Sentences with phrase «school failure industry»

Of the $ 200 million committed, nearly $ 90 million went towards teacher back - pay, staff incentives and buyouts, $ 58 million towards the expansion of charter schools and $ 21 million to consultants from what one teacher called the «school failure industry» — some charging $ 1000 a day for so - called «systems change.»

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The failure to «stop the bleeding» stems, in part, from the industry's reliance on an oft - cited, outdated and under - studied research model, said Cindy Riemenschneider, Ph.D., professor of information systems and associate dean for research and faculty development in Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.
The private school industry's response to this failure is to change the topic.
The letter is one of the most powerful statements to date about the failure of the corporate education reform industry agenda and the need to re-take control of our public schools and preserve local control, parental involvement and the values inherent in a true system of public education.
If you bank with Webster Bank, Bank of America or any of the other corporations that are pushing Governor Dannel Malloy's corporate education reform industry agenda, the next time you go to the bank, speak with your insurance company or communicate with one of CCER's funders, ask them why they are using the money that they take from us to undermine our public schools and label our children as failures.
The article conveniently overlooks that fact that the charter school industry fails to provide equal educational opportunities for children who require special education services, those who aren't fluent in the English Language and those who are forced out of charter schools for failure to survive the abusive disciplinary policies.
A similar story is evident when looking at the charter school industry's failure to enroll and educate students who require special education services.
That said, the truth is hardly a concern when it comes to the slick marketing and public relations tactics of the charter school industry and their allies in the corporate education reform movement who consistently — and wrongly — claim that American public education is a failure.
The truth is Connecticut's public school students have become guinea pigs for the Corporate Education Reform Industry and implementing a test that is designed to ensure failure for the vast majority of our children is nothing short of child abuse.
As the title suggests, Stanford business school professor Jeffrey Pfeffer takes no prisoners in this hard - hitting book, which dissects the failures of the «leadership industry» and offers positive ways to make workplaces and careers work better.
In discussions about diversity and inclusion, legal industry observers often criticize law firms for their failure to keep pace with the increase in law school diversity.
My secondary (but just as important) concern is that newbies and other longer term failures - in - waiting who read your current article are more easily influenced by the old school sales culture that pervades organized real estate to this day, and that old school sales culture is the main problem that underpins the industry.
Speak out (publicly) about the miscreants that you know about; ignore the industry self - serving rule «Thou shalt not speak disparagingly about one's fellow registrant (s)» that serves to perpetuate the incompetent nature of the business due to the overwhelming numbers of here - today - gone - tomorrow incompetent failures - in - waiting as well as due to the entrenched old - school get -»em - on - paper - quick manipulative sales types.
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