Sentences with phrase «following public school reforms»

All three families / foundations fund a plethora of organizations, all of which endorse, promote or in some way support one or more of the following public school reforms: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and superintendent training.

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I wanted to let you know that last week I undertook the laborious task of going through the almost 500 food - related organizations and individuals I follow on my Twitter feed and grouping them into general topics such as: «Childhood Obesity,» «School Food Reform,» «Public Health» and the like.

For the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the researchers followed the progress of 989 graduates of the Chicago Public School District's CPC program, which provided intensive instruction in reading and math from preschool through third grade as part of a school reform School District's CPC program, which provided intensive instruction in reading and math from preschool through third grade as part of a school reform school reform model.

This education reform documentary, produced and directed by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona public school who set out on a journey toward improving the quality of their teaching by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

The following post was written by two members of a committee that authored a report released last month by the National Research Council on evaluating D.C. public school reform under Michelle Rhee.

Another student followed by comparing Johnson's earlier remarks about stabilizing the situation in Syria to first stabilizing Wisconsin public schools before experimenting with other reforms:

In the study, published as a working paper on the Teacher Policy Research website, researchers from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the Stanford University Graduate School of Education used data for New York City public schools to examine a reform initiated in 2009 that altered the process by which teachers are granted tenure following their third year of teaching.

In a recent radio interview, Brill summarized his views as follows: «The nation's K to 12 schools are basically the only workplace in America where, until recently with some reforms including reforms in your state [Colorado], until those reforms, they have been the only workplace in America, even though there are 3.2 million public school teachers, where performance basically doesn't count.

The diverse array of school reformers that believes public education is broken beyond repair have created a shopping list of reforms / solutions that includes the following concepts: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and Common Core standards.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. — Following the nomination by Mayor Muriel Bowser of Antwan Wilson, current superintendent of Oakland Unified School District, to serve as DC Public Schools Chancellor, Democrats for Education Reform - DC...

As a result, the state's request for flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind law could be at risk of being denied, said Doug Harris, a UW - Madison associate professor of education and public policy who is following the school accountability reform process.

We can continue to follow the lead of Governor Malloy and the Corporate Education Reform Industry or we can actually do what is right for our children, parents, teachers, public schools and our society.