Sentences with phrase «federal education reform»

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

The appeal of the book is its firsthand history of major federal education reforms and its conventional wisdom account of their effectiveness.

On February 17, 2009, Barack Obama signed one of the most sweeping federal education reforms in American history.

Dr. Jo Ann Isken, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services of Lennox School District (shown with Lennox School Board President Marisol Cruz and Superintendent Bruce McDaniel) credits the FIS partnership for improving standardized test scores and increasing English Learner reclassification rates, priorities of state and federal education reform efforts.

From the 1990s until the end of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2015, state and federal education reform policies had a virtually exclusive focus on holding public schools accountable for student test scores in reading and mathematics.

These ambitious efforts will require a careful reexamination of the leverage and limits of federal education reform strategies, an appreciation for the state and local functions in education, and an understanding of the importance of input from education leaders who know firsthand the ongoing challenges students and schools face, as well as how to develop innovative solutions to address these challenges.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will speak at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Tuesday about lessons learned from federal education reforms enacted under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

During these economic times, we need these bills to compete strongly for Race to the Top funding, the $ 4 billion federal education reform program that will help us maintain our commitment to today's students.

Race to Top application in Round 2: Washington meets deadline to seek $ 250 million in federal education reform funds

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Education).

The state Senate will hold hearings later this month to determine if legislators need to change a California law governing the use of student test scores in order to qualify for competitive federal education reform dollars.

Despite the passage of numerous federal education reforms, including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, the racial achievement gap has narrowed at an extremely slow rate since 2001.

In 2001, No Child Left Behind, the last major federal education reform, mandated yearly testing in the basics of reading and math for children in third through eighth grades.