Sentences with phrase «traditional education reform»

Our hope is that these resources can help states and communities build on their successes; identify further opportunities and priorities for improving the prospects of their students; spur collaboration and coordination beyond the schoolhouse doors; and promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence learning and truly prepare students for success in college, career, and citizenship.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

What happened in Douglas County is an illuminating case study in the failure of the traditional education reform agenda.

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«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

The «monochrome» of traditional state education must be reformed to a new system where young people have the choice to study what is best for them, Tony Blair has said.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.

Still on the table: Education funding — a battle that is again pitting traditional public schools against charters — worker's compensation reforms that the business community and its Senate GOP allies have been pushing, and the governor's ongoing desire for local government consolidation.

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

«The public wants public schools,» Mulgrew said, adding that he believes reform groups are trying to denigrate traditional public education, partially by changing teacher protections.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

In a constructive response to competition, school faculty and administrators may implement reforms that use resources more efficiently, improve the overall quality of education within the traditional public schools, and increase responsiveness to student needs.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

This will likely leave traditional advocates of education reform feeling frustrated.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schooleducation reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schoolEducation Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

I began this article by highlighting two prominent ideas for the reform of teacher education: eliminating the traditional requirements for a teaching career, or radically changing those requirements to maximize student - teaching experience and minimize coursework.

The three major accomplishments of Shanker's career, according to Kahlenberg, were the founding of modern teachers» unions, his leadership of education reform in the»80s and»90s, and his dedication to «tough liberalism,» which the author described as a philosophy «more politically persuasive and substantively potent than either traditional liberalism or traditional conservatism.»

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.

Furthermore, the traditional salary schedule has no element directly linked to raising student achievement, the main goal of education reform.

Preserving traditional Catholic education while adding education reform elements has been the goal.

What I've found is a story that confounds the traditional battle lines in public education, and gives each side in the school reform war reason both to cheer and to rethink its assumptions.

The story he found, which appears in the Washington Monthly magazine, confounds the traditional battle lines in public education and points to the D.C. reforms as a model for the nation.

Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education - reform emphases in recent years.

The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.»

Education reform often appears a zero - sum battle, one that pits crusaders demanding accountability and choice against much of the traditional education establishment, including teacherEducation reform often appears a zero - sum battle, one that pits crusaders demanding accountability and choice against much of the traditional education establishment, including teachereducation establishment, including teachers unions.

The storm set the stage, raising the salience of education reform and crippling some traditional political opponents.

If standards and testing formed one arm of yesterday's education - reform consensus, a push for new alternatives to traditional schools formed the other.

The numbers of young people graduating has shot up thanks to a host of «equity» focused reforms, such as re-engagement programs, the turnaround of chronically struggling districts, and strong regulation of traditional public and charter schools, wrought under a landmark Massachusetts Education Act.

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

Asked to elaborate, the consultant added, «[De Blasio] is someone who just subscribes to the traditional teachers union based belief that anything outside the old school public education, any innovation, any reform, is a bad idea.»

For two decades, education reform in America has focused on giving students choices beyond being assigned by home address to a single traditional district - run public school.

Those of us who travel in education reform circles hear a lot of skepticism about whether traditional school districts can truly innovate.

Since the contributors to this collection are so uniformly hostile to current reform initiatives, from testing and accountability to charters and vouchers and more traditional curricular emphases, it is fair to ask, what education model are they for?

The growing muscle of non-union forces, the more pragmatic stances of progressive union leaders (whether sincerely felt or tactically adopted), and roughly 25 years of education reform that has gone against the traditional union vein leave Professor Moe sounding a bit like a tardy Paul Revere, sounding the cry that «the British are coming» when it is not redcoats in formation that he is hearing but the drumbeat around the wedding of Kate and William.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

While the strengths of experience are often overlooked in education reform, our teachers also confound the traditional school belief in credentials.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

Though we have little doubt that teachers, principals, and school leaders in district schools genuinely desire to enact the types of reforms that will benefit students, the traditional incentive structures that have long dominated K — 12 education stifle bold action when and where it is needed.

His own conversion to the school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestionededucation such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestionedEducation Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned support.

If traditional educators, policy makers, and Montessorians collaborate, the CCSS could be part of an education reform that has something for everyone.

Deeply seasoned in animosity toward the education reform movement, Los Angeles Unified held its traditional ground as charter schools were built around its schools, demands for merit pay for teachers were answered by corporate philanthropists and metrics - based teacher evaluation processes were published in the Los Angeles Times.

This might be perplexing to education reform enthusiasts; the PROSE program is a similar version of the charter school model, transposed onto the framework of a traditional public school.

Give your peripatetically solicited donations to either of these three organizations and what you will receive in response is PR, unquestioning portrayals of the «truths» provided by those in power, either in the traditional education establishment or the education reform establishment.

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline, simply look at the traditional districts represented in Congress by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who this morning, complained that the four - year - old Dear Colleague letter made school leaders «afraid» to discipline children in their care.

Buffeted by declining enrollment, lagging performance and an education reform movement obsessed with choice, many traditional neighborhood - based public schools are being closed.

However there are several quotes from the research that has me as a father and concerned education advocate asking questions of whether this study is aligned with educators in both charter and traditional schools and reform proponents and parents working toward a better education system in our communities, cities, and ultimately nationwide.

Twelve years ago, I joined the education reform battle in California because too many of our kids were failed by traditional public schools in our...

Andrew Blumenfeld, a 20 - year - old member of the La Canada, Calif. school board (and a public face of Students for Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to serve.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

In the shorthand of the traditional education lobby, TER was often tied to the powerful Texans for Lawsuit Reform, sharing common lobbyists.

Reform - minded curricula, such as the Common Core, have been adopted by a number of states, often amid controversy from traditional education advocates.