Sentences with phrase «about improving our education system»

Our donors recognize that empowered educators need to lead the dialogue about improving our education system in order for transformational change to happen in ways that benefit public schools and students.

I am passionate about improving our education system and bringing educational equity to all schools no matter what n...

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«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»

If New York State is serious about improving education, it must move forward with a better teacher evaluation system,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

In the last the discussion of the meeting there were 4 conclusions about improving education in science: to motivate and pay teachers well (primary and secondary levels), to promote science via the media (government back up), to inspire leaders to start the change, and to develop a good mentoring system so the student can study at home and go back to the professor with questions.

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We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and dEducation, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation is regulated, managed, and delivered.

For many students, the education system isn't working as well as it ought to, and figuring out ways to improve it is what I'm most passionate about, and why I'm so eager — and honored — to take on the role of dean at HGSE.

Bringing his rich experience of 7 years with Moodle, he is passionate about improving Indian education system by using open source tools like Moodle more effectively.

«I wanted to explore the relationships between core topics in education like the history of schooling, how it created the teaching and learning we see today, and how we can use what we know about child and adult development to improve our education system.»

Bringing his rich experience of 7 years with Moodle, he is passionate about improving Indian education system by...

I started things off by talking with Mel Ainscow (Professor of Education at the UK's University of Manchester) about his new book, Towards Self - improving School Systems: Lessons from a City Challenge, which documents how ten years of research and work was used to shape a highly acclaimed city - wide improvement initiative involving over 1,100 schools.

Education policy makers had, for some time, spoken about the need to involve those who lead schools in raising standards to develop a self - improving system.

Two teachers talk with Education World about the systems they developed and the benefits to students and parents of their improved grade - reporting systems.

Join this webinar to learn about: • Improving quality of life for students and educators through blended learning • Stretching existing or limited resources and staff • Adding project - based learning and authentic assessments into classrooms • Selecting the right learning management system and online curriculum • Keeping pace with global evolutions in technology and education • Maintaining the human element in face - to - face and online course work

Given the need to improve the quality of instruction and the lack of clarity and shared knowledge about what systems and activities improve teaching, this is the right time to take stock of what is known; what kinds of activities are currently underway; and what will be needed going forward as reforms roll through the education system.

Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker spoke about improving education at a conference at Harvard University in July 2012 on Learning from Improving School Systems at Home and Abroad: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Perimproving education at a conference at Harvard University in July 2012 on Learning from Improving School Systems at Home and Abroad: International and U.S. State Trends in Student PerImproving School Systems at Home and Abroad: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance.

That is, rather than relying exclusively on test scores to judge schools, BBA calls for the creation of an inspectorate, similar to that used in other countries with high - performing education systems, that is comprised of experienced educators, policymakers and scholars, to evaluate schools and make recommendations about how they might be improved.

Fundamentally our white paper is there to outline our vision about how we improve the education system in this country.

Likewise, this report continues to be used whenever a state's or district's new - and - improved teacher evaluation systems (still) evidence «too many» (as typically arbitrarily defined) teachers as effective or higher (see, for example, an Education Week article about this here).

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

Along with the scholarships that will be distributed by College Success Arizona to 20 students over a two - year period beginning in spring 2016, Alliance Bank is initiating a campaign to appeal to other local businesses in order to raise awareness about the need to improve Arizona's education system and the importance of workforce development.

The American Statistical Association concluded recently that teachers account for about 1 per cent to 14 per cent of the variability in test scores, and that the majority of opportunities for quality improvement are found in system - level conditions.4 In other words, most of what explains student achievement is beyond the control of teachers or even schools, and therefore arguing that teachers are the most important factor in improving the quality of education is simply wrong.

«We are grateful that the General Assembly has demonstrated their seriousness about improving Connecticut's public education system.

Homeschooling shows what's great about American democracy, yet also where our national education system needs to improve.

A random sampling of students in each state takes the tests in a variety of subjects every two years to inform decisions about how to improve the education system in America.

But in many cases, these school grades have raised concerns and questions about how effectively they improve public education, how fair it is to punish schools that serve disadvantaged communities, and the potential for politicians to game the system for their own benefit.

Those hoping to improve the education system must be honest about the difficult trade - offs inherent in education reform.

The end result of the McCleary case was not so much about improving education for children, but in expanding the power and money of the union within the system.

When students, their parents, teachers, and principals participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) they are helping to inform decisions about how to improve the education system in our country.

The Committee has been an active participant with the Kentucky Department of Education and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for eachEducation and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for eacheducation leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for each student.

EN: I continue to lead through E4E at my school because I support E4E's mission of empowering teachers by supplying them with knowledge about policies that impact teachers and the students they teach, as well as advocating for changes that will improve the education system.

«Communication with parents about the new assessment system and efforts to improve student readiness for college and careers is a work in progress,» said Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education.

Her group is expected to reveal several recommendations today about how to improve the state's public education system, including development of future teachers.

Her work focuses on building, implementing, and improving the state's unified early childhood quality rating and improvement system, and supporting families to make informed choices about care and education for their children.

Teacher voice and student diversity, largely forgotten goals from the earliest ideas about charter schools, may hold the best hope for improving charter schools — and thereby illuminate a path for strengthening our entire system of public education.

If the goal of the Occupy movement is to improve social mobility, then there is «no better example of how the system is rigged against millions of Americans than the education our children receive... today zip codes remain Read more about Occupy... your school district?

Learn more about our beliefs, America's long history of unequal access to great schools, and what students are doing to improve education for their family and friends still in the K - 12 system.

Our overall goal is to identify what works to improve education, and to translate that information to policymakers for their decisions about public investments in the education system from preschool through college.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

The purpose of CEELO's National RoundTAble is to provide early childhood specialists and their colleagues in State Education Agencies with research and best practice to improve states» knowledge about and use of early childhood comprehensive assessment systems and teacher evaluation in the early years of the learning continuum.

She just recently testified before South Carolina's K - 12 Subcommittee of the House Education and Public Works Committee, specifically «about legislation regarding improving teacher evaluations and rewarding effective teachers in the public school system in S.C.» It worked so well in D.C., right?!?

The Ounce is publishing some innovative ideas about how we can bridge the early education and K — 12 systems, improving the quality and outcomes of both.

Let me say to the Education Secretary and all Government Members that if they take serious action to make the changes our education system needs, I will be the first to support them, because education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all Education Secretary and all Government Members that if they take serious action to make the changes our education system needs, I will be the first to support them, because education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all education system needs, I will be the first to support them, because education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all children.

Adults» acknowledgment of students» ability to improve schools is validated and authorized through deliberate teaching focused on learning about learning, learning about the education system, learning about student voice and Meaningful Student Involvement, and learning about school improvement.

«This should be the biggest thing we talk about,» says Michelle Richard, senior education consultant at Public Sector Consultants, a Lansing - based public policy firm that recently released the report «Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations for How to Improve Michigan's Education Systeeducation consultant at Public Sector Consultants, a Lansing - based public policy firm that recently released the report «Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations for How to Improve Michigan's Education SysteEducation System.»

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