Sentences with phrase «status as an education reform»

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But this is a big day for New York City's kids, and New York State's status as a leader on education reform.

Now Loeb's racially charged comment about a black state senator threatens to become an unwelcome distraction as Success seeks to expand its footprint in New York and as Moskowitz works to cement her status as a national leader on education reform with a new book.

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

Defenders of the status quo are able to effectively attack certain reforms as «anti-public education» because Americans believe that the public has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that all children receive an adequate education... The divisions emerge when we consider how to act upon these shared purposes.

Defenders of the status quo in education routinely label certain proposed reforms — including tax credits, voucher programs, for - profit education management organizations (or EMOs), and charter schooling — as «anti-public education,» often to great effect.

He went on to regale listeners as to the range of routes now available to becoming a teacher, for teachers to teach how they saw best and at the same time enjoying an elevated status, all as a result of Conservative education reforms.

Although Al was never able — on this issue as on many other reforms that he knew were needed — to get the AFT's state and local affiliates to embrace his visionary thinking, his restlessness with the status quo, his boundless creativity, and his statesman - stature in the education field cause him legitimately to be viewed today as one of the parents of charter schooling in the U.S.

More important than the changed status of NAS is the increasing prominence of NAS - style whole - school reform as one of the most popular strategies for education change.

As more and more Democrats come to see that the teachers unions, with their rigid work rules and insistence on preserving the failing status quo, are the biggest impediment to education reform, the unions can either become more conciliatory or they can double down.

These two unions have been under attack for the past few years by reformers who point to their slavish clinging to the status quo as a major barrier to badly needed education reform.

In the next breath, however, he confusingly characterizes progressive reform during that same time period as «radical» — the Common School movement, for example, in which education was first envisioned as the province of the entire public, regardless of money or social status.

I have no doubt Derrell will bring the same amount of fire and intensity to his performance as he does going head to head on national news taking on the status quo,» said Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform (CER).

Education Secretary Michael Gove has said he wants to reform school governance and said in a speech a year ago that governors were often «local worthies» who viewed their post as a «badge of status not of work».

Hyping their status as the leader in the for - profit corporate education reform industry, the company reported added;

As someone who's pushed to overhaul failing schools and battled entrenched defenders of an unacceptable status quo, I'm no stranger to controversy when it comes to education reform.

There are also concerns that important reforms recently set in motion by the minister — such as those to primary testing, qualified teacher status, flexible working and sex education — could be derailed if she is replaced in the coming weeks.

At a recent policy meeting of an education reform organization to which I belong, it was suggested to me, as an extrinsic reformer, that the burden of proof for our reform proposals is on us to show that they would not work to the detriment of the stakeholders in the status quo.