But active engagement from a few high - profile
foundation leaders does not fully explain the trend.
Vander Ark, the Gates, and other foundation leaders don't expect to get everything right, but they don't expect to go away, and they say they won't get defensive about the problems of their past initiatives.
Not exact matches
The larger question is why
does anyone want to become
leaders of religious groups when the
foundations of these religions are severely flawed historically and theologically??
Even as the UN declares the UK to be the global
leader for implementing e-government, unless the GDS can re-establish itself the UK may find the
foundations it has created swept away — at a time when using digital services to
do more with less is needed more than ever.
«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business
leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell
Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to
do this and that....
Other charter school
leaders, like Steve Barr of the Green Dot chain in Los Angeles,
do star turns, as
does Bill Gates of Microsoft, whose
foundation has invested many millions of dollars in expanding the number of charter schools.
The limited communication that
does make it through to
foundation leaders tends to reaffirm whatever they are already
doing.
The School Principal as
Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning (January 2013): This Wallace Perspective summarizes a decade of
foundation research and work in school leadership to identify what it is that effective school principals
do.
For Yasmin Noriega, former youth
leader and now a board member for Californians for Justice, «when it comes to the
foundation for equity, and ensuring every student feels safe, supported and empowered, it's not about what we can
do, it's about what we should
do.
But what about getting them to
do things that wouldn't otherwise come naturally — in other words, to have a truly transformative effect by convincing state or school
leaders to try out a new course that the policy team at your
foundation is really excited about?
Three New Orleans charter school principals gathered Thursday evening to discuss a just - released study that examined what school
leaders do in response to competition — the
foundation of the city's school - choice model.
(What Canete doesn't mention, of course, is that — as in the United States — the «public pressure» he credits with winning the support of EU
leaders for the destructive climate policies, has been provided by phony «grassroots» NGOs lavishly funded by governments, Wall Street billionaires, and the huge tax - exempt
foundations).