Sentences with phrase «reform movement»

It's been a great joy to be part of the education reform movement for the past twenty years.

A central claim of the current reform movement in mathematics education is that students benefit from comparing and contrasting multiple solution methods.

It is the nature of reform movements that, although grassroots movements can be instrumental, systemic change usually comes only when elite opinion moves to the side of change.

Here's what the mayor ought to be doing if he really cares about the students more than he cares about being a drum major for the corporate reform movement.

And what I see is some analogy in the ed reform movement today because of the way that we've implemented it in a number of places, black teachers have lost their jobs.

The standards - based reform movement actually began in the 1980s as a reaction to the «minimum competency» movement in the 1970s that had emphasized basic skills.

Rather, it is a case study about the arrogance and abuse of power that have become the hallmark of the so - called reform movement.

I find socialization to be a serious casualty of the current reform movement in our public schools.

This is no minor issue, given the increasing focus of the school reform movement on charters.

The education reform movement needs to lift up leaders like these.

On the other hand, reform movements such as progressive and radical pedagogy have advanced the ideas of freedom and equality, and with them the role of art and creativity.

We often hear this kind of thinking from people who are new to the school food reform movement, or from students just starting to get involved with trying to make changes.

The authors then identify a variety of pathways for student inclusive school reform, challenging the conceptual framework of the current educational reform movement.

A great conference of all the various reform movements was being held.

Thanks to your activism, 2012 has been a great year for the growing national assessment reform movement.

What it did most importantly though was show our education reform movement here for what it was: bipartisan and passionate.

An effective broadcast reform movement in the future will need a number of member groups which are affiliated with large, national organizations.

They were impatient with the regular reform movements trying to change society.

Furthermore, her own family's struggle with the immigration system inspired her to be active in the immigration reform movement since a young age.

The initial premise of the standards reform movement was quickly translated in some states to a more systemic approach that covered teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, school assessment and student assessment.

A vocal alimony reform movement across the country has sparked significant changes in spousal support laws in some states.

A must - read for all who have been hoping for better tests, which are a critical element in the standards - driven reform movement.

Gender is simply the most recent reform movement to capture our energies, but it probably won't be the last.

Despite the fact that they imagine themselves to be politically sophisticated, the leadership of the ed reform movement seems to be badly in need of some basic lessons in political science.

Something that started in Phase 1 at classroom level moved quickly through senior leadership, through the middle leadership, and began to become a much more school - wide reform movement.

They begin with the fundamental problem the education reform movement faces.

For the last 100 years the whole reform movement meant you give more authority to government.

Our goal was to avoid the mistakes of the early reform movement where change was more often done «to» people rather than «with» people.

With the corporate tax rate declining from the 35 % statutory rate to 21 % under the current legislation, American companies may be among the biggest winners in the federal tax reform movement.

But given that the school reform movement prides itself on having the answers, that perspective was quite refreshing.

A stronger reform movement will engage with the challenges that most directly connect to learning.

We've had a school reform movement going for six years now, and we still haven't decided what our students should know and be able to do....

It's conceivable that this could spark an ed reform movement among soccer moms.

The corporate education reform movement initially started as an initiative to bring strong accountability to education.

Instead, they seem to be participants in the CT reform movement.

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.

Anyone working in the pension reform movement is soon confronted with arguments from defenders of the current pension system that are — to put it nicely — inconsistent with standard financial economics.

The contemporary school - reform movement focused on the role of teachers, curriculum and accountability because that approach was easier than teaching children to read for comprehension by third grade.

Even though reform movements are designed to raise scores, what actually happens is that they only look at day to day operations.

---------------------------------- The accepted wisdom of today's environmental reform movement is founded on two core assumptions.

«What the students wanted was to be recognized as a patriotic reform movement» offering «loyal criticism» of the status quo, he adds.