Sentences with phrase «school curricular reform»

Among these were his ideas about law school curricular reform.

For example, the content knowledge and problem - solving skills measured by the PARCC and MCAS tests are not identical, and the tests might differ in the extent to which they align with specific high - school curricular reform goals or teaching standards.

Not exact matches

Dr. Brent Iverson has been dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of Undergraduate Studies since 2013, after serving on the Task Force on Curricular Reform that led to the creation of the sSchool of Undergraduate Studies since 2013, after serving on the Task Force on Curricular Reform that led to the creation of the schoolschool.

Curriculum reform was also prioritised, with a core curricular developed with the goal of providing schools with greater autonomy and responsibility.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

Amazingly, she rages against the very school choice arrangements that are creating schools willing to try out the curricular reforms she favors.

In Common Core in the Districts: An Early Look at Early Implementers (2014), Education First researchers Katie Cristol and Brinton S. Ramsey, in collaboration with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, profile four «early implementer» school districts to examine factors that are key to successful implementations of standards - based reform: communications, leadership, curricular materials, professional development, and assessment and accountability.

The agreement essentially reverses a top - down approach to reform, giving individual schools local power over matters such as redesigning their governance, tailoring union contracts, lengthening the school day or making curricular decisions that lift student achievement.

From the introductory chapter through the conclusion, the reader is presented with research that supports meaningful student involvement in school decision - making and research, students» perceptions of detracking, gender, school support, and learning environments, students» experiences of identity - based curricular reform and school governance.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

Simply put, reform needs to be larger than simply curricular; it must address ideological, disciplinary, and social failings that contribute to the current difficulties of no excuses schools.

Indeed, the pace of globalization among American law schools has become a flashpoint for institutional competition, with numerous institutions jockeying to lay claim to leadership in this arena.5 Not surprisingly, the case for globalization has spawned a variety of explicit proposals for curricular reform.6 These include proposals for both significantly expanding transnationally focused upper - level electives7 and incorporating transnational legal issues into the traditional domestic curriculum, 8 including first - year programs.9

Another extremely productive use of social science in legal educational reform is emerging from programs designed to help law schools assess their own progress.27 Indiana, for example, tracks both its innovative first - year curricular innovations and its novel forms of law student assessment.

Minow chaired the law school's curricular reform efforts of recent years and was recognized with the School's Sacks - Freund Award for Teaching Excellence inschool's curricular reform efforts of recent years and was recognized with the School's Sacks - Freund Award for Teaching Excellence inSchool's Sacks - Freund Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005.

Many law schools across the country are engaged in curricular reform at the moment.

Beyond hiring innovative law school graduates for fellowships, expect the ABA to continue to press for curricular reform.

Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching pedagogy, exam writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal faculty, curricular reform, law school rankings, and the very identity and purpose of a law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role of the LRW course.

This information is valuable for policy makers who need to identify education policy priorities, schools that need to reform curricular and extracurricular practices, and parents who need to adjust their home learning environments and parenting practices.»