Sentences with phrase «embrace systemic reform»

At the end of the day, reformers must give up on the fanciful notion that NEA and AFT leaders can embrace systemic reform on anything other than a tepid level.

Because it is a shameful proposition not worthy of the paper upon which it is written — especially in light of the Old Dominion's failures to embrace systemic reform.

The 100 percent proficiency target set by No Child was an ambitious statement that all kids should get the education they need to write their own life stories, putting much - needed on states to embrace systemic reform.

But AYP and the 100 percent proficiency target have put much - needed pressure on states and districts to embrace systemic reform, including expanding school choice and overhauling teacher evaluation systems.

Then there was Virginia, which was granted a waiver in June 2012 by the Obama Administration in spite of its longstanding unwillingness to embrace systemic reform as well as address the low quality of teaching and curricula provided to poor and minority children.

Even if states and districts failed to meet the goal initially, the goal put much - needed pressure on them to embrace systemic reform.

Perhaps it will finally embraces systemic reform before it's too late.

By refusing to embrace systemic reforms, AFT and NEA help perpetuate damage to the futures of Black and Brown children, often behaving no differently in consequence than the regime that occupies the executive branch of the federal government.

Not exact matches

But given the conservative movement's other problems (including, as Washington Examiner columnist Noemie Emery notes, a sense of entitlement and embrace of a victim mentality unfitting of itself), the importance of the movement playing a strong role in shaping systemic reform, and the need for the movement to update how it applies first principles to today's issues, it is a much - needed fight that conservative reformers can win.

In his latest essay, Smarick takes a wrong turn by arguing that it is time for what he calls an «energized retrenchment» that involves scaling back the federal role in advancing systemic reform embraced since the 1980s by Ronald Reagan and his successors.

The Problem of the School Inspector Concept: Give the Education Sector credit for offering a new approach to systemic reform with last week's report on how states and the federal government could embrace the school inspection concept based on the model used in Great Britain.

Through our thought leadership, CTQ also works to articulate the promise of systemic change to help all stakeholders embrace the necessity of reforms that are comprehensive and wide - reaching (beyond the confines of an individual school or school district).

Her platform, which included the embrace of education traditionalism (symbolized by her close working relationship with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have voted for her.

The consequences of these restrictions, along with the unwillingness of suburban district bureaucracies to embrace the array of systemic reforms taken on by big - city districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.