It is competition, not standards, that provides an incentive for the public education establishment to enact meaningful school reforms.
Rallies have been held by teaching unions in the north west ahead of planned strike action over government school reforms.
He warned of strikes if an acceptable deal is not hatched for local government workers and if there is not enough money for school reforms.
Hedge fund managers, who have played a dominant role in pushing market-oriented school reforms, like nonunionized charter schools, have had their comeuppance as improving achievement has proven far more difficult than they anticipated.
The effects of real school choice reforms are systemic and long-run.
Particularly worth reading is the chapter on school taxes: Court-imposed school financing "reforms" have actually undermined quality because parents lose control of their local schools.
The OECD highlights that Mr Cardoso's reforms of school funding in the 1990s, which mandated minimum per-pupil spending and teacher salaries, made a huge difference in the poorest areas.
Lo and behold, in recent years the city's public school system has made major reforms to improve the education it provides.
Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School observes that the Dutch reforms have led to rapid consolidation of insurers and hospitals, fuelling resented price increases.
Now it is the Tories who have thoughtful ideas about getting more good school places through supply-side reforms.
Under his leadership, the city has announced significant environmental initiatives, as well as substantial reforms of the city school system.
The school has said it is making reforms to address the problem of hazing both on and off campus, including requiring students to sign an anti-hazing pledge.
She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.
As with almost all social reforms, the cause of school reform is best served by under-claiming what any particular reform can achieve.
But they are too closely tied to the teachers' unions to push for sensible reforms, such as testing and school choice.
His substantive professional experience was superintendent of a Denver school system that saw an enormous amount of reforms that he can proud of.
Rather than assaulting government workers, these reforms avoided mass layoffs and allowed school districts to maintain and in some cases even reduce class sizes.
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Instead the authors recommend that "policymakers should concentrate on educational reforms in primary and pre-school" and want more effort made to raise the basic skills of disadvantaged groups.
At the Guangming Primary School in Beijing, an early pioneer of the reforms, pupils are asked to submit comments on their teachers twice a term.
That enabled the entire state deficit to be eliminated without yet another tax increase, and without layoffs of teachers and other government workers, except in three school districts that have continued to resist implementing the reforms.
In his first column for the newspaper, Mr Woodhead said that Mr Blair, despite having sent his own children to the "deeply traditional" London Oratory School, had been unwilling to drive through the reforms needed to improve the rest of the sector.
Mr. Vallas, working with a state-appointed school board made up of five members of the Connecticut business and education community, has already "significantly reduced a large budget gap, made significant leadership changes, reviewed all the schools and is laying out a new direction of reforms, " said Robert Trefry, the school board's current chairman.
Reforms that provide parents an opportunity to choose a school that can educate their children would go far towards improving the education system.
We need more money, but we need to spend the money wisely and we need to institute reforms that raise standards and push everybody in a school -- principal, teacher, student, parent -- to pursue excellence.
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And 40 states now across the country have made significant education reforms because of our efforts -- unprecedented effort at school reform over the last several years.
With school districts across the country dealing with financial shortfalls and pressures to make reforms, the strike quickly gained national attention.
He points to the 900 schools that have opened in Sweden since similar reforms in 1992, and reckons that 200, 000 new school places could quickly become available in England.
Now a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter Business School, he has been a forceful critic of the government's health service reforms.
The other important thing to note about central planning is that a lot of school reformers like Rhee or Klein use the language of choice but then push their reforms from above with little input from teachers or parents.
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