Sentences with phrase «focus of all reform efforts»

That must be the focus of all reform efforts.

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They are reflected in the growing internationalisation of the Australian economy, with a sharper focus on Asia; in greater competitiveness, including in manufactured exports; in genuine efforts to raise productivity through co-operative workplace negotiations; and in a general clamour for speedier micro-economic reforms.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

More often, efforts to deal with fragmentation and pluralism focus on reforming the curriculum of a school.

«But in the meantime, I remain certain that Matt will win with a grassroots field campaign focused on voters of the 99 %, and I will continue on in my support of Matt's efforts to reform the system and win.»

His research focuses on the politics of drug policy reform in Latin America, specifically efforts to legalize cannabis.

The advocacy efforts of the Vote Better NY coalition focus on reforming these laws in three critical areas, through bills I've introduced: fully modernizing and transforming voter registration through the Voter Empowerment Act, instituting early voting, and ensuring ballots are clear and usable through the Voter Friendly Ballot Act.

He is a proponent of campaign finance reform, term limits, greater focus on education and a «balanced» effort to address climate change.

This effort from the American Action Network has been focused on tax reform, part of a $ 500,000 digital ad campaign to push for the issue.

The Senate is seen as the biggest stumbling block for campaign finance reform and has been the focus of the groups efforts.

«Those who suggest that the whole of government can focus on delivering on only one thing at a time seem to forget what reforms are already in progress across our public services — at precisely the same time and maintaining our relentless efforts to ensure our economy is on the right track,» Mr Alexander added.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

Still, the overwhelming majority of the endorsements, money and door - to - door organizing efforts in the contest have gone to Ms. Niou, whose focus on reform and Asian heritage may help draw out the well - educated professionals and Chinatown residents who make up two key constituencies in the district.

At this time I believe that my efforts are best focused on the continued reform and improvement of the county through the Legislature's work,» Rath says.

Though the three Democrats say they will focus a significant portion of their efforts on reforming Albany and the economy, their specific proposals vary.

Flanagan quickly shot down Cuomo's efforts in a statement, rejecting the LLC loophole as a reform issue and insisting reform efforts should focus exclusively on reforms related to activities of Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite the fact that his predecessor, Skelos, was convicted on corruption charges that involved the influence of real estate groups that have flooded legislators» campaign coffers with donations through the loophole.

For example, they point out that investments in country capacity building have been inadequate and difficult to track, arrangements for fair and timely sharing of patient samples remain weak, and reform efforts at WHO have focused on operational issues but have neglected to address deeper institutional shortcomings.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

• The broader and more abstract the soft skill that is the focus of a school reform effort, the more likely is the skill to have a dominant genetic basis.

A longtime corporate supporter of national school - reform efforts has announced plans to focus its grantmaking exclusively on regional education initiatives.

This logic is why the new wave of high school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the family.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

So I hope I will be forgiven, although I'm certain I will not be, for wanting the full force of reform efforts to focus on what happens inside of schools and classrooms.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Many of those involved in this process want to «increase equity» and believe the focus of K - 12 reform efforts should be confined to the «public sector.»

The efforts of the profession are focused on implementing the far - reaching reforms that have been put in place recently.

But too often reform efforts intended to boost the prospects of such children focus entirely on those who, for a hundred reasons, are struggling to achieve academically.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever - increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement.

More recent trends in philanthropic investment rely more on a change - oriented and data - driven approach, with increased focus on disrupting traditional institutions and structures and research and advocacy efforts to create policy environments supportive of reform.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Some of her projects have included: «Improving Access to College Information and Financial Aid,» a study on the effects of simplifying the financial aid application process; «Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions,» a series of research studies focused on college enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remediation.

None of this should be news to close observers of trends in education advocacy, but it might be useful to have some evidence that documents the shifting focus of ed reform efforts.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

In preparing teacher leaders, experienced practitioners noted the importance of developing knowledge and skills that are aligned with the focus and goals of the reform effort they will help lead.

In a study by Coggins et al. (2003) coaches (i.e., teacher leaders) reported that they were most effective supporting their schools» reform efforts when facilitating teams of teachers in meetings that were focused on instruction (such as analysis of student achievement data and discussions of research).

Most quality school reform efforts focus primarily on the end result of improving K12 student performance.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

Additionally, many teacher evaluation reform efforts may be focused too heavily on the demand side of teacher evaluation.

In an effort to meet these challenges, a number of policy reforms have focused on raising student achievement.

Today's education reform climate seems to focus on a misguided narrative of unions as obstructionists and educators as villains, ignoring how educators and their unions are leading successful reform efforts all across the country.

Like healthcare reform efforts of the past, education reform movements intended to improve teaching quality often focus on the extreme minorities of the performance distribution.

In contrast to more traditional critiques of America 2000, which focus on specific shortcomings or underserved constituencies, Professor Giroux's analysis argues the basic conflict between this reform effort and an «emancipatory definition of substantive democracy»» (p. 3).

The Department of Education must recognize this — and focus on investing in promising local reform efforts.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

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.

Given Fuller's long - time Walton involvements, what makes Fuller's efforts to actually empower New Orleans community members particularly interesting is this October 2015 report announcing that the Walton Foundation 2016 - 20 strategic plan involves trying to drum up community support for its charter school reforms - and one city of particular focus is New Orleans.