Sentences with phrase «failed school bureaucracies»

Acknowledging connections between the economy, poverty, health and brain function is not an attempt to «excuse» failing school bureaucracies and classroom teachers; rather, it is a necessary prerequisite for authentic school reform, which must be based on a realistic assessment of the whole child — not just a child's test scores.

Not exact matches

This year, we are for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing schools every year and how to improve the overall performance of our education system.»

The ballot also discovered that: 96 per cent of respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per cent of respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per cent of schools.

Some are former district staff frustrated with the bureaucracy and lack of autonomy, some are free marketers who philosophically believe (absent a whole ton of research) that the market will rescue schools, some are pro union, some anti union, some want a new union, some are well intentioned and fail, some are less well intentioned and succeed, and there is a wide range within.

They promised to end bureaucracy, to ensure that poor children were not neglected, to empower poor parents, to enable poor children to escape failing schools, and to close the achievement gap between rich and poor, black and white.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

However, a huge reservoir of stolen time is under the control of the state legislature, particularly when it comes to testing and the many layers of bureaucracy that start piling on when a school fails to meet expectations.

I think that so much of the discussion around tenure in K12 is linked to a widespread idea that the state has a monopoly over public schools and has yielded a bureaucracy that has failed schools, etc..

Gates's effort at Turning Around Failing Schools was not only widely panned by education pundits, but also shown to be an utter failure by the federal education bureaucracy through which it was supported.