Sentences with phrase «balanced approach to education»

A balanced approach to our education and research funding is critical to the level of innovation necessary to maintain that standard of living.

We might blame the schools for not taking a more balanced approach to education, stressing vocational education alongside a strong liberal arts education that includes real science and math.

Perhaps our state policymakers should take a more balanced approach to education incentives that take into consideration all of the avenues to success, since there are many pathways beyond just those going through a 4 - year college campus?

I read this and wonder if we are losing a balanced approach to education.

Not exact matches

«A balanced approach to balancing the state budget makes good economic sense, but is also important from a societal perspective that the pain of balancing the state budget be spread more fairly and that counter-productive cuts in essential services, from education to mental health, be avoided,» said Frank Mauro, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

Memorizing the expression «atoms are not created or destroyed» and balancing chemical equations — a common approach to teaching chemical reactions — has proved to be insufficient for helping students explain how living things gain mass, said Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a long - term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy and education.

Her formal education + trainings, combined with years of deep self - study, have led Kate on a path of sharing tools + practices for a more balanced, holistic, and mind - body approach to wellness.

The Review has published many groundbreaking articles in the field of education and is known for its insightful, well - balanced approach to educational research.

But Phil Lawler, head of the Physical Education Department at Madison Junior High School, in Naperville, Illinois, has seen firsthand how high tech tools can help to bring a healthier, more balanced approach to physical eEducation Department at Madison Junior High School, in Naperville, Illinois, has seen firsthand how high tech tools can help to bring a healthier, more balanced approach to physical educationeducation.

The Arts Council's re-launched Arts Mark can help schools to plan, deliver and evaluate their approach to cultural education, and provide evidence of a broad and balanced curriculum and the social, moral, spiritual and cultural development of all pupils.

In giving feedback to the states a year ago, for example, Melody Musgrove (who directs the Office of Special Education Programs at ED) forewarned chiefs that ED was redesigning their monitoring system into «a more balanced approach that considers results as well as compliance.

The Arts Council's re-launched Arts Mark can help schools to plan, deliver and evaluate their approach to cultural education, and provide evidence of a broad and balanced curriculum and the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural development of all pupils.

Whole Child Education Whole Child Education is a partnership of 22 national education, health, arts, and civic organizations committed to a whole child approach to education wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced cuEducation Whole Child Education is a partnership of 22 national education, health, arts, and civic organizations committed to a whole child approach to education wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced cuEducation is a partnership of 22 national education, health, arts, and civic organizations committed to a whole child approach to education wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced cueducation, health, arts, and civic organizations committed to a whole child approach to education wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced cueducation wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced curriculum.

To balance a school's assessment program with formative assessments, education leaders must ensure that teachers are supported in using this sometimes unfamiliar approach to instructional planning (Stiggins, 2005To balance a school's assessment program with formative assessments, education leaders must ensure that teachers are supported in using this sometimes unfamiliar approach to instructional planning (Stiggins, 2005to instructional planning (Stiggins, 2005).

With the pendulum poised to shift away from a narrow focus on high - stakes accountability and rigid standards toward a more balanced «systems» approach to increasing student achievement, school leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to become what education theorist and author Michael Fullan terms «motion leaders.»

Amanda Spielman's speech pointed to a refreshing approach to school inspection which, rather than trying to catch schools out, provides a healthy balance between: recognition of the many positives; robust challenge where needed; and a truly independent assessment of the impact of education policies and the investment governments make.

Education leaders should approach school improvement and other complex situations by intentionally balancing tensions, or seemingly opposing approaches, to optimize desired results.

As a practicing educator in higher education, I feel strongly that we must provide teachers with the knowledge, skills, and expertise to successfully implement a balanced approach to assessment.

Education leaders should approach school improvement and other complex situations by intentionally balancing tensions, or seemingly opposing approaches, to optimize...

Her experience led her to an awareness of the deficiencies in public education and the need for more restorative and balanced approaches for student, and whole school community, growth and healing.

Eric Bailey, spokesman for the Connecticut chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, said: «We don't believe that her appointment to the state Board of Education represents the balanced approach necessary to ensure that the children of Connecticut are getting the kind of education they neeEducation represents the balanced approach necessary to ensure that the children of Connecticut are getting the kind of education they neeeducation they need.»

«We applaud Senator Hagan for her dedication to the whole child approach of providing a high - quality and well - balanced education for every student,» said North Carolina ASCD (NCASCD) Executive Director Frances Jones, whose ASCD affiliate was instrumental in gaining support from Senator Hagan.

«The President's Testing Action Plan encourages thoughtful approaches to assessments that will help to restore the balance on testing in America's classrooms by reducing unnecessary assessments while promoting equity and innovation,» said U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. in a news release.

John Woolums, director of governmental relations for the Maryland Association of Boards of Education, called the state board's approach balanced because it gives school systems the freedom to come up with their own plans to reduce suspension rates.

Washington, DC — New Leaders believes the U.S. Department of Education's final regulations regarding the accountability, data reporting, and state plan provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represent a balanced approach to supporting states and districts to implement locally - developed, evidence - based accountability systems and school improvement solutions in partnership with educators, families, and other stakeholders.

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

Using education as a means to try and balance out the world's resource availability and humanities needs might be better then a military national security approach.

Our «one - class - at - a-time» approach allows busy students to focus on their education and balance the demands of work and family.

The integrated systems of the Nordic countries seem to offer a more balanced approach to care and education.