Sentences with phrase «transform education for every kid»

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.

Not exact matches

With a $ 5.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a local philanthropic organization, they set out to transform the prevailing vision of what preK - 12 education is for — as one district official put it, «to meet the needs of the kids» future, and not the teachers» past.»

«Our belief is that Memphis is poised to be either the first or among the first major urban centers to fully and deeply transform public education for all kids — in our case, without having had to suffer a hurricane to get there,» said Barbara Hyde, the president of the Hyde Family Foundations, a philanthropy in Memphis that funds some of the efforts.

Helping these kids, many of whom are fleeing from violent and impoverished conditions in Latin America, gain the high - quality learning they need to succeed in this country is an opportunity for school reformers to humanely help these kids and transform American public education for all children at the same time.

«In my nine years at CCSSO, including five as executive director, state chiefs raised academic standards for all kids, improved the way student learning is assessed, transformed the way new teachers are prepared to enter the classroom, and crafted a better federal education law that returns flexibility to the states.

It will take a collection of men and women with entrepreneurial drive, operational savvy and passion for overhauling education so that all children can succeed in order to take on the challenges of transforming a system that has poorly served so many kids for far too long.After all, reform efforts are wasted if they fail because of bad strategic, tactical and operational decisions.

«For the first time, a group of parents is going to take back power of the educations of their own kids and select a high - quality nonprofit to transform their failing school,» said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that is bankrolling the parent union.

It involves being willing to leverage any new solution for transforming education and providing all kids with high - quality education.

«RTI is this big thing that really can transform how we approach teaching all kids,» said W. David Tilly III, the director of innovation and accountability for the Heartland Area Education Agency, which provides resources and professional development to 54 districts in the state, including Lynnville - Sully.

Hosted by Leora Wolf - Prusan, Ed.D. (School Climate & Student Support Specialist at WestEd) and Lara Kain (Senior Director of Transform Schools at Los Angeles Education Partnership), this webinar covers the foundation of what a trauma - informed instructional model means, the competencies that are most critical for all teachers to know, and how school leaders can best support their staff in leveraging this powerful model to improve outcome for all kids.

Anti-Common Core activists have expressed similar concerns about Jeb Bush (who created the pro-Common Core Foundation for Excellence in Education), Bill and Melinda Gates, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil, and others who seek to reshape public education to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforEducation), Bill and Melinda Gates, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil, and others who seek to reshape public education to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforeducation to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforeducation they want to «transform.»

Forget moving to make the Buckeye State take full responsibility for education funding (and thus transforming school dollars into a voucher - like system in which kids can attend any school within the state).

«I have no idea why they have made this decision, but I do know for a fact that we need to transform our education system state by state to assure that more than just 25 or 30 percent of our kids are college - or career - ready.»