Sentences with phrase «new educational reform effort»

This is the guiding question behind XQ: The Super School Project — a new educational reform effort backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, who recently committed $ 50 million to the endeavor.

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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. citiNew 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. citinew educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

Investment in educational hardware and software, while «a major component in educational restructuring and reform initiatives,» has not been matched by coordinated efforts to train teachers to use the equipment effectively, a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board concludes.

With a new generation of reform - minded philanthropists targeting high - profile efforts that will influence educational politics and policy, the time is ripe for a project that targets methodological advances and improvements for cost modeling strategies.

Yes, I think the state is lagging in educational reform efforts and needs to be studying what other states have done and try new approaches to improve student performance.

November 2011: A Gates Foundation grant to the New Venture Fund — «to support efforts to better engage and mobilize public support for educational policy and advocacy goals, especially around common core standards and effective teaching reforms within and among the faith community and faith leaders.»

In response to Polis» ringing endorsement of the failed policies of the education reform industry, Michelle Rhee, the Patron Saint of the effort to privatize public education said, «I am honored to stand with the New Democrats as we seek to build a better educational system for America's children.»