Sentences with phrase «american education places»

The designation of computer science as an instructional «basic» for American education placed it, for the first time, on a par with math, science, English, the social sciences, and the arts.

Not exact matches

Together, Lane and Comley looked at the Broadway theater demographics, which has remained the same for many years — over 40 years old, Caucasian, largely female, higher average education and much higher disposable income than an average American family (the latest figure places the average annual household income of the Broadway theatergoer at $ 194,940).

They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

No wonder why Americans are in 34th, if not 37th place in the world when it comes to education.

The reorganization of the American Association of Theological Schools in 1956 was symbolic of the change taking place in theological education itself.

As historian Richard Hofstadter has documented, the principles of academic freedom had relatively little place in American higher education prior to this century.

I am sure Pavlos Papadopoulos is right to emphasize the place of liberty and liberal education in his defence of the American institutions to which he refers.

She also adapted the Planned Parenthood resource,» There's No Place Like Home for Sex Education to be culturally appropriate for the American Indian community.

SUDDEN INFANT death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden death of an infant, unexpected by history and unexplained by a thorough postmortem examination, including a complete autopsy, death scene investigation, andreview of the medical history.1 The decreased risk of SIDS associated with nonprone sleep positions led to the recommendation in 1992 by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants be placed to sleep on the side or back.2 In 1994, the national public education campaign «Back to Sleep» was launched, and the supine position is now recommended.3 Sudden infant death syndrome rates in the United States have decreased by about 40 % as prone prevalence has decreased from 70 % in 1992 to 17 % in 1998.3,4

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which sent lawyers to more than 50 polling places, reported seven broken voting machines in Queens and Manhattan.

Access to state - supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and resulting in considerable cost savings to school districts, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Montana, home to seven reservations and 12 different Native American tribes, offered the perfect place to research, especially considering the Indian Education for All Act — a bill introduced and passed into law in the state in 1999 — mandating that Native American history and culture be integrated into curriculum.

In this edition of the EdCast, Kelly, resident scholar and director of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute, shares insights into the future of higher education and explains how true reform can taEducation Reform at the American Enterprise Institute, shares insights into the future of higher education and explains how true reform can taeducation and explains how true reform can take place.

Duncan's soul - searching and candor are laudable and refreshing, but will they do more than defer a larger reckoning on testing's place in American education?

In a 2003 report, «The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign languages.

Officials of the group, the San Diego - based American Education Reform Foundation, had considered working to place a voucher proposal...

These are not all the questions that need be posed, but they are essential ones if we are to begin to move American education governance to a place where democracy can reassert itself.

In his brief visit to what is more commonly called Andover, Mr. Bush made no major policy statements about the place of private schools in American education.

The Administration's proposal, broadcast on national television, was followed by a «response» from Democratic party leaders that also placed heavy emphasis on the need for «a new dedication to excellence in American education.»

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

To its credit, the excellence movement halted the steady slide in American education then taking place.

Even after twenty - five years, charters in most places remain an alien implant in the body of American public education, and all sorts of immune reactions persist.

76, dean of Harvard Law School, examines the ways in which Brown's legacy continues to affect equality issues in public and in school choice programs, and argues that the terms placed on such initiatives have real repercussions for both the character of American education and civil society itself.

It's beginning to play out in the unreal world of American higher education, including perhaps the most surprising place of all: the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, site of the much - lauded «Massachusetts education miracle.»

During AEW, place a box of apples (or apple muffins or apple pies) in the staff lounge along with a note that reads In celebration of American Education Week, an apple for the teacher.

Here, it was forecast, nothing less than the transformation of American secondary education would take place.

Comparable gains have yet to appear throughout American K — 12 education, but to see how it might happen, let us reflect on the slow growth of choice and competition via vouchers and charters that has taken place over the past quarter of a century.

If reform is to take place as the rest of the 21st century unfolds, it will happen because more competition is being introduced into the American education system.

Marc never quite resolves the extent to which Ontario sticks out like a structural sore thumb, nor does he quite draw the lesson that might be most applicable here: American education surely needs a major overhaul of its education governance before it can successfully put into place the other changes in policy and practice that Marc urges (and that these other countries do).

«We must help education to help our Hispanic children be prepared to take their rightful place at the American table of...

Government policy is headed toward placing 30 percent of the age cohort in public universities; for now, as many as 40 percent of secondary graduates head into career - oriented «polytechnics» that resemble the best of American community colleges and some 20 percent attend the Institute of Technical Education, which emphasizes «hands - on» training.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, reflecting rising concerns that stricter college - admission requirements will limit minority students» access to higher education, this month filed a petition on behalf of 14 Hispanic groups denouncing the use of minimum cutoff scores and the «overemphasis» placed on test scores in the admissionsEducation Fund, reflecting rising concerns that stricter college - admission requirements will limit minority students» access to higher education, this month filed a petition on behalf of 14 Hispanic groups denouncing the use of minimum cutoff scores and the «overemphasis» placed on test scores in the admissionseducation, this month filed a petition on behalf of 14 Hispanic groups denouncing the use of minimum cutoff scores and the «overemphasis» placed on test scores in the admissions process.

Another bit of good news: the single greatest force currently shaping American education — the new Common Core standards, now in place in forty - five states — explicitly endorses Hirsch's ideas and calls for the kind of curriculum that he favors:

Sure, we might be able to trim around the edges or gain some efficiencies in a variety of places, but in terms of resetting dramatically the cost of higher education in a way that would be fundamentally affordable to all Americans, trying to lower the costs of traditional institutions with existing faculty by an order of magnitude is quite simply a pipe dream.

76, dean of Harvard Law School, examines the ways in which Brown's legacy continues to affect equality issues in public and in school choice programs, and argues that the terms placed on such initiatives have real repercussions for both the character of American education and civil...

97, C.A.S.» 98, Ed.D.» 07, was named the second place winner in the 2010 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Outstanding Dissertation Competition.

Can education reformers overcome these four barriers and place American schools on a sure - footed path to effective civics education?

Yet community colleges have their place in American higher education.

Trying to increase the probability that African Americans can change their place in society, using education as the lever.

National security, not education, will be the overriding issue in the 2008 campaign, even if the Gates and Broad Foundations succeed with Strong American Schools, their $ 60 million quest to place education front and center.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court altered the course of American history by proclaiming in the unanimous Brown decision that «in the field of public education the doctrine of «separate but equal» has no place,» and furthermore that «separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.»

I think for there to be long - standing change in American education that is widespread, rather than just on the margins, first of all, people have to see examples of places that are like their own places where the new kind of education really works, where students are learning deeply, where they can exhibit their knowledge publicly, and where everybody who looks at the kids says, «That's the kind of kids I want to have.»

CPS, in fact, has a disproportionately high percentage of students categorized as learning disabled, and African - American students are more likely to be placed in special education than any other racial or ethnic group, state data show.

National standards also risk unleashing negative forces in American education — including further curricular narrowing, harmful effects on states that got standards right in the first place, and the possible rekindling of culture wars over what knowledge and which skills matter most (and who gets to decide).

It has previously been reported that African American students are more likely to be placed in special education than students of other races.

As the charter sector has emerged as a durable element of American public education and grown large in some places, a handful of issues come into focus that previously got scant attention.

Mike Petrilli wrote recently for Education Next about why it has been so difficult to put research - based practices in place in American schools and what we could do to change things.

Chicago Is a Welcoming Place for Its «Undocumented» Toronto Star, July 14, 2013 «According to Roberto Gonzales, assistant professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education who specializes in studying undocumented residents in the United States, many American cities have developed their own policies and plans for undocumented residents because the U.S. government had failed until recently to deal with the issue.»