Sentences with phrase «became public education policy»

The Origins of the Common Core: How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy Deborah Duncan Owens

The Origins of the Common Core: How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy by Deborah Duncan Owens

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This attitude has also been held among scientists until recently, when the creationist pressures on public education and policy became so threatening that some scientists founded a new journal, Creation / Evolution, a «Committee of Correspondence» and a Creation / Evolution News letter, aimed at defending evolutionary science and dismantling creationist arguments.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

Since becoming speaker 12 months ago, Heastie has had few public policy disagreements with Cuomo, save for the tug - of - war over education reform measures in last year's budget.

From 1991 to 1996, he was an education and industry correspondent at the Financial Times, eventually becoming their public policy editor.

«More than just an advocate for public safety, education and the environment, along with many other policy issues, Peter and his family have been defenders of diversity and tolerance, which has fostered Queens becoming one of the most inclusive places on earth.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Education Policy and Management student Joshua Lafazan — elected to the Syosset (N.Y.) School Board of Education at age 18 — explains why becoming involved in public service, especially for young people, is so important.

It is increasingly evident that, around the world, national education policies are encouraging more schools to become autonomous; for example, in Australia, the independent public schools; the academies in England; concertado schools in Spain; free schools in Sweden; and charter schools in the USA.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

Just a few credits and a dissertation short of receiving his doctorate in education policy at the University of California at Berkeley, he abandoned his graduate work in order to become a high - school history teacher in the Oakland Public Schools.

The school choice movement is gaining momentum and is becoming an accepted public policy option in the education reform agenda.

Prior to becoming a writer he was the deputy director for JerseyCAN, focused on education policy advocacy, community engagement, and community leaders in the public and private sectors in Camden, New Jersey.

As Antonucci points out, «Categorical opposition to something on the fringe of education policy is practical, but as such things become more mainstream over time, this becomes less and less feasible and costs the union in public credibility.

A conversation on Facebook about reading became touchy yesterday, reminding me that you only need to scratch the surface to find serious differences when it comes to education and public policy.

The bottom line: The activists are worried that if she becomes president, she won't depart much from President Obama's education reform policies, which critics say have contributed to the privatization of public education.

The Virginia Board of Education's statewide policy on students attending a «persistently dangerous» school or who become victims of violent crime while in or on the grounds of a public school is to provide those students with the opportunity to attend a safe school within the school division.

After a career in education policy and public education reform, she accidentally became an education entrepreneur when she and a colleague founded Charter Board Partners.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Raising the Bar: Why Public Charter Schools Must Become Even More Innovative, was a joint effort between The Mind Trust and Public Impact, a national education policy and management consulting organization based in North Carolina that explores these challenges.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.