Sentences with phrase «of status quo»

Self - described progressives like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (though I really have trouble with that designation; progressives want to change things and, at least when it comes to schools, the Mayor comes down strongly on the side of status quo) are staunchly against them.

«All learning organizations,» write DuFour and Eaker (1998), «are driven by persistent questioning of the status quo....

Utah's public schools need an investment of the best ideas, creativity, ingenuity, and the most thought - provoking questions of the status quo to ensure our education system meets every student's unique needs.

To DeVos, those who support public schools are «supporters of the status quo.»

Unfortunately for Van Roekel and other staunch defenders of the status quo, it is now 2013 and the old data are no longer accurate.

The joke here is that both Casey and the Klonsky brothers come from Marxist backgrounds but really are, when it comes to education reform, not progressives but reactionaries — fervently protective of the status quo — blindly pro-union, claiming that more money will solve our education woes, all the while fighting against every meaningful way of improving the system.

brothers come from Marxist backgrounds but really are, when it comes to education reform, not progressives but reactionaries — fervently protective of the status quo — blindly pro-union, claiming that more money will solve our education woes, all the while fighting against every meaningful way of improving the system.

Principals are making all of their evaluation decisions — whether for staff development or for dismissal — in the context of the status quo teacher supply.

The forces of the status quo can keep playing games with stall tactics and delays, but we won't let them run out the clock on our kids.

But in Sacramento he has been a defender of the status quo.

This article effectively communicated the perpetuation of the status quo in the practice of education.

As states and districts look to turn around their own failing schools, creating an RSD - like vehicle would give them a powerful way to free a troubled school from the shackles of the status quo.

People value stability and the security of the status quo.

... It's not the cultural capital of the status quo, which we here all have acquired.»

Tell deliberate lies: Ridicule public education advocates as «defenders of the status quo» who want money thrown at stale ideas, even though those ideas are backed by solid evidence.

It's clear that opposition to charter schools, and the support of the status quo, have financial repercussions that will cost this state dearly.

However, its makeup was lopsided in favor of the status quo: leadership from school boards, administrators and teacher unions.

It is also the case that Newark is hardly a slouch when it comes to charter expansion — a point often forgotten by charter advocates, who have been nearly as tough on Superintendent Anderson as the defenders of the status quo.

And there is the final defense of the status quo: «Surely reform would cost money, and we do not have it.»

If you do, you become a protector of the status quo.

These developments have created an opportunity for the defenders of the status quo in education.

Instead, the Compton parents were thrust into a prolonged fight with supporters of the status quo: the Compton Unified School District, the teachers» unions, Gov. Jerry Brown and Tom Torlakson, the newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction.

None of the contributors are, as far as one can see from their affiliations, representatives of unionized public school teachers and administrators, but what they have written is in full support of the status quo: they seem to prefer it to any alternate proposals.

Unfortunately, the forces of the status quo are still working overtime.

To learn more about how educational choice benefits students — and how defenders of the status quo are attempting to use the courts to deprive families of that choice — watch the Cato Institute's short documentary, «Live Free and Learn»:

In their glib self - confidence, the champions of that effort have refused to confront its costs and unintended consequences, and have been far too quick to silence skeptics by branding them blind defenders of the status quo (if not calling them outright racists).

For that reason alone, it's likely to be resisted by defenders of the status quo, even though it's necessary and right for our kids.

They amount to a big financial inequity whose consequences union leaders and defenders of the status quo try to minimize.

To provide schooling for everyone's children that reflects liberal, middle - class values and aspirations is to ensure the maintenance of the status quo, to ensure that power, the culture of power, remains in the hands of those who already have it.

The authors praise the work of Massachusetts students in citing the recent results on TIMSS, pointing to this exceptional performance as an illustration of the influence of status quo reforms while later falsely condemning students» MCAS results to suggest a downward slide in performance.

Full - fledged opposition would have put them on the wrong side and pegged them as self - interested defenders of the status quo.

«There's a wonderful quote from Machiavelli,» says Cerf, «where he says, basically, that the defenders of the status quo always have a much easier job than those who are trying to change it.

It was a stirring rejection of the status quo — and a soaring affirmation of the right to be heard, the right to strive, and the right of all children to know their potential.

Instead, he insists on experimentation and sharing of best practices with an understanding that the languid pace of status quo reform efforts won't do.

By openly acknowledging the shortcomings of public schools and embracing innovation, he became a much more credible and effective voice for public education than the NEA or other defenders of the status quo.

Any proposal to take on those aspects of the status quo — to extend national testing, for example, and strongly push it on states — would meet fierce opposition.

Their support has helped sustain NCLB through attacks by defenders of the status quo.

Cullinane adds, «I'm not sure anybody has the stomach for this... innovation swims upstream in the river of status quo.»

Defenders of the status quo in education routinely label certain proposed reforms — including tax credits, voucher programs, for - profit education management organizations (or EMOs), and charter schooling — as «anti-public education,» often to great effect.

Effective decision - making at all levels depends on a good understanding of the status quo, which may include an understanding of how different groups of students are performing or how student performances compare with performances in other places.

«Given the vicious, and I use that word deliberately, tactics often employed by defenders of the status quo, reformers need to have absolutely extraordinary levels of stamina, patience, thick skin, and a willingness to do battle in dirty, muddy trenches every day.

Depends, I think, on your view of the status quo and the risks you are willing to take to see it altered.

The «parallel system» approach to chartering's future rests on two mistaken assumptions: first, that by simply creating new schools and not purposely antagonizing the traditional system, chartering wouldn't attract the ire of defenders of the status quo; and second, that if chartering proved successful and popular, the sky was the limit on growth.

Indeed, breaking the norms and rules of the status quo to achieve support - winning early victories is what successful turnaround leaders do.

We define these change agents — practitioners, policymakers, civic leaders, researchers, and investors — by their constructive dissatisfaction with the magnitude of the impacts of current best practices, their positioning within their field, and their determination to overcome the inertia of the status quo.

Defenders of the status quo are able to effectively attack certain reforms as «anti-public education» because Americans believe that the public has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that all children receive an adequate education... The divisions emerge when we consider how to act upon these shared purposes.

For example, bell schedules, grading policies, academic department structures, fixed sense of course scope and sequence, and familiarity with whole - group instruction may all be exerting the tug of status quo bias.

We need to do a lot more reflecting about what exactly the «tired wares» of the status quo really are.

And to be sure, the organized interests of the status quo — particularly the powerful teachers unions — will always find a way to get their message out to core audiences.

No devotee of the status quo, Merrow rightly reveres E. D. Hirsch and wants more schools to adopt a knowledge - rich curriculum.