Sentences with phrase «american public school system»

Examination of the treatment of students with disabilities by particular charter schools and charter networks thus exemplifies the limits of the school choice system, which is not equally accessible for all children in the American public school system.

There are greedy corporations and politicians eager to destroy and profit from our American public school system and vulnerable children.

«a new revolutionary era of permissiveness in this country fostered by the judiciary... I wish, therefore, wholly to disclaim any purpose on my part to hold that the Federal Constitution compels the teachers, parents, and elected school officials to surrender control of the American public school system to public school students.»

As Peter Cookson and Kristina Berger observed in 2002, «Much of the charter movement is rooted in the same assumptions and philosophy that [voucher advocates John] Chubb and [Terry] Moe use to support their belief that the American public school system should be transformed into a market - based «economy» that forces autonomous, publicly funded schools to compete for students.»

Every American leader with any sphere of influence in whatever walk of life should see the recent ABC television report by John Stossel entitled «Stupid in America», a scathing expose of the irrational perversity that is so deeply imbedded in the American public school system and the severe damage that this archaic culture and delivery -LSB-...]

Although our education system is not as bad off as some would have the public believe, 16 the rhetoric of a failing education system has led to a series of initiatives that have transformed the role and function of the American public school system.

With each student in grades 3 through 8 now being tested annually in at least two subjects, and schools» progress assessed largely on the basis of the results, there is no corner of the American public school system left untouched.

The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop - outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future.

Most of these proposals seriously challenge the defining features of the American public school system that developed after World...

Education technology is a tsunami that is only now beginning to swell, and it will hit the American public school system with full force over the next decade and those to follow.

It is the American high school that seems to be the most obviously broken component of the American public school system.

A dark chronicling of the sad state of the American Public School System, through the eyes of a long - term substitute teacher (Adrien Brody), wrestling his own demons whilst trying to make a difference both professionally and personally during his latest assignment.

«It's unfortunate what is happening in the American public school system,» Wade said in a latest news release.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

I was taught about Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc. in the American public school system (90's).

Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

Not exact matches

We noted that no other major institution in American society» notably the public school system, social workers, Boy Scouts, athletic associations» has been subjected to similar scrutiny, and that some experts believe that the incidence of sex abuse by priests and bishops is relatively small by comparison.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

About a thousand Asian Americans, most of Chinese heritage, converged on the Legislative Office Building Thursday to support a bill that would ban the separation of data about Connecticut's students into ethnic subgroups in the public school system unless...

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

Is New Orleans a metaphor for what could happen to the American public - school system nationally?

Senior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

Posted: December 21, 2006 PayzantSenior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

If active and continuing judicial supervision of school spending were to be institutionalized, the result would be a radical — and unnecessary — revision of the American system for appropriating public funds.

One of its central themes is that Americans are on both «sides» of the voucher issue at once: they like the public school system and they are positively inclined toward vouchers.

The American school bus is a familiar icon of the public school system.

Using a 1995 survey of 4,700 adults (with an over-sample of urban adults), Moe finds that Americans like the public school system but think that private schools are better.

As charter pioneer Ted Kolderie wrote, this horse trade would ``... introduce the dynamics of choice, competition, and innovation into American's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

On November 13, 2014, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion with Cami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools since 2011, focusing on the challenges she has faced since taking over a system with a 50 percent graduation rate.

Together, the essays in Integrating Schools highlight new ways for the American public education system to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality and reverse the course policies have taken since the decisions of Brown.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

And today most Americans remain frustrated and confused about the quality of the public school systems.

She was among the African American teachers to integrate the Montgomery Public School system, and Madison Park seemed to have had the highest concentration of blacks transferred to Dozier Elementary.

Any dollar spent to subsidize or incentivize private school education is a dollar lost on the public education system that educates 90 percent of Americans and must accept and educate any and all school - aged children.

Unlike New York City's public school system where African - Americans and Hispanics comprise 70 percent of the population, only 3 percent of the students at Hunter College High School are Black and 1 percent Hisschool system where African - Americans and Hispanics comprise 70 percent of the population, only 3 percent of the students at Hunter College High School are Black and 1 percent HisSchool are Black and 1 percent Hispanic.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

What's more, public charter schools are a very small slice of the American education system.

The ARCH project, developed through a Teaching American History grant partnership between the Howard County Public School System (Maryland) and the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), is a framework for assessment that measures the process of historical thinking, as well as the retention of prior knowledge.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

Developments in American education since then have been the direct result of collective bargaining in our public school systems.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

With the mounting changes in the education landscape, Public Schools Week creates a platform for Americans to express their feelings toward public school systems and why their success is a key determinant when it comes to our country's future.&Public Schools Week creates a platform for Americans to express their feelings toward public school systems and why their success is a key determinant when it comes to our country's future.&public school systems and why their success is a key determinant when it comes to our country's future.»

This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5] schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, school district in San Antonio, Texas.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

And, in fact, Nocera ignores most of the last 150 years of American history, during which time our public school system did rather well educating poor people.

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.