Sentences with phrase «leading education reform efforts»

He has over twenty - five years experience leading education reform efforts from the classroom to the statehouse.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

Not exact matches

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany is led by Angela Dickens, the general counsel for StudentsFirstNY, a group that has backed education reform and charter school efforts in New York.

Robert Pondiscio joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss the curriculum - driven reform efforts led by the Louisiana Department of Education.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

Robert Pondiscio joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West on the EdNext Podcast to discuss the curriculum - driven reform efforts led by the Louisiana Department of Education.

Although much of country is familiar with the late Senator Edward «Ted» Kennedy's efforts in healthcare reform, he was also a leading force behind such education policies as Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and the Direct Loan Program.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reforEducation Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reforeducation reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

Yet we must also address out - of - school issues, and we have to undertake meaningful efforts to ensure that people of color are both leading and supporting education reform.

A leading national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial support.

After almost a quarter century of leading the fight for expanded educational opportunities for all students, the Center for Education Reform will refocus is efforts on coalescing all involved around the principles in this Manifesto.

Fellow education blogger Mercedes Schneider is one of the nation's leading voices in the effort to reveal the truth about the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and the other aspects of the corporate education reform industry.

Previously she was Co-Director of SRI International's Center for Education Policy where she led research studies on the preparation and induction of new teachers, teacher professional development and teacher leadership, and systems reform efforts.

Her book, The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995) ignited parent - led efforts for education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995) ignited parent - led efforts for education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + years.

In the Senate, Kerry voted for the Republican - led education - reform efforts that became the No Child Left Behind law.

Today's education reform climate seems to focus on a misguided narrative of unions as obstructionists and educators as villains, ignoring how educators and their unions are leading successful reform efforts all across the country.

Within the past year, Common Core opponents have managed to keep states such as Texas and Virginia from embracing the curricula reform effort, and have managed to lead nearly - successful efforts to overturn decisions by state education officials in South Carolina to enact them.

In New Zealand, school reform efforts from the 1980s and 1990s led to a transformation in the education system.

Leslie Jacobs, the business executive and education advocate credited with leading reform efforts, calls the New Orleans schools pre-Katrina «academically, morally and financially bankrupt.»

Allen is author of «The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools,» which ignited parent - led efforts for education rReform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools,» which ignited parent - led efforts for education reformreform.

Those who are teaching our children, and who are leading important education reform efforts, should be held to the highest standards.

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.

Prof. Mary Brownell is feted twice for leading reform efforts in Special Education teacher preparation.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

The DLLF seeks to address the questions and issues of educational inequity, by bringing together education leaders and providing them with learning and networking opportunities to help them lead reform efforts in their local systems and around the country.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

SACRAMENTO — California Democrats on Sunday condemned efforts led by members of their own party to overhaul the nation's schools, arguing that groups such as StudentsFirst and Democrats for Education Reform are fronts for Republicans and corporate interests.

Awards recipients become Fellows of the Golden Apple Academy of Educators who mentor Golden Apple Scholars, lead science instruction at our STEM Institute, and contribute to major education reform efforts in Illinois and nationally.

Congressman Bishop spent his career as a public school teacher in Box Elder County and Senator Stephenson led the effort to pass Utah's initial charter school legislation and continues to play a key role in Utah's education reform movement.

Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansionEducation Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efReform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansioneducation reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efreform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efforts.

Since Governor Malloy introduced the most anti-teacher, anti-union «education reform» legislation of any Democratic governor in the nation in 2012, Michelle Rhee and StudentFirst (AKA GNEPSA) has become a leading sources of money in the effort to lobby and support Malloy and his education policies.

Sackler is a member of the Northeast Charter School Network's Board of directors and both Sackler and Olson are founding members of ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy front group that has led the effort to promote Governor Dannel Malloy's corporate education reform initiatives.

ConnCAN, ConnAD and A Better Connecticut led the record - breaking $ 6 million dollar lobbying effort in support of Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» initiative.

The nation's leading public education advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American politicaeducation advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American politicaeducation advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American politicaEducation Reform Industry and its truly un-American political agenda.

To that end, reforming for - profits should be part of a larger effort to make American higher - education less wasteful and more rewarding for college students, whose diverse needs will lead them to attend very different institutions.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

Nonetheless, I believe the recent nationally inspired education reform efforts from No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top to the most recent iteration of them − the Common Core State Standards − are leading American schools down the wrong path.

Jennifer Jacobsen is a parent, education advocate and has become a leading voice in the effort to educate parents about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test and the unprecedented effort by the government and corporate education reform industry to collect data about our children.

As a first - generation college student, education and advocacy was personally important to me, so my fellowship led me to work for LAUSD on its early reform efforts and subsequently as a Field Deputy for the former School Board President.

Previously she was Co-Director of SRI International's Center for Education Policy where she led research studies on the preparation and induction of new teachers, teacher professional development and teacher leadership, and systems reform efforts.