Unfortunately, the ultimate joke is on all the citizens of this country who rely on a strong
public education system as a centerpiece of a thriving democracy.
With the considerable amount of research documenting the negative impact of «summers off», one may wonder why the
American public education system embraced summer vacation.
We base our findings on the analysis of six excellent examples of how teachers and their unions have been critical to
improving public education systems in collaboration with administration.
These organizations seek solutions outside of our
current public education system creating the illusion that transformational change can not occur within the system.
If we were really serious about creating a
successful public education system then we would try to build on what is known to succeed rather than what we already know that failed.
We all need to do a better job working with the business community so that they might support a more
effective public education system that directly benefits them and the rest of us.
We are an independent policy and advocacy organization that works toward a
healthy public education system that prepares students to achieve success in college, career and civic life.
Changing existing systems is incredibly difficult; because states are building universal preschool systems from the ground up, there is more space for innovative thinking than in the
established public education system.
If vouchers eventually receive court approval, their impact will depend on how many parents choose to exercise choice and how the traditional
public education system responds to the competition.
The question is, do the American people want those leaders trained by outside sources or developed within our
own public education system?
How might your district / state build public support for a world -
class public education system that embraces excellence, equity, and a global and future orientation?
I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators across the nation to find more ways to work together, and with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own school but transform
public education system for your city or state as a whole.
Some advocates and policy analysts said that Mr. Klein was a transformative force, turning the city's
public education system into something that people who had given up on it could believe in again.
In recent years, reformers have sought to improve our failing
public education system by tightening and standardizing the measures we use to judge performance.
Caputo - Pearl and other teacher union leaders, local and national, have fought against the rise of charter schools, asserting that they undermine public education by draining financial support
from public education systems and creating an educational caste system that favors some demographic groups over others.
The project will invest $ 100 million into 10 new or newly expanding schools that are rethinking how schools should operate, with the ultimate goal of inspiring changes to how the
U.S. public education system as a whole teaches high school students.
The charter movement has focused on a few localities, hoping to build exemplars of completely
transformed public education systems where districts have either gone out of business or completely embraced chartering.
«Democrats believe that we must expand opportunities with a vibrant
public education system which truly leaves no child behind,» Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader, said at the June 14 event.
After greatly increasing desegregation of public schools a generation ago, the United
States public education system is now steadily consolidating a trend toward racial resegregation that began in the late 1980s, according to a new study by The Civil Rights Project and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
And there could be a bonus: The process of bringing diverse organizations together to serve our kids could help create the civility and the collaboration Oklahoma's
public education system needs today.
As the subtitle of this book suggests, the papers in this scholarly volume are less about the act of choosing a school than about the ways the private sector has worked in partnership
with public education systems to enlarge and enliven the landscape of schools that can be chosen.
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