Sentences with phrase «real education reform»

Strong American Schools has sought to draw attention to the need for real education reform.

But real education reform requires using the power of choice and competition to provide incentives to create more good and to reduce bad.

But we seem unaware of how desperately we need to consider real education reform as a national priority.

In this final chapter, we will look at steps each of us can take to achieve real education reform.

We could then see in 2018 the beginning of a national effort that would make for real student achievement, for real equity, and for real education reform.

Today, Mitt Romney squandered an opportunity to participate in a meaningful discussion of real education reform by attempting to disguise attacks on teachers and public education as meaningful policy proposals.

Vouchers are not real education reform....

But education reformers are impressed by how effective the administration has been in inciting real education reform.

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

The imposition of high - stakes testing was supposed to result in real education reform and the closing of the achievement gap.

«I am hoping now that the mayor of New York City understands that to do real education reform it's about helping schools to get better and not about closing schools,» said Mulgrew, speaking at a state press conference on Feb. 16 in Albany with the governor, State Education Commissioner John King and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi standing beside him.

Weingarten has launched major efforts to place real education reform high on the nation's and her union's agendas.

The folks who have resisted real education reform will attempt to sell their broken ideas, tax - the - rich schemes and radical socialism in D.C. next month.

This is what real education reform looks like: educators collaborating to share best practices to retake their profession from billionaires and their flunkies who know little about the craft of teaching.

NJEA President Barbara Keshishian said real education reform needs to move beyond sound bites and «bumper - sticker slogans,» and needs to focus on strategies that have been proven to work.

«Real education reform requires broader social reform to end poverty concentrated in disadvantaged communities by race and class segregation,» Hawkins said.

Gov. Ned McWherter of Tennessee said last week that he intends to seek a second term in office to oversee «the promise of real education reform» in the state.

He went on to say that he expected that any member of Congress whom the union has supported will vote against extending the program and warned that, «Actions associated with these issues WILL be included in the NEA Legislative Report Card for the 111th Congress... Vouchers are not real education reform....

Cosmo Garvin's piece «Time for Action on Sac High» is out of touch with the need for real education reform not just in Sacramento, but across the state.

They are all impressed by how gritty and effective the Obama administration has been in holding the line and inciting real education reform.

Eric Hanushek is on ChoiceMedia.TV - Ed Reform Minute talking about his article «A Distraction from Real Education Reform»

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

This too would amount to real education reform.»

Coined by conservative George Will in a January, 2002, column (Waiting for Real Education Reform), the 9/91 factor points out that from birth to age nineteen, ninety - one percent of a child's life is spent outside the boundaries of the schoolhouse.

In arguing against regulation, Jay writes: «But real education reform requires using the power of choice and competition to provide incentives to create more good and to reduce bad.»

To win that war, those of us who see teachers unions as the biggest impediment to any real education reform can not afford to let up.

Today is the The National Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform, an opportunity for educators to blog about positive reform, using your expertise to talk about how education should be transformed for all learners.

Now that we have presented a shared vision of real education reform, in the next section, we will introduce the topic of political organizing, which is the only way we will ever be able to take back our public schools from the billionaires.

Walker reports that there are more than 55 million public school parents in America, and he firmly believes that real education reform can not take place without an effective parent constituency.

Ravitch drives home the message that real education reform, the kind that serves all children and strengthens our public schools, is the civil rights issue of our time.

In recognition of the Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform, we invite principals to use the comments section below to highlight some of the efforts your school has made to «reform» to address your community's needs.