Sentences with phrase «years about education reform»

Sarah Carr spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich last year about education reform and the many questions and tensions associated with the topic.

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Moe, who has been writing about education reform for more than two decades, argued last year that «The teachers unions are the raw power behind the politics of blocking [education accountability reform].

Nixon, who said she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, said she's thought about running for governor for eight years.

Nixon, who says she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, says she's thought about running for governor for eight years.

This year, we all must feel certain and confident in our selection for governor, so we should hear what Paterson, Levy, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, former Rep. Rick Lazio and whoever else may step forward has to say about governance, education, ethics reform, health care and civil rights.

Carol Burris, New York's 2013 High School Principal of the Year, has been talking to Zephyr Teachout about education reform and her potential primary challenge to Cuomo.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Some years ago, when AAAS launched an effort to reform science education, it said that true reform will take about as long as Halley's Comet's orbital period [of about 76 years]-- that's why they labeled their initiative Project 2061.

NG: Every scientist ought to be a citizen two or three days a year and see their two senators and see their House member, as citizens, and legitimately represent their beliefs about science and their beliefs about research investment and their beliefs about education reform.

I became aware of this fact some years ago, when I started writing about education issues and found that every reform initiative I read about — standards, testing, whatever — referred me back to a seminal text entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

Over the past year, Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested discussions about reforming SRE guidance, which currently allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching the subject in class.

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

Last year, Cameron Sinclair wrote a piece on Huffington Post in response to Secretary of Educations Arne Duncans statement that its not about the building in terms of school reform.

Kennedy remained passionate about early childhood education and school reform during the ever - changing political landscape of the past 15 years.

Budget would allocate about $ 210 million to continue implementing the seven - year plan for education reform that was enacted in 1993, which includes gradual increases in state aid to boost the resources of low - wealth districts.

In this installment of the Education Next book club, host Mike Petrilli talks with Michelle Rhee about becoming Michelle Rhee, what she's learned over these last tumultuous years, and what she thinks the future holds for education reform inEducation Next book club, host Mike Petrilli talks with Michelle Rhee about becoming Michelle Rhee, what she's learned over these last tumultuous years, and what she thinks the future holds for education reform ineducation reform in America.

Mike Petrilli talks with Chester Finn about the path education reform has taken over the past 40 years and his own path through history.

As for the suggestion about offering more opportunities for discussion and debate about different visions of education reform, I should first point out that we hosted close to 90 speakers just this year.

The conference concluded with a panel on the lessons that can be learned about K - 12 reform from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama years and then remarks by, and a discussion with, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Twenty years ago A Nation at Risk set off alarms about the quality of America's schools, and ever since our country has been caught up in a frenzy of education reform.

As an American abroad and working in the field of political - education reform in Central and Eastern Europe, I have been following the conversations about U.S. civics education — or, more precisely, education for democracy — with great interest over the past year.

Here's the latest in a series of occasional case studies I've been doing the past few years, this one about an education - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more peducation - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more pEducation Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more polarized.

For at least six years, we at the Fordham Institute have talked about «reform realism» in the context of federal education policy — recommending that Washington's posture should be reform - minded but also realistic about what can be accomplished from the shores of the Potomac (and cognizant of how easy it is for good intentions to go awry).

For more than four years now, we at the Fordham Institute have been arguing for a federal education policy of «Reform Realism» — one that is reform - oriented but also realistic about what Washington can effectively acReform Realism» — one that is reform - oriented but also realistic about what Washington can effectively acreform - oriented but also realistic about what Washington can effectively achieve.

About a year after announcing Wright v. New York, she left the tenure fight to found The 74, an education reform news organization.

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.

She celebrates 20 years of reform movement success, but never tempers such self - congratulatory narcissism with unpleasant questions about why those who have no interest in disrupting the American class structure — such as Bill Gates and the heirs to Sam Walton's fortunes, by far the most generous education reform philanthropists — are so keen to support the TFA insurgency.

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

That is a question for education experts, but if our political leaders ever become serious about substantive and transparent education reform, they should start by examining the length of the school year.

After a hundred years of public schooling entrenched in authoritarianism, it comes as no surprise that the past twenty years of school reform efforts have been an adult - driven process that relies on adult ideas and conceptualizations about education.

We are thrilled to be included in this new Harvard Political Review article about the advent and ongoing production of education reform documentary films that started about a year ago, Silver Screens and Blackboards.

In fact, just last year, the union boss stepped in it big time when, speaking about education reform at an AFT conference, she said,

I didn't laugh because this overreached; I laughed because I had thought the exact same thing when I first started working in education reform, in my case, about 20 years ago.

For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.

In compiling data and gathering information for this report, the authors talked to state education officials about the past five years of reforms and supplemented their understanding of RTT's footprint with publicly available information, including state spending data and policy reports.

With the regular Texas legislative session about one - third complete, the battle lines in public education are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reforeducation are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education ReforEducation Reform (TIER).

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Last week NEA, AFT, and Secretary Duncan announced plans for a joint labor - management summit early next year to talk about collaboration in pursuit of education reform.

Last week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last year.

About the coalition: A + Denver, Democrats for Education Reform Colorado, Latinos for Education Reform, Padres & Jovenes Unidos, Stand for Children Colorado and Together Colorado collaborated this past year to write the report and to start an important and urgent conversation in southwest Denver.

According to a 2011 report by the Center for Education Reform, about 15 % of charter schools close, and this happens within the first five years.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

In this conversation Dr. Fuller — a civil rights activist and champion for the people of New Orleans, spoke candidly about education reform in New Orleans and the need to empower the communities most impacted by reform efforts over the past 10 years.

He has been with the Washington Post since 1971, and for many of those years he has written about education issues, often arguing for sensible reforms.

Like the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about more than 55 years ago, the billionaires, the charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies want us to believe that providing children with the skills and knowledge to succeed and prosper in the 21st Century is nothing more than an opportunity to «wage war» and make money, all at the same time.

For the past two years, the education community has been all abuzz about the role of reform organizations in the process.

The collective education and education policy reform community have been talking about and using the words «teacher leadership» for years, but when I ask different stakeholders what teacher leadership is and how it is formally recognized and understood in the context o...

Throughout the year, education reform leaders have talked about Catholic schools being on the cusp of a «renaissance,» particularly as they fit into a concept called «3 - sector reform.»

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

As he has with other domestic priorities, Obama said reforming education has been talked about without enough action for years.