Sentences with phrase «of educational reform efforts»

And we are supporting the long - term sustainability of educational reform efforts across states and districts.

Assessment has been part of educational reform efforts for the past 40 years (Linn, 1998), initially serving as an indicator of reform or progress and more recently serving as a lever for reform.

These studies led educators and the public alike to question the effectiveness of educational reform efforts and of the assessments themselves (Linn, Grau, & Sanders, 1990).

More importantly, it has led to a significant reduction in the potential of educational reform efforts to actually enrich educational outcomes for all our children.

Not exact matches

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

Despite more than 20 years of intense reform efforts, there is still «an iron - law correlation between socioeconomic status and educational achievement and attainment.»

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

The stalled growth in educational achievement could be the result of diminishing returns on reform efforts, as Murray suggests.

With a new generation of reform - minded philanthropists targeting high - profile efforts that will influence educational politics and policy, the time is ripe for a project that targets methodological advances and improvements for cost modeling strategies.

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

Rincón - Gallardo points to reform efforts like high - stakes accountability and testing as examples of bad educational change...

After almost a quarter century of leading the fight for expanded educational opportunities for all students, the Center for Education Reform will refocus is efforts on coalescing all involved around the principles in this Manifesto.

«Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling - Hammond analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.»

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping educational reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

Despite the overwhelming evidence that school choice works, opponents of parental choice have increasingly stepped up their efforts to defeat these common - sense educational reform measures.

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Hence, while it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability, hopefully some states can at least begin to lead the way to what will likely yield the educational reform... still desired...

As I wrote into a recent post: ``... it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former [teacher evaluation reform policies and] efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability.»

Cameron joined Education Pioneers to expand his leadership skills and gain further knowledge around the conception and implementation of reform efforts at educational organizations.

This process can only begin with complete candor about the current status of public education in Texas, the progress of our reform efforts to date, the prognosis for achieving the essential universal educational proficiency of our children, and the daunting challenges that we face in doing so.

Through our global programs, we investigate and support the effective integration of ICT in diverse settings to support international educational reform efforts.

While there, I represented the district on education reform efforts undertaken by the superintendent, such as changing educational programs and implementation of reforms at the school.

Although there is a need for leader - teachers who share the racial and economic backgrounds of their students, we believe that at - scale reform will take a concerted and sustained effort from an entire community of individuals — representing all ethnicities and background — committed to eliminating educational inequity.

Decades of research and reform efforts in K - 12 and higher education have yielded one area of near - universal agreement: exceptional educational institutions have excellent leaders.

The DLLF seeks to address the questions and issues of educational inequity, by bringing together education leaders and providing them with learning and networking opportunities to help them lead reform efforts in their local systems and around the country.

The impetus this time was the famous A Nation at Risk report, which framed the educational problem in dire economic terms and launched an avalanche of state - level efforts at reform.

In response to Polis» ringing endorsement of the failed policies of the education reform industry, Michelle Rhee, the Patron Saint of the effort to privatize public education said, «I am honored to stand with the New Democrats as we seek to build a better educational system for America's children.»

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is a nonprofit organization that strives to advance the quality of teaching and learning by developing professional standards for accomplished teaching and integrating Board - certifed teachers into educational reform efforts.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

Closing the achievement gap has been one of the important efforts of educational reform (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).

As the United States searches for educational reforms that will revitalize our nation's schools, it is imperative that teacher preparation programs occupy the forefront of reform efforts.

Therefore, instead of pouring in hours and millions of dollars into efforts to tweak and reform the educational and student loan system, the government should be taking its cue from Memphis.

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.

In addition to parallel legal education systems and outdated curricula, lack of educational materials, research centers, legal clinics, and a dearth of qualified professors have held back efforts of legal education reform in Afghanistan, which, if addressed, could significantly improve the justice sector.