Sentences with phrase «leader in the education reform movement»

Moderated by NYCAN Executive Director Derrell Bradford, the panel featured leaders in the education reform movement as well as public school parents from across the state.

In the years to follow, she emerged as a statewide leader in the education reform movement.

«We are incredibly pleased to announce that Ann Duplessis, a distinguished leader in the education reform movement in Louisiana and across the nation, has joined our board of directors at the American Federation for Children,» said Bill Oberndorf, chairman of the American Federation for Children.

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It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

Allen runs the Center for Education Reform; Smarick is affiliated with Bellwether Education Partners and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and served in the George W. Bush administration; Cody is a former Oakland teacher who blogs at edweek.org; and Klonsky is a former Students for a Democratic Society leader and an activist in the Chicago small - schools movement.

This provocative new book by E.D. Hirsch (dedicated to the late Al Shanker) poses fundamental challenges to both of the dominant reform movements in American education — challenges that their leaders would do well to ponder.

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.

Known as the Education Roundtable, the effort aims to involve college and university leaders in the school - reform movement on the broadest scale possible.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

A pioneer in the education reform movement in Washington DC, Chavez Schools is known for developing teachers into leaders and for empowering our students to be agents of change in the community.

She also oversaw Uncommon's parent and community engagement strategy to empower parents as leaders in the charter school and larger education reform movement, and led the advocacy and external affairs strategy for Uncommon NYC.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

Ruben has been a leader in the school reform movement, working to bring resources from the National Education Association (NEA) to the Clark County School District.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

Skandera is a core member of the advocacy group Chiefs for Change, created by Bush in 2008 to highlight leaders of the so - called education reform movement.

Leaders of a national education reform movement, including Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellors in New York and Washington have formed a statewide political group in New York with an eye toward being a counterweight to the powerful teachers» union in the 2013 mayoral election.

«Student Movements for School Equity and Integration» is a year - long elective course designed for HS students to develop an understanding of the history of 20th and 21st century student leaders and movements for education reform in the UniteMovements for School Equity and Integration» is a year - long elective course designed for HS students to develop an understanding of the history of 20th and 21st century student leaders and movements for education reform in the Unitemovements for education reform in the United States.

Jeanne Allen, president of the Washington - based Center for Education Reform, spoke to an audience of school leaders, education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North Education Reform, spoke to an audience of school leaders, education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North CarReform, spoke to an audience of school leaders, education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North education reformers, and interested citizens at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center about the national charter - school movement and prospects for reform in North Carreform in North Carolina.