Sentences with phrase «where school choice reforms»

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And the beauty of expanding school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate choice families pushing for more choices.

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.

Before going to Stanford, she was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), where she coordinated national evaluations of school choice initiatives, comprehensive school reform, and bilingual education.

But after many hours of conversations with researchers and practitioners as diverse as Anthony Bryk (Stanford University), Linda Darling Hammond (Stanford), Gene Bottoms (Southern Regional Education Board), Judy Codding (America's Choice cofounder), and Ted Sizer (Coalition of Essential Schools), Vander Ark became convinced that high school was where the reform money was most needed and that existing high schools were intrinsically weak institutions that could not be fixed on the mSchools), Vander Ark became convinced that high school was where the reform money was most needed and that existing high schools were intrinsically weak institutions that could not be fixed on the mschools were intrinsically weak institutions that could not be fixed on the margins.

Where school reform is needed, choice with accountability works better to achieve the wide range of goals we have for education than a free market ideology that relies on choice alone.

Nowhere has school reform been more prevalent than Florida, where students have watched a punitive group of legislators push a choice agenda.

Corey A. DeAngelis is a distinguished doctoral fellow and a Ph.D. student in Education Policy in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas where he is affiliated with the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP).

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

A similar kind of grassroots reform is taking root in Los Angeles Unified School District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School CSchool District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School Cschool reform plans as part of a program called Public School CSchool Choice.

«The provision of choice, and the publication of data on school performance, has sometimes had little impact, especially in districts where reform lacks adequate local ownership, community and wider civic involvement, and parent engagement,» Bruno Manno notes.

It is a place where several major reform efforts are going on at once, making it a good prism for viewing school choice.

His work has been published in various scholarly journals, such as: Social Science Quarterly, The Rural Educator, Educational Policy, the Journal of Education Finance, and the Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, where he serves on the editorial board.

Another reform approach that is often touted is to create more charter schools and give parents vouchers so they can have more choices of where to send their kids.

In Alabama, where the state sustained aggressive reading instruction and curriculum reform (even as it failed to overhaul teacher quality and expand school choice), 33 percent of students read Below Basic, a 15 percent decline from nine years ago; the percentage of poor fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined by 16 percent in that same period, from 61 percent to 45 percent.

Same for the District of Columbia, where reform efforts, including the overhaul of the traditional district as well as the expansion of school choice, has also yielded fruit.

From our perspective, the religion issues are vital, because where school choice has the most potential policy benefit is in America's inner cities, where the public schools range from mediocre to wretched, and where school reform has been going on for some 30 years, with no visible effect.

Lessons From Los Angeles Unlike New York City — where philanthropic funding supported a top - down approach to reform, a fairly similar set of reform ideas (school level autonomy, choice, and accountability) have spread more slowly and organically in Los Angeles.