Sentences with phrase «in local education politics»

«It's where you don't have mayoral control where you see the outside money going into the local school boards,» said Jeffrey Henig, a political scientist at Teachers College, Columbia University, who is beginning research on the involvement of national groups in local education politics.

Outside participation in local education politics is not entirely a new phenomenon.

Henig says the increased outside involvement in local education politics could become a concern.

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While he was active in local parliamentary politics before coming to America, and while he did indeed stress the value of open public education in numerous of his public lectures and writings in this country, nevertheless Whitehead was, by every account, an intensely private and solitary individual.

Ramadan also emphasizes the need for more «affordable housing,» a shibboleth in local politics that every single candidate solemnly swears by, and for supplemental education to assist local kids who need extra academic help.

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Yet all education politics is ultimately local — about this school in this place: very prosaic, and not at all poetic.

«Our findings show how local arenas can serve as important battlegrounds in national politics — penetrated by networks of outside donors and organizations who see local elections as critical contests over competing visions of education,» said Reckhow.

Each reporter was to follow a common format covering the science content in his or her national curriculum, the local and national politics of how it is delivered, the recommendations of how it is to be taught, the kind of informal education provided by museums and science centres, the training and status of science teachers and equality of opportunity for all pupils — including race, immigrant group and handicap.

First, living in Philadelphia over the past few years have been eye opening for someone interested in the local politics of education and community participation.

The series will explore where politics and policy meet real people's lives — in a city generating change and innovation in social policy, education, and public safety — to meet national and local challenges.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

See, e.g., Coleman, The Struggle for Control of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqLocal Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqlocal community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqlocal schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...»).

That person's job is to do education politics and policy — to work with members of Congress and governors, to understand how a bill becomes a law, to provide moral support to reformers as they fight it out in the states and at the local level.

Sue has an M.A. in journalism from Stanford University, and her writings on the arts, politics and education have been published in various local and national publications.

He's also become active in local politics as a way of strengthening public education.

There is an even more worrisome and allied trend, and that is the growing influence of money in education politics at the state and local levels.»

It has turned a relatively modest federal program (the $ 4.3 billion budget represents less than 1 percent of all federal, state and local education spending) into high - yield leverage that could end up overshadowing health care reform in its impact and that is already upending traditional Democratic Party politics.