Sentences with phrase «education week points»

As Education Week points out, «The video game was a strong distractor: Children on average spent more than 60 percent of their time on «breaks».»

Lynn Olson of Education Week pointed out that one «striking feature of the award - winning designs is how many ideas they have in common.»

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... Considering Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation last week that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids in their opposition to his education funding cuts, this mailer seemed particularly pointed.

But shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg pointed out the reforms outlined today followed aborted attempts to replace GCSEs with CSEs and O - levels, the English Baccalaureate and, last week, «I - levels».

The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last week and a round - the - clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling point during the debate over Sessions — which Democrats continued overnight.

At Monday's meeting of the state Board of Regents, Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and her staff reiterated a point they have advanced over the past week — that bipartisan repeal legislation recently approved by the Democratic - controlled state Assembly could have the unintended result of generating more tests.

Education took center stage this budget season in Albany, with teacher evaluations, testing, and tenure the major points of debate as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature worked on the details of the spending plan, which passed this week.

In this week's Press Pass, WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News Education reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss the sticking points anticipated in future contract talks.

While this does not reveal any burning interest in science, at least he starts with a clean slate, enthusiasm and, as Science and Education pointed out last week, a sense of humour.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

Their turnkey lifestyle change program for healthcare centers is a unique 12 - week program with patient education material, health assessment intake forms, power point presentations and much more.

Case in point: Last week, I visited Vanderbilt University in order to chat about Letters to a Young Education Reformer.

Stephen L. Gessner uses the Education Week classifieds as a point of departure for an analysis of what is wrong in American schooling («What the Want Ads Can Tell Us About the Educational Wars,» July 8, 1998).

Some additional journalists show up on this ranking: Valerie Strauss (more of an opinion blogger than a journalist at this point); Greg Toppo of USA Today; and Steve Sawchuk of Education Week.

In my Education Week «Commentary,» I compared adaptive learning to their standard sales technique of finding a customer's price point before pitching a particular piece of merchandise.

In a pointed attack on the Michigan Education Association, the Michigan legislature last week cleared a bill that would set fines and penalties for local teachers who strike over contract disputes and limit the teachers» union's collective - bargaining clout.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

In honor of American Education Week, the White House's office of national service put an educational slant on its «points of light» campaign.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Stephen Arons has brilliantly — and correctly — pointed out the errors of the concept of value - neutral education in his recent Commentary («The Myth of Value - Neutral Schooling,» Education Week, Nov. education in his recent Commentary («The Myth of Value - Neutral Schooling,» Education Week, Nov. Education Week, Nov. 7, 1984).

This week, Education World talks with Jackson about how educators can use Turning Points 2000 to provide an exemplary experience in middle grades eEducation World talks with Jackson about how educators can use Turning Points 2000 to provide an exemplary experience in middle grades educationeducation.

New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, said the results point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.

Last week, Bellwether Education Partners analyst (and Obama administration alumnus) Chad Aldeman pointed out that I've changed my views on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act since 2011.

In predicting the effects of Proposition 203, a measure to dismantle bilingual education that goes before Arizona voters next week, both proponents and opponents have pointed to a 1998 California law that had a similar intent.

Case in point: last week's news stories about the Department of Education's enforcement of civil rights laws.

«If you select the right measures, you can provide teachers with an honest assessment of where they stand in their practice that, hopefully, will serve as the launching point for their development,» Kane told Education Week.

Pointing to a recent Education Week article about Chicago school districts» plans to recruit teachers from overseas, he stressed that retired service members, most only in their 40s, are a «highly qualified» pool that can be tapped for such hard - to - fill positions.

The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting — and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson — also highlighted that during a regular working week high school teachers spend, on average, nine hours a week working outside standard school hours.

The launch of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform for the evolution of its Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parentsEducation Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parentseducation issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parentseducation coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents to life.

To better understand where the ed - tech pressure points are for principals, the Education Week Research Center conducted a nationally representative survey of 500 principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders.

As pointed out on this week's Dropout Nation Podcast on school turnarounds, student achievement data will drive how principals evaluate and assign teachers; it is already beginning to reshape how teachers instruct in classrooms and address the nation's education crisis.

However, decades of school reform research «has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices,» as Mike Copland and Meredith Honig, University of Washington researchers, point out in their recent Education Week commentary, «Don't Cut Out the Center.»

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andreweducation debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's AndrewEducation Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

At the midway point of the federal Race to the Top program, the list of accomplishments for the 11 winning states and the District of Columbia is getting longer, but the challenges are getting more formidable as the time frame gets shorter, according to a progress report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last week.

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains why U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was right to point out some of the underlying reasons behind opposition to Common Core standards — and why we should also be unafraid to call out failed policies and practices that condemn 120 children an hour to poverty and prison.

A Department for Education spokesperson pointed Schools Week to a comment by schools minister Nick Gibb in October that said matching teachers to roles was «ongoing» and that, once the process had concluded, the number of withdrawals and cost of the pilot would be released.

«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [Education Week assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards, assessments and accountability... data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight points in fourth grade Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in NAEP recorded history.

It seems that almost every week there's some sort of news article or study pointing out how much Americans don't know, soon followed by a cry for more civics education in schools.

Krista Glazewski, an IU professor we interviewed for our story last week, points out blended learning has been introduced in small charter schools that don't necessarily serve the broad populations of students public education must serve.

If Americans know Education Secretary Arne Duncan for anything at this point, it would be as that guy who claimed last week that opposition to the Common Core national K - 12 educational standards sprang from «white suburban moms» who feared that tougher requirements would reveal their children to be as not «brilliant» as they thought.

Over the last few weeks, school district superintendents, education groups and newspaper editorial boards across the state have expressed their concerns, pointing out what they perceive as numerous shortcomings in the measure, AB 375, authored by Joan Buchanan, a Bay Area Democrat.

An effort to develop a statewide school accountability system marks a turning point in Wisconsin, education experts said last week as a public effort to design the system got under way.

Rich points out not one Democrat in the GOP - controlled U.S. House voted last week for a re-write of federal education laws known as No Child Left Behind.

Data experts Education Datalab published a blog this week revealing the average point scores of pupils from 2015 in popular non-GCSE qualifications compared with their GCSE scores.

A couple of weeks ago Massie Ritsch, assistant communications and outreach point man for Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left his job to take a similar position at Teach For America.

It's important to clarify a point made earlier this week by the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER).

Education Week says the data, while still under review, are consistent with other recent research pointing to a «greening» trend in teaching over the past 20 years.

Writing for Education Week, Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute called the writing «ripped from the talking points of Common Core enthusiasts» and «an object lesson in the vapid triumphalism of Common Core boosters.

They pointed out that California ranked 43rd in adjusted per - pupil expenditures for K - 12 education, according to a survey conducted by Education Week, with per - student spending of $ 9,417, which is $ 3,109 below the national average of education, according to a survey conducted by Education Week, with per - student spending of $ 9,417, which is $ 3,109 below the national average of Education Week, with per - student spending of $ 9,417, which is $ 3,109 below the national average of $ 12,526.

(Stephen Sawchuk of Education Week is required reading for a pointed warning about misuses of NAEP data by education advocates seeking to bolster their own poEducation Week is required reading for a pointed warning about misuses of NAEP data by education advocates seeking to bolster their own poeducation advocates seeking to bolster their own positions.)