Webinar Recording: Trends and Opportunities in Accountability for Alternative
Education Discussion of alternative education is growing across the country as states and districts look for ways to better serve students whose needs are not met in traditional school settings.
Not exact matches
Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School
of Business, as a group
of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel
discussion on the future
of higher
education.
As part
of its 7 Days
of Genius Festival, a weeklong series
of panel
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On the agenda for
discussion: whether the FDA should implement a mandatory
education program on opioid prescription for doctors, and whether the agency should limit the number
of opioid doses a patient is prescribed.
«The elimination
of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media's role in early childhood
education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil
discussions - all for Americans in both rural and urban communities,» Harrison wrote.
His body
of work on the effect
of immigration,
education, technology and the role
of labour unions on employment and wages makes him a timely pick for the 2013 award, when so much
of the popular
discussion is on the decline
of middle - class labour.
Here's the thing: I have sat in meetings with business leaders where the lack
of STEM
education, programs focusing on the skilled trades, and a lack
of job - ready graduates has been the only focus
of discussion.
In a
discussion paper published today, the Shareholder Association for Research &
Education looked at the question
of political spending by Canadian corporations, from an investor perspective.
Ongoing
discussion of the properties
of emerging asset classes will be crucial to ensure regulatory compliance, investor
education, and appropriate governance.
Bitfinex has apparently met for
discussions with Switzerland's State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF) and has been in contact with the head
of the Federal Department
of Economic Affairs,
Education and Research, Federal Councilor Johann Schneider - Ammann.
if you pay attention to
discussions of higher
education funding, one
of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher
education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs
of students, it's the end
of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..
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This
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Her impact on the vision, direction and culture
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As we wrapped up our consideration
of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning
Education today, we had what I (at least) thought was a very interesting
discussion of the reach
of Locke's proposals.
Too much animosity along these lines,
of course, could undermine the relatively and free and open
discussion on any and all issues that's been one distinctive feature
of a Berry
education.
On March 11, 2002 during a panel
discussion on evolution Meyer publicly told the Ohio Board
of Education that the «Santorum Amendment» was part
of the
Education Bill, and therefore that the State
of Ohio was required to teach alternative theories to evolution as part
of its biology curriculum.
Discussion Upon Fundamental Principles in
Education, opened by Professor A. N. Whitehead, F.R.S.» Report
of the British Association for the Advancement
of Science, Bournemouth, 1919.
In this
discussion of the unity and variety
of Islam we have seen that divergences from the essential unity
of Islam have occurred only when there is ignorance among the common people — a low level
of education.
In current
discussions of the nature and purpose
of theological
education Edward Farley has invoked the older
of these two models
of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»
Such commitment obliges us to witness to the unique and irreplaceable task
of the family in bringing up and forming our children in particular with respect to
education in the faith, family
education and questions relating to the right to life; subjects for frequent
discussion, learning and reading in the family.
«Practical Theology» provides the theme for much
of today's
discussion about theological
education.
It is still referred to in
discussions about the purpose and nature
of higher
education today on both sides
of the Atlantic.
Vigorous
discussion regarding the place
of religion in public
education has been generated.
Lovin enters into the ongoing
discussion of what theological
education should be and how «practical theology» is to be understood and included.
Sometime in late October, early November 2001, the tone
of that
discussion switched, and it became: What's wrong with the Islamic world that it failed to produce democracy, science,
education and its own enlightenment, and instead created societies that breed terror?
A comparable
discussion could,
of course, be presented about Sarah's
education in motherhood.
Health and sex
education and home economics texts and curricula avoid any
discussion of religious ways
of thinking about sexuality, marriage, abortion and homosexuality.
A further objective is to encourage
discussion of the purposes that should guide contemporary
education.
In speculating on this image, I suggest that the reader bear in mind that no attempt has been made at a general
discussion of Christian
education whether in local church or elsewhere.
In what he admits is «more tentative and exploratory than any other part
of my
discussion of metaphysics and
education» (WPP 86), Brumbaugh attempts to convey some
of the elements in this new vision
of the aesthetically interesting.
If there is any one other document which might properly be included in a
discussion of the Sacred Literature
of Japan it would be the Imperial Rescript on
Education.
And free
discussion is, for Rorty, «simply [my italics] the sort which goes on when the press, the judiciary, the elections, and the universities are free, social mobility is frequent and rapid, literacy is universal, higher
education is common, and peace and wealth have made possible the leisure necessary to listen to lots
of different people and think about what they have to say» (CIS 84).
Their case studies form the core
of class
discussion and theory in a Christian
education course based on Donald Schon's The Reflective Practitioner.
Were Kimball's analysis to inform every
discussion of the goals and strategies
of liberal
education, the ideas and goals advanced by Boyer and Bok, and possibly even those by Bloom, would more readily be fulfilled.
The judge issued a detailed injunction that prohibits the governor, the attorney general, the state board
of education, and everyone else from permitting religious activity in classrooms, including vocal prayer, readings
of the Bible, devotional
discussions, and distribution
of religious materials.
David C. Rich, Director
of Education and Communications for the Board
of Pensions, invited me to share some theological musings about retirement and engage in
discussion about what is our calling when we don't have a call as retired pastors.
The first three meanings
of «liberal» in the academic sphere are all familiar and have frequently been treated in
discussions of higher
education.
The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment
of happiness, each
of which will serve as the springboard for the
discussion of a different set
of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and
education, the longing for God, and the confrontation
of death.
Much
of the book is taken up with lengthy
discussions of the details
of the four plans — health,
education, wages and campaign finance — and briefer breakdowns on financing.
See Craig Dykstra and Sharon Parks, eds., Faith Development and Fowler (Birmingham: Religious
Education Press, 1986) for a carefully nuanced
discussion and critique
of Fowler's theory.
One social force or institution influences another, and it is this interaction that is important in any
discussion of community mental health, air pollution,
education, welfare, or religion.
EDITORIAL COMMENT See William Oddie's comments on the BBC in this issue and our
discussion of the developing culture
of «Sex
Education» in an upcoming issue.
I shall organize the
discussion around an axis whose poles are our two normative types
of theological
education.
In the next chapter I shall present a case study
of a mid-nineteenth-century version
of the «Athens» type that was highly honored, at least verbally, in some mid-twentieth-century
discussions of higher
education generally, in order to draw attention to ways in which the material modifications it introduced have proved to be problematic.
Would they improve the ability
of parents to control the
education of their children (a right once said by the Supreme Court «to override the desire
of the legislature to foster a homogeneous people with American ideals prepared readily to understand current
discussions of civic matters»)?
In the examination that follows
of five voices in the recent
discussions of what is theological about theological
education I shall use «Athens» and «Berlin» as types, as ahistorical and artificial constructs around which to organize the analysis.
I've always considered Jung's idea
of the «Collective Unconscious» and Plato's
discussion of memory in Meno quite interesting, with the idea that we have access to information beyond what we've personally experienced and that we are not born completely tabula rasa, that
education is not one person giving someone else some bit
of information, but rather simply reminding them
of something they already knew since before being born.