Sentences with phrase «as education scholars»

As education scholars Mark Schneider and Paul Teske have explained, «Competitive markets do not need all consumers to be informed — competitive pressures can result even if a relatively small subset of consumers engage in informed, self - interested search.»
As education scholar Matt Chingos told the Los Angeles Times last week, «If people like their local schools, regardless of what they think about schools nationally, they're not going to be very likely to vote based on that issue».
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As education scholar Jay P. Greene, reform advocate Howard Fuller, and director Kelly Amis point out, there remains plenty of work to replace Model T Ford systems with cultures of genius fit for children.

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As a scholar of innovation, Christensen approached the future of higher education through the prism of past industries that have been disrupted.
I say this as a fairly distinguished scholar, and with respect — education can be overestimated.
The emperors and their nobles encouraged education by grants of land and money to mosques, to lodges which served as residences for religious training, and to individual saints and scholars.
Age - old methods of education and the cultivation of established sciences went on as before because of the large endowments which learned scholars had received at the hands of the Mughal emperors.
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His work as a teacher and writer of history and as an administrator in the Ministry of Education of the Government of Egypt has made him one of the most highly honored scholars of Egypt today.
Islamic history records that Muhammad was illiterate, though some scholars argue that Muhammad is likely to have received some form of education, and point to his successful career as a merchant.
The revival and the prominence of some broadly neo-orthodox scholars also enhanced the prestige of university divinity schools, which long had been educating ministers and now were beginning to be seen as significant centers for graduate education in religion.
Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.
And scholars familiar with the whole corpus know that, as Victor Lowe pointed out, «we can see how great a part of Whitehead's activities, all through his life, has been expended on education.
To the extent that seminaries imitate what American higher education expects of faculty members, they will require that faculty members be scholar teachers within the parameters of a specialized field, such as social ethics, or New Testament, or American religious history.
«What's really interesting is how fast the Obama - era reforms have been buried in the basement,» said Rick Hess, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who described Nixon's education platform as «part of a larger story about the shift to the left in the party.»
Salon.com: «Resistance against corporate education reform»: Noam Chomsky, scholars warn Senate not to approve John King as secretary
His leadership and guidance led to the establishment of a world center that serves as a home for scholars and fellows, from both the humanities and the sciences, to pursue interests in education and research on ethical and policy issues in the life and social sciences, in medicine and in the professions.
Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out - of - state donors in the name of education reform, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.
In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.
AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, is stepping up its efforts to attract visiting scholars to work with the association in its programs that engage topics as varied as science diplomacy, nuclear disarmament issues and science education.
Sandra Blumenrath of Howard Hughes Medical Institute is working with AAAS» Education and Human Resources department as a visiting scholar.
The scholars, who completed the project while working for the former National Science Foundation - funded Center for Nanotechnology in Society based at UCSB, see their research as a baseline, establishing the atmosphere of China's current STEM environment in higher education so that future studies can compare and contrast.
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A team of conservative legal scholars last week filed a complaint charging that two Southern California school districts fail to offer students school choice as required under federal law and asked the U.S. Department of Education to withhold the districts» federal funds.
Concurrently, he serves as president of the Maryland State Board of Education and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
Review: Nationally known scholars, master teachers and education specialists, as well as museums and various archives, regularly contribute articles to NCHE, making it a tremendous resource for history educators.
Hip - hop based education (HHBE) research started near the end of the 20th century, as scholars recognized that hip - hop could, in the words of Roderic Land and David Stovall, «engage youth in social discourse, which fosters critical thinking and academic and media literacy.»
The Study of New Scholars (an outgrowth of the Project on Faculty Appointments) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received $ 1 million to study junior faculty members» satisfaction with their institutions as a place of work.
Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.
Economists such as Eric Hanushek, and the journalist and social scientist Christopher Jencks, were asked to participate in the seminar and became exceptional scholars in the field of education.
The International Forum focused on this year's theme of «Rebuilding Lives: Education in Humanitarian Crises» and featured panelists such as Daniel Toole, director of the Office of Emergency Programs at UNICEF NY; Allison Anderson from the Inter-Agency Network on Education in Emergencies; Myron Belfar, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dana Burde, associate research scholar at the Saltzmann Institute of War and Peace Studies; and Karim Thomas, an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School.
Drawing on her experiences as a political theorist, an urban middle school teacher, and an education scholar, Levinson investigates the widening civic empowerment gap and offers ideas on how to close it.
Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.
Someday, when they write the history of the education - reform movement, future scholars will tug their chins in puzzlement as they ponder today's obsession with high - stakes teacher evaluations.
Why Dewey Needs Freire, and Vice Versa: A Call for Critical Deeper Learning (Education Week, 11/29/16) «The world of scholars and practitioners committed to spreading «deeper learning» in K - 12 schools — is as siloed as any other.
Literacy blogger Timothy Shanahan, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, recently detailed his discovery of the inauspicious origins of instructional level theory as a young scholar.
As noted by Frank B. Murray, president of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), a rival accrediting agency, even among education scholars and practitioners, «there is still no consensus... about what would constitute educational malpracticEducation Accreditation Council (TEAC), a rival accrediting agency, even among education scholars and practitioners, «there is still no consensus... about what would constitute educational malpracticeducation scholars and practitioners, «there is still no consensus... about what would constitute educational malpractice.»
As legal scholar Richard Epstein noted in a thorough and scathing Education Next review of the dear - colleague letter, «[T] he guidance offers no safe harbor for conducting routine discipline, free of constant federal oversight.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, Paul has clearly made his mark as a political scientist and educationEducation, Paul has clearly made his mark as a political scientist and educationeducation scholar.
Though Ottaway is modest about his support of the Urban Scholars Fellowship program, he sees teachers as key to solving education's problems.
Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.
The scholars at Chicago's Comparative Education Center, C. Arnold Anderson, Mary Jean Bowman, and Ben Bloom, believed that the whole world should be seen as an educational «laboratory.»
Four years later, Yoshikawa, now a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is back in New York as a visiting scholar with the Russell Sage Foundation, where he is working on a book using the data he collected.
Development scholars stress the importance of women's education to a nation's advancement, yet governments and health professionals continue to regard women's problems as private family matters they can ignore.
As an education policy scholar whose research contributed to calls for reform, there's nothing more rewarding than to see my own work have a real - world impact on policy.
The metrics, as explained here, recognize university - based scholars in the U.S. who are contributing most substantially to public debates about education.
With scholars and clinicians spanning disciplines that include child development, neuroscience, education, child psychology, public health, and pediatric psychology and medicine, the content covers nearly every angle of how children learn, from the social - emotional perspective to the biological changes that happen in the brain as children age.
Although panels of scholars warned against using VAMS to make high - stakes decisions because of their statistical limitations (American Statistical Association, 2014; National Research Council & National Academy of Education, 2010), policymakers in many states and districts moved quickly to do just that, requiring that VAMS scores be used as a substantial component in teacher evaluation...
A Teach For America corps member, Stocklin enrolled in HSGE's Learning and Teaching Program as part of the Urban Scholars Fellowship, a program that provides financial support to talented educators in the Ed School's master's programs who have dedicated and will continue to dedicate their careers to urban education.
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