Sentences with phrase «even as education leaders»

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But some religion and politics experts say that she exemplifies an evangelical feminism that is producing more female leaders in Christian nonprofits, businesses, and education and politics, even as more traditional gender roles prevail in evangelical homes and churches.

Terrified by Donald Trump's new and already ludicrous presidency, they finally turned their attention to the eight Democrats in Albany who have remained in a power - sharing agreement with the GOP, even as the Republican majority leader praises Trump and celebrates his disastrous new education secretary, Betsy DeVos.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

As with the armed forces (or even higher education), the answer, these leaders propose, is to supply sufficient teachers by supplementing a small, permanent...

Supporters of this idea include math education reformers, civil right leaders such as Robert Moses, and even President Clinton during his time in office.

Other than former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education and seems even more committed to reform than his brother was, and Lamar Alexander, another former governor who «gets» this issue and cares deeply about it, party leaders seem uncertain as to what needs to be done or how to go about it.

«These are tenets of my commitment as an educational leader, and I believe this chair comes with the obligation to work even more knowledgeably, collaboratively, and courageously to impart to my students what HGSE has imparted to me — a quest to impact the world through education,» she said.

Teen boys, teen girls, and, yes, even parents have biases against girls and women as leaders, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Making Caring Common project found.

Now, with HGSE's future as a leader in education policy and research even more secure — and after many years in administrative roles in both academe and related organizations — she has decided to return to her first loves: teaching, researching, and writing history.

Even though Mary Grassa O'Neill, managing director of the newly merged Principals» Center and Programs in Professional Education, has years of hands - on experience as a school leader in urban and suburban settings, she adamantly claims that she is «only a practitioner working among a genius faculty of researchers.»

Those «high» scores at Parks earned plaudits from local business leaders, Superintendent Beverly Hall (who Aviv paints as willfully blind to cheating), the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and even Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

And even as the statewide Florida Education Association vehemently opposed these reforms, our students went on to become national leaders in making progress on NAEP (see Figure 1).

In a major blow to the Department for Education's workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «workload challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support workload or pupil behaviour — even though these were flagged as key issues to keep teachers in the profession.

Even as Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders continue to negotiate over the current budget impasse, the work of processing new laws continues and on Wednesday the education committees in both houses will be in session.

However, some education experts and community leaders are questioning if Kayser's plan is necessary or even realistic for a school district with declining enrollment and a host of other problems that might take precedence over re-hiring, such as giving struggling students more instructional time and paying teachers for extra days.

Prop. 32 has already gained backing from Romero, who as head of the Golden State branch of centrist Democrat reform outfit Democrats for Education Reform, has already proven to be an even more thornier foe for the NEA and AFT (along with state Democrat party leaders who are servile to the unions).

As the role of city governments and even county governments in education becomes more - prominent — and more municipal leaders understand the role that overhauling districts must play in addressing economic and quality - of - life issues — reformers must be thoughtful players in other election campaigns.

But as troubling as Hollywood's problem is, there is another, much more consequential profession with an even more striking lack of diversity: that of education leaders — in particular, state education commissioners and school district superintendents.

As it turns out, many uninformed elected officials, and even many education - bashing business leaders themselves, apparently don't understand at all the fundamentals of effective businesses.

It should come as no surprise to the education advocates in Utah that even when their Republican governor calls for an end to the Common Core, there will be some top Republican leaders, along with the business community and pro-corporate education reform groups, that would seek to undermine his position.

The election was authorized Monday evening as Oakland Unified School District Board of Education members and labor union leaders skewered the state administrator's tax proposal at a hearing.

However, New Leaders is extremely concerned by the deep cuts to education funding contained in the bill that recently passed the Committee; we strongly urge Members of the Senate to consider restoring, and even expanding, funding for critical education programs as part of an overall increase in non-defense discretionary spending as the bill moves to the Senate floor.

Even as political leaders in both red and blue states continue to back away from the standards — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the latest example — the hottest battles have shifted to the local level, where education officials are staging public revolts against state and federal mandates to administer Common Core exams.

As painful as those reductions were, Jefferson County's education leaders say the alternatives might have been worse, resulting in the elimination of counselors» jobs, higher class sizes even in early grades, and the decimation of arts and music programs that would have «taken the heart and soul out of our schools,» in Stevenson's wordAs painful as those reductions were, Jefferson County's education leaders say the alternatives might have been worse, resulting in the elimination of counselors» jobs, higher class sizes even in early grades, and the decimation of arts and music programs that would have «taken the heart and soul out of our schools,» in Stevenson's wordas those reductions were, Jefferson County's education leaders say the alternatives might have been worse, resulting in the elimination of counselors» jobs, higher class sizes even in early grades, and the decimation of arts and music programs that would have «taken the heart and soul out of our schools,» in Stevenson's words.