Sentences with phrase «other education reform policies»

Whether he will weigh in on the issue that is most on the minds of many teachers and parents — the controversy over the Common Core and other education reform policies — is an open question.

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«The most pressing areas where government, business and other stakeholders can find common ground should include tax reform, infrastructure investment, education reform, more favorable trade agreements and a sensible immigration policy.»

As a visionary for New York's economy, she has created a leading voice for business on economic growth, corporate governance, tax policy, labor, manufacturing, campaign finance reform, value creation, and education, among other issues.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

* Both Senators have proposed legislation on a range of issues: Clinton addresses health, banking, foreign policy, energy, and education, among others; Obama addresses nuclear non-proliferation, energy, foreign policy, ethics reform, and education, among others.

Governor Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

Along with a range of education reforms, the Welsh Liberal Democrats secured a number of achievements in other policy areas.

They brought expertise in higher - education policy, research, counseling, and STEM education reform, among other topics.

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

During his stay in Singapore, Professor Reimers will give the prestigious annual CJ Koh Public Lecture and will participate in a series of seminars and dialogues with faculty at the NIE, meet with senior education policy makers and other stakeholders interested in education reform.

She is getting her Ph.D. in education policy, evaluation, and reform at Claremont Graduate University in California, where she's among a group of four undocumented students who support each other.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

A week catching up on education challenges and reforms in England made clear that the U.S. and its «mother country» continue to track — and copy and study and refine — each other's programs and policies, much as they have done at least since Margaret Thatcher's and Ronald Reagan's education teams realized how much they had in common.

But looking at followers does allow a few additional groups to make the list: Reform powerhouse StudentsFirst, the Washington Post's and the Los Angeles Times's education feeds *, and AIR's education policy center, among others.

A few weeks ago, I argued that policy change is not the only path to education reform, floated five other approaches for improving educational practice, and promised to flesh them out in future posts.

For instance, first - wave reforms were sometimes part of omnibus education bills that included other policy changes, such as increased spending on K — 12 education.

He served as the Director of MDRC's K - 12 Education Policy Area and specialized in the design and management of rigorous evaluations, including randomized controlled trials of educational and other social policy rePolicy Area and specialized in the design and management of rigorous evaluations, including randomized controlled trials of educational and other social policy repolicy reforms.

He is coauthor of Charter Schools in Action and numerous other works on education policy and reform.

In education reform, like other policy areas, analysts are busy trying to identify how to channel people's behavior in directions that we believe will improve their lives.

Based on my involvement in a half century of education policy, I doubt it — unless other reforms, described later, are adopted.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

Learn the facts about education reform policy and share your knowledge with others.

Michael Brickman is the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he is a commentator on education - reform issues and a regular contributor to the Flypaper blog and other publications.

PEJ utilizes a variety of legal actions to achieve its mission, including pursuing impact litigation, amicus brief filings, Freedom of Information Act requests, and other law - related avenues that seek to achieve meaningful reforms of education laws or policies that fail to prioritize students» rights.

The policy ideas put forth by these and other similar organizations have formed the basis for many of the education reforms that are in place today.

The agenda, which was unveiled at ASCD's 2009 Annual Conference, is designed to help the Association, its members, and other educators influence policy discussions and decisions regarding federal education legislation as well as reforms at the state and local levels.

For one, there remains a core group of influential reformers — including former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveEducation Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveeducation than any other policy decision in the past five decades.

Massell's (2008) analysis of education policy activity in the early 1990s, for example, suggested that, for many states, K — 12 education standards represented «a central framework guiding state education policy and practice» (2), as compared to other states where policy initiatives did not stem from any significant internal standards - based reform impetus.

«Through the work of hundreds of educators, policy makers, parents and other education stakeholders, Wisconsin developed a comprehensive education reform package,» Evers said.

The Texas Institute for Education Reform has a longer history and a smaller footprint, spearheaded by, among others, Houston businessman and former Texas Public Policy Foundation board memberJim Windham.

Educators can begin this process by becoming more involved with the education reform movement instead of simply complying with policies implemented by «others» (i.e., non-education professionals, politicians, and corporate interests).

In 1989, when the Chicago School Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others could not.

Also, many new players in the education field — hedge funds, foundations, and other external groups — are now engaging in direct lobbying of policy makers and are having an important impact on how policy makers may be developing new reforms.

It is time to stop fighting against each other over the smaller problems we can solve at the local level and take on the far more threatening problem — national education reform policy.

An NBPTS statement further describes an expansive dedication to the improvement of American education, including his two terms as president of the California State Board of Education; role as an educator in education and business administration; and countless other contributions related to school finance, curriculum politics, and intergovernmental relations and education reform education, including his two terms as president of the California State Board of Education; role as an educator in education and business administration; and countless other contributions related to school finance, curriculum politics, and intergovernmental relations and education reform Education; role as an educator in education and business administration; and countless other contributions related to school finance, curriculum politics, and intergovernmental relations and education reform education and business administration; and countless other contributions related to school finance, curriculum politics, and intergovernmental relations and education reform education reform policies.

That reference resonated with the other piece I read this weekend — the wonderful report by my heroes at the National Education Policy Center, «Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Action.»

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

Colorado's law and similar ones in other states appeared to be sound, research - backed policy formulated by education reform's own «whiz kids.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

To that end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others have been calling on governments to orchestrate, essentially, a repeat of 2009 fiscal stimulus programs — this time with a focus on big infrastructure projects that pave the way for growth in decades to come — alongside structural reforms to promote global trade, research and education and an overhaul of inefficient tax policies.

Other policy options could also be suggested, including: strengthening education level of farmers, facilitating cheap technologies, spurring irrigation investment through public - private partner, and supporting the land reform such as farmers» cooperation in large - scale production.