So, education policy - watchers, if you're wondering what Tuesday's results might
mean for education reform, here are some races to look out for:
If you're wondering what Tuesday's results might
mean for education reform, here is a quick overview of races to look out for (you can access the FULL Election Night Guide here):
Excerpts of his post in Fordham's Flypaper appear below: Let me suggest three principles we should all try to adhere to — and what they could
mean for education reform in the months ahead.
Andy Rotherham kicked things off by asking the panelists why Donald Trump won and what those reasons
mean for education reform.
Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 7) about what the defeat of Adrian Fenty in last month's mayoral primary is likely to
mean for education reform in Washington, D.C.
Not exact matches
At the same time, large - scale
reforms to the health,
education and welfare systems — along with reductions in youth service provision and the number and services of children's centres —
means confusion and real concern
for professionals and families alike.
From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira
meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative
for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension
Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction
for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State
for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange
for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds
meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister
for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal
Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister
for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement
for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.
The event is sponsored by
Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors
for Educational Excellence Tour, which is
meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.
If the state legislature passes Cuomo's
education reforms, it will
mean a $ 1.1 billion — or 4.8 percent — increase in state spending
for education reform.
- 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
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Paul joins us today at the Ed Next Book Club to talk about his book, the impact he hopes it will have on the
education reform debate, and what it
means for the broader war on poverty.
In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf
Education for Urban Public School
Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter:
Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork
for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them
for standardized tests.
To celebrate these two momentous occasions, join the Hoover Institution, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and
Education Next on April 25 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
for a look at ed
reform's progress since the 1980s and an examination of what the latest NAEP scores
mean for America's future economic growth and social vibrancy.
A Department
for Education (DfE) spokesman said: «Pupils are already benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks to our
reforms more of them than ever before are going to good or outstanding schools,
meaning more parents can access a good school place
for their children.
Polling by
Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to
means - tested approaches — responding more positively,
for instance, to the notion of vouchers
for all than to vouchers
for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School
Reform,» features, Winter 2016).
Comprehensive school
reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other
education group in D.C. Instead, it
means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school
reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes
for public school improvement on a grand scale.
When I became involved in
education reform more than two decades ago, the movement was about empowering parents to make choices
for their own children rather than having choices made
for them by well -
meaning but distant bureaucrats and professionals.
By appealing to tutors» sense of service, providing a small but livable stipend, organizing low - cost housing
for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teach
for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a
means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teach
for evaluating their interest in
education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach
For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teach
For America
for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teach
for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors
for what they pay a full - time teach
for what they pay a full - time teacher.
I conclude that we set the right goal
for education reform — to educate all of our students, and all
means all,
for success — but that we failed to adopt the right strategies and to design the right delivery system to achieve our unprecedented and highly ambitious goal.
Michael McShane is research fellow in
education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and coeditor with Frederick Hess of Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling (Teachers College Pres
education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and coeditor with Frederick Hess of Common Core Meets
Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling (Teachers College Pres
Education Reform: What It All
Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling (Teachers College Press, 2013).
Which
means, to our eyes at least, that what groups like Democrats
for Education Reform, Stand
for Children, and StudentsFirst are doing to challenge the hegemony of the unions is appropriate, important, and good
for the country.
Accountability
means accepting responsibility
for one's actions, yet it has become the «dirty word of today's
education reform.»
Being a person of color in
education reform too often
means listening to culturally insulated people with an overweening sense of self explain their superior logic
for saving a people they never met.
It is
for this reason that structural
reforms supporting freedom and diversity in
education are not enough; they must be paired with a willingness to confront the much more difficult issue of the purposes, the
means, and the content of a good
education.
This week, Mike Petrilli talks with Jay about his book, Work Hard, Be Nice, about what KIPP
means for the larger
education reform debate, and whether Hollywood has bought the rights to his story.
For those who may be confused about the
meaning of the
education reform phrase «personalized learning,» you might start by reading the Wait, What?
Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed support
for charter schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter schools as a principal
means of
reforming public
education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»
This
means that the financial (and political) muscle of the two unions is far greater than that of school
reform organizations such as Democrats for Education Reform, StudentsFirst (for which I used to work), Stand for Children, Black Alliance for Educational Options, and the American Federation for Chi
reform organizations such as Democrats
for Education Reform, StudentsFirst (for which I used to work), Stand for Children, Black Alliance for Educational Options, and the American Federation for Chi
Reform, StudentsFirst (
for which I used to work), Stand
for Children, Black Alliance
for Educational Options, and the American Federation
for Children.
The study, released by a group that advocates
for environmentally - sound buildings, is
meant to draw attention to the condition of buildings that on weekdays house some 56 million students and teachers — more than one - sixth of the U.S. population — but that nevertheless attract little attention in the national debate over
education policy and
reform.
But as Charles Barone of Democrats
for Education Reform notes today, the letter doesn't actually
mean much of anything, largely because Duncan isn't requesting those states — including the most - egregious offenders, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Indiana (the last of which should know better)-- to revise how they calculate graduation rates
for accountability purposes, or to make graduation rates a more - important factor in their accountability indexes.
Pursuing equity
for the most English learners across the country
means that high - quality bilingual
education must be an essential, but not exclusive, tool in the English learner
reform toolbox.
It is long past time to move to the next level of
reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system
for education and the
means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.
The number of states embracing contentious
education reforms meant to increase accountability
for teachers rose rapidly last year.
For example, Manzanilla's partnerships with the teacher education programs and two local school reform networks meant that staff had to take on a lot of additional work: supervising student teachers, attending network meetings, hosting visitors, presenting at conferences, and completing assessments their network partners needed for their own accountability repor
For example, Manzanilla's partnerships with the teacher
education programs and two local school
reform networks
meant that staff had to take on a lot of additional work: supervising student teachers, attending network meetings, hosting visitors, presenting at conferences, and completing assessments their network partners needed
for their own accountability repor
for their own accountability reports.
While I,
for one, am still trying to figure out what she actually
meant by such a statement, it certainly appears that she and her «
education reform» colleagues are saying that teachers have no place when it comes to determining how to make our schools succeed.
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, research director at the Centre
for Market
Reform of
Education, said: «There is evidence to suggest becoming an academy can
mean better results
for pupils, but only among schools that were LEA - maintained prior to conversion.
A stand on immigration
reform can bring into focus what being a Democrat
for education reform really
means.
The group issued the «Blueprint
for Reform,» part of the Obama administration's larger Generation Indigenous (Gen - I) Initiative, that aimed to deliver a world class
education to all students attending BIE schools as
means to transform the future
for Native youth.
While
education reform has taken on different
meanings over time, the current movement
for reform supports policies including:
Most troubling in the Today interview, though, was the President's failure to even mention school choice — giving parents, not politicians, control of
education money — as even a potential
means for reforming education.
The focus on collaboration as a
means for reform in public
education comes at a critical time when teachers unions are facing attacks that threaten to destroy collective bargaining rights in several states.
We have a better vision
for the future of public
education than the old expensive, unproven
reforms meant to hurt children and privatize our public schools.
The alliance and Powell take an all - options - on - the - table approach to
education reform,
meaning they push
for private - school vouchers and expansion of homeschooling.
Dr. Kohn would characterize this call
for education reform as saying, «what we're doing is OK, we just need to do it harder, longer, stronger, louder,
meaner, and we'll have a better country.»
Spokesperson Deborah Fallin says the bill was a desperate gambit to appease Washington so the state could qualify
for the «Race to the Top Fund,» a federal program
meant to spark
education reform.
Justine Greening, the
education secretary, said the
reforms would
mean «an end to historical unfairness and under - funding
for certain schools».
The corporate elite,
education reform industry and charter school advocates know that Kenneth Moales Jr. will be a safe vote
for their anti-public
education agenda, even if it
means hurting the people of Bridgeport.
I thought Part II was important to share with you all, especially given this particular post captures that in which followers of this blog are most interested, although I do recommend that you all also see what the ESSA
means for other areas of educational progress and
reform in terms of the Common Core, teacher
education, charter schools, etc. in her Parts I - IX.
Education Reform by Dan Malloy is another on a long list, in a very short time, of fly - by - night panaceas
meant to garner headlines
for Dan that are failures from the get - go.