Sentences with phrase «systemic reform»

Besides gaining access to district buildings, these schools also tend to attract principals and teachers who like the idea of working more closely with districts and being part of systemic reform.

We will persist in reviewing cases, representing clients and working for systemic reform.

As I wrote yesterday, the federal role in education policy, especially in advancing systemic reform, has been positive on balance.

Everyone I know who works on systemic reform cares deeply about what happens in the classroom.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

We also need systemic reforms to shorten political campaigns and to allow leaders more free access to television for the business of governance.

Among other things, he will teach a course about systemic reform in urban schools.

And Parent Trigger laws can help advance systemic reform by addressing an aspect of education that many reformers, especially those from white households that aren't religious, don't have to consider.

The new Title I calls for high standards for all children, and systemic reform strategies to enable all children to achieve these standards.

You can't spur systemic reform if the accountability systems in place are neither transparent nor hold anyone accountable.

We help low - income immigrants find justice and fair treatment — individually and through systemic reform.

While it might seem hard to compare such different strategies, the heart of the larger school - reform debate is between systemic reforms like the portfolio model and resource - oriented strategies.

True systemic reform will always be another decade away, the proverbial carrot at the end of the stick.

You will also have opportunities to reflect on your personal leadership strengths and explore strategies for developing a team with the full range of capacities needed to lead systemic reform.

I don't think we're going to have large scale success with systemic reform until we see districts able to understand some of these process things.

Effective school transformation from traditional norms and practices to those where students take control of their learning in a digital environment involves systemic reforms.

But we need to step up on advancing systemic reform so that all families can provide their children with the high - quality education they need and deserve.

And I've concluded, quite some time ago, that what's needed more than anything else in this area, is massive systemic reform.

Put simply, these new systems are a step back for systemic reform.

Even if states and districts failed to meet the goal initially, the goal put much - needed pressure on them to embrace systemic reform.

• Every state is committed to aligning tests with the standards, an important step in systemic reform.

It's a document informed by the best thinking on systemic reform over the last two decades.

It is about systemic reform, and the attention given to mathematics and language arts merely provides some specificity to the findings.

He coordinated the first phase of CTAC's evaluation of Denver's pay for performance initiative and guided the implementation of systemic reform initiatives in large districts throughout the United States.

The programs are aimed at supporting systemic reforms without dictating what such reforms should look...

AFC also advocates for systemic reform with respect to school discipline and the role of New York Police Department personnel in schools.

«I want to thank the Commission members and staff for their dedication and public service, and look forward to reviewing the Commission's findings in detail and continuing to work with the Legislature to enact systemic reform.»

This work will get harder thanks in part to a Trump administration that means harm to those who aren't White, as well as the efforts of traditionalists to oppose systemic reform.

Your editor didn't give much consideration to last week's op - ed by Schott Foundation for Public Education President John Jackson, Pedro Noguera of Economic Policy Institute's Broader Bolder Approach, and Judith Browne Dianis of the Advancement Fund criticizing civil rights groups such as UNCF and NAACP for supporting the focus on strong accountability as exemplified by the No Child Left Behind Act and other systemic reform efforts.

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

The Education Department this month announced two initiatives to help states develop systemic reforms linked to national standards in mathematics and science.

But the thing is, unlike Yeezy and Swifty, Porter - Magee and I aren't competing in the same category — I'm vying for Best Systemic Reform, she's won the Best Classroom Reform award for the last few years and shows no signs of letting up.

For most of the past couple of years, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy has talked a good game about undertaking systemic reform — and for the most part, he's walked it too.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

And through the University of Colorado Foundation, the AFT dropped another $ 50,000 into the National Education Policy Center, the group run by Kevin Welner that has been a reliable flack for AFT and NEA positions against systemic reform.

Professional development for science teachers is widely recognized as a key element for successful standards - based systemic reform, yet there is little empirical evidence to justify design decisions