Sentences with phrase «goals of the reform effort»

The primary goal of reform efforts should be to make it easier for problem solvers to gain access to and traction in the system, coupled with thoughtful public oversight of results.

In preparing teacher leaders, experienced practitioners noted the importance of developing knowledge and skills that are aligned with the focus and goals of the reform effort they will help lead.

Not exact matches

Weakening the link between Saudi Arabian prosperity and oil prices is, of course, the ultimate goal of the country's reform effort, but that is a long way off.

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

The types of reforms he hopes to bring to the Council, such as the borough's members coordinating their economic development efforts to serve common goals, are not welcomed by county leaders, he said.

Although the paper's authors view China's efforts as a signal of dedication toward furthering fisheries conservation, they hope their perspective paper helps highlight the need for true institutional reform in order to see the Chinese government's goals realized.

If we expand the scope of reform efforts «to include the social, economic, racial, and political contexts of students» lives, we'll surely be more successful,» she writes, taking care not to be dismissive of those goals, but noting how «their collective impact leaves me limp and rudderless, rather than inspired.

Although much of country is familiar with the late Senator Edward «Ted» Kennedy's efforts in healthcare reform, he was also a leading force behind such education policies as Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and the Direct Loan Program.

The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.

Acknowledging that the Goals 2000: Educate America Act «has some political baggage,» a senior Education Department official last week urged state officials and members of the business community to redouble their efforts on behalf of the standards - based school - reform strategy and of school reform in general.

California's new school funding system is driving districts in diverse regions of the state to shift their resources to achieve one of the key goals laid out in the sweeping financial reform effort — graduating students so they are ready for college or careers.

A renewed commitment to those goals, rather than to the particular means pursued during the past several decades of reform efforts, may help both liberals and conservatives see their way to bold, constructive ideas for improving American schools — and toward alternatives to schools as we know them.

Even when goals are clear, these teachers lack the tools to succeed: Pre-service training is completely disconnected from classroom expectations, and never ending «reform» pulls up the roots of promising efforts before they are given time to flower.

The move to ditch AYP and the underlying goal of forcing states and districts to take responsibility for how they educate poor and minority kids, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very initiatives Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

Through these efforts, the consortium will share, validate, and refine its RADD II recommendations to improve postsecondary data in support of broader financial aid reform goals and to offer additional policy opportunities.

The goal of standards - based reform efforts is to change teaching because without new approaches to teaching, most students» learning will not improve (Cohen, 1995).

Dual enrollment has also become a component of many CTE programs because its goals mirror those of a variety of CTE reforms, including upgrading the CTE curriculum and building upon the promise and addressing the shortcomings of previous CTE reform efforts.

It will take stronger reform efforts, especially in overhauling the recruiting, training, and evaluation of teachers, along with revamping curricula and standards, to make this goal a reality.

Bitter experience has shown that the self - anointed experts of NSP, NARE, NCEE, the New American Schools Development Corporation, the National Education Goals Panel, the Center on Student Learning, the Learning Research and Development Center, the National Alliance of Business, and others of their ilk have been exceedingly adept at eventually hijacking and taking over all of the so - called «reform» efforts - if they haven't controlled them outright from the beginning.

In the early 1990s, in an effort to promote standards - based reform through Goals 2000, the U.S. Department of Education made competitive awards available to states to develop curriculum frameworks in the core subject areas.

, the speaker's message seems to overlook that unclogging courts is goal number one of any respectable justice reform effort.

These findings suggest that efforts to promote marriage, one of the central goals of the 1996 welfare reform legislation, miss the point.

Efforts like Continuum of Care Reform in California are part of the statewide goal to place more foster youth in family settings.

Health care reform continues to be a primary concern for the administration and Congress; however, comprehensive «repeal and replace» efforts have lagged in momentum lately, losing support in favor of more attainable legislative goals.