Sentences with phrase «reform over the past decade»

It is not for the lack of effort to reform over the past decade.

But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

That recognition has driven a tidal wave of controversial policy reforms over the past decade, rooted in new evaluation systems that link teachers» ratings and, in some cases, their pay and advancement to evidence of classroom practice and student learning.

Of the many entrenched school customs that have been reconsidered and reformed over the past decade, social promotion has been among the most resistant to change.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as -LSB-...]

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for other states and the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

Despite state reforms over the past decades, the gap between minority students and white students across California has narrowed only slightly.

By strategically deploying their immense wealth through training school leaders, financing think - tank reports, and supporting «Astro Turf» advocacy groups, these three foundations have been able to steer the direction of education reform over the past decade.

«We have learned some valuable lessons about the unintended costs of test - driven reform over the past decade.

Trudeau campaigned on a pledge of open and transparent evidence - based decision - making and has instructed Minister of Justice Jody Wilson - Raybould to «conduct a review of the changes in our criminal justice system and sentencing reforms over the past decade.»

Not exact matches

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

The foundation of real reform is the recognition the world has changed over the past few decades.

Reform of the constitutional architecture of the UK state over the past two decades has adhered to a conservative orthodoxy based on an enduring belief in the British Political Tradition: the redistribution of power is negotiated between the state and sub-state national and regional elites rather than with the British people.

For his PhD, Ayyaz is aiming to do a genealogy of working class formation in Karachi over the past three decades of neoliberal reforms and globalisation.

Over the past three decades or so UK central government has had repeated successive and much - hyped reform initiatives ostensibly designed to make the government machine work better and cost less.

The government reform group Citizens Union, which has taken to running a corruption tracker on its website, will now have to add two more names to the dozens of lawmakers convicted of crimes over the past decade and a half.

In her pitch for ethics reform, Phillips said in a Facebook post that «over the past decade in Albany, more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing — more than any other state.»

The current changes were proposed as part of a series of reforms begun over the past three gubernatorial administrations, and are intended to cut costs and simplify a workers compensation system that doctors, lawyers, labor groups and business interests agree has become a hopeless bureaucratic tangle over decades.

Sacha said he feels a responsibility to reform the office and repair damage that he believes has been done over the past decade.

He lamented the «slow motion» progress in domestic revenue mobilization over the past decade, noting that the focus of collection has not shifted from reforming legislation to implementing laws efficiently.

What has happened on the electoral reform file in five of Canada's ten provinces over the past decade has already entered the post-election debate over the Liberals» reform package.

This 10th anniversary issue — Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform — also takes a special look back at standards - based reform in American education over the past ten Reform — also takes a special look back at standards - based reform in American education over the past ten reform in American education over the past ten years.

There has been no shortage of thoughtful suggestions for reforming federal R&D over the past three decades.

This special report by the EPE Research Center analyzes the links between state policies related to standards - based reform and gains in student achievement over the past decade.

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

Reville, who founded the Ed Redesign Lab as a way to rethink how we educate children, said that although much education reform work has been done over the past two decades in the United States to close the «achievement gap» created from income disparities, there is still a persistent, iron - clad correlation between zip code and destiny.

The education clauses of state constitutions have also provided the legal foundation for the wave of court - ordered school funding equalization reforms over the past three decades.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Table 1, which catalogs the most consequential state - level policy reforms relating to college remediation over the past decade, suggests the reform movement is continuing to gain steam (the Education Commission of the States [ECS] State Policy Database provides addition details).

Over the past decade, Florida has introduced a comprehensive program of school reform that has five main points: school accountability, literacy enhancement, student accountability, teacher quality, and school choice.

Reform has had signal successes over the past two decades: increased transparency, higher expectations, more room for creative problem - solving, more options for families, terrific models of tech - inspired redesign, and much more.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

The report presents key reforms, principles, and practices at 15 diverse public high schools in six states that improved over the past decade and achieved outstanding gains on state accountability exams.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groOver the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groover 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives.

Given the vastness of the terrain, the course will be grounded in three education policy / reform initiatives that have gained considerable currency over the past decade: (1) Standards and Accountability (2) Teacher Quality & (3) School Choice - Vouchers and Charter Schools

We are a team of communicators and pollsters from three separate companies who have worked with the education reform community often over the past decade.

The main reason there's been so little achievement gain over the past few decades arising from the reforms that so many of us have been pressing is precisely because neither curriculum nor instruction much changed.

Over the past few decades, education reforms in Brazil and Chile have been widely celebrated as successful, and most students are much better - off than their predecessors were 15 years ago.

Over the past decade, California has been a holdout from some of the big national reforms that most other states have embraced, especially clear and tough school accountability systems and test - based teacher evaluations.

This project will examine state - level school finance reforms, intended to increase funding for schools serving poor children, over the past several decades.

Despite significant reform agendas over the past decade, no real progress in outcomes has been achieved.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

The reading scores of 17 - year - olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress constitute the single most accurate indicator of the effectiveness of our schooling, and as we look at the low reading scores of 17 - year - olds over the past few decades of reform, we see no real movement.

The Gates Foundation has invested $ 5B over the past decade in various school reform initiatives, including small school advocacy and teacher quality reform.

For scholars and policy makers focused on reforming urban schools, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research over the past decade of debate.

It is long past time to move to the next level of reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system for education and the means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.