Sentences with phrase «of education reform movements»

She sets the school's challenges in context, giving a brief overview of education reform movements in the U.S. and arguing that top - down, nationally mandated policies and procedures ultimately hurt schools like Mission rather than help them.

Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

As everyone knows, Kevin Carey has a long essay in The New Republic about Diane Ravitch's apostasy of the education reform movement, much of it fair and on point.

A prime accomplishment of the education reform movement, the system — or versions of it — has been adopted in most states.

In Commentary, Sohrab Ahmari makes the case that Teach for America, once a leading light of the education reform movement, has now «transformed itself into an arm of the progressive movement» and «functions as a platform for radical identity politics.»

The reality is that more was accomplished in the first nine years of the education reform movement than in the past 16.

I think it does a decent job of capturing, at least at a very general level, what John will be most known for in the decades ahead as people reflect on the history of the education reform movement and its prime movers.

Charter schools are the darling of the education reform movement — Governor Mitch Daniels and many state lawmakers champion charters as one solution to increase «educational opportunities.»

In this role, she focused on the business and strategy side of the education reform movement.

«Our organizations are dedicated to closing the financing gap so that educators can close the achievement the gap, and we'll now be able to serve a previously underserved segment of the education reform movement — rural charter schools,» said BH's Mark Medema.

It is quickly becoming one of the defining issues of the education reform movement.

Rather, crushing teacher's unions — the real meaning behind Kopp's «flexibility» euphemism — has become the ultimate end of the education reform movement.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

School vouchers and related efforts like tax credits, scholarship grants, and education savings accounts, have become popular tools of the education reform movement's agenda during the past few decades.

A fervent supporter of flexibility and innovation in education, Allen has been at the forefront of the education reform movement since founding CER in 1993.

Putting so much emphasis on standardized testing as a way to evaluate teachers coincided with a cheating epidemic, which ensnared some of the education reform movement's brightest stars.

«CSUSA has been on the frontlines of the education reform movement for 17 years and releasing this information today gives parents and communities another resource when choosing the pathway for their child.»

Although Brill, by the end of Class Warfare, comes to recognize the limits of the education reform movement he so admires, he somehow maintains his commitment to the idea that teachers can completely overcome poverty.

«I am thankful for the opportunity to have worked with DFER, but believe that it is time to move past party politics and focus my skills and organizing with parents who form the true base of any education reform movement,» she said in a statement.

But long before that, it was the story of the education reform movement.

Campbell Brown, Editor - in - Chief of The Seventy Four, recently interviewed Dr. Howard Fuller on the state of the education reform movement in New Orleans and nationally.

Parents are slowly learning about one of the most disturbing and, quite frankly, scary elements of the education reform movement....

As marketing executive and spokesman for Apple Computer, he was on the cutting edge of the education reform movement.

Or is it geared toward a different audience: the powerful funders of the education reform movement?

Still, Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children's Zone and a prominent face of the education reform movement, lauded the measures.

With the charter movement facing a time of great change, the urgency of the education reform movement's work was felt throughout the weekend's events.

Duncan, who stands at a lean 6» 5», defined himself early in his tenure as a persistent yet compromising free - marketer, part of an education reform movement that stresses the use of data and competition to improve schools — a departure from traditional Democratic education policy, which unquestionably supported teachers unions.

He said it was the moral obligation of the education reform movement to stand up to the status quo and save the lives of these children, many of whom could be doomed to a life of crime and poverty without a good education.

Not exact matches

The Indian National Congress has also been formed as the political expression of the awakening of the people under the leadership of the class with western - oriented education; and linked to the politics of nationalism was also movements of social reform of family relations and caste structures on the basis of personal liberty and social equality.

Alcoholics Anonymous, drug rehabilitation centers, coalitions for social and political reforms, therapy clusters, the adult education movement — these and other activities provide opportunities for people to «get involved,» without the benefit of clergy.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

Certainly those forces included the Crusades, the rise of nationalism, the broadening of opportunities for education, various political reform movements, the rise of democracy, the Reformation, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of humanism and the birth of a new interest in the natural sciences.

They became centers for the reform movements of the frontier, they poured men into the ministry, and they brought education to the west.

You've written in the New York Times Magazine about the education - reform movement — organizations like Teach for America and the KIPP network of charter schools.

Cuomo «has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform,» write Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleischer.

McInerney is also a supporter of the charter schools movement and has donated $ 575,000 to New Yorkers for Independent Action, an education reform group pushing for a state tax credit for individuals who donate to charter or religious schools.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Anti-reformers have trotted out the hoariest bugbear in New York politics — the evil of Wall Street — and constructed a hilarious lie: that the education reform movement is actually camouflage for a hostile takeover of the city's public schools.

Marcellino's introduction of these bills could give those in the education reform movement some pause: Flanagan, as education committee chairman, was seen as generally supportive of Common Core - based standards.

Loeb is a prominent backer of charter schools and the education reform movement, which the governor has embraced, much to the chagrin of public teachers unions and their allies in public education advocacy organizations.

Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over education reform.

Johnson is married to Michelle Rhee, a leader of the national education reform movement.

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.

The Facebook post was eventually sent to members of Families for Excellent Schools» board by several people involved in the education reform movement.

Cuomo has been a vigorous advocate of the education «reform» movement, a collection of hedge fund funded charlatans that are looking to siphon as much public money as possible from public education under the guise of «disrupting» education as we know it.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Though Cuomo and de Blasio are both Democrats, they have differing philosophies on education, with Cuomo supporting the so - called education reform movement and supporting the expansion of charter schools.

At the same time, ed reform advocacy, which at its conception concerned itself with the education offered to all of America's children, evolved into a majority - owned subsidiary of the charter school movement.

An independent, ad hoc group of 27 educators, policymakers, and scholars released a manifesto last week intended to sustain and redirect the education - reform movement.