Sentences with phrase «getting education reform»
Getting governance right is the key to getting education reform right.
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He taught high school history in Brooklyn for four years, got the education reform bug, and checked in to Harvard.
If you wondered why school children didn't get education reform this Christmas, the PSEA lobbyists are providing millions of reasons.
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What Lee does have is a tax plan that would increase the take - home pay of working parents who are at (or just under) the median income and education reforms that would make it easier for workers to get the skills and credentials they need to get higher paying jobs.
Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»
I'm a little pessimistic, because faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.
Alcoholics Anonymous, drug rehabilitation centers, coalitions for social and political reforms, therapy clusters, the adult education movement — these and other activities provide opportunities for people to «get involved,» without the benefit of clergy.
The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.
After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.
Education Reform Now, a pro-charter school organization that is pushing to lift the cap in hopes of improving the state's Round II application for «Race to the Top» funds, has a new radio ad up that darkly hints about getting «rid» of any lawmakers who oppose rReform Now, a pro-charter school organization that is pushing to lift the cap in hopes of improving the state's Round II application for «Race to the Top» funds, has a new radio ad up that darkly hints about getting «rid» of any lawmakers who oppose reformreform.
Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing in Albany yesterday, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.
Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.
Mr Miliband will set out some of the big reforms Labour will make to create an economy which works for working people including measures to get young people back to work, improve vocational education and create more apprenticeships.
De Blasio did, however, stumble over an answer about specific cost - savings in the United Federation of Teachers contract, and publicly apologized to Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder over a delay in getting him information about special education reforms.
Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.
That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.
Today's reforms proposed in the Higher Education White Paper, as explained by David Willetts here on ConHome earlier this afternoon, ensure students get their money's worth.
«You really haven't gotten your moneys» worth,» he said, specifically mentioning such ideas as a public option government - run health care plan or education reform or public financing of elections.
In response, former state senator and Democrats for Education Reform board member Craig Johnson tweeted: «Then let's get ready to rumble.»
It's the governor and [State Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor] wanting to get more reform people into the public sector.»
«I am hoping now that the mayor of New York City understands that to do real education reform it's about helping schools to get better and not about closing schools,» said Mulgrew, speaking at a state press conference on Feb. 16 in Albany with the governor, State Education Commissioner John King and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi standing beeducation reform it's about helping schools to get better and not about closing schools,» said Mulgrew, speaking at a state press conference on Feb. 16 in Albany with the governor, State Education Commissioner John King and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi standing beEducation Commissioner John King and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi standing beside him.
The attorney general also made note of the governor's plan to use the budget process as leverage in getting concessions from the legislature — something Mr. Cuomo's promised to do in seeking ethics and education reform.
Bloomberg actually got that edifice sold off after he'd won mayoral control — and its replacement, the Tweed Building, which sits behind City Hall, is an active education - reform laboratory.
The stark analysis from the governor, released one day after he held his first budget negotiation with legislators, shows his resolve in demanding his education reforms in order for local school districts to get more money.
It's why I led the fight for mandatory kindergarten city - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaign.
«We're working hard to get corporate America engaged in reforming STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education,» he says.
«We need to get away from all the paperwork required under No Child Left Behind [President George W. Bush's signature reforms of elementary and secondary education, which many Republicans now view as a failure and an intrusion of federal authority into state - run education systems].»
People get dogmatic about approaches to raising children, veganism, Paleo diets, vaccinations, organic vs. non-organic, political parties, education reform, and so much more.
As Skandera said of the education - reform superintendents of her time, «very rarely did we see them get beyond the fight to what matters most.»
But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).
«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....
First, in its rehearsal of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins of the education system but on teaching as the very core of what happens in schools and thus of school reform.
Helping those poor students get across the finish line is absolutely a worthy item on the higher education reform to - do list.
«While much public discussion has been solely focussed on funding, we've been getting on with the job of delivering a quality reform agenda in teaching education.»
Just the fact that a young person can so articulately get to the heart of educational reform is an example of what could be possible if we encouraged students to assess their schools, examine public education, provide feedback on what they see, and suggest ways of addressing the problems.
There's little doubt that this should remain a major focus of education reform — and when it's successful, will encourage many more young people to delay childbearing, which increases their odds at getting married before starting a family.
Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham has said he «hopes» to avoid a political campaign against them in the lead up to the 2019 election, after the Government successfully got its Gonski 2.0 reforms through the senate.
90, talking during an EdCast about how so many people involved in education policy and reform are uniformly passionate and committed, which can be good, but it can also be problematic: You've got all of these people, he says, «screaming that they know what's going to work for kids.»
Meyer observes that it is in this six - month story of education reform leading up to the successful RttT finish — the equivalent of turning a battleship on a dime — that «we can see Steiner's brilliance — and understand the bittersweet feeling of many New York educators who have lost their leader before they got to the Promised Land.»
Throughout the program, fellows also have a chance to analyze issues and problems on deeper levels by getting involved with case - based «think tank» seminars, including one led by Reimers that is looking at education reform in Brazil, among other «cutting - edge education challenges and solutions,» he says.
Without systems redesigned to support them, new schools «either have to exist outside the system to survive, or they get derailed... because the current structures and policies are inappropriate or ineffective in sustaining the new designs,» said the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Warren Simmons in Education Week.
If suburban elites commit to education reform for their own children, we may finally get improvement for low - income kids in the cities as well.
When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.
She is getting her Ph.D. in education policy, evaluation, and reform at Claremont Graduate University in California, where she's among a group of four undocumented students who support each other.
Sherry notes that as governor, «Romney proposed education reform measures that lifted the state cap on charter schools and gave principals more power to get rid of ineffective teachers.»
Race to the Top asked states to create their own unique blueprints for education reform — and then, by publicly posting everyone's plans and the judges» scores, got the nation involved in a conversation about what high - quality education systems look like.
As governor, Romney proposed education reform measures that lifted the state cap on charter schools and gave principals more power to get rid of ineffective teachers.
That was before government officials and various education groups got into the act and diluted nearly every reform, rendering the changes impotent.
The reason it became reductionist is because education reform is complex and has a lot of ground to cover, so people thought they'd focus on a few things and get that moving and then figure out the rest later.
Meanwhile, with Clinton aligned with the NEA and AFT, Sanders and O'Malley running to her left, and Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee barely in evidence, it's not clear that anyone will be flying the «Democrats for Education Reform» flag (except possibly Biden, if he gets in).