Sentences with phrase «reform conversation»

As a result, much of the education reform conversation stems from comparing white middle - class students to low - income, African - American and Latino students.

Importantly, this bill is only the start of the tax reform conversation.

Were it not for the specialized outlets that keep the education reform conversation going, they would be totally in charge.

But he insists he's glad the ethics reform conversation is finally being had in Albany — albeit belatedly.

Initiate tax reform conversations with your tax advisor.

The congressman said he believes as the health care reform conversation continues, his proposal could emerge as a middle ground to the more extreme plans being pushed at the moment by lawmakers on both the left and the right.

His instincts are right and, at the moment, he's nearly single - handedly keeping the education reform conversation alive.

Despite his doubts about active efforts at change, McKee acknowledges that the Albany reform conversation has changed since the Silver and Skelos indictments.

The additional member system, used to elect the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament, has so many virtues it is hard to believe it has not been a serious part of the Westminster electoral reform conversation.

I was curious why no one ever talked about Lucas in ed reform conversations.

Why: The theme of the event is finding «Common Ground» in moving the education reform conversation forward.

«Everything is so tied up with these ethics reform conversations that it's overshadowing every other issue,» Adam told Rink in a March 24 call.

«The collapse of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense of urgency surrounding the tax reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.

A new AEI paper by Jonathan Wai and Frank C. Worrell, «Fully Developing the Potential of Academically Advanced Students: Helping Them Will Help Society» argues that gifted students are often left out of education reform conversations.

And we'll ponder: What would Al Shanker have thought of today's reform conversation?

What if we could scale up evidence - based practices, shift the reform conversation in a more positive direction, and boost student outcomes, all at the same time?

Such concerns shouldn't be an afterthought, but at the heart of any reform conversation.

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):

I'm excited about a recent shift in the reform conversation.

External accountability, high - stakes testing, and a focus on international rankings dominate much of the global education reform conversations.

But as Riley points out that in the next breath, she «shoots down suggestions for changes — vouchers, charter schools, differential teacher pay and so on — that have become important parts of the reform conversation.»

Are there democratically - controlled school choice alternatives to the private control that dominates the current education reform conversation (charters and vouchers) that address the needs of students faced with unequal conditions?

As a result, the reform conversation sometimes degenerates into an «attack - defend» mode that goes nowhere.

This meant that high achievers and middle - class concerns dropped out of the reform conversation.

CityBridge — a nonprofit focused on improving Washington's public schools in part by giving students a voice in the reform conversation — is helping the school, which is on the Howard University campus.

She then outlines next steps for broadening the education reform conversation to encompass the whole child.