Sentences with phrase «most educational reforms»

While most educational reforms today are at the level of program or policy, this analysis suggests that the problem is more fundamental.

There seems little doubt that both district and school leadership provides a critical bridge between most educational reform initiatives and their consequences for students.

Not exact matches

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

All the evidence tells us that it is our most vulnerable children, those living in poverty and those with special educational needs, who will do least well out of these reforms.

Most of the contributors to the volume have found evidence that policies that focus on high - stakes testing corrupt educational reform and undermine achievement, especially for at - risk students.

However, real reform and significant progress in improving the quality and equity of Australian schooling depend on tackling our deepest and most stubborn educational challenges.

Our faculty is studying the most pressing issues facing our educational system today — the achievement gap, language and literacy, urban school reform, new leadership models, testing and accountability, to name just a few.

Most educational evaluators now seem to prefer case - study methods for learning about reforms.

Because the current system, with all of its flaws, ensures that many of America's most vulnerable children are given access to special services and, whenever possible, significant exposure to a regular educational environment, parents and advocates oppose reforms because they fear losing the opportunities that children now have.

In discussions with district leaders, GAO found that «most did not indicate that they would use [SFSF] funds to pursue educational reforms»; instead, they wanted to fill their existing budget holes.

Javier Collado submitted a proposal for educational reform at global level (you can read it here: proposal for Rio +20) which was one of the most voted throughout the world in the group of Sustainable Development for Eradication of Poverty.

• Describe those essential skills in the context of curriculum reform and show how they are consistent with most common educational improvement initiatives today.

Real reform and significant progress in improving the quality and equity of Australian schooling depend on tackling our deepest and most stubborn educational challenges, writes Professor Geoff Masters AO.

I submitted a proposal for an educational reform at global level and it was one of the most voted throughout the world, specially in the group of Sustainable Development for Eradication of Poverty.

For some, education in Finland is utopia: a dreamland where teaching is the most desired profession, authorities trust schools and political parties agree on the direction of educational reforms.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

The bill, which mirrors most of Governor Tom Corbett's educational reform plan, creates an opportunity scholarship program for low - income students, expands the current Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program to provide for a variety of options for students and families and contains several charter school reform provisions.

The charter movement amounts to a tectonic shift in the educational landscape, the most far - reaching effort to reform Los Angeles schools in recent history.

Community schools have taught us since their resurgence in 2000 that most past educational reforms have produced only marginal results in comparison, largely because they focus almost exclusively on the instructional side of teaching and learning (IEL, 2014).

In what may be one of the most comprehensive, balanced, clear - eyed descriptions of the educational revolution we are currently slashing through, Allan Collins» and Richard Halverson's Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in the future.

Under Ralia's leadership, PEJ has launched new landmark education lawsuits in Minnesota and New Jersey, built coalitions across the country for families seeking justice, and most recently, partnered with 50CAN to strengthen the chapter in the education reform movement utilizing legal strategies for educational equity.

Create a list of current educational initiatives and reforms, and then identify those that you think are the most important.

When its most effective, school reform infuses students into ongoing, sustainable school reform activities through deliberate opportunities for learning, teaching, and leadership throughout the educational system.

Most of these privatizing, ALEC - type, corporate think - tank financed educational reforms are about dismantling public education while destroying teachers unions.

While most of the action on education reform broadly, and school choice specifically, is at the state level, the items in the President's budget and these additional policy ideas would be a tremendous help in facilitating greater educational opportunity for America's K - 12 children.»

The goal of each of these reforms has been to provide accountability, transparency, and to expand high quality educational options for the students who most need them most.

But the teachers union, which doesn't like the fact that most charter schools aren't unionized, has been eagerly awaiting Bloomberg's departure so that it can roll back his educational reform policies.

Given that government ministers pray PISA in aid of even their most contentious education reforms, the evidence presented by Schliecher should give them cause for concern about the current direction of educational travel in England.

[The move was especially ironic considering early childhood education is considered the single most important factor in producing better educational outcomes for students and Governor Malloy's «education reform plan» calls for expanding the amount of early childhood programming in those districts that have lower test scores]

She's the most prominent educational historian since her predecessor, Lawrence Cremin from Teachers College and somehow people believe this should somehow enable her to lead our schools down the path of credible reform in her name's sake.

Particularly where students are most unable to reach the targets, teaching to the test becomes the norm, and a reform initially advanced in the name of improving educational quality can drive practice toward the most anti-intellectual and least academic of ends.

Really, most structural changes and educational reforms make little difference in and of themselves, except to the extent that they get kids and teachers excited about school.

This grassroots approach to educational reform has created Morris Jeff as one of the most racially and economically diverse public schools in the history of New Orleans.

Most of the day was gaining knowledge of the English structure of education and the historical aspect of educational change and reform.

These market ‐ based reforms have often been touted as the most promising response to the challenges of poverty and educational disenfranchisement.

The most recent green paper in education was the 2011 paper on special educational needs reforms, which set the path for recent changes in the way children's needs are identified and funded.

«Most did not indicate they would use these funds to pursue educational reform,» the report said.

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.

There was the birth of the take - anywhere traditionally published ebooks, the hope of educational reform through bells and whistles digital textbooks, and perhaps most important of all, the self - publishing arm that allowed anyone to write, publish, and potentially sell a book.

There was the birth of the take - anywhere traditionally published ebooks, the hope of educational reform through bells and whistles digital textbooks, and perhaps most important of all, the self - publishing arm that allowed anyone to write, publish, and... [Read more...]

I do not expect such educational reforms at any time, however, as all major parties (in all democratic nations so far as I can tell) rely on fooling most of the people most of the time for their chance for power.

Most of the material incentives for legal academics these days depend on scholarly production, so it is not always easy to engage a law school faculty in educational reform.

These reforms are the most significant we've made to the support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in a generation and we know that they are making a difference, thanks to the passion and dedication of all those involved.

Reforming schools to achieve better educational outcomes is at the top of most national, state, and local school improvement agendas.