Sentences with phrase «more education reform efforts»

As more education reform efforts lean on technology to try to improve schools and lift student achievement, policy makers are grappling with a tricky reality: a digital divide in the era of digital natives.

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Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state Senate.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded more than $ 4 million in grants to help 15 states continue their efforts to reform education in the middle grades.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

Around the world, more than a dozen nations have recently engaged in efforts to rapidly reform their teacher education and certification systems.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

-- but it also shifts the deck to create a more conciliatory education reform effort in Texas.

See what Fox News reported on the parent's efforts and empowerment here, and also check out Editorials in L.A. area newspapers, including one calling the effort a «winning reform» for public education in the Los Angeles Daily News and another in the Los Angeles Times which calls for more clarity in the law.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Knowing that along with the Gates Foundation, both the Broad Foundation and the Walton Foundation constitute the «big three» in major philanthropic funding for the corporate education reform effort, I decided to dig just a little more.

The nine finalist states from the second round of Race to the Top have another shot at winning money to support their K — 12 education reform efforts, albeit at much more modest funding levels.

Still, as constituents and politicians demand more accountability from schools, and dissatisfied parents seek more education options for their children, charter schools have become the most identifiable and popular effort for school reform and improvement.

For local educators, the assessment consortia's work adds to a running list of education reform efforts that spans more than a decade, but has accelerated in the past few years.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

But we are now learning that the Bridgeport Education Reform Fund was only the stalking horse for a much bigger and more impressive effort.

Thanks to the Obama administration's own effort to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions through its waiver gambit, the president (and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) have done more to weaken the very reform efforts centrist Democrats embrace than any opposition from traditionalist circles.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

Successful education reform efforts — such as the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides «wraparound» social and health services alongside charter schools, or California's Linked Learning schools, which connect teenagers to meaningful on - the - job training — are built on this more holistic understanding of the forces that shape a child's life and determine her future.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

There is no effort more worthy of bipartisan support than the reform of public education.

Although Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy rivals New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo when it comes to anti-teacher rhetoric and policies, the harsh reality is that Malloy is nothing more than a continuation of the DGA's effort to support Democratic governors who are wedded to the corporate education reform agenda.

The forces behind the corporate education reform industry and their effort to turn public schools into little more than testing factories are getting even more mean - spirited and out - of - control.

Check back for much more on the key issues surrounding student data and privacy, the Corporate Education Reform Industry's efforts and the failure of public officials to address this growing problem.

This becomes even more clear when you look at his claim to fame, a report released last yeara by Manhattan Institute on school climate throughout the city and the school discipline reform efforts undertaken by the New York City Department of Education under Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his successor, Bill de Blasio.

But perhaps even more important is Malloy's failure to publicly retract his effort to repeal collective as part of his Corporate Education Reform Industry proposal in 2012 (Senate Bill 24).

Obama has also made an effort to devote more spending to education, with $ 80 billion given to K - 12 districts in the stimulus bill and his Race to the Top program offering states and addition $ 4.35 billion in federal funds if they can come up with innovative reform plans.

The Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) recently received a $ 75,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation to support communication and engagement efforts to assist school districts across the state with the continued implementation of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA) in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council... Read More

He added that he expected to hear from more districts throughout the day as local Boards of Education and local teachers unions officially committed to the state RTTT reform effort.

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Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

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Like some type of gigantic octopus, the pro-charter school, pro-common core, pro-SBAC testing scheme and anti-teacher corporate education reform industry has set up multiple front groups while dumping more than $ 7.9 million dollars into their lobbying effort on behalf of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's «education reform» initiatives.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

When the final reports were filed in Bridgeport, the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent more than $ 560,000, a state record, in their effort to take away the right of local citizens to elect their own board of education.

Making the situation even more disgusting, in an effort to cover - up the privatization strategy, the Malloy administration, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and the corporate education reform groups are trying to make it appear that the whole effort to close down the turnaround committee process is simply a response to «service» the Clark parents.

There are a ton of education reforms and policies tackling this problem through things like charter schools, college - and - career ready standards, targeted professional development, wrap - around services and more — all efforts that have made progress to closing the Black - white achievement gap.

Thanks to Malloy's education reform effort, Connecticut taxpayers already subsidize charter school companies to the tune of more than $ 100 million a year and while Malloy laments the state budget deficit, his budget plan is to actually give charter school even more taxpayer funds even though these companies refuse to educate their fair share of students who need special education services or those who require extra help when it comes to learning the English Language.

With 149,817 more fourth - graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels, systemic reform efforts focused on stemming achievement gaps have also helped children from the middle class and high - performing students as by those who have been given the worst American public education provides.

To that end, reforming for - profits should be part of a larger effort to make American higher - education less wasteful and more rewarding for college students, whose diverse needs will lead them to attend very different institutions.

The new merit pay language mirrors the evaluation policy: both seem to align the union with education reform efforts more than ever before, but come with major caveats.