Sentences with phrase «challenge education week»

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

Voices From the Field Challenge Education Week, May 1, 2011 «I believe strongly that wisdom lies close to the ground; as an academic, I always learn more when I'm in schools listening to people doing the work,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

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We offer lactation education on a one to one basis to get new moms through those first challenging weeks.

Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Summer Camps (Medford, MA) offer week - long sessions that will challenge students to solve problems using the engineering design process.

Iannuzzi was on CapTon earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a new legal challenge of what education advocates say is a long - standing inequity in the state's foundation aid formula that disproportionately hurts low - income districts.

Education secretary Michael Gove warned Tory MPs not to turn the disappointing results into a reason to challenge Cameron's leadership, after recent weeks saw a rare sense of unity in the Tory parliamentary party.

Cuomo has received a series of labor endorsements in recent weeks as he faces a primary challenge for the Democratic nomination from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and education advocate.

This week, education secretary Nicky Morgan announced plans to prevent parents from being able to use the law to challenge the decision to convert their local schools into academies.

The conversation this week included an interactive game that challenged parents to work together to decide which comments and political leaders supported education reform and which ones opposed it.

A 5 - week group challenge that is part education, part sugar detox, and part accountability.

Connecticut last week became the first and, so far, only state to sue over the federal No Child Left Behind Act, a move that some analysts say could embolden policymakers elsewhere to step up their varied challenges to the Bush administration's signature education law.

Please join Education Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion about challenges associated with developing, implementing, and managing special education programs at different levels of the nation's educatioEducation Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion about challenges associated with developing, implementing, and managing special education programs at different levels of the nation's educatioeducation programs at different levels of the nation's educationeducation system.

Please join Education Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion with leading experts on the challenges of delivering high - quality special education services in the context of a reforming higEducation Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion with leading experts on the challenges of delivering high - quality special education services in the context of a reforming higeducation services in the context of a reforming high school.

As part of a program for National Eating Disorders Week sponsored by the Harvard Eating Disorders Center, media representatives will speak in a program on «Culture, Media, and Eating Disorders: The Challenge of Promoting Self - Acceptance «at the Harvard Education Forum, Askwith Lecture Hall at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 23.

But the exclusive survey, conducted by the Education Week Research Center for this year's edition of Technology Counts, found that teachers, on the whole, still face systemic challenges in adapting their instruction to new technologies in transformative ways.

Education Week spoke extensively with senior officials from Connections Education, focusing on the company's response to challenges that cyber charters frequently encounter with student engagement.

This week, Education World helps put Thanksgiving in perspective and challenges students to «think about Thanksgiving.

This Education Week special report takes a wide - ranging look at new efforts to address the challenges of early - grades reading instruction.

As Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach wrote recently in Education Week, «Do we really need any more comprehensive, costly initiatives to fix our most challenging problems?

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an aeducation professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an aEducation Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett stepped up his crusade against the National Education Association in a major speech here last week, challenging Presidential candidates to «stand firm» against the union and support accountability in the schools.

This week, Education World lessons focus on inventors and inventions, challenging your students to see the world in a whole new way.

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Challenge all classes in the school to create a bulletin board tied to this years American Education Week theme.

The 84 educators and architects who turned out for last week's Programs in Professional Education institute, Learning Environments for Tomorrow: Next Practices for Educators and Architects (LEFT), are a testament to the challenges faced by those reenvisioning and rebuilding our schools.

The week long program, run by the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education (PPE), attracted 23 participants from around the world and examined the challenges of managing effective schools in order to provide a quality education for all Education (PPE), attracted 23 participants from around the world and examined the challenges of managing effective schools in order to provide a quality education for all education for all students.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a ruling in a special - education case that school groups fear will result in more parents challenging the decisions of administrators over educational plans for children with disabilities.

A federal judge in Washington heard arguments last week on a Department of Education bid to dismiss a challenge of Title IX rules, but delayed issuing a ruling.

«Building a school Web site was a completely new challenge for us, but success was immediate — beginning with our designation as Education World's Cool School of the Week,» Simeone said.

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A week catching up on education challenges and reforms in England made clear that the U.S. and its «mother country» continue to track — and copy and study and refine — each other's programs and policies, much as they have done at least since Margaret Thatcher's and Ronald Reagan's education teams realized how much they had in common.

The new challenge — «one of their most complex... yet,» writes Sean Cavanagh in Education Week — is charter schools.

As he explained when addressing International Education Policy (IEP) students last week, Wood took the comment as a challenge and promptly left his job as a senior executive associate for Microsoft, promising to return to Nepal with books.

Over 2200 schools have signed up to take part in Discovery Education's «Spotlight on Strategies Challenge» — a free 12 - week programme which helps teachers to introduce technology across the curriculum, and see instant engagement among pupils.

Student Teachers Get «Real World» Practice Via Virtual Reality (Education Week) Chris Dede weighs in on how we can recognize biases through virtual reality simulations where you can easily change students» race and genders, and how training programs can help to address how teachers practice responding to challenging behaviors and stereotyping.

«There is a huge amount of migration worldwide, not just in the U.S., and in juggling that there are challenges to vulnerable newcomers and the host community alike,» said Visiting Professor Helen Haste, who moderated last week's Askwith Forum, «Youth in the Maelstrom: Newcomers, Identity and Education.»

This struggle between the way libraries have traditionally functioned in a paper and in - person world versus today's digital on - demand context was just one of many themes explored during the week - long session designed to provide leadership education to the people directly dealing with the challenges facing the library world.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing cEducation Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing ceducation, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

In this archived chat, Education Week staff writer Catherine Gewertz discussed one district's experience with the common - core English / language arts standards and the challenges facing states and districts putting the standards into practice.

As the 109th Congress begins this week, the Senate education committee is expected to get a new chairman — Sen. Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming — who observers say will bring to the job a blend of pragmatic conservatism and a keen appreciation for the challenges of rural communities.

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It is possible to challenge the status quo while honoring good teachers and defending public education,» Broad wrote in a 2012 Education Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Wasteducation,» Broad wrote in a 2012 Education Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to WastEducation Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.»

Dr Meenakshi Parameshwaran, a researcher for LKMco and Education Datalab, writing for Schools Week today, said the figures show recruiting a top quality workforce is still a major challenge for school leaders.

Cleland, in a statement sent to Schools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being affected.

In a speech last week in front of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos «issued a challenge» to «align your local classrooms with the rapidly changing economies around them.»

The New York Times reports this morning on some of the many challenges raised in last week's state board of Education hearing on the proposed new teacher evaluation system, including one from me --

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at special education by delving into some of its exceptional challenges as well as its supreme benefits.

The irascible Lynn piped up, reminding Thrasher, a former House speaker close to Bush, of a questionable 4 - 3 committee vote she intended to challenge because she believed the vote came after another «time certain» vote by the Senate Education Committee this week.