Sentences with phrase «as educational reform»

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«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

During her time as the only female ruler of the Austro - Hungarian Empire, she brought massive domestic financial and educational reforms to her empire — all while increasing its international reputation.

France has been engulfed in protests as students, opposing regionalization of educational services, have joined railway workers, protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms in the field.

This leads to the negation of the earlier concepts of education as laid down in the Constitution of India which put priority to «promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people» and to the development of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform» in every citizen.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

Today, as a professional practice school, UCDS is engaged in ongoing educational reform.

As an educator, I read a fair bit of literature about educational reform and feel I take them with a grain of salt.

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

The introduction of the GCSE is also identified as a key educational reform, opening pathways for the majority.

Wilson's government was responsible for a number of sweeping social and educational reforms under the leadership of Home Secretary Roy Jenkins such as the abolishment of the death penalty in 1964, the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality (initially only for men aged 21 or over, and only in England and Wales) in 1967 and the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968.

Cuomo could bring sweeping reform to educational funding, but took the easy way out... The cap is free to state government, where as STAR or a circuit - breaker must be funded by the state.

The government has announced that as part of its educational reform initiatives, it is investing in the expansion of tertiary institutions to absorb the high numbers of entrants that are likely to emerge from second - cycle institutions following the introduction of the Free SHS policy.

As he launched the policy at the West Africa Senior High School in Accra today [Tuesday], the President said quality teacher training was essential to achieving the educational reforms to the fullest.

Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly used as a reform strategy designed to improve educational outcomes for K — 12 students.

All IEP students demonstrate a heartfelt commitment to advancing the educational opportunities of the children of the poor and marginalized, and show tremendous potential as leaders in international education reform.

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

The stalled growth in educational achievement could be the result of diminishing returns on reform efforts, as Murray suggests.

Neighborhood schools in these zones that are disproportionately low - income would be reformed as magnet schools with attractive educational programs and themes to appeal to more middle - income families.

New York — Practicing educators praised the College Board, at its annual meeting here last week, for providing a sensible approach to educational reform, and they challenged the organization to continue pressing for a high - school curriculum that develops students» competencies as well as their knowledge of specific subjects.

Ravitch points to Dewey's school in Chicago (which closed in 1904, when Dewey left the University of Chicago for Columbia), the Lincoln School at Teachers College in New York, and the Winnetka, Illinois, public schools of the 1920s as admirable models of educational reform.

For example, past Specialized Studies candidates have included physicians interested in understanding the education of medical students, a career military officer interested in translating classroom practices into training, social entrepreneurs leading innovative educational ventures in the U.S. and abroad, teachers and administrators interested in implementing cutting edge reform in unique settings, as well as so many others who have benefited from designing their own courses of study.

As educational «excellence» was the buzzword of the early 1980's, school «restructuring» has quickly become the rallying cry of the current round of education reform.

Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly used as a reform strategy designed to improve educational...

As Bulgaria plays a more significant role in the democratic world and the global market economy, however, our schools need major educational reform.

To us, this initiative means NBU and its active - learning programs no longer exist solely as an external force challenging the educational system: There is a demand for reform within the school system, and we believe it will grow.

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.

New educational reforms are even putting keyboarding on the list of required skills for students as young as 8 and 9 years old.

Nationalizing standards and tests eliminated them as differentiated school reform instruments that could be used by states in competition over educational attainment among the states.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Previous urban investigations have often resulted in art exhibits and documentaries — some have been shown at New York City's Museum of Modern Art and at national conferences, such as the National Conference for Media Reform, and community organizations regularly use others as educational tools.

Foreign leaders, in countries from the United Kingdom to Japan to Brazil, have also committed their nations to expanding international educational exchange and comparison as a component of both foreign policy and their broader education reform agendas.

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

Instead, educators need to find a way of making mentoring part of the national educational conversation, as well as ensuring that it is happening at the grass roots level, because if educational reform is not taking place in the classroom, then it's not really happening.

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

As an experienced leader in education, Nathan actively mentors teachers and principals, and consults nationally and internationally on issues of educational reform, leadership and teaching with a commitment to equity, and the critical role of arts and creativity in schools.

Education reforms in Poland in 1999 are often cited as the reason for its rapid educational improvements in international assessments.

Rincón - Gallardo points to reform efforts like high - stakes accountability and testing as examples of bad educational change...

Just as California school districts are facing new pressures to implement the Common Core State Standards and other key educational reforms, many of them are struggling with what some officials are calling the early impacts of a long - feared teacher shortage.

Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher (still in the classroom), Ron Berger gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies.

Some say «It's in there,» expressed with statements such as, «We do not believe that a public commitment to excellence and educational reform must be made at the expense of a strong public commitment to the equitable treatment of our diverse population.»

He served as the Director of MDRC's K - 12 Education Policy Area and specialized in the design and management of rigorous evaluations, including randomized controlled trials of educational and other social policy reforms.

Canada, due to a wide series of reforms in the past two decades, has emerged as a educational leader in international assessment rankings.

Having also served as director of mathematics, executive director of curriculum and instruction, and assistant superintendent for curriculum and professional development, she draws on her experience in curriculum and educational technology as the district embarks on major reforms in technology integration and blended learning.

It was launched in 2004 as part of a three - sector strategy for urban education reform that also included increased funding for public charter - school facilities and added funds for educational improvements in District of Columbia public schools.

It also seems to me that as a result of educational reforms headmasters / principals are in the process of re-defining how school leadership is being enacted across the country.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Nationalizing standards and tests would, according to this analysis, eliminate them as differentiated school - reform instruments that could be used by states in competition over educational attainment among the states.

Nationalizing standards and tests would eliminate them as differentiated school - reform instruments that could be used by states in competition over educational attainment.