Sentences with phrase «old as a reformer»

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That can help him secure a legacy as a reformer, if he handles China's influence adroitly and meets old pledges to cut the role of the state.

The Protestant Reformers, it is true, discovered the worst idolatries of all within the Catholic Church, much as the prophets of old accused the children of Israel of whoring after other, pagan gods; but they did not doubt that Christianity alone worshiped the true God without taint of idolatry.

Governor Cuomo will do the right thing and send a message to Speaker Silver that it's time to go as Speaker, because if he doesn't the same old stink is back in Albany, NY, and that really will hurt Cuomo's image as a real reformer, and he can't afford that if he wants to be President

I also spoke to Richard Gottfried, who was elected to represent Chelsea and Midtown as a 23 - year - old reformer, 42 years ago.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, a reformer hand - picked by former LAPD Chief William Bratton, is seen as an innovator and also someone respected by the old guard.

What would the social - emotional environment of middle schools look like if school leaders, teachers, and reformers listened to 11 - year - olds as they looked at the nature of their schools and classrooms?

Will it be the smart and righteous reformers, as they imagine themselves, or the stupid and self - interested old establishment, as they imagine the unions and their allies?

It's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on test - driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public school system is apt to yield more backlash than accomplishment

The city's Old World persona has frustrated the reformer at least as much as it has intrigued the tourist.

Among other things, he wrote, «It's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on test - driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public - school system is apt to yield more backlash than accomplishment.»

As one put it, school reformers who hoped to receive NASDC grants had to «cast aside their old notions about schooling — to start with a clean sheet of paper, and be bold and creative in their thinking, and to give us ideas that address comprehensive, systemic change for all students for whole schools.»

Just as I reached the conclusion that urban districts can't be fixed and, therefore, we need to create a new delivery system for public education in America's cities, a large and growing number of reformers interested in teacher preparation believe that we can't trust the old system to change adequately and that, instead, we need to create new pathways into the profession.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

He is a popular Republican in a Democratic city, a 39 - year - old Harvard - educated bond salesman turned politician with a reputation as an urban reformer.

The evil corporate education reformers target yet another local elementary school for closure and takeover through a bizarre scheme that would have allowed a public school principal to resign his position as a public servant, become president of his own private company and then take over control of both his old school and the new school.

A gossipy playground battle of turf rights and hearsay is finally receiving the careful legal treatment it needs, while the California Board of Education mulls the Parent Trigger regulations (meanwhile extending the old ones, another Parent Revolution victory) and reformers around the nation use it as a guiding light.

As far as the corporate education reformers are concerned, the end justifies the means and if the cost of getting what you want requires destroying our nation's age - old commitment to local control of education, so be iAs far as the corporate education reformers are concerned, the end justifies the means and if the cost of getting what you want requires destroying our nation's age - old commitment to local control of education, so be ias the corporate education reformers are concerned, the end justifies the means and if the cost of getting what you want requires destroying our nation's age - old commitment to local control of education, so be it.

Although decent responses exist for every one of these concerns, as do sundry ways of curbing their excesses, it's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on test - driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public - school system is apt to yield more backlash than accomplishment.

Reformers would also do well to learn from the NEA and AFT, and provide financial support to new and emerging organizations — as well as old - school groups — to which a younger generation of black professionals now raising families belong.

One reason for this holding was the fact that the old law was, as Justice MacDonnell put it, «the subject of uniformly withering criticism from law reformers, academics and all levels of the Canadian judiciary for more than 30 years» (par.