Sentences with phrase «as no surprise to educators»

Kids and Media: Helping Parents Set Limits on Media Use The results of a recent survey about kids and media use — and its impact on schoolwork — comes as no surprise to educators.

The PARCC option came as a surprise to educators.

Not exact matches

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

These findings come as no surprise to Jim Dillon, educator and author of «No Place for Bullying.»

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

«One of the surprising things to me is the general lack of capacity to be able to talk about issues of race,» Benavides says, recognizing that they too questioned how they would respond to such an incident as educators.

Using Acting Skills in the Classroom Students will be more engaged and behave better when educators teach with enthusiasm, using acting techniques such as physical and vocal animation, role - playing, and the use of suspense and surprise, according to the authors of a book on acting lessons for teachers.

If a significant fraction of the AP courses in Texas are, as critics charge, just preexisting courses that were relabeled by educators eager to please government and business leaders who have been crusading for more AP participation, it would not be surprising that the studies found that simply taking a course labeled AP did not boost preparedness for college.

«It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I would be talking about how to fight back against the attacks on public education in Puerto Rico and that educators want to act as a human shield to protect public schools and their students just as they've done in West Virginia and Oklahoma,» Weingarten told the Washington Free Beacon.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.

While the task force results may be eye - opening to the general public, they come as no surprise to local educators, who say they have known for years that the topics covered by New Jersey's High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), the standardized test used in grades 11 and 12 to measure achievement and required for graduation, is not a measure of college readiness.

Many of you who are educators probably already know this, but for those of you who are as surprised as I was, the reasoning here is that science, when it comes to methodology, is mutable; there are many methods, many processes, many ways to come to a theory.