Sentences with phrase «of education pundits»

«There are lots of education pundits out there who embrace the diversion of an endless standards debate because they are clueless about how to actually improve student learning.»

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If — as the pundits suggest — the May 7 election produces another form of coalition government, tensions surrounding what to do about the provision of places for all are likely to increase along with the ongoing debates into local accountability over education.

The problem is that a good number of policymakers, pundits, and others who control the education system seem to think that the almost - exclusive purpose of education is to impart economically useful skills.

In poll after poll, we routinely put education at the top of our worry lists, and the pundits concur.

Conservative education pundit Chester E. Finn, Jr., M.A.T.» 67, Ed.D.» 70, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, also joined the Edison Project during its inception.

Unlike some Bush administration officials and pundits in Washington who are trumpeting the progress made in rebuilding Iraq's primary and secondary education system since a U.S. - led war toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, the new Iraqi minister of education is concentrating on the challenges ahead.

I will work to restore the federal role in education to one that respects the constitutional and statutory role of the U.S. Department of Education, and I won't be deterred by the sniping of self - impressed pundits, advocates, and former federal oeducation to one that respects the constitutional and statutory role of the U.S. Department of Education, and I won't be deterred by the sniping of self - impressed pundits, advocates, and former federal oEducation, and I won't be deterred by the sniping of self - impressed pundits, advocates, and former federal officials.

The annual PDK / Gallup education poll comes out Wednesday, and policymakers, analysts and pundits will be busy parsing the findings on perceptions of the nation's public schools — from campus safety to high - stakes testing to the new Common Core State Standards.

And the result was the development of a movement of thousands of people, organizations, policymakers and pundits engaging with and for great education.

However, increasingly we see policy makers, departments of education, and pundits challenge the notion that local school boards are important and decry that boards should not have the final say in some of the meaningful aspects of education, like curriculum, assessment, and instruction.

International test rankings have come to dominate how politicians and pundits judge the quality of countries» education systems, including highly heterogeneous systems such as that of the United States.

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«That's why more than a few pundits refer to Bill Gates as the shadow Secretary of Education,» he adds.

In recent months, as schools began teaching and testing students on the new standards — and telling families about their plans — what started as an effort by officials to remake American education has become a favored punching bag of pundits and parents alike.

But pundits say the Vergara decision has also energized the already bitter race for state superintendent of schools — a contest where simmering hostilities over education reforms, mostly among Democrats, have broken into the mainstream.

«Several years of budget cuts and many elected officials and pundits saying very negative things about teachers in general — there is a general feeling, at least among the educators I know, that public education is under attack in NC.

How often do we hear education pundits dismiss the ideas of those with whom they disagree as «lazy thinking,» «not bold enough,» «status - quo thinking,» «not analytic,» or «not research - driven»?

All the talk of success and failure led Steven Glazerman, a Mathematica Policy Research fellow, to coin a new phrase — «misNAEPery» — which describes how leaders and pundits wrongly attribute the rise and fall in National Assessment of Educational Progress scores to the success or failure of specific education policies.

What the pundits are really trying to do is create pressure for the legislature to fund basic education, but it shouldn't be at the expense of Charter School students.

The latest serving of education reformy slop was served to us in the pages of The New York Times where, first, one of the paper's All Purpose Pundits David Brooks repeated false claims about the Common Core and denigrated anyone who disagreed with its agenda as being part of a «circus.»

State and national pundits and advocates — myself included — put a lot emphasis on the importance of ESSA plans for laying out the next generation of education reform.