Sentences with phrase «american school debate»

This way of cutting the problem differs from much of the polarized thinking that currently governs the American school debate.

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The extraordinary public exchange with the president gave voice to an intensely emotional debate over how to respond to the latest gun massacre in an American school.

To get a further sense of the American debate on evolution, this year we surveyed deans at theological seminaries about their schools» approach to the topic.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

And with that, Iowa State not only ended a long debate, it became the first Division - I school in the country to name a stadium after an African - American athlete — and remains the only one.

But whatever your thoughts on the subject, it's clearly a debate worth having: according to the Chicago Tribune story, the American Academy of Pediatrics says that food allergies now affect approximately 1 in 25 school - aged children.

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The latest mass school shooting — the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018 — has renewed an age - old American debate aboutschool shooting — the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018 — has renewed an age - old American debate aboutSchool in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018 — has renewed an age - old American debate about guns.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

A call to replace Columbus Day in Southampton schools with a holiday honoring indigenous people set off hours of emotional debate this week among dozens of American Indians and Italian - Americans.

In the octofinals, she defeated Brianna Aaron from Newark's Science Park High School, the only other African - American female in the division and the 2018 winner of the Dukes & Bailey Cup for LD Debate.

Although Britain becomes ever more a cultural 51st state of the US, there are certain references in popular culture that remain specifically American: baseball, the yellow school bus, and that line in a Paul Simon song about «going to the candidates» debate».

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

«There has been a lot of debate about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.

Participants also debated strategies to keep American schools competitive in a competitive global environment.

The enactment of voucher programs renewed the debate over the role of private school choice in American education.

, effectively ended the debate about the quality of American high schools for the next two decades.

For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools.

The Conant report, The American High School Today, effectively ended the debate about the quality of American high schools for the next two decades.

For four decades, Americans have vigorously debated school choice, vouchers and the capacity of educational markets to improve schooling.

90, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, highlight the shortcomings of current education reform debates, noting that «almost all of the ideas currently on the mainstream table leave the basic structure of American schooling fundamentally unchanged.»

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

And as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos settles into her new post, her unbridled support for school choice and vouchers has electrified debate once again over how — and if — such provisions should fit into an American school system that many see as deeply flawed.

This group, to which I belonged as well, met twice a year for some 15 years — discussing, debating, developing projects, writing books and articles, crafting policy proposals, consuming lots of wine and food, and doing our best to shape the trajectory of American school reform.

With Congress busy debating the future of federal education policy, here's a thought - provoking statistic: American adults in the 1940s had about the same odds of being a high school graduate as today's Americans have of being a college graduate.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

At a time when the debate around the path forward for American education is increasingly polarized, both sides agree that magnet schools must be part of the solution.

One of the most - hotly debated questions is how strong is the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers compared to the school reform movement.

The debates about the role of schooling in a democratic society, the lives of children and families, and the relationship between schools and society were relegated to the margins as no longer relevant to the business plan to reinvent American education.

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When a proposal to expand the district's bilingual offerings to a school that was 85 percent African - American was presented to the school board, it sparked debates in the community about issues of race.

Third, it will speak to contemporary debates about «deep» poverty in American cities and schools.

That question muttered by many a frustrated student over the years has become a vigorous debate among American educators, sparked by a provocative new book that argues required algebra has become an unnecessary stumbling block that forces millions to drop out of high school or college.

«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

And yet, when one looks back at the last 15 months — a period in which school reform has been at the forefront of American life, from «Race to the Top» to Waiting for Superman to the endless coverage of Michelle Rhee or the union fight in Wisconsin — what becomes clear is that we haven't been having a national debate about learning; we've been having a national debate about labor law.

Regardless of what side of the education reform debate we may choose, most Americans agree on one thing: Public schools must improve.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Mary Burke deserves credit for being a voice of maturity in the school voucher debate, which is too often dominated by those who think vouchers are the death knell of American education and those who think vouchers are the cure - all for American education.

Throughout the 20th century the «struggle for the American curriculum,» as one education historian called it, ebbed and flowed for decades as debates raged over the very purpose of schooling — whether to prepare an engaged citizenry, develop a competitive workforce, or ensure an educated populace capable of reaching its intellectual potential.

Other notable publications address standards as described in the two books Essential Knowledge: The Debate Over What American Students Should Know (Marzano, Kendall, & Gaddy, 1999; ASCD / McREL) and A Comprehensive Guide to Designing Standards - Based Districts, Schools, and Classrooms (Marzano & Kendall, 1996; ASCD / McREL).

In her new book, Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools (Princeton University Press, 2008), Pollock addresses the complex interrelationships between teachers, school leaders, students of color, and their parents.

Into this debate wades Stanford University professor Terry Moe with his new treatise, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools, in which he marshals evidence on elections, campaign contributions, and education governance to argue that unions have an exaggerated and detrimental impact on American schooling.

Just last January, a huge debate sparked when the fourth most - banned book in American schools, Huckleberry Finn, was released in a special edition censoring all 219 uses of the «n - word» and uses of «injun.»

(Its debate director said the school continues a tradition of «synthesizing leftist American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy.»)

One couldn't avoid the Fuller - Hart - Dworkin debates if one graduated from a Commonwealth or American law school in the 1970s and had any interest in legal philosophy.

For example, because model codes of evidence had been used as the foundation for decades of American law school evidence courses, and judges» and lawyers» comparative analyses, the «codification versus common law» issue played only a very small part in the debates preceding the enacting of the U.S. Federal Rules of Evidence.

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With the current administration's focus on improving American education, the value and performance of charter schools has been publicly debated.