Sentences with phrase «views on education reform»

Reviews of the new release «Won't Back Down» vary widely and tend to conform with pre-existing views on education reform issues.

Thorpe began his career as a teaching fellow at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, where he was an assistant to headmaster Ted Sizer, whose views on education reform he credited with shaping his own vision.

Ben Austin, director of the Los Angeles based organization leading the parent trigger movement, notes that his group, Parent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education reform.

The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey of Public Opinion (see «The Persuadable Public,» features, Fall 2009) asked public school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and merit pay.

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In my opinion, food education is of the same critical importance as what's on the menu, but it seems like it's often viewed as an afterthought in school food reform.

The education secretary said the government would consult on the reforms this autumn, with a view to introducing the new examination system for 15 - and 16 - year - olds by the end of the parliament.

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In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Education Next (where I'm an executive editor) ran an experiment, asking half of respondents to provide their views on the «Common Core,» and the other half to respond to a description of the reform without the label.

The Forum enables scholars and commentators to express differing views on major education issues and reform proposals — beginning, in this issue, with the pros and cons of for - profit schooling and merit pay for teachers in «Defining Merit.»

While they disagree with M4BL's education views, they agree with them on other issues such as policing and criminal justice reform.

Barely noted amid the countless developments of the current reform movement has been the flowering of an international exchange of views on education among researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students.

On Top of the News Peterson, Howell and West: Teachers Unions Have a Popularity Problem Wall Street Journal 6/4/12 Behind the Headline The Public Weighs in on School Reform Education Next Fall 2011 A new public opinion survey finds that the percentage of people taking a negative view of teacher unions is growing, -LSB-..On Top of the News Peterson, Howell and West: Teachers Unions Have a Popularity Problem Wall Street Journal 6/4/12 Behind the Headline The Public Weighs in on School Reform Education Next Fall 2011 A new public opinion survey finds that the percentage of people taking a negative view of teacher unions is growing, -LSB-..on School Reform Education Next Fall 2011 A new public opinion survey finds that the percentage of people taking a negative view of teacher unions is growing, -LSB-...]

The other is Jack's own ten - page reflection on recent education reforms, what has and hasn't worked, and what, in his view, the future ought to hold, particularly at the federal level.

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.

Harold C. Doran of New American Schools recently talked with Education World about his views on testing, reform, and the No Child Left Behind Act.

The candidates» views on charter schools, teachers unions and education reform have turned the race for state superintendent of public instruction into an expensive proxy war between big labor and big donors.

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.

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In the new era, education reform advocacy groups, passionate about their views on public education, are harnessing millions in contributions to further their work.

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

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On behalf of Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, I am writing to express our views on the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, which the Education and the Workforce Committee recently passed to reauthorize and reform the Higher Education Act (HEAOn behalf of Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, I am writing to express our views on the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, which the Education and the Workforce Committee recently passed to reauthorize and reform the Higher Education Act (HEAon the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, which the Education and the Workforce Committee recently passed to reauthorize and reform the Higher Education Act Reform (PROSPER) Act, which the Education and the Workforce Committee recently passed to reauthorize and reform the Higher Education Act reform the Higher Education Act (HEA).

See the prior post — California exceptionalism: How a deep blue state took on a democratic administration and forged a new way forward in education reform — for the author's complete view.

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.