Sentences with phrase «need systemic reforms»

In order to get education or health care to be digitized, you need systemic reforms.

We also need systemic reforms to shorten political campaigns and to allow leaders more free access to television for the business of governance.

These days, Hess seems to be more - obsessed with making «bold» and «contrarian» pronouncements that do little to advance much - needed systemic reform than the rigorous, thoughtful scholarship on education issues that once were his stock and trade.

The ability to assess the level of proficiency targets is important to shining light on which states are engaging in much - needed systemic reform efforts, and casting antiseptic sunlight on those that are failing them miserably.

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«The Administration has already begun the process to create the independent watchdog the Speaker is referring to by establishing a first - ever outside not - for - profit organization to monitor the system, advocate for the rights of people with special needs and disabilities and recommend future systemic reforms,» Introne said in the statement.

Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Benito Romano said, «Attorney General Schneiderman understands that New Yorkers not only need stronger enforcement tools for fighting corruption, but also systemic reforms that make public service more transparent and ethical, allowing honest, hard - working public servants to thrive.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

You will also have opportunities to reflect on your personal leadership strengths and explore strategies for developing a team with the full range of capacities needed to lead systemic reform.

Programmatic approaches to addressing dropping out are popular because they are easier to implement than systemic reforms, and they target students who clearly need support.

Instead, it is about an important lesson reformers should be learning today from Doug Jones» victory yesterday over the notorious Roy Moore in yesterday's Alabama U.S. Senate special election: The need to rally poor and minority communities in advancing systemic reform to help all children.

Even if states and districts failed to meet the goal initially, the goal put much - needed pressure on them to embrace systemic reform.

Although the Wolverine State expects 85 percent of all students to be proficient in all subjects by 2022, the fact that the bar is so low means that districts may not take on the systemic reforms needed to actually aim higher.

Some interviewees focused on the need for systemic reform, whereas others didn't really refer to the context beyond their immediate working situation.

All in all, counterproductive to advancing systemic reform that our children need and deserve so they can be connected to brighter futures.

But given the conservative movement's other problems (including, as Washington Examiner columnist Noemie Emery notes, a sense of entitlement and embrace of a victim mentality unfitting of itself), the importance of the movement playing a strong role in shaping systemic reform, and the need for the movement to update how it applies first principles to today's issues, it is a much - needed fight that conservative reformers can win.

What we should do instead is expand upon the accountability measures set in place a decade ago under No Child — and provide families with the data they need (including, contrary to the assertions of our friend, Andy Rotherham, value - added data on teacher performance) so they can make smart choices and spur systemic reform.

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

Emilio Pack's two decades of experience in public education inform his belief that by investing in educators as leaders and giving them the site - level autonomy to put student needs first, we can achieve systemic reform and change.

But AYP and the 100 percent proficiency target have put much - needed pressure on states and districts to embrace systemic reform, including expanding school choice and overhauling teacher evaluation systems.

In order for postsecondary schools to effectively make systemic reform, professional educators must view PK - 12 teachers as active learners, who are willing to question and make needed changes in teaching and school - wide practices.

But many of the other Letter writers in the Sunday Dialogue, Jackson included, think that school integration does not constitute the systemic reform our school system needs.

But if reformers are looking to actually advance systemic reform, they need to spend less time in the Beltway and more in the nation's statehouses, where much of the action on education will play out.

Whatever the case, Harkin and his colleagues don't seem like they are going to ask any hard questions about the efficacy of the process by which the Obama administration is granting the waivers, the consequences of the gambit on the systemic reforms needed to help all children get high - quality education, or whether the waiver gambit is legal in the first place.

The 100 percent proficiency target set by No Child was an ambitious statement that all kids should get the education they need to write their own life stories, putting much - needed on states to embrace systemic reform.

But we need to step up on advancing systemic reform so that all families can provide their children with the high - quality education they need and deserve.

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.

And I've concluded, quite some time ago, that what's needed more than anything else in this area, is massive systemic reform.