Sentences with phrase «leading education reformers»

We are researchers, thought leaders, tool - builders, and on - the - ground consultants who work with leading education reformers.

We are researchers, thought leaders, policy experts, tool - builders, and on - the - ground consultants who work with leading education reformers.

Reville is a leading education reformer who served as Governor Deval Patrick's top adviser on education for the past five years, and was chair of the State Board of Education for a year prior to his service as secretary.

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As chair of the Education Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that pollutedEducation Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that pollutededucation reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the air.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

It is critical, then, that education reformers begin recruiting, grooming, and mentoring potential leaders not just for key policymaking positions in the hierarchy of education, but for positions in which they would lead, innovate, teach, and inspire.

Over the years, NAEP has also made stars out of leading states and their governors or education leaders, and has galvanized reformers to try to learn from their successes.

Education reformers faced with failing schools and districts tend toward one of two camps: The Incrementalists hold that meaningful improvement can only happen slowly, with soul - wrenching culture change leading to instructional change and eventual student success.

Because the outfit, like so many Beltway - oriented reformers, is clinging to a limited notion of the role families should play in education decision - making at a time when parents are demanding to be lead decisionmakers in how schools and operators serve their children.

In addition, donors to the Democratic State Central Committee and political action committees supporting Malloy's re-election bid include the anti-teacher Democrats for Education Reform, one of the nation's leading corporate education reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform - funder, SteveEducation Reform, one of the nation's leading corporate education reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform - funder, Steveeducation reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform - funder, Steveeducation reform - funder, Steven Mandel.

(10/4/2011) Jonas Chartock, CEO, Leading Educators... will join a select group of nationally known education reformers performing at the EdReformies — Rockin» Reform Revue on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, at the W Washington, D.C. Hotel...

: A major fear among reformers is that the ascent of John Kline to the chairmanship of the House Education and Labor Committee will lead to the gutting of the Adequate Yearly Progress and other accountability provisions within the No Child Left Behind Act.

For school reformers and defenders of traditional public education these days, the Atlanta metropolitan area is better - known for the testing scandal that has engulfed Atlanta Public Schools, revealed the district's dysfunctional school governance, and led to Superintendent Beverly Hall's fall from grace.

More and more players in the education space — from policy makers to school reformers to teachers themselves — are on the verge of a critical realization: This profession is ripe for continuous improvement led by its own practitioners.

But the teacherassessment method he developed attracted a host of reformers and powerful lawmakers, leading to some of the most bitter conflicts in American education http://gousoe.uen.org/a1R

Third, school reformers, who have their sights on controlling the $ 600 billion U.S. public education enterprise, may well wish to minimize the role that a growing cadre of expert teacher leaders can play in leading education policy debates.

The struggle to improve balky education bureaucracies can lead school reformers to favor blunt mandates.

It is advised by a distinguished group of leading math educators and school reformers from across the country headed by Magdalene Lampert, George Herbert Mead Professor of Education at the University of Michigan.

As the founder, along with leading public education advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformerEducation Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformereducation reformers.»

In support of the film Waiting for «Superman,» Myles helped lead the development of the «Done Waiting» coalition, which with 200 groups, at the time, represented the largest collective effort of education reformers in national history.

There is a group of corporations, led by a group of «education reformers,» and backed by a group of Republican and Democratic politicians, all of whom are engaged in an effort to destroy public education, and hand the nation's education system over to corporations and consultants, who can make a huge amount of money.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has made a huge political blunder and by associating himself with in - state and out - of - state corporate education reformers, he has ensured that he will be seen as one of Connecticut's leading anti-public education, anti-union and anti-teacher politicians.

Local business leaders would have donated about $ 60,000 for a third - party evaluation conducted by a team led by nationally - known, but controversial, education reformer Paul Vallas, who has been school superintendent in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Bridgeport, Conn..

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

Moales was not only a leading champion of education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas but has been a major proponent of Steve Perry's plan to open a charter school in Bridgeport.

I've written about Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that the terrorist attack on 9/11 was a massive government plot and that that public school reform is a conspiracy among money - grubbing reformers and «oppressed natives» who are afflicted with a «psychosis» that leads them «to improve their own subjugated standing by attempting to join the ranks of those who do the oppressing.»

One of the more - naive assumptions of some reformers, particularly centrist and even idiosyncratic progressive Democrats within the movement, is that there are some bosses within the NEA and AFT ranks who will willingly embrace, support, and even lead the overhaul of public education.

Antonio Villaraigosa Led The Way on Education Reform, but His Potential Successors Are Reluctant to Pick up the Torch For the last eight years, education reformers have had a staunch ally in the L.A. mayor'Education Reform, but His Potential Successors Are Reluctant to Pick up the Torch For the last eight years, education reformers have had a staunch ally in the L.A. mayor'education reformers have had a staunch ally in the L.A. mayor's office.