Sentences with phrase «about schools and education»

Develop opportunities for students to share their unfettered concerns about schools and education with adults

Readers prefer newspapers — online or in print — for local news, stories about schools and education, and arts and culture coverage.

Finally, the story also may highlight the gap between how differently journalists, readers, and educators view stories about schools and the education debate.

It is a blog for everyone concerned about schools and education.

Here are some more great questions for policy makers from Diane Ravitch («Do politicians know anything about schools and education?

Then I finally read it because I've been so torn about schooling and education and what the best path will be for our family in the fall.

What opinions did students express about school and education in this story?

Once you enter the workforce, it's time to stop talking about school and education and start talking about business results.

Not exact matches

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

In Breaking Down Monopolies: Expanding Choice and Competition in Education, Yvan Guillemette echoes Milton Friedman's concerns about the lack of choice in schooling.

We like to joke about some of the problems with education today, but Millennials have a lot of education and there are a lot more opportunities for continuing education — through online courses in traditional schools, and MOOCs, and even just listening to podcasts regularly.

Internet entrepreneurs, Nobel laureates, Ivy League schools, textbook publishers, venture capitalists, corporate raiders, and junk - bond kings — just about everyone, it seems, is betting that the Internet plus education equals a very big sum.

«In China, we see parents very passionate about their kids» education and we have already seen a lot of after - school learning centers import our robots,» Vikas Gupta said.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

Finally, reinforce your advocacy program through ongoing education and perhaps even some old - school tactics, such as promotional posters around the office that feature testimonials from individuals about the program's personal benefits.

(ask questions about level of education completed, schools they attended, and subjects they studied)

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

Transforming and improving the school experience There are, no doubt, other education ventures into which Powell Jobs has put money, but we may never know about them because of her preference for anonymous giving.

If you're organized, knowledgeable about the higher education process, and enjoy working with adolescents and their parents, consider starting a side business as an independent college application consultant to help more smart, ambitious, and qualified kids get into the schools of their dreams.

Failed to address homophobia through Safe Schools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resiSchools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resiSchools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resischools often met with resistance.

Bertolini, who joined Aetna in 2003 as head of specialty products and rose to CEO in 2010, joked at a 2010 awards ceremony at Wayne State about his education at the Detroit school, «probably the single most important factor» in his success as an executive.

This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons about homosexuality in public school sex - education programs, and legalizing homosexual marriage and divorce.

A couple weeks in the parish looking around at things, assessing the state of the Sunday school or catechetical education or the decrepit office equipment, with your head simply bubbling with all the latest liturgical gizmos plus a really whiz - bang theory about the authorship of John, and you will wonder how this creaky old congregation ever managed to survive without you.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

For example, we have an atheist Prime Minister — and no one cares because this is personal (it is not about her politics)-- just as public schools are used for general education and religious education is served by your place of worship, associated community, family, etc..

I speak out against your ilk and any other group for that matter when they attempt t use their belief to dictate rights... LGBT rights; women's rights; education rights (in a secular country, no single religion has a place in the school system - teach about one, teach them all - fair is fair).

You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

How about if they ban the words «god», «the lord» and «allah»... that would go a long way to solvng a great deal of «truth» in the education systems in schools..

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

The premise is that an adequate education requires teaching about the Bible — as distinct from ignoring it, which is the almost universal practice today in public schools, and from teaching the Bible doctrinally and devotionally, which is, according to the courts, unconstitutional.

In the 1965, you could go to school, get an education, and the worst you could worry about was talking in the halls, gum chewing, or running in the halls.

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

In a question to the Education Secretary, the MP for Enfield, Southgate, said: «There are reports that Ofsted is demanding that a Christian school invites an imam to take collective worship and that Jewish schoolchildren have been asked intrusive questions about their views on sexuality.

The survey aligned such ignorance with anti-Semitism, but it is entirely possible that people far from Europe and with little education simply hadn't learned about the Holocaust in school or in the media — innocently so.

Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.

Mostly the article is a series of quotes from ministers of largely African American churches talking about how churches should mobilize their congregations to participate in education — participating on and voting for school boards and generally getting involved.

The independent school standards set out basic expectations about what schools should do to ensure that pupils receive a broad education and are well prepared for life in Britain society.»

«I think a lot of Christian educationalists are concerned about the direction of travel... they are day - in day - out helping to run schools... they don't feel they get much credit for it they feel that instead senior educational figures talk about Christian education and religious education and religious schools as if they are the problem.»

Conversations are frank, and real problems are tackled: poor RE in Catholic schools, grave worries about plans for sex education there, pressures on the young from social media, a longing for strong leadership on some of these issues from Bishops.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!