Sentences with phrase «human capital reform»

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) has recently released a new report, Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools: Lessons in Smart Retention, which holds up the reforms begun in DC public schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital reform.

SMHC is pressing for a comprehensive and substantive national policy agenda on human capital reform in education.

We have learned from the pioneering human capital reforms led by Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson in DCPS and from stand - out charter performers, like KIPP, DC Prep, and Two Rivers, whose work proves every day that the achievement gap can be closed.

With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.

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Passing immigration reform validates the U.S. reputation, and role in the world as a safe haven and democratic superpower, and will only serve to attract more human and financial capital in the future.

Zeekit founder and CEO Yael Vizel is not worried about US tax reform because Israel's human capital brings in high - tech investment.

However, to sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting public and human capital investment.

Simply changing Pell eligibility without complementary reforms to high school accountability would save money — a worthy goal — but would do little to increase human capital.

Therefore our reform efforts must pivot on the school - building leader who must understand that s / he is the primary human capital manager.

But in the course of research I have been doing on teacher reform nationwide, I have followed DCPS's evolving human capital system, interviewing senior school system officials and watching reforms play out in Washington schools.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

His research explores questions of educational significance related to teacher evaluation and human capital, urban school reform, school climate and safety, and education finance.

Indeed, advocacy groups are typically tone - deaf to some challenges facing entrepreneurs — such as the need for human capital, better R & D, increased access to venture capital, back - office services, and incubation — and are thus unhelpful at cultivating the full set of reforms that might help entrepreneurial ventures to prosper.

Absent targeted reforms backed with human and fiscal capital, even the best efforts to push all students to proficiency and beyond will meet with uneven success.

This report provides a direct comparison of the human capital practices in public school districts with best practices elsewhere to underscore the need to reform district human capital practices in order to attract and retain top talent.

The school reform efforts of the past generation have been dominated by the language of human capital deployment, with too little attention given to human capital development.

Some of New York City's most successful reforms created conditions that permitted school - level innovation and built human - capital pipelines to develop more qualified pools of teachers and administrators.

«The power of teacher human capital, the value of outsiders, and the centrality of the principal in instructional practice — form the implicit or explicit core of many reform efforts today.»

If human capital is truly a hallmark of education reform, then CMOs must commit themselves to recruiting and developing Black and native talent at the executive and board level.

Kim Kopp maintains and enhances the online presence of two brands: APA Solutions (a human capital consulting firm) and Career Reform (a career coaching company).

Federal Hiring Reform, which is to be implemented by Nov. 8, 2011, includes a directive that human capital officers should «eliminate all requirements of separate narratives from initial applications.»

Federal Hiring Reform, which is to be implemented by Nov. 8, 2011, includes a directive that human capital officers...