Sentences with phrase «of federal education reform»

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

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Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

Should the federal government continue to abdicate leadership in key policy issues of health care, pension reform, Aboriginal issues, education and research, and modernizing Canada's infrastructure?

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 eEducation sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educationeducation.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin Senate passed a series of education reform bills Thursday designed to make the state compete for nearly $ 4.5 billion in federal stimulus money.

He advocates a smaller government, health insurance reform, the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from overseas, the end of the federal government's role in education and gun rights.

Clinton urged Silver's Assembly to «absolutely» pass a Senate bill that would more than double the cap to 460 from 200 — and «not just because of the federal funding» (the up to $ 700 million that New York could win in a competition for states that enact education reforms).

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Rich donors tend to be more supportive of market - oriented reforms, such as charter schools and merit pay for teachers, but are less supportive of paying more taxes for early childhood education and federal spending to improve schools.

«We need to get away from all the paperwork required under No Child Left Behind [President George W. Bush's signature reforms of elementary and secondary education, which many Republicans now view as a failure and an intrusion of federal authority into state - run education systems].»

A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Education and Science and together with the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations issued a reform road map, which, in the opinion of many researchers, brings the process to a new and very dangerous stage.

This week, the German Bundestag's Commission on Education, Research and Technology Risk Assessment held a hearing on the federal government's planned reform of the German University Act (Hochschulrahmengesetz).

Federal investments in scientific research and higher education programs have been curtailed as discretionary spending caps have been imposed in the absence of significant reforms to mandatory spending programs and taxation.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

But one lesson of the 1994 reforms is that without enforcement states will simply ignore or delay parts of federal education laws they don't like.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

The Federal Government's Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers released last month has been hailed a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher eEducation Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers released last month has been hailed a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher educationeducation.

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne released the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers earlier this month as a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher eEducation Minister Christopher Pyne released the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers earlier this month as a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher eEducation Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers earlier this month as a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher educationeducation.

The Federal Government's Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers released earlier this year was hailed a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher eEducation Ministerial Advisory Group report Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers released earlier this year was hailed a blueprint for «critical and lasting reform» of teacher educationeducation.

During a visit to Tasmania Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Federal Government is considering funding the final two years of Gonski education reforms.

Less than half of California school districts and only about a quarter of teacher unions have promised to make key education reforms required for the state to win $ 700 million in competitive federal grants, officials said Wednesday.

To be sure, mistakes were made: Not understanding the limitations or unintended consequences of federal leadership on education; a disastrous, ill - timed excursion into teacher evaluation reform; a technocratic impulse that was insufficiently sensitive to parents» concerns about issues like student privacy; and on and on.

Findings from the study of four districts that have undertaken systemic change were presented to the House Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the federal role in systemic reform.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

Across the board at the federal, state, and district level the role of partnerships between home and school is becoming a more important factor in education reform and student achievement, Mapp said.

Successive reauthorizations of ESEA have revealed the need for federal accountability to incentivize states and localities to enact K — 12 education reforms.

In the pilot episode, Jay Greene, Professor of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and Joe Williams, Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform, discuss the role of the federal government in eEducation Reform at the University of Arkansas, and Joe Williams, Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform, discuss the role of the federal government in eEducation Reform, discuss the role of the federal government in educationeducation.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

Some have criticized Gov. Chris Gregoire's education reform proposal for lacking boldness, but she said the bill moving through the Legislature has everything necessary to prepare the state to apply for millions of new dollars from the federal government.

Influential education advocates have denounced the House and Senate proposals to reform the testing and accountability requirements of No Child Left Behind as a «retreat» from the expanded, post-NCLB federal role.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into long - term reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

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Follower's of Fordham's work know that for the better part of three years, we've been pushing an approach to federal education policy that we call «Reform Realism «-- a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in educReform Realism «-- a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in educreform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in education.

The federal government handed the reins of K — 12 education reform back to state and local leaders with the signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act in December 2015.

President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next adminiEducation Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next adminieducation, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next adminiEducation Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

The main goal of the group is to support the new national education policy in Pakistan by helping increase the capacity of the federal and provincial governments to implement reforms.

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.

Despite federal officials» emphasis on state and local reforms, the program at the heart of the Administration's education agenda has become a battleground in the war over the federal role in education.

The growing consensus on steps needed to reform elementary science education will not produce results without the «purposeful involvement» of the federal government, a forthcoming report contends.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Jennings, founder and former CEO of the Center on Education Policy, reflects on the history of the federal government's involvement with education reform, and discusses its most notable changes tEducation Policy, reflects on the history of the federal government's involvement with education reform, and discusses its most notable changes teducation reform, and discusses its most notable changes to policy.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.

We have five states that signed up to the National Education Reform agreement and just after the previous federal election the Abbot Government made a deal with the other states which really was a deal that meant that those states did not have the same level of accountability and transparency around the funding.

The partnership, founded a little over a year ago, is made up of 100 education and arts organizations, foundations, businesses, and government agencies that want to make sure the arts are not left out when districts and states craft reform plans under the federal Goals 2000 program.

On top of the daily challenges of education, which include standards - based reform, pressing state and federal mandates, and high stakes accountability, the Meridian educators were facing a year of unfamiliarity in leadership considering a newly - hired superintendent and an administration that is approximately one - third new.

Alarmed that some Chapter 1 practices are impeding early - childhood - education reforms, a group of early - childhood experts has called for changes in the way children are selected, tested, and taught in the federal remedial - education program.