School choice legislation was signed in Indiana by Gov. Mitch Daniels. State Superintendent Tony Bennett led the charge to increase teacher quality, restrict collective bargaining, increase charter schools and enact the broadest school voucher program in the country.
Posts Tagged ‘Reform’
Landmark Indiana Education Reform Becomes Law
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Chinese Education reform 1/3 Eng Sub
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
With all this hoopla about education in China generated by the PISA exam, here is what China is thinking about talking about it’s own education system. the very first part of the video focus on stop math Olympics used for middle school entrance, rest of the video is about reform rural schools. Which Chengdu is setup as experiential area. (In broad sense, Chengdu is also an experiential area to urban-rural integration as well magazine.caijing.com.cn
Diane Ravitch on Corporate Education Reform
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Education historian and professor Diane Ravitch appeared on KALW’s Your Call on February 24, 2011: yourcallradio.org. Ravitch served as assistant secretary of education under George HW Bush and is the author of the bestselling book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System.” Based on her experience and recent shift in thinking, she’s the perfect interview, yet she’s only done a few television interviews. Why won’t the corporate media include Diane Ravitch in their many conversations and debates about education reform? When the HW Bush administration asked Ravitch to join them, she happily climbed “aboard the bandwagon” of conservative ideologies around school reform. She supported the idea that teachers whose students scored higher on tests should be paid more. She supported comprehensive standardized testing. She was affiliated with conservative think tanks. And when George W. Bush laid out his plan for No Child Left Behind ten years later, she was a supporter. She believed these measures would end bureaucracy, give attention to neglected children, empower poor families, and close the achievement gap. “I, too, had drunk deeply of the elixir that promised a quick fix to intractable problems,” she writes. That elixir recently wore off. She is now an outspoken critic of No Child Left Behind and is equally critical of President Obama’s “Race to the Top,” a set of policies she says do will nothing to turn around the train wreck of the prior administration …
#2 of 7: The 7 Assumptions. Education Reform – Solving the Crisis once and for all.
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Education Reform – ULTIMATE SCHOOLS. Solving the crisis in education, once and for all. 7 Videos that (1) Prove why our schools won’t work, and (2) Introducing Ed-Self™ a radically new system of student-powered individual public education that will. #2 of 7
TEDxBoulder – James Mejia – Simple Education Reform
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
James Mejia discusses the potential for change in education and how his daughters taught him how a flexible education system could change our future. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.) About TED TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks …
Governor Chris Christie: 2011 is the Year of Education Reform in New Jersey
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
Governor Chris Christie delivers the keynote speech at the 2011 Iowa Education Reform Summit on Monday, July 5, 2011.
Education Reform: The Entire Package
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Mitch Daniels addresses an audience at AEI titled “Creating First-Rate Education in Indiana”. Watch the full event here: www.aei.org
Philadelphia Education Reform: A Philly 1st grader shares her hope! #SOSPhilly
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
techbookonline.com 10.26.11:MSNBC Correspondent Dr. James Peterson, Flood the Drummer & Professionals for Progress to Occupy Philadelphia… Read the official Press Release @ techbookonline.com 7.23.11: Phila, Pa: **MEDIA ADVISORY** Professionals for Progress calls for a “Civil Unrest” in the US beginning in Philadelphia. Join Flood the Drummer and Professionals for Progress as they storm 1515 Arch st and demand an answer from the City Solicitor. Will the City Solicitor sue Gov Corbett or will P2 take matters in their own hand? Come Tuesday and find out… THE MOVEMENT WILL NOT BE TELEVISED! For more information call 215.906.8331 : #SOSPhilly 6.20.11:”Sharif Street & Professionals for Progress announce plan to save teachers jobs and provide $500 million to schools by lowering taxes” – Visit www.facebook.com for more info! @flodthedrummer 6.3.11: A 1st grade student @ Mifflin Elementary, Elshadye Bussie, stands with her father, Education Advocate Emmanuel Bussie @ a rally in front of the Philadelphia Public School. Emmanuel Bussie, a civil rights activist, is pushing to get the community to control the schools and implement true reform. Visit www.techbookonline.com/beep.html to read BEEP, The Blueprint to Education Reform.