Sentences with phrase «of educational bureaucracy»

Cope and Kalantiz (2009) wrote, «There's a deadening institutional inertia in schools and their disciplines, in the heritage physical architecture of school buildings and the institutional architecture of educational bureaucracy» (p. 16).
Further, some states appear to do just fine without relying on this extra layer of educational bureaucracy.
Every layer of educational bureaucracy should infuse students as well, positioning in them in powerful roles that effect not only individual students, but all students; not as recipients, but as active partners who design, implement, critically assess, and make substantive decisions about the education system as a whole.
After independence, the Indian government left much of the educational bureaucracy in place, including, some critics say, the cultural prejudices that went with it.

Not exact matches

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).
As I noted above, the first day of kindergarten is an important marker for our educational bureaucracies — that's the day, in most states, when «early childhood» officially comes to an end and the public becomes legally responsible for every child's education and skill development.
Certainly, proposals around free school meal charging, provisions for pupils with special educational needs, school based counselling and the reduction of bureaucracy, are all positive steps forward.
He's right that the power of the unions has produced a crazily expensive system long on bureaucracy and short on educational results.
Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.
Excerpt: «Reforming the Common Core, increasing aid to local schools, and making sure that educational funding goes to the classroom and benefits our students, rather than being squandered on additional layers of unnecessary government bureaucracy
In graduate school, I spent a lot of time thinking about educational politics, policy, and bureaucracy.
Ayers supports smaller schools that would be more sensitive to the strengths and weaknesses of local communities, believing they offer the best prospect for addressing «the inequitable distribution of educational resources» and «the capacity of a range of self - interested bureaucracies to work against the common good.»
The right philosophically believes students deserve to be freed from educational bureaucracy, just as the left philosophically opposes subjecting school administrators or teachers to any kind of competitive pressure.
Some of the most important foundational principles of edupreneurship include paying close attention to your students» wishes and desires, rewarding them appropriately, minimizing unneeded bureaucracy and administration from the educational system, as well as having a strong desire to succeed, an entrepreneurial mindset and a viable business model, which are 3 things most professionals say are probably the most vital when it comes to edupreneurship.
I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.
Creating choices to the established educational bureaucracy will raise the level of proficiency for students in all schools, not create a risky situation as some imply.
The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.
A bureaucracy can not be as knowledgeable or as fierce an advocate as a parent who must face the consequences of their educational choices daily.
Reform legislation pushed through the state's legislature by Gov. Bobby Jindal promises to remake Louisiana's educational system, freeing schools from the chains of bureaucracy, corruption, and union dominance.
As a city we have lost focus on finding the right educational environment for each child and instead have focused on the bureaucracy of a school system that does not serve the needs of every family.
The interests of politics, the power of bureaucracies, and the lobbying of the educational industrial complex prevail.
She closes her book by suggesting that school districts with sclerotic bureaucracies and inflexible collective - bargaining agreements are inherently incapable of educational excellence for low - income children.
As a rule of thumb, either an original or an original certication of a copy of educational transcripts, birth certificates, death certificates, transcripts of court proceedings, certificates of good standing for a business, and government licenses are often required by government bureaucracies, business bureaucracies, and courts.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z