Sentences with phrase «to drive reform»

It's an understandable reaction to the high - level policy - driven reforms in education of the past two decades.

It's important to think hard about states, which have constitutional authority over K - 12 and provide most of the money, but historically have done little to drive reform efforts.

In many respects, the authentic assessment movement is an extension of the measurement - driven reform of the 1980s.

However, in both jurisdictions, commercial pressures have also driven the reform agenda.

But school board members who should drive reform policies don't really know what best improves student achievement.

This is what drives Parent Power activists and makes them key players in driving reform for all children.

Here are the stories of five union leaders who were featured on the magazine's cover and who are helping to drive reforms aimed at improving student achievement at priority schools.

We must immediately confront the issues about who is driving the reform movement, and why.

In the current data - driven reform environment, more and more education policymakers are asking for reliable evidence of the effectiveness of new and existing policies and programs.

Considering there are scarce and ever diminishing state educational resources, relying on competition between states and districts to drive reform seems to tolerate the fact that many children will remain losers.

The instruction - driven reforms of the last generation were way too simplistic, but they were seen as being easier to implement than investing in children's socio - emotional welfare.

A must - read for all who have been hoping for better tests, which are a critical element in the standards - driven reform movement.

People do not fully understand how APPR is driving the reforms at NYSED.

Paulina Lampsa, international secretary at Pasok, is clear contined austerity alone can not drive reform: «A large majority supports reforms that can guarantee more solid prospects for future generations but is not ready to accept more austerity without growth.»

Although districts in San Diego and New York City drove reform with little direct state policy support, accountability systems in California and New York State had raised concerns about achievement and thus motivated these reform efforts.

In Education, education, education — part memoir, part «how to do reform» manual, part education reform history, part ministerial diary, part manifesto — Adonis reminds us that Labour consistently drove reform in office.

«And in the absence of the executive driving reform, nothing happens.»

The role of Speaker at one level is confined to chairing debates in the Commons, but in the current crisis caused by the expenses row, there is a consensus that the position is more public and will require driving a reform agenda that sees the executive brought under control.

The faculty hopes to drive its reforms still further in the future through a mechanism by which the individual institutes compete for a portion their faculty funding.

Only an active and engaged public can drive reform forward, and make EPA and state agencies more responsive to fulfill their mission statement and truly protect the public.

Three Wrong - Headed Ideas Driving Reform of U.S. Teaching Force Washington Post, 6/12/15 «When the going gets tough in our wealthy societies, the powers - that - be often choose quick fixes.

The story of school reform has too often been one of a strong district or state leader driving reform until the end of her tenure, with stagnation afterward.

Sarah Reckhow's and Megan Tompkins - Stange's «Singing from the Same Hymnbook»: Education Policy Advocacy at Gates and Broad begins in the glory days of test - driven, market driven reform, from 2008 to 2010, when the Broad Foundation proclaimed, «We feel the stars have finally aligned.

This study found a data - driven reform initiative caused statistically significant districtwide improvements in student mathematics achievement, but not reading achievement.

In matters of K — 12 education policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but recent decades have more often found governors and legislators driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct control.

But the Ella Grant story is just more proof that when educators are invited into the decision - making process and help drive reforms, the results can be heroic — even if they often go unrecognized.

Ravitch also attacks the constellation of forces driving reform today.

But if his selection to be the department's chief academic officer offers any hint of the direction of the city's schools, one thing seems certain: Mr. Polakow - Suransky will continue the same kind of data - driven reform embraced by Joel I. Klein, whom Ms. Black is expected to succeed as the city's schools chancellor.

The problem with test - driven reform coupled with punishments is that it causes schools and teachers to spend too much time on test - prep, to narrow the curriculum to just what is tested at the expense of deeper learning, to game the system, and even to cheat.

Efforts to synthesize this research on the district role and effectiveness in creating the conditions for success in all schools for students in the current standards and accountability - driven reform context are also beginning to appear (e.g., Marsh, 2002; Hightower et al., 2002).

I agree with the guest editorial in the San Jose Mercury News that noted that deeper, more meaningful and informed parent participation in schools and districts will lead to more parent driven reform in low performing schools.

Robert Pondiscio joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss the curriculum - driven reform efforts led by the Louisiana Department of Education.

She co-founded and served eleven years as StandardsWork's President, during which time, StandardsWork established itself as a versatile organization that created breakthrough solutions and advanced best practices in standards - driven reform policy and implementation.

In our cities, however, and in plenty of other places large and small, I challenge you to point me to more than a handful of examples of local districts that, over a prolonged period (e.g. a decade), have been able to devise, execute, and stick to a kid - focused, quality - driven reform agenda for their schools.

Today, some veteran choice advocates, those who have been pushing market - driven reforms for the last 25 years, have expressed feelings of being hemmed in, and in some cases crowded out, by others who are demanding formal checks and balances.

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has announced the commencement of a 60 - day National Action Plan (NAP 2.0) to drive reforms aimed at «making Nigeria a progressively easier place to do business».

It urges more discussion with higher - education officials about how such reforms affect the admissions process, as well as how changes in admission policies can drive reforms at...

RH: It sounds like you don't have a particular problem with the Obama administration's approach so much as efforts to drive reform from Washington more generally.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School System.

The Center for Data - Driven Reform in Education model was found to have a statistically significant positive effect on student mathematics achievement.

Poor fund returns and the closure of defined benefit schemes are driving reform of pensions in the charity sector...

Firstly, the massive outpouring of hatred on social media towards those politicians that drive reform.

Reform advocates argue argue that corruption will be at the forefront of the public consciousness this year, with the potential to drive reform.

«I've been working on this stuff for a long time, it's almost always the executive that drives reform,» Horner said.