Sentences with phrase «prominent public voice»

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.

Karen Pryor was largely responsible for introducing clicker training to the dog world in the 1990s, and remains one of the most prominent public voices in the field.

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Since winning a Minnesota Senate seat in 1992, the teacher - turned - legislator has become a prominent advocate for equitable school funding and a leading voice for improving public schools.

The appointees, each an expert and prominent voice in the field, included current and former education officials from all levels of government, academic and policy researchers, civil rights leaders, the presidents of the national teachers» unions, education policy advocates and associations, and public interest lawyers.