Sentences with phrase «level education reform»

NCTR bridges the gap between practice and policy by focusing on state and federal level education reform initiatives, financial sustainability, and program scale.

Jason is a senior fellow at Bellwether Education Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, and talent.

State - Level Education Reform: Collaborative Roles for Postsecondary Education, 1994.

«This is the first time I've had an up - close and behind - the - scenes seat at a national - level education reform process,» she says.

If charter school networks and other retail - level education reforms want to attract the attention of potential clients, teachers, or donors, nothing beats the glitz and reach of talk and entertainment shows — and no one is bigger than Oprah.

Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.

Not exact matches

«I am running because we need universal health care, we need to ensure a quality education for every child, and we need to create real campaign finance reform on the state level,» Brezler wrote in the email.

In only four years, she led the Ministry to introduce critical reforms and took charge ofthe biggest investment in education in Ghana's history, from the basic to the tertiary levels.

«Our goal in forming a board - level committee focused on education reform is to create a formal process for business to be more involved in education reform initiatives.»

But shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg pointed out the reforms outlined today followed aborted attempts to replace GCSEs with CSEs and O - levels, the English Baccalaureate and, last week, «I - levels».

Such cuts also have counteracted and sometimes undermined important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«We have also made great strides in higher education reform to make college more affordable and accessible to all continuing their education at the highest level.

Indeed, reform in science education at the organic level is not only a strategic imperative but also a mission - critical necessity in this millennium!

She previously worked as Senior Officer for the Academic Cooperation Association, where she was actively involved as an expert in higher education policy developments and reforms at national and European level (Bologna, ET2010); higher education internationalisation and international cooperation; mobility; student services and attractiveness of European higher education; trans - national education.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

While identifying guiding themes for the discussions — National strategy development and implementation; Curricular reform and education at the national and local levels; Competence development of educators; Quality support and monitoring; Campaigning and outreach — the Congress objectives are twofold:

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

In real life, Larsen also wanted to bring a key issue to the public's attention: reforming education at the local level.

De Blasio's first three years in office attest to the significant constraints progressives across the country will face in trying to roll back education reform, even when faced with no significant political opposition at the local level.

The announcement builds on the government's record of 1.9 million more children now in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, England's pupils now amongst the world's best readers and GCSE and A levels reformed to match the best education systems in the world.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

You mentioned in a recent EdWeek article that you suspect that a Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos would push for reform mainly at the state level.

The Department for Education has published details for the final reforms of GCSEs, AS and A levels, that are due to be taught from September 2017.

Since the U.S. Department of Education has waived many NCLB regulations in exchange for states» engaging in alternative reform strategies, states are under less pressure to keep their proficiency standards at a low level.

Its flagship initiative, the new National Education Emergency Program («Plan D'urgence» 2009 — 2012) introduces a series of comprehensive educational reform at all levels, with specific emphasis on education for all and improving quality of Education Emergency Program («Plan D'urgence» 2009 — 2012) introduces a series of comprehensive educational reform at all levels, with specific emphasis on education for all and improving quality of education for all and improving quality of outcomes.

Photo by Martha Stewart Program: Doctor of Education Leadership Tool for Change: Reform at the state level Hometown: Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico Amy Loyd loved her job.

Throughout the program, fellows also have a chance to analyze issues and problems on deeper levels by getting involved with case - based «think tank» seminars, including one led by Reimers that is looking at education reform in Brazil, among other «cutting - edge education challenges and solutions,» he says.

Across the board at the federal, state, and district level the role of partnerships between home and school is becoming a more important factor in education reform and student achievement, Mapp said.

In October, a Department for Education research report into teacher - performance pay reforms found that, in 98 per cent of schools, all pay progression is related to performance and that 69 per cent of schools use pupils» test attainment to measure a teacher's performance against «the expected national level».

Mainstream adoption of blended learning will come not from policy reform but from persuading the people who work at the ground level in education.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials — whether Latino or not — often reject school choice.

Last week, the Department of Education announced plans for a «national education reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district leveEducation announced plans for a «national education reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district leveeducation reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district level.»

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

After leaving NASA and returning to the University of Washington [to teach], I continued to «perform» in schools and became increasingly interested in science education reform at all levels.

But college - for - all is another example of the kind of unrealistic, aspirational moon shot (like every child reading on grade level by 2014) that education reform seems powerless to resist.

And they note we're now seeing state - level reforms, fueled by the efforts of ConnCAN, Democrats for Education Reform, and their peers, that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

Thus mainstream adoption of blended learning will come not from policy reform, but from persuading the people who work at the ground level in education.

«The whole controversy about the Common Core and the assessments risks becoming an enormous distraction from the much more difficult work, the central education reform work of devising effective strategies for educating children to higher levels,» says Reville.

«Our view signals a need for policy reform,» Lesaux said, adding that every level of the system must influence the basic interactions and core relationships in early education.

It was not so much that his street - level tactics and confrontational style violated protest orthodoxy, but that he had the capacity to revise his thinking dramatically to suit the circumstances that he faced — even to the extent of giving up some of the socialist principles associated with nationalist thinking to endorse market education reforms such as school vouchers, charter schools, and parental choice.

«The track record of top - performing countries, early evidence of positive effects from faithful implementation of high - quality curricula here in the United States, and the persistent evidence that our classrooms are under - challenging our students at every level compel us to put materials that we use to teach at the core of serious education reform.»

My year - three residency and my interests are now at the state level in education reform.

Program: Doctor of Education Leadership Tool for Change: Reform at the state level Hometown: Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico

Secretary Duncan likes to say that RttT is part of a «quiet revolution» in education, with states creating «bold blueprints for reform [that] bear the signatures of many key players at the state and local level who drive change in our schools.»

A district - level reform model created by the Center for Data - Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) provided consultation with district leaders on strategic use of data and selection of proven proreform model created by the Center for Data - Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) provided consultation with district leaders on strategic use of data and selection of proven proReform in Education (CDDRE) provided consultation with district leaders on strategic use of data and selection of proven programs.

The most recent CBI / Pearson Education and Skills Survey showed levels of awareness and understanding across business about the new grading system are growing, but just over a third of firms were wholly unaware of the reforms in England.

Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials often reject school choice.