Sentences with phrase «reading about education reform»

Shibata named More Than a Score one of «5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice» and writes, «When reading about education reform (coded language for privatization), it is easy to fall into a deep, dark pit of despair....

When reading about education reform (coded language for privatization), it is easy to fall into a deep, dark pit of despair.

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I became aware of this fact some years ago, when I started writing about education issues and found that every reform initiative I read about — standards, testing, whatever — referred me back to a seminal text entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

I feel like we've been a lone voice on this in an education reform community where most people care about reading and math scores.

To read more about the reforms occurring in New Orleans post-Katrina, read «New Schools in New Orleans,» from the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next.

Click here to learn more about New Mexico's education reform story, or, to learn more about teacher evaluation reform, read «The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, in Hindsight,» by Chad Aldeman from our Spring 2017 issue.

Currently reading: I'm planning a course about urban school reform in the spring, so I am reading a lot of books on education reform.

Richard Rothstein's American Prospect investigation into the details of Joel Klein's childhood (no, I'm not kidding here) is really not worth reading, but it unfortunately exemplifies two of the most toxic aspects of the current education reform conversation (fwiw it also contains some interesting information about the history of post-war public housing in NYC):

For those who may be confused about the meaning of the education reform phrase «personalized learning,» you might start by reading the Wait, What?

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

Researchers and district officials discussed the first evaluations of the California Office to Reform Education, Read more about Early Results in California's CORE Districts -LSB-...]

«I am continually frustrated that while all 50 states have some certification for reading specialists, that even with all the clamor about STEM education reform, only about 20 states have certification for math specialists,» Fennel said.

Today's «MUST READ» news article comes via CTNewsjunkie and is entitled «Lawsuit: State Still Owes About $ 235,000 to Education Reform Consultants»

Fellow Connecticut education advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publiceducation advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publicEducation Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publiceducation and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

In their new report, New Colleges of Education — A Path for Going from Concept to Reality, Education Reform Now (ERN) proposes that a new type of teacher education accreditor, not dependent on schools of education and their personnel but instead on the employers of graduates from schools of education and teacher preparation programs, should Read more about Teacher Education Reform Now Education — A Path for Going from Concept to Reality, Education Reform Now (ERN) proposes that a new type of teacher education accreditor, not dependent on schools of education and their personnel but instead on the employers of graduates from schools of education and teacher preparation programs, should Read more about Teacher Education Reform Now Education Reform Now (ERN) proposes that a new type of teacher education accreditor, not dependent on schools of education and their personnel but instead on the employers of graduates from schools of education and teacher preparation programs, should Read more about Teacher Education Reform Now education accreditor, not dependent on schools of education and their personnel but instead on the employers of graduates from schools of education and teacher preparation programs, should Read more about Teacher Education Reform Now education and their personnel but instead on the employers of graduates from schools of education and teacher preparation programs, should Read more about Teacher Education Reform Now education and teacher preparation programs, should Read more about Teacher Education Reform Now Education Reform Now -LSB-...]

They also provide an Read more about The «A» Word: Accountability — The Dirty Word of Today's Education Reform -LSB-...]

Read more about the historical events of U.S. education policy in the Education Commission of the States brief «The Progress of Education Reform&raqueducation policy in the Education Commission of the States brief «The Progress of Education Reform&raquEducation Commission of the States brief «The Progress of Education Reform&raquEducation Reform» (PDF).

Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin: Two students who founded Students for Education Reform (SFER) in 2009, with the goal of mobilizing college students around the Read more about TIME's «12 Education Activists for 2012» -LSB-...]

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

Rotherham believes it is because «education reform doesn't fit well with the overall argument either candidate is making Read more about Why Aren't Obama and Romney Talking About Eeducation reform doesn't fit well with the overall argument either candidate is making Read more about Why Aren't Obama and Romney Talking About Educaabout Why Aren't Obama and Romney Talking About EducaAbout EducationEducation?

Though some critics are expected to be up in arms over a private corporation getting involved in education reform, Time's Andrew Rotherham believes the gift will put into sharp Read more about Can GE Bring Common Core to Life?

You can read more about the Broad Foundation's role in public education in an article I wrote for Public School Shakedown entitled «Funding «Education Reform»: The Big Three Foundationeducation in an article I wrote for Public School Shakedown entitled «Funding «Education Reform»: The Big Three FoundationEducation Reform»: The Big Three Foundations.»

If there is one article to read about Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and the rise of the corporate education reform movement in Connecticut, this is the one.

If you'd like to read more about Democrats for Education Reform, here are some previous Wait, What?

Here we're talking about programs such as Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership (LEAP); Connecticut PreEngineering Program; Connecticut Writing Project; neighborhood youth centers; Parent Trust; science program for Educational Reform Districts; wrap - around services; Parent Universities; school health coordinator pilot; technical assistance — Regional Cooperation; Bridges to Success; Alternative High School and Adult Reading; and School to Work Opportunities.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

You can read more about Achieve Hartford's claim that Perry is above the rules and laws that apply to everyone else at: Corporate funded education reform group speaks out for Steve Perry.

Read more about the Foundation's Higher Education Finance Reform Initiative here on our website.

In a growing number of states and school districts, new, more meaningful evaluation systems have focused principals» attention on instruction, prompted valuable discussions in schools Read more about Grading the Graders: A Report on Teacher Evaluation Reform in Education -LSB-...]