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).
Not exact matches
Abraham Geiger, a major thinker in the nineteenth - century
Reform movement, declared that the idea of a postmortem existence «should not be expressed in terms which
suggest a future revival, a resurrection of the body; rather they must stress the immortality of the soul.»
The ambition to present a synoptic account of the multiple sixteenth - century
movements for religious «
reform,» Catholic and Protestant, has led some historians to search for a single interpretative framework for the
reform impulse, to
suggest that fundamental similarities underlay sixteenth - century religious
reform wherever it occurred.
Yet economic theory
suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession in ways that would fulfill many of the
reform movement's goals.
It is certainly true that the mathematics
reform movement suggests placing less emphasis on paper - and - pencil computation using the standard algorithms (long division, long multiplication) and more emphasis on reasoning (when should we divide, multiply, add, or subtract?).
Charter School Choices The next round of
reform deserves to go forward without tiresome attacks on charter schools, which have ranged from efforts by the Legislature to impose a moratorium on new charter schools to questionable union - sponsored studies
suggesting that the
movement is a failure.
Without offering any actual evidence, Mr. Mucher
suggests that prospective teachers have been scared off from applying to his program by much of the agenda of the corporate
reform movement: increasing accountability demands placed on teachers, using student test scores to determine teachers» effectiveness ratings, and «the way teachers are blamed for much broader social problems.»