Sentences with phrase «of reform efforts»

In many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schools.

As part of that reform effort, four executive orders have been signed.

It concludes that careful implementation of reform efforts are important to ensure that financial stability benefits are realized.

After decades of reform efforts, have any of the players in education really gotten what they want?

In preparing teacher leaders, experienced practitioners noted the importance of developing knowledge and skills that are aligned with the focus and goals of the reform effort they will help lead.

To avoid educational insanity, we need to recognize how circumstances have changed and embrace a diverse array of reform efforts suited to the twenty - first century.

First, relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, with opt - out less common in the disadvantaged districts that are often the target of reform efforts.

Each of the 12 contractors, whose awards range from more than $ 600,000 to just over $ 700,000, will study a different category of reform effort.

The bonus pay is part of a series of reform efforts for the priority schools.

In the wake of reform efforts, however, many problems remain.

They now have a record of success that assures continuation and expansion of the reform efforts.

Their technical assistance and financial analysis helped solve tough problems that often stand in the way of reform efforts.

Will a district and a city accustomed to being at the cutting edge of education reform sit out this latest wave of reform efforts?

The tragic irony of these reform efforts is based on a 19th century mindset that is intended to prepare students for success in the 21st century!

The reports sit until the next round of reform efforts which takes the same approach.

The article's reminder about testing and iteration reminds me of the need to involve the public in all stages of reform efforts, including design.

That must be the focus of all reform efforts.

The move reflected Schmoke's frustration with five unfruitful years of reform efforts.

The politics on the Democratic side are complicated by the party's relationship with teachers» unions, but many Democrats have also embraced some forms of school choice as part of reform efforts aimed at reducing educational inequality.

The warning, those sources say, is due in large part to opposition from a diverse array of interests who were not fully supportive of the reform efforts: trial attorneys, the biotech industry, and pharmaceutical companies.

tells a gripping, and mostly depressing, tale of the reform efforts in woebegone Newark, complete with some of the most colorful characters in American public life today.

I think Mr. Zimmer, on a regular basis, has been on the other end of the reform efforts that we've engaged in.

I spent the next seven years pressing for reform from the outside — most of my reform efforts were aimed at getting a curriculum, stopping the disproportionate disciplining of African - American students, and the over-identification of special ed students (almost a quarter of the student body).

The Priority Schools Campaign is integral to putting educators at the forefront of reform efforts.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

Though entirely accidental, this timing gave me plenty to write about; soon I was regularly publishing impassioned posts for my tiny - but - growing readership in support of these reform efforts.

In particular, the concentration of reform efforts on the revenue side allowed the government to make visible improvements at the top while leaving the expenditure side essentially unreformed and indeed shifting much patronage downwards.

Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group is a veteran of the fits and starts of reform efforts in New York.

Yet some critics believe the agency remains inhospitable to employees who discuss its problems, and that an initial flurry of reform efforts by the Cuomo administration has stalled.

Krane said the most encouraging example of reform efforts is that of Iran, the first country in the world to replace major subsidies with a universal cash transfer program for households.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

In a new article for Education Next, Joanne Jacobs looks at one of these reform efforts from a different angle.

Federal Education Laws Miss the Mark on Poverty Worcester Telegram, 12/11/15 «One of the things we should have learned from looking at the results of our reform efforts is that schools alone, as currently constituted, are not sufficiently strong interventions to prepare all students to be successful at the highest levels.»

Still, that's pretty thin gruel; the classroom remains a black box — something that's true for all manner of reform efforts.

This change allows director Daniel Barnz — who describes himself as «extremely pro-union» — to place teachers at the center of the reform effort.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

So I hope I will be forgiven, although I'm certain I will not be, for wanting the full force of reform efforts to focus on what happens inside of schools and classrooms.

Opt - out activists have correctly identified test data as the mother's milk of reform efforts.

Once again despite highly publicized efforts to reform American math education (some might say because of the reform efforts) over the past two decades, the United States did little better than average (see Figure 1).