Sentences with phrase «kinds of school reforms»

Moreover, some kinds of school reform have no fixed protocol, and it is possible to imagine implementing vouchers, charter schools, or programs like Comer's or Total Quality Management schools in many different ways.

Not exact matches

In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

We often hear this kind of thinking from people who are new to the school food reform movement, or from students just starting to get involved with trying to make changes.

«I think it's an Anglican school,» I told my aesthetician, who patiently took me through the history of the Catholic Church and all the branches of it (kind of like Orthodox, Conservative and Reform in the Jewish religion).

(see it it isn't just the Tea Party, and all kinds of people read your blog, so be careful, you need everyone on board with the school lunch reform and TP people are parents too.)

Now the lawyers who make the laws, the managers who run big pharma, and the doctors who prescribe the pharma are trained in expensive schools that teach a kind of token morality, (passed off as complete enough), whereby their chosen professions» wrongdoing is made somewhat obvious, but the practical teaching of powers for righting such wrongdoing is neglected, enfeebling them so that reforms and remedies appear impractically strenuous.

The Times stopped short of endorsing Cuomo's primary opponent, Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout, though the paper did call her «a national expert on political corruption and an advocate of precisely the kind of transparency and political reform that Albany needs.»

All of the progressive things that California's doing and Oregon and Washington — campaign finance reform and voting reform and fully funding our schools and being a leader in renewable energy and enacting real criminal justice reform... this is the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.

Nixon pointed to issues like campaign finance reform, criminal justice reform, renewable energy and school funding as «the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.»

We find that when a district increases per - pupil school spending by $ 100 due to reforms, spending on instruction increases by about $ 70, spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40, spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school spending, on average.

As long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districts.

There is growing nonanecdotal evidence that the effect of the kind of tutoring that Match has pioneered can be an effective lever for school reform.

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.

As Bruno Manno and I note in our just - released book Customized Schooling, it's a classic example of the kind of problem - solving that becomes possible if we can think beyond the strictures of whole - school reform.

In the Washington Post this weekend, Richard Whitmire worries that the race to embrace a style of school reform he calls «Michelle Light» — the kinds of teacher quality reforms identified with Michelle Rhee, but pursued in a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish much.

DeVos has a long history of supporting the kinds of accountability and school - choice policies that a broad swath of the education - reform community has championed over the last two decades.

I hope this latest round of effort toward reforming our system of schooling will finally yield the schools our kids deserve, they kinds of places where we'll all feel privileged to participate.

They require different skills from the intellectual ones posited by education reform, new apps of all kinds, the myriad proliferating school choices, and data - driven teaching.

In fact, these are the same kinds of regulations that have apparently generated such positive effects in the New Orleans public school reforms.

That's why the Romney plan is apt to do some good in states (and districts) that want to extend more school choices to their students — the federal dime can join the 90 cents in state and local funds in the kids» backpacks — but won't make much difference in places that aren't willing to put their own resources into this kind of reform.

First, people have learned so much about what to do and what not to do to implement the kind of middle grades school reforms talked about in the original Turning Points that we felt compelled to bring those lessons to broad public attention.

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform, based at Brown University here, kicked off the discussion last week by holding a kind of parent - teacher conference for the state.

Mark Pudlow, spokesperson for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union that has fought pitched battles against many of Florida's recent initiatives, acknowledges the result of Florida Virtual School's approach: «[It] never developed the kind of mistrust that tends to be associated with other reform ideas.»

Right now, I'm reading Jal Mehta's The Allure of Order, Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error, and Seymour Sarason's The Predictable Failure of School Reform as some kind of crazy puzzle where the parts eventually fit.

It's those kind of wild ideas that Pondiscio says qualifies left - leaning school reform advocates as «social justice warriors.»

That reform would mandate the most ambitious kind of integration: with students of different classes and races, from cities and adjacent suburbs, transported across district lines to go to school together.

Ras Baraka, now mayor of Newark but at the time a school principal and leader of the opposition to the new strategies, was an unusual kind of opponent to the reform movement:

On the unrelenting pressure to improve schools without corresponding improvement in teachers» skills: «In its least desirable face, educational reform can become a kind of conspiracy of ignorance: policymakers mandating results they do not themselves know how to achieve, and educators pretending they do know what to do but revealing through their actions that they don't.»

The Colorado legislature late last month approved, as part of an omnibus education - reform bill, an experimental public - school voucher program, the first of its kind in the country, experts say.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

Moreover, if it was to keep its promise of acting as a kind of venture capitalist for education reform, at some point these design teams would need to become self - sustaining, taking fees from school districts in return for their expertise.

«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.

It often forced schools and school districts into cookie - cutter reforms that didn't always produce the kinds of results that we wanted to see.»

Sometimes in the reform world we've sort of acted like these are soft things, and that you're being soft if you care about school culture and access to particular kinds of classes, such as the arts.

We should continue to call for challenging academic standards in core subjects, allowing public charter schools as part of choice, encouraging high teacher performance — those kinds of things are part of the President's reform package.

In the case of North Carolina, for example, the mere threat of No Child's sanctions alone led to many schools that were identified as failing for the first time to take on the kind of reforms needed to improve student achievement.

Still, fairly stark divisions have emerged within education reform over what role «the market» should play in determining what kinds of public schools should exist and expand.

He served as CEO and Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools system, initiating sweeping reforms, including online assessments of all students, new accountability measures, and a first - of - its - kind student safety plan.

A similar kind of grassroots reform is taking root in Los Angeles Unified School District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School CSchool District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School Cschool reform plans as part of a program called Public School CSchool Choice.

«If you want to really build sustainable school reform then you have to take into account poverty, the conditions of communities, and you have to work intentionally and systemically to weave all kinds of relationships and supports,» Lauren Wells, who administered Global Village for NYU, told WNYC last spring.

In addition to the small learning communities, San Diego is also using other reform models, all with the intent of breaking down the larger comprehensive high school and ultimately offering students a choice among many different kinds of schools that would suit their needs.

By standing together against the interests of corporate driven education reforms, whose sole purpose is for profit, we are creating a vision for the kinds of schools our students deserve.

It's the central tenet of President Trump's plan to reform American education: Give more families access to the kind of school choice that has always existed in America for those who can afford it.

But, The Philadelphia Daily News reports, some critics say Broad's education reform efforts through the Broad Foundation may be harming the kinds of schools he's trying to help — the public schools that once trained first - and second - generation Americans like him.

And with political consensus building toward some kind of public - school reform, teachers» unions in particular have lost credibility with the public.

It must be well planned and part of a comprehensive reform — exactly the kind of change that «priority schools,» the lowest - performing schools in a state, need.

This leads to another problem with Petrilli's argument: The belief that somehow demanding states to hold districts and schools to high expectations (and expecting the adults who work within them to take on the kind of reforms needed to achieve those goals) is a bad thing.

But if his selection to be the department's chief academic officer offers any hint of the direction of the city's schools, one thing seems certain: Mr. Polakow - Suransky will continue the same kind of data - driven reform embraced by Joel I. Klein, whom Ms. Black is expected to succeed as the city's schools chancellor.

In 1989, when the Chicago School Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others coulSchool Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others coulschool councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others could not.

These kind of sweeping reforms are exactly what I had in mind when I created the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, and I am thrilled to see the Partnership has once again proved itself a catalyst for District - wide change.»