Sentences with phrase «in education reform world»

Teacher evaluation is at the top of the list of things to talk about in the education reform world.

NCMPS is governed by a Board of Trustees which includes leaders from both the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and the American Montessori Society (AMS), as well as funders and strategy experts with experience in the education reform world.

«Personalized learning» is an ill - defined term popular in the education reform world meaning different things to different advocates.

Porter - Magee also brought in Doug Lemov, an instructional coach who has developed a cult - like following in the education reform world for his workshops on teacher effectiveness.

A lot of people in education reform world are linear thinkers.

The announcement rattled me, since I was just finishing up a feature story for Ed Next on Steiner's brilliant leadership in taking the moribund Empire State to the RTTT winner's circle in nine short months — the equivalent of turning on a dime in the education reform world.

A former Teach For America corps member, Amis has spent most of her career in the education reform world, including a stint overseeing policy and research at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (one of the sponsors of Education Next and my employer).

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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.»

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

That Msgr. Shea and his colleagues in Bismarck have welcomed him to the University of Mary, giving him a platform from which to extend his work into the Latino worlds of U.S. Catholicism while continuing to be the go - to consultant for Catholic Studies programs across the country, testifies to that young school's bright future as one of the leaders of Catholic higher education reform.

A reader hoping for an in - depth analysis of inequalities in the American educational system and promising approaches towards school reform would likely be better off picking up a copy of Linda Darling - Hammond's book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future.

In Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity, the new New Right skate around the world looking for examples of approaches that will help Britain bring growth to the sluggish economy, reform the education system, boost social mobility and social justice and abolish the slide into mediocrity.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school placeIn place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school placein education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school placein other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

Although a varied and massive array of programs comprise the Harlem Children's Zone, its charter schools have garnered perhaps the most attention, particularly in the context of controversial New York City school reforms and the larger conversation in the education world about high - stakes tests, charters, and No Child Left Behind.

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 2017in 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 2017In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).

Bersin was one of that group of reforming superintendents who were being brought in at the time from outside the world of education to manage big - city school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York City.

The announcement builds on the government's record of 1.9 million more children now in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, England's pupils now amongst the world's best readers and GCSE and A levels reformed to match the best education systems in the world.

Transdisciplinary Education as Ethic of the Diversity Reform in the World - Society of the 21st Century

Given the enormity of those challenges, many friends and allies in the world of education reform have hinted or said outright that we are wasting our time.

Of course, all of us in the education - reform community want to figure out how systems can attract, support, and reward the Eleanor Palms of the world.

RH: You know, hearing you talk about schooling with this kind of breadth takes me back to the world of education reform that we started out in back in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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.

Over three years ago, WIDE World began discussions with organizations in Shanghai regarding China's education reform movement, Zarowin said.

Though we've begun to recognize these as major impediments to important reforms within today's brick - and - mortar world, they turn out to be even more constraining — and damaging — to education in the online realm.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

He worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator and policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and reforms around the world.

Seeing this, charter schools and their friends in «Big Philanthropy» have invested in charter school associations and broader education reform advocates to fight to keep the world safe for chartering.

What we don't reflect on enough is how some educators are connected to the global community, emerging trends and research, and larger conversations around reform and the direction of global education in general — and how so many other educators are simply not tapped into that world.

Thomas Toch, the education correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, visited more than 60 public schools across the United States while completing his overview of the reform movement, In the Name of Excellence.

In part six of a seven part HGSE / Education Week series on the future of school reform, Ed School faculty members Elizabeth City and Richard Elmore write about the future of schools and schooling in a world with ubiquitous technologIn part six of a seven part HGSE / Education Week series on the future of school reform, Ed School faculty members Elizabeth City and Richard Elmore write about the future of schools and schooling in a world with ubiquitous technologin a world with ubiquitous technology.

Education World: Why do you think school building designs have received so little attention in school reform discussions?

As a learning facilitator passionate about education reform and revolutionizing education, Oliver believes in providing every student with a real - life, relevant, engaging, and personalized education in which they learn how to learn, develop character and integrity, and get inspired to become lifelong learners and world changers.

In November, I continued my conversations with world leaders on the frontiers of education reform.

As President of the AFT, the late Albert Shanker was instrumental in creating the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and much else in the education - reform world.

Raising children in a world «driven by images, media, and interactive technologies» gave him a different perspective on education reform and aroused his curiosity in video games and the role they could play in learning.

He has worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator, researcher and policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and reforms around the world.

As educators and trusted messengers in our communities, we must make sure the public is informed and not fooled by presidential candidates who say they believe in a world - class education system but have a history of starving our public schools of critical funding and supporting flawed so - called reforms that don't work.

We in the world of education reform agree on this.

Around the world, more than a dozen nations have recently engaged in efforts to rapidly reform their teacher education and certification systems.

Like a true champion of corporate education reform, Gray appears committed to the notion that a «post-modern,» corporate oriented approach to public higher education is a «simple» solution to providing Connecticut's residents with the higher educational opportunities they need and deserve in today's complex world.

As the World Class Education Specialist at Lone Tree Elementary in Douglas County Colorado, she is in charge of creating a model of teaching and learning driven by current global educational reform and a World Class Education based on the thinking of Dr. Yong Zhao.

In what may be one of the most comprehensive, balanced, clear - eyed descriptions of the educational revolution we are currently slashing through, Allan Collins» and Richard Halverson's Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in the futurIn what may be one of the most comprehensive, balanced, clear - eyed descriptions of the educational revolution we are currently slashing through, Allan Collins» and Richard Halverson's Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in thEducation in the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in the futurin the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in theducation reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in theducation — as opposed to schooling — may look like in the futurin the future.

But in the world of edu - politics, folks from the conservative Heritage Foundation have made common cause with their counterparts at the libertarian Reason Foundation with plenty of room in the big tent for Democrats for Education Reform (DFER).

Second, can voucher programs be expected to enhance student performance or improve public education systems, based on the education reforms implemented in the nations that currently rank in the top five in the world in reading, math, and science under PISA?

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path?

The American education reform world is often divided: One camp wants increased accountability for the adults in schools, and the other believes change must start at home.

No country in the world conducts more standardized testing of its students and rather than cut back, the corporate education reform industry is dramatically increasing the amount standardized testing that is forced upon students in the United States.