Sentences with phrase «major education initiatives»

In these roles, Smith help define the Clinton administration's education agenda and was a leader in Clinton's major education initiatives including Goals 2000 - Educate America Act, the Improving American Schools Act, and the School - to - Work Opportunities Act.

If properly applied, these lessons could contribute mightily to the ARRA's final major education initiative.

In her past position as a partner with the Third Mile Group, Anthes led and researched major education initiatives for state, district, and national organizations on a variety of education issues and projects, including the Colorado School Leadership Academy Board, the Expanded Learning Opportunities Commission, and several district education programs across the state.

Teacher evaluation takes center stage in several major education initiatives, including Race to the Top (RTTT) and the NCLB waiver program.

The General Assembly has been unwilling or unable to address obvious shortcomings in other major education initiatives such as school performance grades, Opportunity Scholarships, virtual charter schools, or Achievement / Innovative School Districts (ASD)(perhaps this is related to its unprecedented inability / unwillingness to hold oversight meetings).

The following are the major education initiatives in the executive budget proposal:

So in total, less than half of these parents first heard about a major education initiative that will (in those states that adopted the CCSS) impact their child's learning from the institution or individuals helping guide that learning.

Every major education initiative since 1965 has been about recalibrating the balance first struck by esea.

Once you understand this basic lens through which the Obama administration * sees the world, all of its major education initiatives — such as Race to the Top, School Improvement Grants, and NCLB waivers — make a lot more sense.

In the summer of 1991, in response to President George H.W. Bush's major education initiative, CEOs from a number of major corporations established the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC, later shortened to New American Schools, or NAS), a privately funded, nonprofit organization devoted to supporting the design and dissemination of «whole school reform» models.

This might seem a bit odd, given that unions have no love for NCLB, President George W. Bush's major education initiative.

The Obama administration incorporated test - based teacher evaluation as one of the core principles of its major education initiatives, including the Race to the Top grant program (in which Texas declined to participate) and more recently, waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that all students must be proficient on state reading and math assessments by 2014.

Louisville is one of six cities that have been chosen to take part in a major education initiative aimed at removing the link between a child's socioeconomic status and his or her educational success.

This report provides a review of the major education initiatives of this seven - year period.