Sentences with phrase «american public schools»

Ripple, the blockchain - based payments network, just donated $ 29 million of its own XRP cryptos to American public schools.

Corporate Education reformers are not improving the intellectual culture of American public schools.

And it is seriously undermining the power and persuasion of the nation's education reformers, who have long seen the standards as the crown jewel of their national efforts to improve American public schools.

Open and nondiscriminatory in their acceptance of all students, American public schools are a unifying factor among the diverse range of ethnic and religious communities in our society.

It is reasonable to wonder why it is so important for Michelle Rhee and other «reformers» to constantly deride and disparage American public schools.

Low - income students of color make up the majority of classrooms in American public schools, and research shows that the challenges they face — poverty, homelessness, or hunger — have directly influenced their level of academic success.

The Common Core marks a stark change in what American public schools will expect students — and teachers — to do in the classroom.

American public schools seek to educate all their students in all of their programs, activities and courses — regardless of socio economic, ethnic, gender, or racial status, not just a small privileged number.

Back to the Staffing Surge: The Great Teacher Salary Stagnation and the Decades - Long Employment Growth in American Public Schools (EdChoice, May 2017)

He says there's never been a better time to be a student in American public schools, which educate a broader swathe of the population more successfully than ever before.

Every year, American public schools spend $ 2.2 billion replacing teachers who leave the profession.

She will take on questions of equality and equity in American public schools, looking at the history of educational (in) equality and both the origin and pervasive nature of achievement gaps.

: The National Education Association Confronts the «Red Scare» in American Public Schools, 1947 - 1954

Mark my words, we will look back on this era with great regret if we continue to perpetuate the idea that the American public schools are inferior.

The Pursuit of Racial and Ethnic Equality in American Public Schools (East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press).

For example, in American public schools today, the rate of childhood poverty is five times greater than it is in Finland.

Usually books on bilingual education are for teachers and little attention has been previously paid to how families can act to ensure that American public schools develop bilingual education programs for their children.

The road is long, with many a winding turn, for we would have to change the English - only path that has been taken by American public schools.

These gains have come even as the student body of American public schools has expanded to include students with ever greater challenges.

Among other things, the report concluded that American public schools were failing — «eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity» — with ill - prepared teachers and low - quality standards.

There were 4 percent fewer black teachers in American public schools in 2012 than there were in 2008.

Only 2 percent of teachers in American public schools are black men.

In 1954, there were 82,000 black teachers in American public schools.

One is the history of the CEP, the other contains some final words of advice on the future of American public schools.

Their proposal recommends adopting a uniform set of standards in English and math for all American public schools.

The data supports Ms. Strauss» statement: «And then there was the subject that Obama did not talk about: the real reason that so many American public schools are troubled.

Ever since my visit to St. Luke's School, an elementary school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public schools.

INDIANAPOLIS — A new national report released today looks at how much American public schools have spent on staffing over the past 65 years — and who benefitted the most.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

And what I found is that if from 1992 to 2015 (which is the most recent data I can get) the number of students in American public schools increased 20 percent.

Since 1950 to 2015, the number of students in American public schools basically doubled.

«Nothing good» can come from privatizing and deprofessionalizing American public schools, says top education scholar Diane Ravitch.

Her comments, which drew repeated applause throughout, clearly outlined her concerns about the angry assault public education is facing but did not provide suggestions for any middle ground between critics and defenders of American public schools and teachers.

If so, they neglect the reality that, under the definitions of NCLB, more than half of all American public schools have now been officially deemed in need of improvement, with increasingly onerous sanctions hanging over the heads of their administrations and faculties.

Smith: The people who run Justus and Uchechi's school believe that American public schools aren't focusing enough on helping kids learn these kinds of lessons.

Classrooms at EL schools are by design much more engaging and interactive than classrooms in most other American public schools.

Her lack of awareness of American public schools is embarrassing, although apparently not to her.

I am not talking about federal standards for every subject taught in American public schools, nor am I proposing that state and local education authorities lose all say on curriculum.

During the talk, titled «The Elusive Quest for Ambitious Schooling: Limits and Possibilities of the American High School,» Mehta reported on his book - length research on fostering «deeper learning» in American public schools.

It was part of a new network of schools committed to bringing Hahn's philosophy to American public schools, especially in low - income areas.

American public schools are not delivering on our promise to prepare every child to achieve prosperity and success.

For 30 years I have been studying cultural expectations for what makes a good teacher, beginning with field work in a Tibetan refugee school and an ethnographic study of Japanese and American public schools conducted some years later.

Open and non-discriminatory in their acceptance of all students, American public schools are the unifying factor among the diverse range of ethnic and religious communities in our society.

Before describing these elements, it may be useful to reiterate just how complex contemporary American public schools are.

American public schools are not declining.

After adopting legislation to sweep away NCLB's bad policy, the harder issue will be what should replace those provisions to bring about real, comprehensive improvement in American public schools?

Students, parents, teachers and public education advocates are gathering Tuesday, Sept. 1, for a screening and discussion on the trend of corporate takeovers of American public schools examined in the documentary Education, Inc..

That means American public schools have as many non-teaching staff per student as there are teachers per student.

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

American public schools have long been, and remain, deeply unequal.