Sentences with phrase «national education reform efforts»

As 1991 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and 1996 New Hampshire Media Educator of the Year, Kim has been actively involved in local, state, and national education reform efforts for over two decades, including Souhegan High School, Monadnock Community Connections School, Five Freedoms Project, and most recently, the Q.E.D. Foundation.

P.E. 4Life's Flannery says her organization has mobilized support for the program and advocates that a review of physical education standards be part of overall national education reform efforts.

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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.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieveeducation in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by AchieveEducation (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

20 National Center on Increasing the Effectiveness of State and Local Education Reform Efforts - University of Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON — To many of the educators keeping a careful eye on national efforts to set curriculum standards for students, the proposals in the Clinton Administration's education - reform bill present a mixed bag.

A longtime corporate supporter of national school - reform efforts has announced plans to focus its grantmaking exclusively on regional education initiatives.

23 - 26 — Education reform: National conference on Kentucky's education - reform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in LexingEducation reform: National conference on Kentucky's education - reform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in Lexingtonreform: National conference on Kentucky's education - reform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in Lexingeducation - reform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in Lexingtonreform efforts, sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in LexingEducation, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, and the Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, to be held in LexingtonReform, to be held in Lexington, Ky..

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school dEducation Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school dEducation Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school deducation in the nation's urban school districts.

Amid continuing criticism that music and the arts have been left out of national education - reform efforts, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander earlier this month disclosed his intention to form a national «partnership» to strengthen schooling in those education - reform efforts, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander earlier this month disclosed his intention to form a national «partnership» to strengthen schooling in those Education Lamar Alexander earlier this month disclosed his intention to form a national «partnership» to strengthen schooling in those subjects.

That approach is called for in the science - education - reform efforts undertaken by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association, both of which have pilot...

A leading national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial National Science Foundation withdrew its financial support.

There were periodic national efforts at education reform, such as Goals 2000, but the unions weathered these storms, and the winds eventually died down.

NEA Launches NCLB Reform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress toReform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress toreform the law, which it wants Congress to hear.

In response to the perceived neglect of writing in United States education, the National Commission on Writing proposed a set of recommendations for making writing a central element in school reform efforts.

The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

Of course, the main purpose was to get the attention of the Department of Education and draw national attention to the destructive nature of current educational reform efforts.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

In response to the perceived neglect of writing in United States education, the National Commission on Writing proposed a set of recommendations for making writing a central element in school reform efforts (National Commission on Writing, 2006).

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform plans.

The Foundation provides support for creative, replicable solutions and is engaged in state and national efforts for systematic education reform.

Second, despite reform efforts, the NOLA Recovery School District has many of the lowest performing schools in Louisiana, which is one of the lowest performing states on the National Assessment of Education Progress (aka, the Nation's Report Card).

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Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both sides.

Wallace's efforts in school leadership helped put an important but marginalized issue — the need to better train and support principals — high on the national education reform agenda.

June 2011: A Gates Foundation grant to the National Urban League Inc. — «to promote national and state advocacy, engagement and education reform efforts throughout the National Urban League affiliate movement..National Urban League Inc. — «to promote national and state advocacy, engagement and education reform efforts throughout the National Urban League affiliate movement..national and state advocacy, engagement and education reform efforts throughout the National Urban League affiliate movement..National Urban League affiliate movement...»

Her well - publicized efforts at Success have earned her a profile on a par with some of New York's most prominent elected officials, and have effectively made her a national leader on education reform.

That ambitious plan is key to her broader aim of establishing Success as what the network describes as a «catalyst and national model for education reform efforts,» and a legitimate citywide competitor to the incumbent public school system.

It is also an issue because, like the Obama administration's signature reform effort, Race to the Top, there is an (implied) emphasis on cooperation with AFT and National Education Association affiliates.

Bitter experience has shown that the self - anointed experts of NSP, NARE, NCEE, the New American Schools Development Corporation, the National Education Goals Panel, the Center on Student Learning, the Learning Research and Development Center, the National Alliance of Business, and others of their ilk have been exceedingly adept at eventually hijacking and taking over all of the so - called «reform» efforts - if they haven't controlled them outright from the beginning.

Education leadership is the «critical bridge» uniting school - reform efforts, according to this report of The Wallace Foundation's 2007 national education conference, where more than 400 education experts were on hand to discuss effectively training and supporting schoolEducation leadership is the «critical bridge» uniting school - reform efforts, according to this report of The Wallace Foundation's 2007 national education conference, where more than 400 education experts were on hand to discuss effectively training and supporting schooleducation conference, where more than 400 education experts were on hand to discuss effectively training and supporting schooleducation experts were on hand to discuss effectively training and supporting school leaders.