Sentences with phrase «former federal education official»
In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.
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Student achievement gains in the United States have been substantial and promising, but more work needs to be done, writes former federal education official Marshall S. Smith.
«It's bait and switch,» said Diane Ravitch, a historian, author and former federal education official who is also an active member of the state's left - leaning Working Families Party.
President Clinton has appointed Mary Frances Berry, a former federal education official, to chair the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
«I thought it was disgraceful,» said Diane Ravitch, a former federal education official and author of the bestselling book «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.»
«Everyone has had their spots where having problems meeting their aims with this,» said Ferguson, a former federal education official under former President Clinton.
«I'm concerned that states, with a combination of state politics and inertia, will not... do aggressive interventions for students in struggling schools,» said Chad Aldeman, a former federal education official who is now with Bellwether Education Partners, a Boston - based consulting firm.
Never has an education secretary been given so much money by Congress with such open - ended authority, according to current and former federal education officials.
«The promise was dramatic, lasting change in turning around the nation's worst 5,000 schools,» said Andrew Smarick, a former federal education official and a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a consulting firm.
«Here we are, five years into the program, and it's hard to look at it as a success,» said Andy Smarick, a former federal education official and a partner at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners.
«We know a lot less about what works in early childhood programs than the prevailing policy narrative would suggest,» said Grover J. Whitehurst, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former federal education official.
«Foundations have moved in considerable measure from adding to what schools do, to trying to transform schools and what they're doing,» says Chester Finn Jr., a former federal education official who is now president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Diane Ravitch, an education historian, now renounces many of the market - oriented policies she promoted as a former federal education official with close ties to Democrats and Republicans.