Sentences with phrase «past educational reform efforts»

«Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling - Hammond analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.»

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Assessment has been part of educational reform efforts for the past 40 years (Linn, 1998), initially serving as an indicator of reform or progress and more recently serving as a lever for reform.

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.