Sentences with phrase «quality reform efforts»

After all, the AFT (along with the NEA) have lost influence because accountability, choice, and teacher quality reform efforts continue to shine light on the failed policies and practices they defend.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

This time around, Kline's proposal resembles the teacher quality reform efforts being advanced by the Obama Administration through the sensible Race to the Top grant competition and the counterproductive No Child waiver gambit.

Not exact matches

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If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

The past thirty years have seen many ambitious reform efforts worldwide to cut the costs of government and to improve its quality.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

It argues that while members of the reform community continue to advance district and charter efforts, they should also support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

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.

Scattered efforts - sometimes called «random acts of innovation» - have begun to coalesce into a systemic connection between the everyday practices of labor relations and a quality school - reform agenda.

The release in January of the Teaching Commission's report, «Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action,» presents us with an opportunity to reconsider the importance of teacher quality as a critical variable in the current effort to implement standards - based reform and high - stakes accountability.

«It is hard to get these people hired,» says John Ayers, executive director of Leadership for Quality Education, a Chicago education reform group that has worked with New Leaders and supports its efforts.

But the AIR report also cautioned that making Singapore Math work in the United States «will require the same sustained commitment to developing a quality mathematics system that Singapore gave to its reform efforts.»

The text - based chat followed the release last month of Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform, the 10th annual Education Week report on state policy efforts for improving education (Jan. 5, 2006).

Making high - quality books and professional development available to schools — including but not limited to Core Knowledge Language Arts — could transform America's elementary schools, and without the controversy that follows most of today's reform efforts.

Second, TNTP does not view policy reform efforts as separate from the daily work of recruiting, training, and hiring high - quality teachers, but rather as an integral part of it.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

Indeed, improving the quality of teachers has been a core strategy for school improvement in the New York City (NYC) reform effort.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

The state of Texas has been making a concerted effort to raise the quality of its public charter schools through sound policy reform, effective implementation, and resources to help practitioners zero in on improvement.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

Our job is to provide high - quality assistance and resources that are useful and relevant, supporting states» and districts» reform efforts to significantly improve student outcomes.

It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher quality and expanding school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.

That is not to say that efforts to improve teacher quality, modernize curriculum, infuse technology into the classroom where it makes sense and other reforms should not be pursued.

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.

Most quality school reform efforts focus primarily on the end result of improving K12 student performance.

It examines questions about the effectiveness of vocational education in improving student outcomes, the consequences of new funding and accountability provisions for programs and participants, the implementation and quality of vocational education, and the extent of its alignment with other reform efforts.

On this month's Conversation, Editor RiShawn Biddle chats with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and mothers running the Hartford Parents Organization about their efforts to champion school choice and teacher quality reforms in one of Dropout Nation «s States to Watch.

While most schools will need increased funding — and flexibility — to expand school schedules, the authors found several federal funding sources that currently support efforts to redesign the school day, reform the calendar year, rethink professional development, or improve access to quality after - school programs.

UCEA actively initiates and leads educational reform efforts through its high quality research and preparation programs.

Like healthcare reform efforts of the past, education reform movements intended to improve teaching quality often focus on the extreme minorities of the performance distribution.

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Too often, reform efforts have foundered because of a district's inability to place in its schools the quality of staff needed to effect radical change.

Exploring «union reform» efforts in ways that expands the role of teacher voice in education reform efforts, incorporates social justice for students and families and strengthens the quality of the teaching profession

The most - successful school reform efforts undertaken by philanthropists have not been ones that attempted to focus on school district bureaucracies, but on expanding opportunities for high - quality education for children and families.

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

Paula White, NJ State Director for Democrats for Education Reform, added: «Democrats for Education Reform understands that the fight for high - quality public school choice is a crucial part of a larger, comprehensive effort to champion ALL of America's public school children, irrespective of their background or circumstance.

Charter schools» intense focus on quality, culture and accountability undergirds successful school reform efforts.

In the «Culture of Countenance: Teachers, Observers and the Effort to Reform Teacher Evaluations», DFER Policy Analyst and former teacher Mac LeBuhn communicates that unless reformers can change the «culture of countenance» regarding teacher observations new reforms to evaluations will continue the same quality - blind practices.

«With the focus on education reform we find there has been a rush to judge and condemn schools and not enough effort to provide the quality education that the original case sought.»