Sentences with phrase «at stake in education»

As our lawmakers consider the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, aka NCLB), it is time they listened to those with the most at stake in education, the parents of the nation's public school children.

What is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in education.

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But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

The governor's speech was about closing Rikers Island, fixing public housing and equitable education funding — all issues tuned to appeal to an African - American audience, and potentially at stake in the state budget.

And there's a larger philosophical issue at stake: Moskowitz is a constant critic of the Department of Education and its schools, and has sought to define her network in total opposition to the hulking bureaucracy of the DOE.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

-- A Commentary by Howard Gardner Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs professor in cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the «father» of multiple intelligences theory, weighs in on the issue of high - stakes testing in this coeducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the «father» of multiple intelligences theory, weighs in on the issue of high - stakes testing in this coEducation and the «father» of multiple intelligences theory, weighs in on the issue of high - stakes testing in this commentary.

But with some $ 500 billion per year — the sum total of all our K - 12 education spending in this country — at stake, and with politicians» hands on all the levers, you can be pretty certain the decision will not be made by those whose field of expertise is learning.

For all their flaws, they are far better for equity and quality than statewide skills - standards with high - stakes tests that encourage wasting huge amounts of school time in practicing narrow test - taking activities at the expense of education.

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.&Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of ColumbiEducation Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbieducation correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbieducation reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.&stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbieducation, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

At stake, as a growing chorus of education leaders has chimed, is the nation's ability to compete in a global economy and its success in educating an informed and involved citizenry.

Traditional professional development providers (including colleges of education) have a lot of dollars at stake in the face - to - face model.

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

The signers of the Counter-Manifesto are consistent with the sentiments of the Founders, the legislative authorizers of the Department of Education, and the American people in understanding that education standards, curriculum, and high - stakes assessments should not be done at the nationEducation, and the American people in understanding that education standards, curriculum, and high - stakes assessments should not be done at the nationeducation standards, curriculum, and high - stakes assessments should not be done at the national level.

But at a time when economies are linked and gross inequality anywhere is a threat to security and prosperity everywhere, we all have a stake in ensuring that marginalized children across the world receive a high - quality education.

It is at the secondary level that they introduce the high stakes exams for students, with Japanese students required to take an entrance exam for upper secondary school and students in both countries required to take tests at the end of upper secondary school that will determine what kind of higher education institution they can enter.

Plaintiffs» closing arguments PowerPoint, presented in court on the last day of the Vergara v. California, sums up what's at issue and what's at stake in the historic education equality case.

• Sputnik • A Nation At Risk • Big Business Values in Education • No Child Left Behind • State Standards Movement • Common Core State Standards Initiative • High Stakes Testing • Charter Schools

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, while announcing the bill, said «we think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when children's education is at stakEducation Secretary Nicky Morgan, while announcing the bill, said «we think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when children's education is at stakeducation is at stake».

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

LA School Report covered the intense race like no other publication, with comprehensive profiles of the primary candidates, what was at stake for kids, what fueled the record spending, and the rising parent movement that swept in change for public education.

At stake in the case of Doe v. Board of Education of Prince George's County was the standard by which school districts could be held liable for monetary damages under Title IX [1] in cases of alleged student - on - student harassment.

Jim Florio, a former Democratic governor of New Jersey who supports Sweeney, suggested public education could be at stake if campaign dollars are diverted from more competitive races in other legislative districts.

Appearing on national media when the Education and Adoption Bill was unveiled on Wednesday, Ms Morgan said: «We think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when their education is at stakEducation and Adoption Bill was unveiled on Wednesday, Ms Morgan said: «We think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when their education is at stakeducation is at stake.»

Miami, FL — November 19, 2014 Students, alumni, educators and parents represented the Dade Coalition for Education and Economic Justice at a meeting with the Miami - Dade School Board in an effort to end high - stakes testing and call for all low - performing schools to be transformed into sustainable community schools.

The Texas Legislature is now in full swing and, of course, the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leEducation Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leeducation issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leadership.

«Parents realize much is at stake and are organizing in ever - increasing numbers to protect their children and their public schools,» member Susan Cauldwell wrote in a joint op - ed with New Jersey Education Association President Wendell Steinhauer.

At stake were four seats on the seven - member Board of Education — and the direction of the school system, whose leaders have been in a pitched battle over the growth and oversight of charters in the nation's second - largest district.

Morgan said at the time: «We think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when their education is at stake.»

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public educatioEducation, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public educatioeducation reform, and the «dismantling of public educationeducation.»

Doug Christensen, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Nebraska and Professor of Leadership in Education at Doane College, added, «We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their eEducation for the state of Nebraska and Professor of Leadership in Education at Doane College, added, «We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their eEducation at Doane College, added, «We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their educationeducation.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The College of Education at the University of Florida continues to stake claim as the top ranked education school in Florida and among public universities in the Southeast, according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Education Education at the University of Florida continues to stake claim as the top ranked education school in Florida and among public universities in the Southeast, according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Education education school in Florida and among public universities in the Southeast, according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Education Education -LSB-...]

Donors to incumbent Tom Torlakson and challenger Marshall Tuck are spending record sums to influence what they consider is at stake in this election: the direction of education reform.

And as Kevin Welner and William Mathis of University of Colorado at Boulder remind us in this policy memo, what we need is «sustained, fair, adequate and equitable investment in all our children sufficient to provide them their educational birthright...» That will not happen while high stakes testing is driving our education system.

It's been a very long seven or so months since the start of this year's legislative session, so in case you've gotten so weary you've lost track of what's at stake for public education, here are seven big issues.

But she, too, doesn't hesitate to lay down some cash in the political arena when the family's education agenda is at stake.

The move increases Navient's stake in the student loan industry at a time when the Department of Education is motioning for a system change; more specifically, the Department wants to implement a system that involves only one student loan servicer.

For Experienced My aim as an experienced educational professional would be to make a mark in the history of education and lay down all my potential at stake in making the mark come true.