Sentences with phrase «great education reform»

Fact # 6: This is not about whether Commissioner Pryor, a well - regarded leader and change agent, should be involved in the great education reform debate of 2012.

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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.»

For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

And one of the great tasks of all true education, social reform, and religion combined, is so to present to men and make possible for men those aims in life which are worth serving, that men may choose them, love them, become patriots for them, organize their lives around them, and so harness all their fiery energies to the service of the light.

The difference between education understood only as training in technical skills within the ideology of the economic growth and education for promoting a technical society within the framework of a culture of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform», is indeed great.

During a speech at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, King offered education reforms such as the Common Core standards and teacher evaluations as vehicles of greater equality in schools.

«It is with deep humility and great purpose that I accept this responsibility to work on behalf of the people of Westchester; and vow to continue my record of success on education reform, cost - cutting, and service to the community.»

Mulgrew predicted that the new special education reform, set to be rolled out in all schools in September, will be one of the greatest challenges of the next school year.

As the future congressman from this great district, I know Keith stands ready to deliver on the same fundamental issues he has fought for alongside me in the legislature — bringing more affordable housing to our neighborhoods, pushing through meaningful criminal justice reform and ensuring that all of our children have every chance to succeed with the promise of a first - rate education.

Education Schools We agree to promote the reform of schools in order to ensure: - that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; - that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accountable.

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

Cuomo says he will be the lobbyist for the students, and he called for a new commission, appointed jointly by the governor and legislature, to reform the state's education system, demanding greater accountability.

He is a proponent of campaign finance reform, term limits, greater focus on education and a «balanced» effort to address climate change.

Former New Jersey Gov. James Florio accomplished a great deal during his one term in office from 1990 to 1994, including auto insurance reform, welfare reform, greater state aid to education and health care, a cleaner environment and a ban on assault weapons.

«There's budget reform, and then primary reform, education reform, so there's all kind of great things that will have a tremendous impact, a positive impact on the state of California,»

Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, said «It shocks the conscience that we continue to look the other way while we permit our schools to pair our most ineffective teachers with the children most in need of great classroom instruction.

«We have also made great strides in higher education reform to make college more affordable and accessible to all continuing their education at the highest level.

The Heartland Institute argues that market reforms should be introduced into the public education system to increase competition and provide more options and greater choice for parents and their children.

In recent years, certain scholars and even a few union leaders have argued the need for «reform unionism» and claimed that, with enough enlightened thinking, the unions can voluntarily dedicate themselves to education reforms that promote the greater good.

Paez returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management programs the opportunities and challenges of advancing reforms that seek greater social justice.

It is unlikely, for example, that any politician, policymaker, or education secretary of the last twenty years has had a greater effect on what happens in reform - minded classrooms than Doug Lemov of Uncommon Schools.

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

I know he will do a great job at the Department for Education helping to support and deliver the government's reform agenda.

By June 1965, a heavily Democratic Congress had either enacted or was about to enact a host of ambitious Great Society programs — an Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Medicare, Medicaid, a Voting Rights Act, reform of racist immigration law — that Johnson, a relentless advocate, had been urging upon it.

We tell ourselves that one of the great purposes of education reform is to lift poor children out of poverty.

Highly educated citizens may have a greater willingness to experiment with education reforms, or there may be a «supply side» phenomenon: more educated adults translates into a larger pool of charter suppliers.

Nevertheless, such strongly negative results should give education reform advocates great pause about the regulatory strategies employed in Louisiana.

While Turkish women have greater access to education than many women around the world, Gombas believes there is still plenty of room for reform.

In 2009, Mayor Menino tacitly supported an increase in the number of «proven» Commonwealth charter schools that could operate in Boston as part of a broader education - reform bill that invested school districts with greater authority to intervene in low - performing schools and permitted districts to establish a few Horace Mann charter schools without the required union sign - off.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Linda Darling - Hammond's The Flat World and Education, Richard Rothstein's Class and Schools, Daniel Koretz's Measuring Up, Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap, and Deborah Meier's In Schools We Trust, among many others, are notable for their opposition to incentive - based reforms.

Instead, like the civil rights movement itself, the education reform movement is in dire need of creative thinking, committed education leaders, and informed, involved parents — all united in our belief in the worth and value of every young life and each child's potential to learn and do great things.

It's great that more Americans are going to learn about promising education reform strategies, and the various ways that the teachers unions and the rest of the education blob tries to strangle them in their crib.

In addition to compiling the actual coverage across the nation, the Koret Task Force identified five issues it thought deserved greater media attention — teacher pension costs, common core standards, U. S. achievement in comparison with other countries, online or digital learning, and the education reforms in Louisiana.

Identifying effective reforms using rigorous evaluative techniques is a crucial task, especially since improving the education system is likely to have a greater economic impact than any of the medical breakthroughs of the past decade.

Defenders of the status quo in education routinely label certain proposed reforms — including tax credits, voucher programs, for - profit education management organizations (or EMOs), and charter schooling — as «anti-public education,» often to great effect.

Obama's main education issue had become student loans and the rising cost of a university education, a topic far distant from school reform but one of great interest to present and future members of the upper middle class.

As a native Arkansan, former teacher educator, and present superintendent of an Oregon school district, I read with great interest Peggy Maddox's recent Commentary, «Testing Arkansas Teachers: The «Quick - Fix» Politics of Reform» (Education Week, Sept. 11, 1985).

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach teducation policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach tEducation Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

Again and again, Friedman hints at the need for bold education reform as he makes his case for greater competition in the marketplace, fewer labor restrictions, and lower barriers to trade.

The namesake and chairman of The George Lucas Educational Foundation discusses his vision of Edutopia at Dreamforce, the annual conference for customers of the customer - relationship - management company salesforce.com, as part of the event's increased focus on education reform and the need for greater business investment to achieve that goal.

The bar should be set high, with greater flexibility rewarded only to states that implement bold reforms that improve the quality of education and student achievement.

The greatest achievement of Risk is not that it generated countless education reforms.

The latest accreditation criteria are part of the Welsh government's national mission to reform education and include: an increased role for schools; a clearer role for universities; structured opportunities to link school and university learning; and a greater emphasis on research.

With a relatively small (by federal standards) amount of money, he has catalyzed a large amount of worthwhile education - reform activity in a great many places.

Glasgow's assistant director of education Ian Robertson said that further reform would be needed, and suggested greater collaboration between schools could be essential.

As an American abroad and working in the field of political - education reform in Central and Eastern Europe, I have been following the conversations about U.S. civics education — or, more precisely, education for democracy — with great interest over the past year.

Higher standards and greater expectations are driving reforms in teacher education across the United States, and more of the 1,200 plus colleges and universities that prepare teachers are doing a better job than they have in the past.

which makes the case that previous ARRA education funding hasn't been used for reform and that the department needs to go to great lengths to ensure that the RTT generates the changes needed.

I knew that having students in Digital Leaders was a vital part of a school who was serious about advancing technology enhanced education practice and that involving young people in education reform has great potential.