Sentences with phrase «get education reformers»

Why is it so hard to get education reformers to support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families?

Obviously it's got people upset, it's got the ire of a lot of people, but it's also got politicians, it's got education reformers, it's got people inside the current education establishment paying attention, asking a lot questions,» he said.

Not exact matches

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

As chair of the Education Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that pollutedEducation Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that pollutededucation reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the air.

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

But she and other education reformers wonder how the program would be implemented, how much money it would get, and whether it would duplicate work supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the department's reseeducation reformers wonder how the program would be implemented, how much money it would get, and whether it would duplicate work supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the department's reseEducation Sciences, the department's research arm.

Instead of writing off all the institutional heft that ed schools» control, it's time for reformers to get in the ring and work to ensure that some top colleges of education become places that can produce and host a healthy quotient of reform - minded thinkers.

Rather than get defensive at Diane's defeatism, we reformers should clarify the ends that education reform can achieve.

«I'm tired of us reformers getting our butts handed to us time and again,» she told the head of education at the Walton Family Foundation, which eventually gave $ 50 million.

We believe that the market based reformers are practicing a kind of crude social Darwinism — treating education as a commodity to be bought and sold, creating a hierarchy of winners (the elite who get a rich curriculum of questioning) and losers (the oppressed classes, the Black and Brown and immigrant and low - income children who need to be taught passivity and compliance).

I just perused Rand Quinn and Amanda Jones - Layman's thoughtful and pretty generous take on Letters to a Young Education Reformer, and it got me thinking about the tangled relationship of passion and professionalism when it comes to school reform.

And, while I'm not the quickest study, like anyone who's spent more than five minutes in education, I've got a gut reaction to the term «school reformer.»

Frederick M. Hess is director of education - policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas.

Higher education reformers might find such students and do all they can to get them across the finish line.

But while the «education reformers» say their goal is to get all children «college and career ready,» they are trying to force high school juniors to take a Common Core test that is purposely designed to label the majority of juniors as failures.

Education reformers like to say disruption is a good thing — like shaking up a kaleidoscope to get a pretty picture.

I find it fascinating that the term «education reformer» is being used in such a pejorative way by Ravitch and others (though the strategy is obvious: lump together everyone fighting to change the status quo in hopes of getting the public to dismiss them en masse.

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy: Be they school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to believe that their favored solution will transform American public education.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

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Despite so much negative research surrounding the effectiveness of retention, it is the sacrosanct ideology of many education reformers, Mr. Bush is certainly not alone, that getting tough on children is the only way they will improve.

Reformers said kids weren't getting a well - rounded education.

Education Reformers and their obsession with Standardized Testing — Even the NY Times can't get the story right!

In the end, what will probably unhinge the education reformers is that they don't seem to get it.

Michelle Rhee doesn't get it, Jason Kamras doesn't get it and this new wave of education reformers don't get it.

Whether or not any of San Antonio's school districts will eventually share space with a Carpe Diem school remains to be seen, but for now the relentless pursuit of education reformers like Rico has played a large role in getting San Antonio to the top of the list for charter school expansion.

She really «gets it» when it comes to public education and the «reformers» who are trying to destroy it.

You will not succeed in pulling our attention away from the real motives behind the «education reformers» who are aching to get their greedy paws on the money intended for our kids.

Do you see what happens where your tear down the status quo and bring in education reformers who know how to get things done?

Pryor, Vallas, Adamowski and the other «education reformers» appear to have a proclivity to by - pass the competitive bidding requirements or the need to get a group of the impacted people together to review alternative vendors and products.

For too long so - called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation's youth and educators.

Antioch, whose first president was the education reformer Horace Mann, got into trouble ahead of the rest, thanks to a tiny enrollment and endowment and a zealous expansion that spun off more than 30 graduate campuses under the name Antioch University.

As the founder, along with leading public education advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformerEducation Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation reformers.»

At this point, the only piece that is known is that Michelle Rhee, with the help of Connecticut education reformers got deeply involved in this week's Democratic primary.

But Smith talks about a «third way in education» that avoids getting drawn into the polarizing fight between teachers unions and reformers who concentrate on the issues in Vergara.

In the coming weeks we'll dig even deeper into this absurd plan, but if you want to get a basic primary on how the education reformers are wasting our tax dollars, undermining the teaching professional and destroying our public schools, I urge you to start by reading — and then re-reading Wendy Lecker's great piece.

Education reformers like to defend school choice on the ground that a child's chances of getting a good education shouldn't depend on her Education reformers like to defend school choice on the ground that a child's chances of getting a good education shouldn't depend on her education shouldn't depend on her zip code.

It seems too often these days, education reformers get ahead of themselves declaring victory (with a year of growth data) or nothing at all before we know whether most...

As far as the corporate education reformers are concerned, the end justifies the means and if the cost of getting what you want requires destroying our nation's age - old commitment to local control of education, so be it.

on Education Reformers and their obsession with Standardized Testing — Even the NY Times can't get the story right!

But of course, as we know from our experience here in Connecticut, education reformers like Governor Malloy, Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Special Master Steven Adamowski and their supporters don't let something like the truth get in the way of their public policy agenda.

However, when the concept is applied to one of their own; when an «education reformer» gets a performance evaluation of 56 percent, an F by any standard, it's a whole different story.

In his book As Good as It Gets (2010), education reformer Larry Cuban talks about the difficulty of sustaining even the most innovative reforms, let alone starting universal initiatives.

These so - called «reformers» reify test scores, making them the be-all and end - all of education and are eager to fire teachers and principals whose students don't get the test scores that the computer says they should, and equally eager to close public schools with low scores and replace them with privately managed schools that all too often escape the same scrutiny as the public schools they replaced.

Now it seems that the CEO has already decided how the 90 minutes will be used, and in doing so he's displaying the ignorance of basic education theory so typical of the corporate education «reformers» who, like Brizard, got their marching orders at the Broad Foundation administrators boot camp.