Sentences with phrase «major education foundations»

In recent years, policy - makers and major education foundations and advocacy groups have focused attention on the nation's high school dropouts — with good reason.

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«Youth education is one of our foundation's major focus areas.

Communication problems, power struggles, and the red tape created by government regulations and school administrators are the major barriers to evaluating the effectiveness of grants to education, foundation officials and educators said at a conference here this month.

Also, the foundation announced a major new effort to expand its work beyond high school into postsecondary education, suggesting that this was a natural outgrowth of its work to date.

Indeed, it seems that many of the major foundations involved in education are backing charter schools in one way or another, either by supporting individual sites or by financing research or advocacy designed to promote policies friendly to charters.

If it were otherwise, he says, one would suspect that the foundation was only placing safe bets, and safe bets are unlikely to produce the major improvements that are needed in education.

At first, it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that a massive, well - intentioned education - reform effort — supported on both sides of the political aisle, by major philanthropic foundations, and by some prominent voices in the civil - rights community — could be anything other than a blessing for American education.

It will include what the foundation is describing as Bill Gates «first major retrospective speech on education issues in almost eight years,» as well as a Bill & Melinda interview with the PBS NewsHour's Gwen Ifill.

And as for Gates, while the foundation is closing a major chapter on teacher quality research, Cantrell says the next step is culling and tagging a massive video library of teaching practices to be studied by researchers and used by education schools.

We partner with higher ed institutions, school districts, nonprofit organizations, companies, and foundations to generate cutting - edge solutions to major education challenges.

I've been trying to get a better understanding of what strategy major education reform foundations are actually trying to pursue.

Despite the perception that these major education reform foundations are focused on expanding school choice, at least with charters, their grantees appear to be devoting more energy to arguing for greater diversity.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

The most striking thing we found is that the grantees of these major education reform foundations spend a lot of time Tweeting in support of diversity, especially relative to how often they Tweet in support of school choice.

«Our belief is that Memphis is poised to be either the first or among the first major urban centers to fully and deeply transform public education for all kids — in our case, without having had to suffer a hurricane to get there,» said Barbara Hyde, the president of the Hyde Family Foundations, a philanthropy in Memphis that funds some of the efforts.

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In addition, Foundations convenes the annual Beyond School Hours Conference, a major professional development event in the education world for well over a decade.

Parent Revolution now has 33 staffers and a $ 4.5 million 2014 budget, financed by major education reform players such as the Bill & Melinda Gates, Walton Family, and Wasserman foundations.

Following a speech last October in which Bill Gates announced a major shift in the education priorities and strategy of his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is moving to implement its plan to invest the biggest share of its education philanthropy dollars in education networks that come up with their own «locally driven solutions» to improve student achievement.

We were able to obtain grants from and forge partnerships with private foundations, a major university, the State Department of Education, and several technology vendors.

Thus, sometimes these foundations follow the dominant patterns of major foundations, but in many other instances they pursue entirely different visions of what it means to support public education.

Spurred by a strong education governor, a commission recommended major revisions to the heretofore locally - controlled enterprise and recommended the establishment of a «minimum foundation program of state and local financial support» (Cárdenas, 1997).

The D.C. Policy Center's strong network of local support representing every major industry in the District has enabled the Education Policy Initiative to attract funding from national foundations.

She worries that major foundations, individual billionaires, and Wall Street hedge fund managers are pushing the privatization of public education for their own profit or to realize their own personal ideals.

Our Philadelphia founding member, Helen Gym, shared news reports that her group, Parents United for Public Education, and others have filed an ethics complaint against the William Penn Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group, alleging that BCG was acting as a lobbyist when it developed a plan for the School District of Philadelphia including major school closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundation.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

Funded by major Wall Street executives and the education reform foundations, DFER and its related entities lobby for charter schools, the Common Core testing scheme, teacher evaluations based on scores and school vouchers.

The foundation's education program pursues this endgame through three major program areas: support for vouchers, both publicly and privately funded; support for charter school start - ups to encourage and enable the rapid growth of the sector; and public policy advocacy, to ensure that the road is clear for expansion with minimal regulatory interference.

Foundations is a first - year experience for Art Studio and Art Education majors in the School of Art & Visual Studies.

Washington State University, Washington, acquired Master of Education Degree on Foundations of Education as the major in the year of 1990.

Improving housing conditions will provide the foundation for lasting improvements in health, education and employment and make a major contribution towards closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage.