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

And it weakens arguments made by the administration that the waiver process will further systemic reform by getting rid of what it considers a broken law that never really was.

As Dropout Nation has reported ad nauseam over the past four years, the administration has engaged in an exercise of shoddy policymaking that has damaged systemic reform by encouraging traditionalists in states such as Texas and California to weaken and ditch accountability altogether.

Such an approach would further systemic reform by essentially allowing them to become enterprise zones of sorts freed from state laws and collective bargaining agreements.

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.

Not exact matches

Such an outcome could prove to be a classic unintended consequence: Morneau's reforms — meant to reduce or contain the accumulated risk created by precipitously over-leveraged homebuyers — may unwittingly increase the overall systemic risk in the economy by driving red - lined borrowers to the sort of uninsured subprime mortgages that have proliferated in the shadow banking sector.

The study was inspired by Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith's belief that «School food reform is not separate from school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.»

«The Administration has already begun the process to create the independent watchdog the Speaker is referring to by establishing a first - ever outside not - for - profit organization to monitor the system, advocate for the rights of people with special needs and disabilities and recommend future systemic reforms,» Introne said in the statement.

Commissioner Fran Reiter, who was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said ethics reforms like eliminating outside income are necessary to solve «systemic» Albany corruption issues.

Earlier this month, at the annual meeting of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Fuzhou, CAST President Han Qide quoted from the editorial and said that the country should «solve some of the problems by systemic reform.»

Systemic reform, as recommended by summiteers, meant aligning the chief components of education: academic goals, curricula, instruction, and exams.

Paul Reville: NCLB represents an ambitious attempt by the federal government to support the systemic reforms that had been adopted in virtually all of the states in the 1990s.

He argues that the leadership of the Milwaukee schools, the school board and the central office, attempted to respond with systemic and school - based reforms, but were perpetually thwarted by managerial and political constraints that he describes with chilling insight and accuracy.

It's worth reminding people that public schools can't be fixed simply by recruiting eager missionaries from elite colleges without also adopting the systemic reforms that would attract, retain, and motivate more people like them.

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

In shifting its focus away from «systemic» reforms by states and districts, the NSF will issue a series of grants through which university scholars,...

Today's accountability and systemic reform can be traced to Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (University of Chicago Press, 1949) by Ralph W. Tyler, an education adviser to several U.S. presidents, an original proposer...

The second intellectual model for state standards and testing, referred to as «systemic reform,» was advanced by Marshall «Mike» Smith, who later became Undersecretary of Education in the Clinton Administration.

In «Statewide Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Employing Partnerships and Systemic Strategies for Addressing Critical Teacher Shortages,» the University of Cincinnati's Stephen Kroeger was joined by Mary Brownell, director of the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center at the University of Florida, and Jessica Mercerhill, director of P - 16 initiatives at the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

Although the Wolverine State expects 85 percent of all students to be proficient in all subjects by 2022, the fact that the bar is so low means that districts may not take on the systemic reforms needed to actually aim higher.

As readers know by now, one of Kline's main goals as chairman of the House panel is to eviscerate No Child altogether, and not just its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions which have spurred a decade of successful systemic reform as well as revealed the low quality of teaching and curricula in urban and suburban districts.

By dismissing the lessons gleaned from No Child's success — and ditching the accountability tool that worked so well — the administration has weakened systemic reform on the ground.

Payzant believed that a systemic approach to school reform led by the district was necessary to support and organize school improvement.

In his latest essay, Smarick takes a wrong turn by arguing that it is time for what he calls an «energized retrenchment» that involves scaling back the federal role in advancing systemic reform embraced since the 1980s by Ronald Reagan and his successors.

Emilio Pack's two decades of experience in public education inform his belief that by investing in educators as leaders and giving them the site - level autonomy to put student needs first, we can achieve systemic reform and change.

Then there was Virginia, which was granted a waiver in June 2012 by the Obama Administration in spite of its longstanding unwillingness to embrace systemic reform as well as address the low quality of teaching and curricula provided to poor and minority children.

In fact, it allows for Romney and conservative and Republican reformers acting as surrogates for his campaign to make a strong case that neither Obama nor Duncan are fit to take on the tough task of advancing systemic reform from the federal level; given that swing states such as Virginia have been granted waivers despite their poor records on advancing reform, they can even argue that the waivers are politically - motivated by the president's re-election concerns (even though there is no evidence of this).

His apparent enthusiasm for the No Child backtrack being offered up by Senate Republicans makes one wonder if Hess has lost his appetite for strong systemic reform.

The second: That Common Core's promise as a key solution in advancing systemic reform is only achievable if its standards and goals are linked to — and reinforced by — common accountability systems.

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.»»

Supported by the National Science Foundation, USI is a systemic change initiative charged by the School District of Philadelphia to reform math, science, and technology instruction that...

Similar to the K — 12 version, this program seeks to promote systemic reforms in higher education by awarding competitive grants to states that have shown a commitment to increasing college access, quality, and graduation rates.

Whatever the case, Harkin and his colleagues don't seem like they are going to ask any hard questions about the efficacy of the process by which the Obama administration is granting the waivers, the consequences of the gambit on the systemic reforms needed to help all children get high - quality education, or whether the waiver gambit is legal in the first place.

Her platform, which included the embrace of education traditionalism (symbolized by her close working relationship with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have voted for her.

The 100 percent proficiency target set by No Child was an ambitious statement that all kids should get the education they need to write their own life stories, putting much - needed on states to embrace systemic reform.

By refusing to embrace systemic reforms, AFT and NEA help perpetuate damage to the futures of Black and Brown children, often behaving no differently in consequence than the regime that occupies the executive branch of the federal government.

With 149,817 more fourth - graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels, systemic reform efforts focused on stemming achievement gaps have also helped children from the middle class and high - performing students as by those who have been given the worst American public education provides.

The consequences of these restrictions, along with the unwillingness of suburban district bureaucracies to embrace the array of systemic reforms taken on by big - city districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

Valencia and Wixson have gathered scholarship from three disparate sources to produce the first integrated review of policy - related research on literacy education: (a) policy analyses that examine policies about literacy in the framework of systemic reform; (b) measurement and evaluation studies, conducted by psychometricians, that examine the assessments mandated by policies; and (c) studies by literacy researchers that attend to policies and literacy - specific content.

But reformers shouldn't have been surprised by Clinton's about - face on charters and systemic reform.

West Coast LEAF's mission is to achieve equality by changing historic patterns of systemic discrimination against women, through BC - based equality rights litigation, law reform and public legal education.