Sentences with phrase «gives education reformers»

Consequently, it gives education reformers an opportunity to redeem their progressive credentials and fight for students and the party.

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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 Tory MPs showed their support for the former education secretary by giving him a warm welcome at meeting of the backbench 1922 Committee, Vine tweeted a link to the article which described her husband as a more remarkable reformer than Margaret Thatcher.

All the reformers such as SCODA (the Standing Conference On Drug Abuse) and the Prison Reform Trust favour it, provided clear education is given on how to use it.

But when David Steiner, a reformer's reformer, announced last week that he was giving up the reins as New York state's Commissioner of Education, the education world seemed to take a collective deeEducation, the education world seemed to take a collective deeeducation world seemed to take a collective deep breath.

It is hard to see what else the administration could have done, given the failure of Congress to make corrections itself, the manifest impossibility of carrying on with the law as written, and the protest that would have come from Democrats in Congress and the army of education reformers if the administration had simply settled for waivers.

«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.

Finally, let me give some (self - interested) props to both the Education Trust (reformers on the left) and my very own Fordham Institute (reformers on the right).

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

Since the success of Singapore's programs relies in many ways on more traditional approaches to math education, such as explicit instruction and giving students many problems to solve, in some ways its very success represented a slap in the face to American math reformers, many of whom have worked hard to eliminate such techniques from the teaching canon.

De Blasio dropped a lot less red meat about education after he became the runaway front - runner, giving skeptical reformers their first reason for hope: perhaps de Blasio is a practiced pol but not an ideologue.

As we have reflected about the impact of the NBPTS and its board - certified teachers, who still constitute only 1 percent of all teachers, it seems that the National Board and education reformers need to give far more attention to trying to increase the cost - effectiveness and the multiplier effects of board - certified teachers as leaders and exemplars.

In the 1940s, reformers complained that the schools were obsolete and were failing to give students the skills they needed for life and work; «life adjustment education» became the reformers» battle cry.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

When David Steiner, a reformer's reformer, announced last week that he was giving up the reins as New York state's Commissioner of Education, the education world seemed to take a collective deeEducation, the education world seemed to take a collective deeeducation world seemed to take a collective deep breath.

Such quotes were bound to circulate among education reformers and give traditional opponents of school choice, such as teachers unions, heartburn.

This gave an advantage to experienced grant writers, and most of the winning proposals came from established education reformers and their organizations.

In Florida, where the affiliate the NEA controls with the AFT is battling fiercely with Gov. Rick Scott and reformers unified under Scott's predecessor (and rival), Jeb Bush, the union gave $ 250,000 to progressive outfit Florida Watch Action, and handed over $ 500,000 to the state affiliate's Public Education Defense Fund.

A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opEducation Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opeducation reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.

For anyone who saw Waiting For «Superman» and wants to know what life would be like for a school reformer fighting to give inner - city children their first - ever shot at a real education, this biography of Michelle Rhee is where you need to start.

And given that the Obama administration has shown a willingness to ignore congressional critics of the waiver gambit (including Miller and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, who, despite his protests, benefits greatly from the evisceration of No Child), reformers and activists in those states will have to organize on the ground and battle to make graduation rates more accurate.

By providing parents, students and teachers with a way to engage in the process, set districts priorities and lift up our democratically elected School Board, we are giving education justice a fighting chance against education «reformers» who seek to privatize and profit off our public schools.

Meanwhile McDonnell gave his now - former Secretary of Education, Gerard Robinson, little in the way of political backing or cover to push for any significant reforms; instead of seeking out a strong reformer with national credentials (which he could have actually found living in the state's northern region near Washington, D.C.), McDonnell chose as Robinson's successor, Laura Fornash, who has more experience with higher education than witEducation, Gerard Robinson, little in the way of political backing or cover to push for any significant reforms; instead of seeking out a strong reformer with national credentials (which he could have actually found living in the state's northern region near Washington, D.C.), McDonnell chose as Robinson's successor, Laura Fornash, who has more experience with higher education than witeducation than with K - 12.

Despite evidence that the complexity of the nation's education crisis requires an array of solutions — including strong curriculum standards and robust consequential accountability, the overhaul of teacher quality, revamp of curriculum and standards, expanding school choice, improving school data systems and giving parents their rightful decision - making roles in education — far too many reformers are busy touting and flacking their one grand solution and dismiss others that, in their minds, don't further their own.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

This «4C Model» provides a tool for reformers to combat the «give - it - to - the - SEA» reflex, enabling policymakers and outside agents - of - change to develop better habits when it comes to assigning responsibility for their most important education initiatives:

Education reformers are demanding to link compensation, in part, to teacher «merit» and the «value added» to the child's educational attainment in any given academic year.

Given the collapse of the Campaign for High School Equity (which once served as the convening body for civil rights - based reformers) and the efforts by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to co-opt such groups by peddling a version of accountability that lets states, school operators, and adults off the hook for failure, Ed Trust deserves praise for rallying so many civil rights players to stand up for our most - vulnerable children.

Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

The question is key given that charter - school proponents are often data - driven education reformers who advocate using test - score data to rank traditional public schools and the teachers who work there.

The new Achievement First schools was part of a broader strategy on the part of the Hartford political leadership and the corporate education reformers to close existing neighborhood schools in Hartford and give the properties to charter school companies.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

Mayor Bill Finch, «education reformers» and elite members of the corporate community are spending a record amount to try and convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their best interests to give up their democratic rights to select members of the Bridgeport Board of Eeducation reformers» and elite members of the corporate community are spending a record amount to try and convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their best interests to give up their democratic rights to select members of the Bridgeport Board of EducationEducation.

Certainly the presence of American Enterprise Institute fellow Gerard Robinson, a former education official in Florida and Virginia (and onetime president of Black Alliance for Educational Options), on Trump's education transition team gives conservative reformers some hope that they can have some sway in the incoming administration.

Back in October 2005, Obama gave a phenomenal education speech in which he seemed to ally with the reformers.

Keep in mind, this lamentation of the lack of «honor» given to teaching as a profession comes from someone who has repeatedly taken the standard reformer line that all of the ills in our education system can be traced back almost entirely to teachers themselves and who has advocated for policy makers who diminish teachers» workplace protections and their autonomy and who want to tie opportunities for greater compensation to standardized test scores.

On any given day, Governor Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and other «education reformers» including superintendents in Bridgeport, Hartford and elsewhere are racing around — often in circles — in pursuit of some of the money that is being handed out by the United States Department of Education's «Race to the Top»Education, Stefan Pryor and other «education reformers» including superintendents in Bridgeport, Hartford and elsewhere are racing around — often in circles — in pursuit of some of the money that is being handed out by the United States Department of Education's «Race to the Top»education reformers» including superintendents in Bridgeport, Hartford and elsewhere are racing around — often in circles — in pursuit of some of the money that is being handed out by the United States Department of Education's «Race to the Top»Education's «Race to the Top» Program.

A coalition of «education reformers» and corporate executives in Fairfield Country are spending a record amount of money to convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their interest to VOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schools.

In Bridgeport, the Dunbar School was handed over to Sharpe through a backroom deal that included education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr., the Malloy and Finch ally who was then serving as the Chairman of the Bridgeport Board of Education when the lucrative contract was given teducation reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr., the Malloy and Finch ally who was then serving as the Chairman of the Bridgeport Board of Education when the lucrative contract was given tEducation when the lucrative contract was given to Sharpe.

Given that at the time of the law's passage, most Americans not engaged in education though traditional public schools were generally serving their kids (and all children) well, there was no way that reformers could pass a law that would serve to fully overhaul the super-cluster.