Sentences with phrase «recent education policy reform»

The disappointing 2017 NAEP scores will likely be used, by some, as evidence of the failure of some recent education policy reform such as Race to the Top, the Common Core, or «Choose Your Pet - Peeve Policy.»

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The lack of policy influence that is attributable to recent education - reform books is not for lack of sales.

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education - reform emphases in recent years.

At a recent panel discussion held at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the organization, Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (BBA), panelists called for policy reforms to address the impact of poverty on schools, students, families, and neighborhoods.

In recent work, he linked economic theory with statistical theory to study how best to measure teacher quality, an important input to education reform policies.

In matters of K — 12 education policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but recent decades have more often found governors and legislators driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct control.

NEW YORK — The recent resignations of high - profile school chiefs Joel Klein in New York and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., raise questions about the future of education reform at a time when school districts across the U.S. are adopting policies the two icons of change pioneered.

A recent opinion blog, written by Michael J. Petrilli, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, discusses the education sector's exhaustion with policies on education reform.

«It's hard to find consistent, long - term, high - quality service learning,» says Sarah Pearson of the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. Pearson's recent report, Finding Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform (2002), establishes the compatibility between the goals of comprehensive school reform models and those of service leaReform (2002), establishes the compatibility between the goals of comprehensive school reform models and those of service leareform models and those of service learning.

That reference resonated with the other piece I read this weekend — the wonderful report by my heroes at the National Education Policy Center, «Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Action.»

As recent education reform failures demonstrate, robbing local districts of decision - making power over education policies is a recipe for disaster.

If the federal government was the primary driver of education policy in the early 2000s, states reemerged as a dominant player in recent years leading up to the enactment of ESSA, driving the structure of the post-NCLB iteration of standards - based reform.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluatioEducation Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluatioeducation reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.

Ravitch covers quite a bit of terrain: the recent history of school reform, the major players in the reform movement, the claims used to criticize American public education, the «fixes» championed by reformers and Ravitch's suggestions for a more sane and productive education policy.

At a recent policy meeting of an education reform organization to which I belong, it was suggested to me, as an extrinsic reformer, that the burden of proof for our reform proposals is on us to show that they would not work to the detriment of the stakeholders in the status quo.