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Stand for Children is an American education advocacy group. Founded in 1996 following a Children's Defense Fund rally [1] the non-profit advocates for equity in public education. Stand for Children's mission is "to ensure all students receive a high quality, relevant education, especially those whose boundless potential is overlooked and under ...
Since advocacy groups have the agency to control a community's narrative through a social media post, they have the agency to control the deservedness of a community as well. That is, the amount of resources or attention a community receives largely depends on the kind of narrative an advocacy group curates for them on social media. [50]
This category is for groups that advocate for education issues. ... Pages in category "Education advocacy groups" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of ...
A peak organisation or peak body is an Australian term for an advocacy group or trade association, an association of industries or groups with allied interests. [1] They are generally established for the purposes of developing standards and processes, or to act on behalf of all members when lobbying government or promoting the interests of the members.
StudentsFirst organizes its policy agenda into three categories: "elevate teaching," "empower parents," and "govern well." [4]Under what it calls "elevate teaching," StudentsFirst has sought to eliminate the "last in, first out"—or LIFO-- seniority system for laying off public school teachers, [1] based on the premise that such a system promotes a sense of "adult entitlement" among teachers. [5]
"Factory model schools", "factory model education", or "industrial era schools" are ahistorical [1] [2] terms that emerged in the mid to late-20th century and are used by writers and speakers as a rhetorical device by those advocating changes to education systems.
As a result of group pressure from the NAACP, the supreme court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in education was indeed unconstitutional and such practices were banned. [18] This is a novel example of how advocacy groups can exert influence in the judicial branch of government.
Education policy consists of the principles and policy decisions that influence the field of education, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems. [1] Education governance may be shared between the local, state, and federal government at varying levels. Some analysts see education policy in terms ...