Sentences with phrase «while traditional education»

While traditional education challenges students intellectually, it is often socially and emotionally passive.

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The recent surge in domestic oil and gas production signals «the start of a new era of cheap energy,» he said, while less expensive online education programs could open the door to millions of people who have been priced out of more traditional academics.

The entire approach of sex education is technocratic and, at best, morally neutral; in many cases, it explicitly opposes traditional morals while moralistically insisting on the equal acceptability of any and all forms of sexual expression provided only that they are not coerced.

While familiarity and education both breed contempt for things like traditional religion, they also, especially in combination, can spawn interesting insights into traditional religious life.

(35) Ringe found that those with a twelfth - grade education or less preferred traditional religious programs, while those with greater than a twelfth - grade education preferred more novel programs.

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subcultureby randall balmeroxford university press, 246 pages, $ 19.95 While familiarity and education both breed contempt for things like traditional religion, they also, especially in combination, can spawn interesting insights into....

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

The Australia - UK collaboration led by Professor Neil Selwyn at Monash University's Faculty of Education found that while Wikipedia was a popular background resource with students, it had not supplanted traditional sources of intellectual scholarship and authority.

Recent research that more college girls desire long - term traditional dating (where certain styles are to be followed) over casual connecting up, while more higher education young children desire the latter.

Some families used these products and services to supplement their children's private - school education, while others used them to completely tailor their children's education outside of any traditional school, public or private.

Though it's shifting, the antiquated traditional model of education (higher ed in particular) will still be around 50 years from now, so the insiders, the informants, the resident experts; those who simultaneously see the inevitability of the future, while holding a deep experiential understanding of the existing system, become extremely valuable — perhaps even indispensable.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

Preserving traditional Catholic education while adding education reform elements has been the goal.

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

Thus, even while the right education is more valuable than ever, the public perception that traditional schools are overpriced, overcrowded, and irrelevant to the modern workplace has contributed to an atmosphere of crisis.

Topics to be covered include: • The # 1 reason hospitalized or homebound students often fail in traditional models • How a targeted online homebound education program can be less costly while improving educational outcomes • How K12 provides homebound students access to the same rigorous learning experience as their in - school classmates • How this model also works effectively in alternative learning environments, such as addiction centers or juvenile detention facilities

It is not possible to use this methodology to examine elementary schools because testing begins in third grade, so for those schools we compare test - score growth in traditional public schools and charter schools while taking into account student characteristics such as race, age, and special education status.

Rocketship is transforming elementary public education with strong academic results, while operating its schools solely on traditional public funding.

While this can be the preferred model for district administrators when looking at continuing education requirements, teachers are finding ways shake up the idea of traditional ongoing professional learning opportunities.

While Plato stressed the laborious acquisition of knowledge and understanding as the means to enlightenment, our impatient age has preferred to think of the emancipation to be achieved through education as simply the removal of the chains of illusion (conventional morality and traditional religious worldviews) without the discipline of seeking truth or the confidence that there is truth to be found.

While the strengths of experience are often overlooked in education reform, our teachers also confound the traditional school belief in credentials.

Education policy changes made this decade by state lawmakers have helped create a trend in which enrollment in traditional public schools has declined while more students are enrolling in charter schools, private schools and homeschools.

While reminding the audience that public charter schools prove that «quality and choice can coexist,» she added that they «are not the one cure - all to the ills that beset education» and provided an example of three successful Miami - area schools she recently visited — a public charter, a private school, and a traditional public school, noting that the common factor with all three schools was the satisfaction of the parents that their chosen school was providing their child a quality education.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

While more families are attracted to charters for their typically smaller campuses with science, special education, alternative classes and other themes, those in charge of traditional schools and teachers unions are concerned about losing so many students.

ESAs differ from vouchers and tax - credit scholarships because the more traditional options only allow parents to choose between participating schools, while ESAs allow parents to fund other education expenses.

This case study examines the issues encountered while developing a career academy of the arts that integrates traditional college preparatory education with student - centered learning to foster personal growth, artistic development and democratic empowerment.

Charter schools are unique public schools granted some flexibility by the state to be responsive to students» needs and innovative in education, while meeting stricter accountability than traditional ISDs, because charter schools can be closed if there are academic and financial problems for three years running.

While Congress and the Obama administration have pressed the Bureau of Indian Education to overhaul operations at the schools it oversees on or near American Indian reservations, more than 90 percent of the 950,000 American Indian children attend traditional public schools run by local districts.

While most schools still operate in this traditional manner, personalized learning is an emerging educational approach that is being adopted in K - 12 and higher education classrooms.

While traditional foreign policy experts might not place education at the top of the agenda, the truth is that it's one of the greatest tools in our national security toolkit, and one that could use some sharpening.

Many of them only need six months to a year of classes to graduate, he says, but while some simply didn't do well in a traditional school setting, other students saw their education derailed by «something that's happened in their lives.»

Early on the journey, driven by a passionate belief that all children deserve a quality education, Steve dedicated over eight years to teaching and learning where he made a difference in the lives of children, firsthand, while serving as a traditional classroom teacher, therapist and special education teacher from 1977 through 1985.

And while outcomes for students studying in online schools are «consistently below traditional public schools,» enrollment in full - time online and blended learning schools continues to increase, according to a 2016 report by the National Education Policy Center.

Afghanistan's first institute of music train children in traditional Afghan and classical Western music, while providing a high - quality academic education, regardless...

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

Our analysis makes key findings — such as that while charter schools consistently enroll fewer students with disabilities than do traditional public schools, charters also serve special education students in more inclusive settings than do those traditional schools.

While we can not be certain these gains will remain if additional and severe education cuts are enacted, we remain vigilant in protecting all forms of charter school funding and in reducing inequity in funding levels between charter schools and traditional public schools.

Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are seeking a small cut for special education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1Education Betsy DeVos are seeking a small cut for special education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 billion.

State grants for special education, meanwhile, would get a $ 200 million increase from this year (fiscal 2017) up to $ 12.2 billion, while traditional Title I funding for districts would essentially remain flat at $ 15.9 billion.

While DeVos» group, the Great Lakes Education Project, supported most of the changes, it pushed back hard against a proposed Detroit commission focused on improving both charters and traditional schools, contending it would be beholden to the city's mayor and school - district officials.

While the Legislature continues to be woefully behind on providing funding to keep up with rising costs across the last decade, HB7055, in a sudden show of largesse, will alter the PECO funding structure so that well over 3,000 traditional schools must split $ 50 million dollars while 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled this wWhile the Legislature continues to be woefully behind on providing funding to keep up with rising costs across the last decade, HB7055, in a sudden show of largesse, will alter the PECO funding structure so that well over 3,000 traditional schools must split $ 50 million dollars while 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled this wwhile 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled this way?).

It also demeans public education making the assumption that all charter and private schools are thriving while public traditional schools are failing.

The number of students with moderate to severe disabilities at the nearly 100 charters has increased from 1.2 percent in 2010 - 11 to 2.1 percent this past school year, while the percentage of special education students in traditional district schools with moderate to severe disabilities has risen to 4.72 percent from 3.63 percent five years ago.

While some suggest that these demographics indicate charter schools are contributing to the resegregation of public education, charter school advocates counter that charter enrollment resembles the demographic breakdown of traditional public schools in their surrounding districts and neighborhoods, and note that communities often intentionally establish charter schools to reach large numbers of underserved students (NAPCS, 2012).

In traditional education settings, the focus has been on IQ skills, however, recent research shows that while IQ might be the strongest predictor of future salary, a person's Emotional Intelligence has a significant impact on predicting life - altering factors including adult conviction rates, substance abuse, and overall health.

Today, Tennessee's charter school movement — which serves more than 35,000 students across 112 schools — has revolutionized traditional thinking about public schools and helping students reach new heights of achievement while also paving the way for enhanced innovation in K - 12 education.

William Kristol, then chief of staff of Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education William Bennett, said that while the department «didn't have problems» with the proposal, «we think there is lots of evidence that traditional methods are working.»

As part of the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, she studied elementary education at Mercy College while working in a traditional public school in the South Bronx.

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