Sentences with phrase «teacher quality reform outfit»

Given the presence of these groups, along with the presence of Alliance for Educational Justice (another group backed by AFT), it is little wonder why so much of the «manifesto» focuses on opposing choice and Parent Power, as well as calling for districts to stop hiring recruits trained by Teach For America, the teacher quality reform outfit that has long been the bane of the Big Two's existence.

NEA also gave $ 255,000 to Center for American Progress, another strong reform - minded outfit, and handed out $ 54,625 to teacher quality reform outfit Teach Plus.

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The union also gave $ 588,490 to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, which is charged with overseeing the quality of the nation's university schools of education; for all the NEA's declarations that it wants to reform how aspiring teachers are recruited and trained, it continues to subsidize the outfits responsible for the slipshod quality of training by the nation's ed schools.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.