Sentences with phrase «reform public education in this country»

Brill's book is a dramatic rendering of a few of the characters (friends like Democrats for Education Reform chief Joe Williams and Colorado State Sen. Mike Johnston) and the work undertaken to reform public education in this country.

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CNN: Faith leaders sound off on role of church in public education Dozens of faith leaders from across the country recently gathered to attend The Stand Up Education Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk educatioeducation Dozens of faith leaders from across the country recently gathered to attend The Stand Up Education Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk educatioEducation Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk educationeducation reform.

Kentucky had one of the worst public education systems in the country before KERA, the Kentucky Education Reform Act, beset by nepotism, incompetence, and inadequateeducation systems in the country before KERA, the Kentucky Education Reform Act, beset by nepotism, incompetence, and inadequateEducation Reform Act, beset by nepotism, incompetence, and inadequate support.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

By bringing the local culture of Native students into the public schools they attend, Title VII has been one of the most important programs for reforming education in Indian Country, writes Corey Still, a student board member of the National Indian Education Asseducation in Indian Country, writes Corey Still, a student board member of the National Indian Education AssEducation Association.

But he isn't in finance or economics, he's in education policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to help reform the country's public school systems with the help of a program at Harvard's Graduate School of Educatioeducation policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to help reform the country's public school systems with the help of a program at Harvard's Graduate School of EducationEducation (HGSE).

A national leader in education reform — and recent winner of the Broad Prize for best public charter school network in the country — Success Academy has long been committed to advancing education reform nationally by sharing its content and approach, and inviting others across the country to access and adapt what we teach and how we teach it.

The Colorado legislature late last month approved, as part of an omnibus education - reform bill, an experimental public - school voucher program, the first of its kind in the country, experts say.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

In a belated response to the National Education Association's criticism of the Center for Education Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public eEducation Association's criticism of the Center for Education Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public eEducation Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public educationeducation.

Properly implemented, charter schools hold the potential for bringing meaningful reform to Washington's public education system, as they have in other parts of the country.

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 AssociaEducation 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 Associaeducation 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

«The work on high school reform is crucial to the lives of young people and the future of public education and to our country,» says Michele Cahill, who is in charge of New York City's massive high school reform.

Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools nationwide.

Another sign that things may move in a positive direction is the election in June of a large number of progressive education superintendents around the country, spurred by the growing desire of the public for reforms.

In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's children attend public or private school?

Finally, Ravitch suggests the narrative that our schools have failed and need reform is more harmful to students and the country than any of the reformers» perceived ills in public education.

From California to Illinois to New Jersey, unions across the country have been threatening strikes, combatting legislation, and kindling protests in response to attempts by governors to reform their states» public - education systems.

«People can call themselves Democrats for Education Reform — it's a free country — but if your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is nonEducation Reform — it's a free country — but if your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is noneducation, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is noneducation, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is nonpartisan.

What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.

In other news, another corporate education reform industry leader, Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis, returned to twitter last night to continue his rant about the country's leading public school advocate, Diane Ravitch.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationIn his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaeducation reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationin the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationin most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationin 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaEducation the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

Heck, even Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in theEducation and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in theeducation reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in the country.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

The series is named to honor Edward F. Reidy, Jr., a lifelong educator who played a significant role in improving public education in the state of Kentucky and in the country, as a whole, particularly through standards - based reform.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.