Sentences with phrase «real education reform issues»

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.

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In real life, Larsen also wanted to bring a key issue to the public's attention: reforming education at the local level.

Have students practice skills they've learned or topics they've come to understand in service learning, debates, leadership / volunteerism / community service, or by having opinions on «real» issues like education reform or the 2012 election (shriek!

Republicans have a significant opportunity in next year's election to win on the education issue by continuing their push for a reform - based education agenda and arguing against the idea that more money without real structural reform can fix the ills of our education system.

Marking three years since the review into school funding was released Haythorpe said that needs - based funding for schools is the most important issue in the education sector and the Gonski reforms are the best chance it has had in a generation of getting real change and equity.

Wendy Lecker's column successfully lays out the historical context and the real issues surrounding our nation's failure to close the academic achievement gap, and by doing so, she lays bare the lies and deceit being perpetrated by the education reform industry.

We've spent a lot of time and much ink over the past few years discussing the controversial «seven breakthrough solutions» to higher education reform, the UT Regent Wallace Hall investigations, the «invasion» of The University of Texas on the turf of the University of Houston, the competition among seven of our institutions to achieve national «Tier One» status, and related side shows, while ducking the real underlying issue.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

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.