Sentences with phrase «of education reform ideas»

Bush was in Michigan in June to testify for Governor Rick Snyder's suite of education reform ideas, which include uncapped expansion of virtual schools, and he was back in the state in July to continue to press for reforms.

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Rumours circulating in Westminster include the idea of Justine Greening being moved out of education, with one source suggesting that she had sided too strongly with the trade unions instead of embracing Tory reforms.

Vouchers have remained a fringe idea among education reform advocates here, and some have expressed concern that DeVos» embrace of vouchers could alienate the mainstream charter movement from its much - needed allies in the Democratic party.

«You really haven't gotten your moneys» worth,» he said, specifically mentioning such ideas as a public option government - run health care plan or education reform or public financing of elections.

At a fundraiser in Palm Beach Florida on Sunday, Romney included the elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a restructuring of the Department of Education among his ideas aimed at reforming Washington, according to reports from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

Toward the end of its review of the commission's work, the task force states, «Education reform will only come about in the United States when the delivery system itself is reconstructed around clear principles, sound ideas and learning - centered rules, incentives and power relationships.»

In the stormy seas of school reform, Education Matters will steer a steady course, presenting the facts as best they can be determined, giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas, and responsible arguments.

The idea of New York being competitive in a national race to the top in education reform was a no - brainer to people around the state.

I began this article by highlighting two prominent ideas for the reform of teacher education: eliminating the traditional requirements for a teaching career, or radically changing those requirements to maximize student - teaching experience and minimize coursework.

Republicans have a significant opportunity in next year's election to win on the education issue by continuing their push for a reform - based education agenda and arguing against the idea that more money without real structural reform can fix the ills of our education system.

His Big Idea is that economic forces, especially inequality and poverty, largely determine the outcome of American social projects - including attempts at education reform.

Most important, the IDEA ’97 reforms failed to change the culture of proceduralism in special education.

I do not have a litmus test or require people who believe as I do about the necessity of reforming education to support all of my ideas and approaches to addressing these other critical issues.

As Education Next editors Rick Hess and Chester Finn recently observed, NCLB is a «Christmas tree of programs, incentives, and interventions that are more an assemblage of reform ideas than a coherent scheme.

Here is explicit recognition that the education reform battle is not so much a battle of interests as a battle of ideas about interests and who gets to define the public interest.

In this slender, readable volume, veteran educators Jane David (now head of the Bay Area Research Group) and Larry Cuban (emeritus education professor at Stanford) conduct a breakneck tour of almost — but not quite — every prominent education - reform idea of the past decade or two and say what they like and dislike about each.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

I got to the end of chapter eight, «This Is Not a Test,» and could discern only three reform ideas from Friedman: embark on an «all - hands - on - deck, no - holds - barred, no - budget - too - large crash program for science and engineering education»; make community college affordable for everyone; and scold parents into doing a better job.

Today standards lie at the core of education reform packages put forth by presidents as ideologically disparate as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, but the idea was not always so widely accepted.

In an essay titled «School Choice through a Foucauldian Lens,» published last year, Stacy Smith, a professor of education at Bates College, seized on the ideas of Michel Foucault to dispute the notion that supporting charter schools means supporting market - based education reforms.

In the»90s in particular, education reform often targeted individual schools without a clear idea of how this reform can be replicated nationwide, or even in school districts.

Mark Pudlow, spokesperson for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union that has fought pitched battles against many of Florida's recent initiatives, acknowledges the result of Florida Virtual School's approach: «[It] never developed the kind of mistrust that tends to be associated with other reform ideas.»

Although Bush was voted out of office, his basic ideas for education reform survived.

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

Moe's analysis pinpoints the self - interest of unions that leads them to block many education reform ideas.

90, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, highlight the shortcomings of current education reform debates, noting that «almost all of the ideas currently on the mainstream table leave the basic structure of American schooling fundamentally unchanged.»

By curating the topics in the Reform Symposium, and by selecting salient goals that teachers can strive to accomplish throughout the years, Terrell gives teachers the tools to apply the sometimes - lofty ideas of education reform and technReform Symposium, and by selecting salient goals that teachers can strive to accomplish throughout the years, Terrell gives teachers the tools to apply the sometimes - lofty ideas of education reform and technreform and technology.

Regardless of polarized and heated ideas on education reform, we can not hope to make change in the classroom without first addressing how we raise children.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

The death of a small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.

The MPCP was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense.

Charter school publications include: Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future; Quality School Ratings: Trends in Evaluating School Academic Quality; Searching for Excellence: A Five - City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality; and New Orleans - Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities.

If the American public understood that the very concept of education was being disfigured into a mechanism to apply standardized testing and sort their children into data points on a normal curve, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.

Further enhancing NASDC's national profile was the fact that its key scale - up idea — moving from reforming individual schools to transforming entire systems — was quite similar to the idea of systemic reform that was one of the cornerstones of the Clinton administration's education policy.

Central to the thinking (and rhetoric) of the advocates of Common Core on education reform was the idea that state performance standards were already on a downward slide and that, without nationalization, standards would inexorably continue on a «race to the bottom.»

The goal of a literate citizenry can be reached only by offering ideas for education reform that specify a coherent curriculum.

Those of us in education reform have a bad habit of not finishing what we started, of chasing a new shiny idea every few years.

With his nomination of Betsy DeVos for U.S. secretary of education, President - elect Trump has tossed that promise aside, saying that she will help him reform the education system based on one idea — privatization.

Education reform is an opportunity for professionals in gifted education to recognize what works, what does not work, where «hitchhiking» on the ideas of others is wise, and to understand the changes that are needed to assure excellence in learning and character devEducation reform is an opportunity for professionals in gifted education to recognize what works, what does not work, where «hitchhiking» on the ideas of others is wise, and to understand the changes that are needed to assure excellence in learning and character deveducation to recognize what works, what does not work, where «hitchhiking» on the ideas of others is wise, and to understand the changes that are needed to assure excellence in learning and character development.

Much of the school reform marketing revolves around the idea of treating parents and students like consumers: «Students and parents are our clients» is a rallying cry heard throughout the education - reform market.

Within each education reform strategy, ideas were presented that respect the integrity of the research and assure appropriate learning opportunities for students who are gifted.

Education Reform Now is a non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C., that aims to develop the next generation of progressive education ideas andEducation Reform Now is a non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C., that aims to develop the next generation of progressive education ideas andeducation ideas and leaders.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

The election of Randi Weingarten as president of the American Federation of Teachers this past summer signaled a greater willingness from that union to accept that new ideas and education «reforms» are inevitable.

Whatever you think of charter schools or education reform you must engage with the ideas in this book.

Some groups, like the Center for Education Reform, remain committed to the idea that parents should be able to choose the schools they think best meets the needs of their child.

Starting with vouchers, a creation of libertarian Milton Friedman in the 1950s, the ideas for education reform, with few exceptions, have come from right leaning think tanks like Pacific Research Institute, Hoover Institution, Goldwater Institute, Reason Foundation, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, etc..

The policy ideas put forth by these and other similar organizations have formed the basis for many of the education reforms that are in place today.

Yet this election cycle presents an opportunity to put the issue of education reform front and center due to an array of clashing ideas surrounding unions, vouchers, school choice and standardized testing.