Sentences with phrase «over education bureaucrats»

But they also favored regulations that, in their view, would ensure low - income families had real power over education bureaucrats and real access to new education environments.

Not exact matches

TOKYO — Japan's Ministry of Education is taking its grant - selection process out of the hands of bureaucrats and turning it over to researchers.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

The director fretted over CLOUD because he is well aware that when government bureaucrats desire more of a particular behavior or good, for instance education and research laboratories, then they fund it massively, and waive taxes, fees, and regulations.