Sentences with phrase «recent education reform efforts»

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

ALBANY — The two long - serving members of the state Board of Regents ousted by lawmakers on Tuesday were brave soldiers for the Common Core standards and other recent education reform efforts, board chancellor Merryl Tisch said.

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Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

The authors of a recent Yale Law Journal article agree: «While OCR has dramatically improved its efforts to reform structural Title IX compliance across universities... it has done relatively little to promote complainants» immediate access to education.»

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform plans.

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

Last week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last year.

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He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.

Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansionEducation Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efReform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansioneducation reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efreform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efforts.

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Others criticized recent efforts to reform public education by using measures like student test scores to evaluate teachers.

Nonetheless, I believe the recent nationally inspired education reform efforts from No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top to the most recent iteration of them − the Common Core State Standards − are leading American schools down the wrong path.