Sentences with phrase «reform movement going»

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....

Not exact matches

For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

This is being done by African students who study in the higher educational institutions in Cairo and North Africa and go back to their countries with new ideas acquired from the reform movements which are being advocated by enlightened Muslims.

Various reform movements have come and gone and some have been radicalized over the decades.

If Judaism is going to survive it is temples like ours and movements like Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism that will continue into the future while Orthodox Judaism will continue to shrink.

In the eyes of the devout the «secular affairs» became so tainted that they were condemned out of hand or ignored, and the creative spiritual and intellectual movements became entirely otherworldly and divorced from reality or went into open revolt against the community, aiming at destroying rather than reforming it.

September is going to be back - to - school month, with posts on issues like: what on earth to pack in that empty lunch box every morning; how we all feel about making meals «cute» (heart - shaped sandwiches and the rest); an interview with some moms who've gone way beyond heart - shaped sandwiches — the Yum - Yum Bento moms; an interview with a public school teacher who has become a cause celebre in the school lunch reform movement; and more.

«I will keep going because I think these are good reforms,» he told reporters on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan, adding that his government would ensure «freedom of movement» for citizens beset with rail strikes and fuel blockades.

«And this is going to end with a bigger reform movement, it's going to end with some kind of comprehensive reform.

«Each of these audiences will be critical in building a broader - based education reform movement that goes beyond the wonks, advocacy groups, and charter folks.»

For going on two decades now, the twin movements to expand parental choice and foster accountability have been the major drivers of reform in the K - 12 education system.

And, quite frankly, we wanted to write a book that provided evidence that the middle school movement has not failed, as some have charged, but that the implementation of needed reforms has not gone far enough.

Reform movements come and go, I argued.

But Brill himself is now where the reform movement needs to go, if it hopes to change how kids are taught.

Whereas the Seattle Education Association went on a one day strike last spring in protest of the current reform movement that is damaging public education and, therefore stood tall for all public school teachers across the country facing similar reforms, including members of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association; and

«Driven by the small schools movement, more attention started to go to reforming high schools about six or seven years ago.

Charter School Choices The next round of reform deserves to go forward without tiresome attacks on charter schools, which have ranged from efforts by the Legislature to impose a moratorium on new charter schools to questionable union - sponsored studies suggesting that the movement is a failure.

That dynamism has grown to become the primary engine of reform of our public education system, and our impact is only going to grow in the charter movement's third decade,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO, CCSA.

There's a myth about the reform movement as a monolithic entity (Gates, Walton, Reed and Broad) and it is apropos of teaching programs as I will go on to explain.

His straight - talk about the absurdity of America's test obsession, failure to meet or even acknowledge the needs of an increasingly diverse student population, and a «reform» movement that has reformed nothing, failed at much and distracted from students» very real needs is a telling portal on what's really going on in American education today.

From the perspective of these folks, most - notably the education historian - turned - sophist Diane Ravitch, the Newtown massacre serves as their chance to mount their usual criticisms of the school reform movement and advocate against public charter schools, as well as go beyond that.

West then went on to praise the quality of special ed teacher training — and went on a tirade about the school reform movement's failures to address special ed overall.

Although the corporate reform movement has made unprecedented gains in the last twenty years, its roots go back more than sixty years to Milton Friedman's essay, «The Role of Government in Education,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the United States.

If you want to go really deep and have solid administrator support, look into the school reform movement of Expeditionary Learning Schools who have an excellent approach to thematic teaching.

The report then goes on to analyze the effect size of various reform movements, such as charter schools, improving teacher preparation, merit pay, early childhood programs, setting higher standards, and so on.

But given the deeply - held opposition to vouchers from both education traditionalists and some elements within the school reform movement itself, voucher supporters and school choice activists can not simply hope that bad news goes away.

But so long as persuasion is the reformers» only weapon, Moe concludes, «the reform movement will never get where it aims to go.

I should add that some Teach for America alums go on to join the corporate reform movement (a la Michelle Rhee) which is actively damaging many classrooms.

Darling - Hammond and Ravitch are simply amazed that the reform movement is managing to convince legislators that this is the way to go... which includes blaming teachers for societal ills and ignoring poverty.