Sentences with phrase «think about education reform»

And I really asked them two questions: What do you think about education reform in New Orleans, and what do you think about black people's role in it?

Which is exactly how we tend not to think about education reform — and is exactly what engenders fear and loathing in traditional educators, whether because major surgery is just plain scary or because they're worried about their jobs or just because they're not too comfortable with technology themselves.

In a 2012 speech, he cited the cognitive scientist as «one of the biggest influences on my thinking about education reform.»

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Nixon, who said she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, said she's thought about running for governor for eight years.

Nixon, who says she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, says she's thought about running for governor for eight years.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

I very much look forward to continuing to learn about Singapore's remarkable achievements in education reform, and to a rich dialogue with leaders of thought and practice, as well as students, in that beautiful country».

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

But what I do know is that the episode gave her insight into the Chancellor's thinking about school reform — thinking that was entirely too dismissive of the stuff of education.

When downwardly mobile white, working - class Americans hear us talking about education reform, it's a fair bet they don't think we're talking about them and their children.

In this installment of the Education Next book club, host Mike Petrilli talks with Michelle Rhee about becoming Michelle Rhee, what she's learned over these last tumultuous years, and what she thinks the future holds for education reform inEducation Next book club, host Mike Petrilli talks with Michelle Rhee about becoming Michelle Rhee, what she's learned over these last tumultuous years, and what she thinks the future holds for education reform ineducation reform in America.

But it's well past time to start thinking seriously about education reform in the Trump era.

There are a lot of things that could be reformed in education, but I think one of the things that I would change is how educators talk about their work.

You have an education school which has access to academics who've been responsible for cutting edge research, which is shaping how all of us policymakers and practitioners think about school reform.

California's top education official met with Edutopia staff to discuss his thoughts about school reform.

I just perused Rand Quinn and Amanda Jones - Layman's thoughtful and pretty generous take on Letters to a Young Education Reformer, and it got me thinking about the tangled relationship of passion and professionalism when it comes to school reform.

Town's approach got me thinking about CTE in education reform discussions.

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

Podcast: Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 22) about wishful thinking in the education reform cEducation Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 22) about wishful thinking in the education reform ceducation reform community.

Especially right now, I also think there's a bit of reform fatigue when it comes to the federal role in education, and there are questions in a lot of people's minds about what the federal government can accomplish.

From the country's philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the previous decades, and the secrets to its success.

If you care about public education and you think that an organization like PAA is needed to push for better public schools for every single child, and to give stakeholders a national voice in progressive education reform, please make a generous donation now.

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»

That immediately got us thinking, how can we better serve these families who have served us so well, which of course, led us to thinking about surveying them, hearing more about their experiences, and ultimately, getting their insights and perspectives on this broader question of how we can reform education and provide some educational choice options for them.

Most of these privatizing, ALEC - type, corporate think - tank financed educational reforms are about dismantling public education while destroying teachers unions.

Chris Stewart of Education Post and blogger extraordinaire gives us food for thought about how to approach the ed reform debate; and it happens to fits nicely with the March 29th Volume and Light post «They Planning for Our Future, None Of Us Involved.»

We think of parent trigger not as a new law, but as a new paradigm, as an entirely new way of thinking about public education and education reform and a break from the debate that has dominated the conversation around education reform for a good part of the last decade.

The education secretary has in her grasp some key levers to head off the perfect storm that is beginning to gather: in seeking information, before the election, about the workload challenges facing schools, she knows that: Ofsted needs extensive reform, possibly replaced with validated peer - to - peer accountability and the incoherent sequencing and pace of curriculum changes need to be rethought with school leaders thinking about what will have a significant impact on children's learning.

I didn't laugh because this overreached; I laughed because I had thought the exact same thing when I first started working in education reform, in my case, about 20 years ago.

I think about the visits from the Policy Director of the New Teacher Project, and the former aide to New York City charter operator, Eva Moskowitz, who said she was moving to Portland and trying to set up a chapter of Democrats for Education Reform, the pro-charter, hedge - fund driven organization.

Such a limit would force ministers to «think carefully about their approach to education policy reform».

It would make ministers think carefully about their approach to education policy reform.

Now I know you are going to jump on that last comment and get all worked up over it and say I am probably corporate education reform person, but what you should do is think about what you would do differently, if contracts, and funding were not a factor what education system would you create, what would it look like?

These Message Memos synthesize multiple studies and provide strategic guidance on how to reframe three aspects of education reform that relate to Common Core implementation: overall thinking about education; skills and learning; and the role of teachers and teachers unions.

We sat down with Ricardo to learn about his background, his thoughts on why charter schools and education reform are important, and his first impressions of CCSA.

In hindsight, Pinkston now sees that RTTT and its other reforms spawned a lot of bad thinking about education.

Ben Austin tells the Weekly, «The Parent Trigger isn't just a new law, it's an entirely new way of thinking about public education and education reform.

When we were thinking about ways to study growth in the prospective teachers» mathematical explanations, we saw distinct parallels between the Math Forum's problem - specific rubric and the eight SMPs described in mathematics education reform documents.

I think the lessons we learned — and we still haven't figured the answers to, truthfully, but I think we now have a greater awareness — how do we talk about education reform policy, how do we reach out to educators in middle class America so everyone feels the sense of urgency that tends to prevail in most education reform policy discussions?

«I think it's a huge blow to the [Democrats for Education] brand,» says Green Dot Public Charter Schools founder Steve Barr in this new Huffington Post story about the controversial endorsement of Prop. 32 by Gloria Romero, former state legislator and current head of Democrats For Education Reform California.

School reformers have rushed to push through huge changes in public education in recent years without sufficient thought about the reforms themselves, implementation issues and unintended consequences.