Sentences with phrase «of education reform across the country»

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For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

That Msgr. Shea and his colleagues in Bismarck have welcomed him to the University of Mary, giving him a platform from which to extend his work into the Latino worlds of U.S. Catholicism while continuing to be the go - to consultant for Catholic Studies programs across the country, testifies to that young school's bright future as one of the leaders of Catholic higher education reform.

CNN: Faith leaders sound off on role of church in public education Dozens of faith leaders from across the country recently gathered to attend The Stand Up Education Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk educatioeducation Dozens of faith leaders from across the country recently gathered to attend The Stand Up Education Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk educatioEducation Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk educationeducation reform.

McClusky says Common Core further developed with the Obama administration's introduction of «Race to The Top,» a competition designed to further reform education across the country.

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Klein's support pushed allies into key posts, and his persuasiveness brought hundreds of millions of dollars from philanthropy to support education reform, not only in New York City but also across the country.

Last week, the Department of Education announced plans for a «national education reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district leveEducation announced plans for a «national education reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district leveeducation reform conference on labor - management collaboration» to be held early next year, where they plan to «highlight examples of progressive collective bargaining agreements across the country and promote opportunities for management and labor to forge reforms at the state and district level.»

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

A national leader in education reform — and recent winner of the Broad Prize for best public charter school network in the country — Success Academy has long been committed to advancing education reform nationally by sharing its content and approach, and inviting others across the country to access and adapt what we teach and how we teach it.

To promote curriculum reform — and make better use of education dollars — this report provides new insight on how curricula are selected in every state across the country and examines the costs of those curricula.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

In a belated response to the National Education Association's criticism of the Center for Education Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public eEducation Association's criticism of the Center for Education Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public eEducation Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public educationeducation.

For educators and policymakers across the country struggling to implement effective education reforms in the context of increased accountability, the lesson of Chicago is that accountability can and does encourage teachers and principals to pay greater attention to the lowest - performing students in their classrooms.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

Gov. Scott Walker said in an opinion column this week that changes to Wisconsin's education landscape under his governorship are types of «reforms» that could be pushed across the country.

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

Whereas the Seattle Education Association went on a one day strike last spring in protest of the current reform movement that is damaging public education and, therefore stood tall for all public school teachers across the country facing similar reforms, including members of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers AssociaEducation Association went on a one day strike last spring in protest of the current reform movement that is damaging public education and, therefore stood tall for all public school teachers across the country facing similar reforms, including members of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Associaeducation and, therefore stood tall for all public school teachers across the country facing similar reforms, including members of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association; and

Today's education reform climate seems to focus on a misguided narrative of unions as obstructionists and educators as villains, ignoring how educators and their unions are leading successful reform efforts all across the country.

Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools natioacross the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools natioAcross America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools nationwide.

NCTQ has pushed for aggressive education reforms across the country and have targeted teacher preparation programs as institutions in need of drastic changes.

«She has seen and studied the effects of education privatization across the country and is the nation's foremost expert on what works and doesn't work when it comes to reforming our public schools.»

This program includes Regional Centers that work closely with states in their regions on implementation of critical reforms in elementary and secondary education, as well as Content Centers that provide high - quality materials and services for use by states and districts across the country.

«To suggest that education reform should be driven by how teachers get fired misses the reality of what's really happening across the country.»

In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's children attend public or private school?

The name of the organization clearly references Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), which has helped deliver millions to anti-union candidates and lobbied for policy changes across the country, including a right - wing effort to crush unions in California, which voters rejected in 2012.

Education reform is in the air and taking root in thousands of classrooms across the country.

In a handful of statehouses and universities across the country, a few farsighted Americans are finally pursuing what the world's smartest countries have found to be the most efficient education reform ever tried.

The children in the neighborhood — and similar communities across the country — are living with two sometimes - competing visions of education reform.

The work of Teacher Union Reform Network has had a profound impact across the country to help unions, administration and boards of education work together to solve problems and work toward student success.

What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.

Claiming to have over 100 chapters across the country, the «student run» advocacy group has, as of late last summer, collected more than $ 7.3 million since its inception to fund their «education reform» activities.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City, discusses how she got involved in education reform, and how her schools manage to consistently outperform schools serving similar demographics in the city and across the country.

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testEducation, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testEducation and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testeducation reform industry's Common Core testing scam.