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Education observers in Colorado, including A + Denver and the Colorado Children's Campaign, raised concerns during the first year of the grant program with the Colorado Department of Education.

Education observers in the Garden State and beyond will remember his tenure for its major initiatives.

Not exact matches

Are there no Madrassa in New York where kids can get an education equal to the public school and yet observer the religious holidays?

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

Besides, the Plan also intends to develop a tactile ballot guide; accredit observers with disabilities, collate gender disaggregated data for PWDs and develop targeted messages, materials suitable for education methodology to reach PWDs; work closely with groups and organizations that work with PWDs to maximize impact of voter education campaigns and produce educational materials in braille and large font.

The debate was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), with support from the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and Coalition for Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO), and its partner organizations towards next month's general election at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.

Observers continue to take exception not to what the report actually said, but to what it failed to say - complaining, for instance, that the report didn't deal enough with X, Y, or Z, or offered an «incomplete diagnosis» of the problem in American education, or that it wasn't «radical» enough in its analysis or prescriptions.

Some observers fear, however, that a shift toward career preparation would ease the pressure on schools to provide top - notch academics for every child, reproducing a dynamic that has harmed generations of students: Those perceived to be «college material» are immersed in challenging courses, while those sized up as less capable or motivated get a watered - down education.

Until Consuelo Molina discovered the San Fernando Education Technology Team (SFETT), she wasn't particularly engaged in school, and her extreme shyness kept her from being anything more than an uncomfortable, silent observer in class.

In arts education, we encourage our students to be keen observers.

Observers noted that the initial request for proposals (RFP) process itself attracted and rewarded established educators and familiar ideas, indeed, that nearly all the winning proposals shared similar ideas and practices rooted in the progressive education movement that has long been the dominant paradigm of American primary / secondary education.

A search committee last week named three local schools superintendents as finalists for the post of Kentucky commissioner of education, which observers predict will be among the most closely watched education jobs in the nation.

Congressional Democrats reaped modest gains in last week's hard - fought elections, which some observers here say could step up pressure for a more centrist, bipartisan approach to federal education policy on Capitol Hill next year, regardless of which candidate ultimately wins the White House.

This one tends toward the latter, with the author emerging not as a journalist - observer at major education events of the past 40 years but more as a key mover in far more of those events than he actually influenced.

WASHINGTON — Some observers see irony in the fact that a former Governor, as Secretary of Education in the Administration of another former Governor, is presiding over an effort to significantly expand the federal government's involvement in an area that has traditionally been a state responsibility.

According to a longtime observer of the Florida education scene, rather than have the school control the educational experiences, as occurs in course access, a subset of parents, particularly at the elementary school level — both public and home - school — are opting to manage their children's education and customize a mix of public brick - and - mortar school, online school, home school, and even some private school (such as private music lessons) experiences.

Although gubernatorial candidates regarded as having strong records and stands on education fared well over all in last week's elections, observers said the poll results also carried a warning that voters are likely to balk at costly education reforms.

Observers like Bracey, Kohn, and others, dead set against any fundamental changes in the nation's schools, usually work hard to dismiss the TIMSS results as evidence of any structural weakness in the U.S. education system.

A 2015 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that students enrolled in online charter schools aren't performing as well as their peers, and many observers have argued that online - only charters should be put out of business.

The 15 - member Select Committee on Education Deliberations appointed by Gov. William P. Clements had bogged down, observers said, in a divisive internal debate that left it unable to agree on a single recommendation.

Even a careful observer of education policy could wonder, «Who's actually in charge of public schooling?»

Observers predicted narrow passage for the education bill and an accompanying half - cent rise in the state sales tax that would generate $ 230 million in the school - reform plan's first year.

Though the distinction between equity and adequacy would become more significant in later years, in 1993 few education observers would dispute CFE's list of the education crimes perpetrated on New York City's schoolchildren or the incoherency of the system that delivered them.

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The $ 4.4 - million study, which was launched in 1983 by an Administration widely viewed as hostile to native - language instruction, apparently will bolster the position of bilingual - education advocates, observers of the field predict.

Assessing Technology Integration We asked members of the Education World Tech Team what kinds of activities, lessons, and resources an observer should expect to see in a classroom in which technology is being appropriately integrated.

In what most observers see as a major step toward making teaching a full - fledged profession, the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy last week announced the establishment of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Inc., a majority of whose members will be teachers.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Last week's surprisingly strong Democratic electoral results may give President Clinton's education agenda a boost, but observers are quick to note that Republicans will still lead — and have control over education policy — in the new Congress.

Not only did the Congress finish its most pressing education business — reauthorizing several key programs in its final days — but, observers say, it was able to fashion consensus bills that in effect reasserted a federal role in education.

Other observers, however — primarily education advocates and a surprisingly large percentage of the education media — wallowed in hyperbole.

A series of unsavory revelations about the U.S. Department of Education's efforts to sway the public in favor of its major school improvement measure could stain the law's reputation and cast doubt on future information from the agency, say many observers, including supporters of the law.

Yet the Atlanta - based multinational company has stepped up its presence in the lives of students and in the education world in other ways, some industry observers say.

Indeed, observers from across Tennessee's political spectrum praise Mr. McWherter's efforts in education.

Though most education observers are sanguine about the RTT's potential, these same factors — enormous state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education directives, school - level preferences for existing jobs and programs, union opposition — are still in play and could lead to the same disappointing spending patterns.

When in 2006 California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a panel of education experts to recommend an overhaul of the state's troubled public schools, observers hoped the celebrity chief executive was about to bring his unique brand of postpartisan politics to an issue that sorely needed it.

Physics suggests that in worldwide education we enhance theoretical and experiential research on the observer which has the same source in every human being.

In this sense, searching for the origin of the observer is the only element that can really connect people to each other and is the cornerstone of global education.

Within hours, California's two top education leaders acknowledged in a news release what observers had been saying: There's no way the state will get such an... read more

Never before in the state has education featured so prominently in a race for governor, observers there say.

And even if some parents base their decisions on educational quality, many observers worry that low - income and minority parents will be less informed about or interested in school quality, placing their children at a disadvantage in the education marketplace.

Let's turn to Alexis de Tocqueville, the most famous observer of American society in our history and see what he can tell us about national education standards.

Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that legislative vetoes are unconstitutional may force legislators to be more precise in drafting bills, but the Congress is unlikely to lose much authority over key education policy issues, according to knowledgeable observers.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

In addition, larger - sized districts are, according to most observers, powerful actors in the education policy system; they sometimes drive state action rather than simply responding to iIn addition, larger - sized districts are, according to most observers, powerful actors in the education policy system; they sometimes drive state action rather than simply responding to iin the education policy system; they sometimes drive state action rather than simply responding to it.

A story in the Sept. 23 issue of Education Week that described how teachers are using the presidential - impeachment inquiry to teach about the U.S. Constitution inadvertently changed the meaning of one observer's comments.

None of this should be news to close observers of trends in education advocacy, but it might be useful to have some evidence that documents the shifting focus of ed reform efforts.

Some observers think the partisan squabble that erupted in the House Education and Labor Committee last month reflects the beginning of a realignment in the Democratic camp in anticipation of the impending retirement of Chairman Augustus F. Hawkins.

Some observers, including education historian Diane Ravitch, noted that American students have never been top performers on international tests dating back to the 1960s, but that has not prevented the country from becoming one of the most successful and innovative in the world.