Sentences with phrase «failed reform models»

In studying family engagement, I too believe that if we don't begin to reach more parents and communities, then our school turn around plans will start to follow the same pattern as previously failed reform models.

So, why is Candice McQueen hellbent on moving American Way into a failed reform model?

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Tunisia, reeling from internal strife, fails to stand - up as the local model of democratic reform that it briefly embodied in 2011.

The campaign, titled Protect Our Democracy, is modeled after the successful strategy that led to marriage equality for New Yorkers and will inject itself into the upcoming state elections to put pressure on state senators that failed to support reform this past legislative session.

They said it was high time the government carried out some reforms and changed its approach, saying it was evident that the current model had failed.

Since, as Marcus notes, «some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the way of the music and journalism industries,» scientists at early stages of their careers may wish to consider whether they ought to tie their futures to institutions that, failing drastic reform in the near future, will in many cases continue «facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low - cost competition.»

Though details differed, the «can't fail» spirit has marked both enterprises and made them models for Catholic school rescue and reform.

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.

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Arguing that current federal reform models are failing struggling rural schools, a new report makes the case for a new «community schools» turnaround option.

This could include taking on the model of school governance successfully being used in New Orleans and being used by Michigan in reforming Detroit's failing traditional district.

Democratic party turnout is likely to be lackluster, and a huge reason is the administration's insistence on following a failed model of reform for our schools.

In this paper, Dylan Wiliam identifies that the main reasons most system - wide reforms have failed and offers one potential solution: improving the pedagogy and practice of teachers working in today's classrooms with new models of professional development and leadership.

Reforms aimed at solving the problem of students failing grades or dropping out altogether, Naiditch claims, focus on getting students to perform «at grade level,» without ever considering that the grade - level model itself may have harmful effects on learning.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

After Ohio's first - term Republican Gov. John Kasich announced he was including a trigger law in his budget proposal, Oestreich, Heartland's legislative analyst, enthused: «It is clear that the traditional union model of reform — more money, more teachers — has failed Ohio.

Instead, she has led an ideological crusade for privatization — a model of education reform that fails in multiple ways, to address the needs of the nation's 50 million students.

The failing grades that hound Vallas» charter school model is just the tip of a much larger record of failure when it comes to the broader «reforms» that Vallas implemented in New Orleans and now seeks to recreate in Bridgeport.

Rep. Cecil Brockman, a High Point Democrat who co-sponsored last year's bill to legalize the reform model, says chronically lagging public schools, particularly those that serve African - American children, have failed parents.

«As the leading advocate for home ownership, NAR strongly agrees that the existing system failed and that reforms are needed; however, redesigning a viable secondary mortgage model that will protect taxpayer dollars and serve the country's home owners today, and in the future, can only be achieved through a methodical, measured effort,» said Phipps, broker - president of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I.

The President's plan is centered on four core principles for reform: putting private capital first, ending the failed Fannie / Freddie business model and protecting the taxpayers, ensuring broad access to the 30 - year fixed rate mortgage in good times and bad, and preserving the American dream of affordable homeownership for all qualifying borrowers in every community while at the same time ensuring sustainable rental options are widely available.