Sentences with phrase «enemies of public education for»

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Gove's more pugilistic side may have softened since his time as education secretary — you'll no longer find him using military metaphors and pledging to vanquish «the enemies of promise», in public, at least — but he clearly retains his impulse for confronting the inertia of the political establishment.

In the Fall 2010 issue of UCEA Review (available at the University Council for Educational Administration web site), former UCEA president and UNC - Chapel Hill professor Fenwick W. English has an essay titled «The 10 Most Wanted Enemies of American Public Education's School Leadership.»

I'm no Foley advocate; indeed, I voted for Jon, but Malloy was the proven enemy while Foley pledged to end Common Core in CT, abolish SBAC, and return control of public education to local districts.

In the public discourse, films such as Waiting for Superman vilify union leaders and frame the unions as enemies of education reform.

Your vote for Malloy implicates you as an enemy of public education.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.