"Chiefs for Change" Elbows into Policy Fight

Autor/in	McNeil, Michele
Titel	"Chiefs for Change" Elbows into Policy Fight
Quelle	In: Education Week, 31 (2012) 19, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; State School District Relationship; State Departments of Education; State Officials; Politics of Education; School Choice; Accountability; Academic Achievement; Teacher Evaluation; Educational Policy; Florida; Indiana; Kansas; Louisiana; Maine; Michigan; New Jersey; New Mexico; Ohio; Oklahoma; Rhode Island; Tennessee; Utah + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatliches Schulamt; Kultusministerium; Member of the government; Regierungsmitglied; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Verantwortung; Schulleistung; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Politics of education
Abstract	Amid the cacophony of special interests fighting to be heard in statehouses and on Capitol Hill, a cadre of current and former chief state school officers is elbowing its way into the nation's education debate at a time when states are taking more control of K-12 education. A little more than a year old, Chiefs for Change is an invitation-only group of nine current and two former state chiefs whose causes include teacher evaluations tied to student achievement, more school choices for families, rewards for successful schools and more-intensive interventions for failing ones, and more-transparent accountability systems. The group has taken this "bold, visionary" agenda, as its members call it, on the road: to Congress, where they often testify before the Republican-controlled House education committee; to state capitals, where they've touted school choice; and to the U.S. Department of Education, where they've urged Secretary Arne Duncan to grant states a longer accountability leash in exchange for holding them to a higher bar. Though the chiefs say it's far too early to gauge their influence, they also say it's not too early to see some results--especially at the state level. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10