Sentences with phrase «systemic reform efforts»

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.

A scalable systemic reform effort in Detroit Public Schools used highly specified and developed project - based inquiry science units supported by professional development and learning technologies.

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.

He previously served as Chief Operating Officer for the Christina School District, Delaware's largest district, providing leadership for the New Directions in Christina systemic reform effort.

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.

The ability to assess the level of proficiency targets is important to shining light on which states are engaging in much - needed systemic reform efforts, and casting antiseptic sunlight on those that are failing them miserably.

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 effort was one component of a systemic reform effort in the Detroit Public Schools, and was centered on highly specified and developed project - based inquiry science units supported by aligned professional development and learning technologies.

Despite clear evidence that Clinton would not continue the Obama Administration's systemic reform efforts, centrist Democrat reformers still worked tirelessly on behalf of Clinton's campaign.