Sentences with phrase «prominent education reform leaders»

A candid discussion between three prominent education reform leaders on what they see as problems within the movement, and what needs to change to sustain it.

Growing up in Jamaica, Queens, I never dreamed that one day I'd be sitting on a panel inside the New York State Capitol building, alongside some of the most prominent education reform leaders in the country.

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Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

Her well - publicized efforts at Success have earned her a profile on a par with some of New York's most prominent elected officials, and have effectively made her a national leader on education reform.