforms that last.

In 1985, Education Week Staff Writer Sheppard Ranbom spent three months in Japan investigating its educational system and the increasingly loud calls for reform there.

If calling Richard F. Elmore the «father of school reform» sounds high and mighty, consider this: the Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education estimates he has worked with 30 or 40 school systems nationwide on issues of educational policy and leadership, including New York, Chicago, and Boston.

The Educational Needs of Children in Foster Care: The Need for System Reform This report provides an overview of the educational needs of children in foster care, as being placed into foster care is particularly disruptive for children with educational disabilities or other special needs....

By contrast, reform in the United States is driving its educational system toward centralization of elementary and secondary education.

In 1907, William Chandler Bagley complained about the «fads and reforms that sweep through the educational system at periodic intervals.»

Preus (2007) observed that the national education reform movement in China has moved its educational system toward a decentralization of elementary and secondary education.

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

The Kentucky Education Reform Act mandated changes in the state's school systems in order to provide equitable educational opportunities for all students within the school district and between school districts across the state.

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.

As a teacher, I was pleased with the book and its information regarding reform in the American educational system.

This book was so striking in the way that it illuminated why our educational system and chosen reforms are the way they are today... and how we keep doing the same thing over and over.