Sentences with phrase «germany?s academic reform»

Educators who anticipated that churchmen might use their leverage to obstruct rather than encourage their plans for academic reform withdrew their colleges and universities from ecclesiastical governance.

Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academic term.

«I still think it's a coin flip to decide, but I think the NCAA will do the right thing,» noted David Ridpath, associate professor of sport management at Ohio University and president of The Drake Group, an advocacy group seeking NCAA academic reform.

The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.

The «brain drain / brain gain» discussion, which is being held in many scientific journals and other media, targets academic reform in Germany only to a limited extent.

Indeed, it is our belief that academic reform as currently manifested is even threatening future academic careers.

In fact, the students will once more be the victims of academic reform.

So no one was really surprised when the government, soon after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979, announced a programme of academic reform.

The survey of the perceptions of academic reform of 912 public - high - school principals was taken in the fall of 1987 for the department's National Center for Education Statistics and released this summer.

We have experts in all areas of school operations, and we address everything from top - flight authorizing and greatness in leadership to school - level governance and academic reform.

Common Core is fueling much of Madison School District superintendent Jennifer Cheatham's academic reforms to improve achievement across the district.

Martinez is a data - driven leader with a strong financial background and in - depth knowledge of academic reform strategies.

The universal pre-K movement also offers public education advocates and reformers models for academic reform.

While attending McMaster, I was actively involved in student government, advocating for academic reform.

Not exact matches

The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice reform.

Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.

The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

During the recent 17 - day revolution in Egypt there was an extraordinary call for Islamic reform by 23 prominent Egyptian academics.

One of the practical theological tensions within reformed churches has been between the literate - based academic theology of the clergy and the largely oral practical theology of the people.

Greider does his best to highlight hopeful, albeit mostly small - scale, efforts by «pioneers» who are attempting to reform the economy, people in for - profit and not - for - profit organizations as well as academics.

Genuine reform means reconceiving an academic program's overall aim so that its very structure is altered.

But I think there is a third reason for theological education's resistance to change: the social structure of theological schools as academic institutions tends to inhibit genuine reform.

Rodeph Sholom School, a Reform Jewish day school, fosters intellectual curiosity through a challenging independent school academic program.

In addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reform.

In view of the disconcerting developments in the past few months, we the undersigned academics and political analysts, appeal to the European Union and the US, as well as foreign institutions of which they are members, to strengthen their commitment to the European future of BiH, to adopt a firm approach toward spoilers of the reform process and to jointly use their leverage potential in a coordinated manner.

Link TV interview featuring BP Adams joining legal scholars and academics to discuss how communities and law enforcement can collaborate to reform policing.

Perhaps the commonest view among academics studying government reform is the sceptical verdict that pressures for cost - cutting came at the expense of traditional administrative values — careful rule - application and consistency and fairness in handling cases.

Electoral reform is different, the University of Reading academics suggest.

On September 11th the Electoral Reform Society, along with a roster of academic and political grandees, called for a constitutional convention after the referendum.

The author admits that the book is following the traditions of the controversial American academic Richard Hofstadter whose Ages of Reform, published in 1955, was a critique of the populist and progressive movements in the US.

And I will not proceed with plans to have a single exam board offering a new exam in each academic subject — instead we will concentrate on reforming existing GCSEs along the lines we put forward in September.

Key issues ASUU demands the federal government to address includes: Non Payment of Salaries; Non Payment of Earned Academic Allowances; Non release of operational License of NUPEMCO; Non Implementation of the provisions of the 2014 Pension Reform Act with respect to Retired Professors; Removal of the University Staff School from government funding; funds for the revitalization of Public Universities amongst others.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

,» that would restore its oversight of SUNY contracts and require «that SUNY's use of any non-profit corporation be for academic objects or purposes only,» among other reforms.

Dadey was joined by a panel of academic experts on redistricting reform as well as former State Attorney General Robert Abrams.

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a series of citizens» assemblies, organised by the Electoral Reform Society in partnership with academics from Sheffield, Southampton and London, which will be taking place in Southampton and Sheffield over the next month.

The House of Commons Reform Committee reported in 2009 that they had received «universal praise», John Bercow has described them as «pivotal players in politics», and a key conclusion of the Liaison Committee's 2015 Legacy Report was that «public opinion, commentators and academic critics have all recognised that Select Committee work is the most constructive and productive aspect of Parliament».

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

That is why the Electoral Reform Society, together with academics from the Universities of Sheffield, Southampton, London and Westminster, is running two Citizens» Assemblies in Sheffield and Southampton over the next month, looking at how those areas should be run in the new devolution age.

There is growing support for a constitutional convention among academics, experts and pressure groups such as the Electoral Reform Society (ERS).

Nor can any foreseeable reform assuage the current suffering that is so widespread in academic science, as this survey shows.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

So far a combination of resources and a will to reform, at least at the top of the academic system, has served China well.

The aim of the «3 +2» reform (see sidebar) started this year is not only to harmonise Italian academic degrees with those of other countries, but also to ensure that more people graduate in the scheduled time.

Just a few short weeks ago research minister Edelgard Bulmahn's controversial reforms of the academic sector were passed by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's cabinet.

Lee, whose academic research focuses on prison reform, recidivism, and the causes of violence, said she «kept with the Goldwater rule's original conception of refraining from making diagnoses, but speaking to dangerousness and the need for an evaluation.»

The need for some sort of effort to reform the academic system in France became apparent in 2003, when the government announced a reduction in the number of permanent research positions and the creation of more short - term contracts.

They have waged war against academics who question their ideology, and they are opposed to sensible reforms in science education.