Sentences with phrase «reform efforts like»

Participants questioned the presenters on the financing reform efforts like Learn and Earn high schools.

For supporters of recent reform efforts like the Common Core, an improvement in reading and math scores would likely be seen as a validation.

Rincón - Gallardo points to reform efforts like high - stakes accountability and testing as examples of bad educational change...

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He said the government has been very supportive of his efforts to reform companies like Sony and others.

b) We have a do - nothing, fractured Congress that won't address key issues like immigration or tax reform, but has wasted time and taxpayer money 65 + times in a futile effort to repeal Obamacare.

He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

Q) You say early in the book that reform efforts based on content have failed to affect achievement gaps, and, that an emphasis on character in some way seems like a better alternative.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

Reed, like other Republicans, believes granting «amnesty» could derail any efforts to pass a bipartisan immigration reform bill.

Only an imperial governor like Cuomo would label my efforts to fix the tax code as «treasonous,» as he did last week, reacting to my support for reform that would cut taxes for most New Yorkers while removing the state and local deduction.

The governor, who is also negotiating with the legislature on the state budget and related items, like pension reform, says of the legislature's efforts on redistricting reform «my trust level is low, my skepticism is high».

But the latest menu of reform proposals has the same hallmarks of previous efforts — advancing unrelated issues and putting would - be critics on the defensive — that have made Cuomo's efforts seem like well - timed diversionary tactics.

There's also some items included that are part of ongoing initiatives, like the effort to reform Medicaid and the downsizing of the state's juvenile justice system.

«When analyzing the legislative session from a macro perspective it is very clear that the high profile issues, like minimum wage and paid leave, negatively impact small business while there are limited efforts to enact real, meaningful reform,» Durant said.

New Jersey lawmakers have moved forward with legislation that will allow New Jerseyans to keep their property tax breaks vis - à - vis a charitable deduction in an effort to counter President Donald Trump's tax reform plan that targets high - tax states like New Jersey.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

But Senator Hamilton says that far from diluting the «raise the age» effort, his position in the IDC empowers progressive reform like it.

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

Yet the enduring value of YES Prep and charter school efforts like it may ultimately be measured in outcomes elsewhere: Will they effectively feed the reform efforts at struggling schools like Hogg and the Academy?

That letter — and other efforts to reduce exclusionary discipline, such as suspensions, in favor of reforms like restorative justice — sparked a backlash from critics who accused the department of government overreach and of prompting chaos and disorder that could most harm students of color.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Indeed, Russakoff quoted Booker's approach to school reform efforts with Zuckerberg: «I'm thinking, «Do everything you can right now, instead of worrying what tomorrow will be like or the next day... People allow their inability to control everything to undermine their determination to do something.»

What he realized is that most reform efforts have been directed at the symptoms, things like low graduation rates or dismal test scores.

The awakening coincided with efforts in reform - minded cities like New York, Long Beach, California, and Washington, D.C..

The big question going forward, it seems to me, is whether any of our reform efforts are like to lead to another big bump in test scores anytime soon.

As Dr. Chard indicated, the efforts of individual groups like CAEP are not enough: we must approach education reform holistically and at a systemic level.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Pereira — and hundreds of thousands of teenagers like her throughout the country — are at the vortex of the most far - reaching high school reform effort in a half - century.

The book The Prize details how the reform effort in Newark Public Schools failed, in large part, because Newark residents and district employees felt like reform was done to them, not with them.

Duncan drew praise from Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush early in his tenure for his aggressive efforts to promote school reform.

Like many of the most encouraging public - school reforms, these efforts have been organic and highly decentralized.

But will pulling way back on federal efforts to reform education — most likely by putting the money on a stump and letting states do whatever they like with it — benefit the other 49?

His reforms expanded those of former governor Ann Richards, whose reforms built on those in places like Dallas and previous statewide efforts led by, of all people, Ross Perot.

Within this broader framework, we were, like the researchers in the special strategies study (Stringfield et al., 1997), interested in both imported models of reform (where they had adopted an external intervention program or school reform program) and homegrown reform efforts.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

As early as February of last year, President Obama was already making speeches tying education reform to job creation and touting efforts like Race To The Top.

Her journey taught her that top - down efforts to reform a district don't work; only by starting over school by school — like businesses emerging from bankruptcy — could real improvement occur.

Custom eLearning solutions reform training and development so learners feel like it's worth their time and effort.

School vouchers and related efforts like tax credits, scholarship grants, and education savings accounts, have become popular tools of the education reform movement's agenda during the past few decades.

Like healthcare reform efforts of the past, education reform movements intended to improve teaching quality often focus on the extreme minorities of the performance distribution.

With the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and the roll out of the two consortia's CCSS assessments, coming reforms in education will again highlight the role of non-legislative state actors and the need to apply methods like ours for understanding states» efforts towards school improvement.

NEW YORK CITY The fall issue of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and ChReform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chreform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chicago.

The letter outlines how policies Secretary Duncan helped initiate, like Race to the Top, have hurt local communities and excluded them from participating in efforts to reform their schools.

In a never ending effort to sound like she really, really cares about children, she uses the language of reform.

Instead of throwing the seniority rules out entirely, California educators and advocates embraced what seemed like a gentler approach to salvage reform efforts in schools like Oak Ridge Elementary, in Sacramento.

The report, «What the U.S. Can Learn From the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts,» found that in high - scoring countries like Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and South Korea, teachers have higher status and are typically paid better relative to other workers.

But, The Philadelphia Daily News reports, some critics say Broad's education reform efforts through the Broad Foundation may be harming the kinds of schools he's trying to help — the public schools that once trained first - and second - generation Americans like him.

Another competitive grant effort, the Investing in Innovation program, has poured dollars into proven curricula and reform models that would have otherwise gone without funding (and, like programs such as Direct Instruction, would have merely been allowed to go unnoticed).