Sentences with phrase «with education reform efforts»

The new merit pay language mirrors the evaluation policy: both seem to align the union with education reform efforts more than ever before, but come with major caveats.

But even with the defeat, Finch and his supporters are pushing ahead with their education reform efforts, and for now, that effort is focused almost exclusively on extending Paul Vallas» contract.

Not exact matches

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioEducation, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioeducation reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said during an appearance in Westbury last week that the agency is approaching electronic assessment «slowly, cautiously,» in an effort to avoid mistakes associated with hurried reforms in past years.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

If Gates and others with billions to devote to education continue to focus on reforming the old rather than building new, I fear their efforts will soon be forgotten after the Emperor's New Clothes adulation fades when they stop having large sums to give.

As a result, while debates between teachers» unions and reform - minded Democrats have been fierce, they have also largely stayed within the bounds of Democratic convention, with even Democrats for Education Reform seeking to temper criticism of teachers» unions by embracing «reform» unionism and denouncing Republican efforts to curtail collective bargareform - minded Democrats have been fierce, they have also largely stayed within the bounds of Democratic convention, with even Democrats for Education Reform seeking to temper criticism of teachers» unions by embracing «reform» unionism and denouncing Republican efforts to curtail collective bargaReform seeking to temper criticism of teachers» unions by embracing «reform» unionism and denouncing Republican efforts to curtail collective bargareform» unionism and denouncing Republican efforts to curtail collective bargaining.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuringEducation Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuringeducation reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.

«It is hard to get these people hired,» says John Ayers, executive director of Leadership for Quality Education, a Chicago education reform group that has worked with New Leaders and supports itsEducation, a Chicago education reform group that has worked with New Leaders and supports itseducation reform group that has worked with New Leaders and supports its efforts.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Although much of country is familiar with the late Senator Edward «Ted» Kennedy's efforts in healthcare reform, he was also a leading force behind such education policies as Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and the Direct Loan Program.

The changes were necessary, argued Superintendent Donald W. Ingwerson, because the district's current busing program interferes with efforts to increase parental involvement and bring about other school improvements mandated under Kentucky's landmark education - reform law.

In our work at Democrats for Education Reform, my colleagues and I regularly interact with elected officials across party lines in efforts to advance positive academic outcomes for students.

Inside Track on Houston School Reform Effort (An Education World E-interview With Donald R. McAdams) 1/5/2001

Since the Milliken ruling, there has been a vast effort to improve public education for students from kindergarten through high school with an extensive range of reforms.

Here is an updated paragraph with the current reform efforts focused on utilizing technology in mathematics education.

But will pulling way back on federal efforts to reform education — most likely by putting the money on a stump and letting states do whatever they like with it — benefit the other 49?

In May 1993, however, both President Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Riley stated that the NASDC's reform efforts dovetailed nicely with the new administration's educatioEducation Richard Riley stated that the NASDC's reform efforts dovetailed nicely with the new administration's educationeducation agenda.

Creating a new system of schooling that replaces so - called zip code education with school choice has been part and parcel of the modern school reform effort.

By using these five key strategies, a healthy relationship with the different education reform efforts becomes possible.

Teacher leaders - current or former classroom teachers working with other classroom teachers and other educators in the school or district - are present in many reform efforts in mathematics and science education.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

'' Chicago has a long history of tinkering with failed schools,» said Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed some $ 25 million since 2001 to school reform efforts in Chicago.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Moreover, with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan making the replication of successful charter schools a key component of his school - reform plan, the District's efforts could well serve as a model for the nation.

With the practice of spending only about 5 % of assets each year and given the large (and effective) efforts the Foundation makes in developing country health - care, Gates only spends a couple hundred million dollars on education reform each year.

It examines questions about the effectiveness of vocational education in improving student outcomes, the consequences of new funding and accountability provisions for programs and participants, the implementation and quality of vocational education, and the extent of its alignment with other reform efforts.

In it she argues that the public school reform efforts surrounding No Child Left Behind and Obama's Race to the Top are basically ruining American education, with their reliance on a competitive business model and movement towards increased privatization.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

During the two - and - a-half hour session, «Teacher Evaluation In the Classroom,» attended by about 200 people, stakeholders affected by the ongoing reform effort shared their perspectives with the audience while answering questions from both moderator John Mooney, education writer and co-founder of New Jersey Spotlight magazine, and audience members comprised largely of concerned parents and educators.

Prior to joining ICEF in 2004, Ravare worked for Los Angeles Unified School District Board member Genethia Hudley - Hayes and was a facilitator with LEARN, a district - wide education reform effort.

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.

While I generally agree that Betsy DeVos is bad for education because of her inexperience in education and overt efforts to use education reform «to advance God's kingdom,» I take offense with your position that charters and choice are not what Latino families need, and here's why:

With the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and the roll out of the two consortia's CCSS assessments, coming reforms in education will again highlight the role of non-legislative state actors and the need to apply methods like ours for understanding states» efforts towards school improvement.

Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's education reform and economic development strategy came into greater focus this week with news that a few months ago Stefan Pryor continued his un-ending effort to divert scarce taxpayer funds to conEducation Commissioner Stefan Pryor's education reform and economic development strategy came into greater focus this week with news that a few months ago Stefan Pryor continued his un-ending effort to divert scarce taxpayer funds to coneducation reform and economic development strategy came into greater focus this week with news that a few months ago Stefan Pryor continued his un-ending effort to divert scarce taxpayer funds to consultants.

You have folks such as Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort wEducation Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort weducation historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort will hold.

This is because it can be difficult for even the most reform - minded governors, with strong support for his efforts from activists and wonks on the ground, to overhaul public education.

Leslie Jacobs, the business executive and education advocate credited with leading reform efforts, calls the New Orleans schools pre-Katrina «academically, morally and financially bankrupt.»

The new law (E2SSB 6696 - Regarding Education Reform (2010)-RRB-, enacted in support of the state's efforts to participate in Race to the Top, requires Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to partner with the Washington Education Association, Washington Association of School Administrators, the Association of Washington School Principals, and the Washington State Parent Teacher Association to design a process for improving the state's principal and teacher evaluation systems.

An even greater possibility for reform lies in the move by the Obama administration to allow American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, which have long complained about being left out of these efforts, to participate in Race to the Top so long as they operate schools under the purview of the federal Bureau of Indian Education or through their tribal education department in partnership with dEducation or through their tribal education department in partnership with deducation department in partnership with districts.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Knowing that along with the Gates Foundation, both the Broad Foundation and the Walton Foundation constitute the «big three» in major philanthropic funding for the corporate education reform effort, I decided to dig just a little more.

Green says that «the Connecticut Education Association is at war with Gov. Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the statEducation Association is at war with Gov. Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the stateducation reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the state.»

This process can only begin with complete candor about the current status of public education in Texas, the progress of our reform efforts to date, the prognosis for achieving the essential universal educational proficiency of our children, and the daunting challenges that we face in doing so.