Sentences with phrase «failed reform efforts»

The unraveling of Common Core makes this flop the most obviously ill - conceived and doomed - to - fail reform effort since the Annenberg Foundation threw $ 500 million away in the 1990s.

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Their efforts ultimately fails, but helps put labor reform on the political map.

President Obama supported comprehensive gun reforms after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but the effort ultimately failed in Congress.

The process behind crafting tax reform was quite different than the failed efforts to repeal Obamacare, Ryan tells CNBC.

Lew said that while the Obama administration has failed in its efforts to get tax reform through Congress, he believes the unhappiness expressed by both Democrats and Republicans following Europe's announcement on Tuesday could push Congress to act.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

Q) You say early in the book that reform efforts based on content have failed to affect achievement gaps, and, that an emphasis on character in some way seems like a better alternative.

Cuomo is backing an effort in his education reform push that would put a monitor in charge of a school deemed to be failing.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

A majority of Americans are ready to move on from health - care reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed last week, according to an exclusive Reuters / Ipsos opinion poll.

The failed push for campaign finance overwhelmed all other reform efforts.

Cuomo pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice reform, as well as a plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for families earning less than $ 125,000.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

Today Mr Hutton acknowledged that all efforts to reform the agency, including a major shake - up in 2000, had failed.

Fred LeBrun says Cuomo faces a significant backlash if his latest effort at education reform fails.

One effort to reform the Port Authority, the agency at the center of the Bridgegate scandal, died this year when the state Senate failed to override a veto by Christie (New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a parallel bill; each state must pass identical laws to reform the bi-state agency).

The latest effort to reform Florida's gun laws failed this week.

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;

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

After her talk, an elementary school principal sought her out and complained that faculty members in Kentucky's colleges of education were bashing the state's reform effort and failing to train teachers to understand the new way of thinking.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

Today we'll talk with Paul about these heroes, the impact they had on our schools, and his optimism that digital learning might finally succeed where so many other reform efforts failed.

Of particular interest is EM's claim on its web site: «Previous efforts to reform mathematics instruction failed because they did not adequately consider the working lives of teachers.»

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

Education Redesign: Building a New Model for All Date TBD $ 149 per person Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab, explore why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a new education system.

Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville at the Education Redesign Lab, the workshop explores why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a «new engine» to drive better outcomes for all.

When we fail to right - size our reform efforts, we breed a sense of futility among teachers, parents and policymakers.

Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder - backed efforts aren't yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.

The book The Prize details how the reform effort in Newark Public Schools failed, in large part, because Newark residents and district employees felt like reform was done to them, not with them.

A series of failed education reform efforts over the past 50 years seemed to confirm that conclusion.

Back in the 1990s, there was a sense that reforms failed when advocates got bogged down in efforts to change «professional practice» while ignoring the role of policy.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

'' Chicago has a long history of tinkering with failed schools,» said Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed some $ 25 million since 2001 to school reform efforts in Chicago.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

But even Joseph Cirasuolo lobbying effort on behalf of the Steven Adamowski deal failed to persuade legislators and the before the General Assembly adopted Malloy's Education Reform legislation the Adamowski's pension deal was removed.

For one, his proclamations that families aren't equipped to manage schools fails to consider the reality that some of the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

Current Reform Strategies by Pass / Reason for Fail — Ranked by Percent Placing Major Effort

It will take a collection of men and women with entrepreneurial drive, operational savvy and passion for overhauling education so that all children can succeed in order to take on the challenges of transforming a system that has poorly served so many kids for far too long.After all, reform efforts are wasted if they fail because of bad strategic, tactical and operational decisions.

Yet despite research such as this, reform efforts often have failed to acknowledge teachers» existing knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, according to Gray and Bryce (2006).

Instead of calling for more reform efforts, Wolk makes the case for a new schooling strategy where students break free of the failing assembly line approach to learning and receive the individualized instruction they deserve.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?

Then there are the efforts of ConnCAN, the state's leading reform outfit, to revive a proposed overhaul of the state's teacher evaluation system; the law had failed to gain passage last year.

They have also failed to call the administration on the carpet for the process it has used for granting waivers, even as more evidence has proven that it is just winging it, and continue to proclaim the waivers as a good idea even though it is essentially damaging the reform efforts they are pushing at the state level.

The failed recall effort and the unions» weakness (at least at the legislative level) in stopping education reform raise questions about the unions» real level of support.

Reform efforts aimed at solving the problems of students failing classes, repeating grades, or dropping out altogether have focused on instruction, testing, and class size.

In the New York Times, Jennifer Medina writes about a topic that our own Ben Boychuk has chronicled at length: the effort to reform California schools through a trigger mechanism, which allows dissatisfied parents to convert failing public institutions into charter schools.

Put in place principals specially trained to turn around failing schools and help ensure that major education reform efforts around teacher effectiveness, innovation and common core are carried out effectively