Sentences with phrase «today as education reform»

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

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While the super PAC backed by the statewide teachers union faltered in aiding Democrats in down - ballot state Senate races, the education reform group StudentsFirstNY is taking a victory lap today as the chamber will largely remain the same.

Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

Theresa May's personal crusade to expand the number of grammar schools is in serious jeopardy today as senior Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs unite in an unprecedented cross-party campaign to kill off the prime minister's flagship education reform.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

New York, NY — Leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY today announced the hiring of Michael Nitzky as Communications Director, effective May 1.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

Today's reforms proposed in the Higher Education White Paper, as explained by David Willetts here on ConHome earlier this afternoon, ensure students get their money's worth.

«We sought assurances from the Minister today on the timely introduction of overall SEN reform, but the Minister refused to accept the recommendations of the scrutinising committee, and that decision, coupled with the lack of robust financial data, means that the Welsh Liberal Democrats can not support the Education Bill as it currently stands.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

After the 2000 election, George W. Bush dubbed himself America's «educator in chief,» and until terrorism hijacked the national agenda, he was staking his presidency on a school - reform package known as the No Child Left Behind Act, a bill that — as every teacher knows — dominates the course of public education in America today.

People have been tinkering with education, whether preschool or college, for a very long time and as [Lecturer] Christina Collins» class taught me, many new ideas today actually have their roots in earlier education reforms.

It looks to me as if one of the most acclaimed reforms of today's education profession — not just in the U.S. but also all over the planet — is one of the least examined in terms of actual implementation and effectiveness.

Though we've begun to recognize these as major impediments to important reforms within today's brick - and - mortar world, they turn out to be even more constraining — and damaging — to education in the online realm.

Too many of today's education reform debates are conducted as if they were winner - take - all contests that must leave a single reform strategy standing.

Someday, when they write the history of the education - reform movement, future scholars will tug their chins in puzzlement as they ponder today's obsession with high - stakes teacher evaluations.

Instead, it focuses on three specific challenges that are often encountered when districts, especially small districts, grapple with the costs of their highest - need special - education students, and it makes three recommendations that districts and states could put into practice today, without waiting for reforms or help from Washington, as they seek ways to mitigate those problems:

Today standards lie at the core of education reform packages put forth by presidents as ideologically disparate as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, but the idea was not always so widely accepted.

In this, the second annual national survey of U.S. adults conducted under the auspices of Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University, we observe a public that takes an increasingly critical view both of public schools as they exist today and, perhaps ironically, of many prominent reforms designed to improve them.

Signs of such deterioration abound, as conservatives push to loosen the grip of governments and unions so as to maximize the freedom of families and schools to chart their own course, and as liberals redefine education reform into a «social justice» crusade, construe today's problems in race and gender terms, and press government to do more to advance and protect selected subgroups — a trend that's been welcomed and in fact quickened by the Obama administration's eagerness to nationalize these endeavors and institute federal regulations that further them.

Although Al was never able — on this issue as on many other reforms that he knew were needed — to get the AFT's state and local affiliates to embrace his visionary thinking, his restlessness with the status quo, his boundless creativity, and his statesman - stature in the education field cause him legitimately to be viewed today as one of the parents of charter schooling in the U.S.

As Fullan and others have noted, today most state departments of education and the federal government focus on the following four «drivers» of school reform:

As the Foundation for Excellence in Education's National Summit on Education Reform kicks off in Nashville today, a new poll of 625 Tennessee voters conducted by Mason - Dixon Polling & Strategy shows that 65 percent of Tennesseans support the issue of school choice.

Sen. Piccola & Sen. Williams» Senate Bill 1, Governor's Education Reform Plan Touted as Solutions (Harrisburg, PA — November 15, 2011)-- Hundreds of school choice advocates gathered in the Capitol Rotunda today in support of Senate Bill 1 and -LSB-...]

Today, Mitt Romney squandered an opportunity to participate in a meaningful discussion of real education reform by attempting to disguise attacks on teachers and public education as meaningful policy proposals.

But as Charles Barone of Democrats for Education Reform notes today, the letter doesn't actually mean much of anything, largely because Duncan isn't requesting those states — including the most - egregious offenders, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Indiana (the last of which should know better)-- to revise how they calculate graduation rates for accountability purposes, or to make graduation rates a more - important factor in their accountability indexes.

Today's education reform climate seems to focus on a misguided narrative of unions as obstructionists and educators as villains, ignoring how educators and their unions are leading successful reform efforts all across the country.

And, as Diane Ravitch reminds us in today's blog (http://dianeravitch.net/2014/07/01/do-teachers-unions-have-any-friends-in-the-obama-administration/), we are part of the national battle against the corporate education reform industry, which has many and varied threats:

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.&Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public educatioEducation, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public educatioeducation reform, and the «dismantling of public education.&reform, and the «dismantling of public educationeducation.»

Most troubling in the Today interview, though, was the President's failure to even mention school choice — giving parents, not politicians, control of education money — as even a potential means for reforming education.

AUGUSTA — Dr. William Beardsley, Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, announced today that he has accepted an invitation from Governor LePage to serve as the Governor's designee on the Commission to Reform School Funding and Improve Student Performance in Maine, creating a vacancy on the commission for a representative from the Department of Education, the seat previously held by Dr. Beardsley.

Takirra Winfield Dixon Joins Democrats for Education Reform as National Communications Director WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) announced the hiring of Takirra Winfield Dixon as National Communications Director.

Anne Wicks, the Bush Institute's education reform director, and William McKenzie, the Bush Institute's editorial director, describe as well on The 74 what school accountability means today — and how it can be improved.

«When I joined PEFNC as president on July 5, 2005, you could have knocked me over with a feather had you told me then that North Carolina would be where it is today — one of the leading states in the nation in K - 12 education reform.

But clearly Perry belief is that the motto in today's corporate education reform industry world is that something as simple as the basic truth shouldn't stand in the way of good corporate marketing campaign.

But rather than use the Duncan appearance as an opportunity to ensure that Connecticut's students, teachers and parents are properly represented, today's event will be just another celebration of the corporate education reform industry's ongoing efforts to destroy America's public education system.

Today I am asking WNPR's Where We Live, WFSB's Face the State, FOXCT's The Real Story, CT Report with Steve Kotchko and other appropriate news forums to host a debate between myself and any one of the leaders of these corporate advocacy fronts such as Jeffrey Villar, the Executive Director of Connecticut Council for Education Reform and Jennifer Alexander, the Chief Executive Officer of ConnCAN.

The middle chapters are probably going to serve as a useful activist's handbook for critics of what passes for education reform today.

As both a former teacher and a MBA, I'm struck these days by two things: first, the ubiquity of «business thinking» in today's education reform strategies; and second, the complete absence of the sort of business thinking we actually need to be heeding.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Today he serves as the Executive Director for the Connecticut Chapter of Teach for America and President of the Board of Directors of Excel Bridgeport, Inc., a corporate funded education reform organization that he co-founded with Meghan Lowney, an aide to billionaire, hedge fund owner Steven Mandel.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authoeducation reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authoEducation Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authoeducation reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authoeducation in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

Today the Center for Education Reform published a report labeling the move toward independent, statewide authorizing commissions as a «dangerous trend.»