Sentences with phrase «rise of alternative education»

«The Rise of Alternative Education in China» by Johan Nylander, March 27, 2014, for CNN When five - year - old Xiao Ge starts primary school in Guangzhou next year, she won't endure strict discipline and mountains of homework.

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School districts began adopting four - day schedules in the 1970s as fuel costs rose, and currently 18 out of 89 of the state's school districts and two individual schools are on four - day weeks, according to Dr. Michael Kaplan, director of the alternative education unit in the New Mexico Department of Eeducation unit in the New Mexico Department of EducationEducation.

The number of alternative programs nationwide has skyrocketed, rising from 70 programs in the 2000 - 2001 school year to 658 in 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and these programs now make up 31 percent of all teacher preparation programs in the nation.

But the rising costs of higher education — and concern about student loan debt — has contributed to many prospective teachers choosing alternative pathways that allow them to begin teaching and earning a salary, while they are studying to be a teacher.

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.