Sentences with phrase «own education reform efforts»

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

Hertog, a retired asset manager and current philanthropist, is the sixth wealthy individual who made this list by giving to education reform efforts.

The effort to release questions won praise from business leaders who have been supportive of education reform efforts.

ALBANY — The two long - serving members of the state Board of Regents ousted by lawmakers on Tuesday were brave soldiers for the Common Core standards and other recent education reform efforts, board chancellor Merryl Tisch said.

The call for changing New York's education reform effort is growing louder.

The nine - person board has a voice on policy matters, can nix or approve big contracts and budgets, and generally helps steer the direction of Hartford's long - running education reform efforts.

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

The findings are titled «At The Educational Crossroads — A Report On Education Reform Efforts In NYS.»

Overall, nine people serve on the volunteer panel that has a voice on school policy, district leadership and the direction of Hartford's education reform efforts.

If you are ready to work at the forefront of education reform efforts worldwide, we encourage you to apply to IEP.

20 National Center on Increasing the Effectiveness of State and Local Education Reform Efforts - University of Pennsylvania

P.E. 4Life's Flannery says her organization has mobilized support for the program and advocates that a review of physical education standards be part of overall national education reform efforts.

-- Education reform efforts seem to be paying dividends across the United States.

«It's incredibly important to use data to drive education reform efforts,» said Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

Education Redesign: Building a New Model for All Date TBD $ 149 per person Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab, explore why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a new education system.

Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville at the Education Redesign Lab, the workshop explores why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a «new engine» to drive better outcomes for all.

Governor Patrick has begun that work in Massachusetts and I believe the students will be better served by acknowledging where the state needs to improve its education reform efforts than by simply declaring victory based on past success.

Nsf officials characterized the project as «perhaps the most far - reaching science - education reform effort in the U.S. since the Sputnik era of the 1950's.»

Without imparting on our students a sense of their civic duties, and the knowledge required to carry them out, I worry that all our education reform efforts will be for naught.

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

Results from the first independent evaluation using student - level data of Newark's education reform efforts

Despite years of education reform efforts, many urban public schools are falling short, unable to raise student achievement.

The second reason is that most modern education reform efforts are focused on «closing the achievement gap.»

A series of failed education reform efforts over the past 50 years seemed to confirm that conclusion.

There is another parallel to the 1993 education reform effort: In both cases, it was an outside force that put pressure on elected officials to take action.

Charter schools have been traditionally been seen as an education reform effort championed by conservatives.

Most education reform efforts focus on what teachers are doing — professional development, new curricula, bonuses and incentives to raise scores, and so on.

Their expertise is trying to persuade legislators to support Governor Malloy's education reform efforts.

Participants identified eight education reform efforts affecting services to highly capable students.

By using these five key strategies, a healthy relationship with the different education reform efforts becomes possible.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

Donors have given generously to education reform efforts in Indianapolis, and their contributions are making a tremendous impact on improving student results.

That requirement is a cornerstone of Obama's education reform efforts and has set off a rush to change the laws before time runs out on the funds.

Developing a successful relationship between education reform efforts and gifted education is linked to five key strategies:

Attacks on collective bargaining and the role of the union, the nation's changing demographics, education reform efforts, and an explosion in the use of education technology and online learning have radically changed the role of educators and the system of educating our nation's students.

Very helpful in understanding the challenges facing modern education reform efforts.

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

Many of the most prominent and influential education reform efforts would be hurt by proposed AmeriCorps cuts.

The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

For schools and districts across the U.S., family engagement is becoming an integral part of education reform efforts.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) is the most comprehensive, state - of - the - art education reform effort at the secondary level to date.

Prior to joining ICEF in 2004, Ravare worked for Los Angeles Unified School District Board member Genethia Hudley - Hayes and was a facilitator with LEARN, a district - wide education reform effort.

«Teacher effectiveness is critical to the success of education reform efforts,» said Cynthia Brown, Vice President for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

-- but it also shifts the deck to create a more conciliatory education reform effort in Texas.

In 2014, Ohio undertook a major education reform effort to transform the way that students in the state receive high school education.