Sentences with phrase «best education story»

The best education stories generally focus on individual teachers, parents, and students whose lives are most directly affected by the education system:

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That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

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How many good stories of public education in America can one count?

They disclose challenging stories of shouldering overwhelming responsibilities that affect their well - being and education.

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With their help, I think I was able to make the book not just an account of some important new ideas in poverty and education, but a human story as well.

The Lib Dems do, in some respects, have a good story to tell on education.

Specifically, task force member Paul Hovitz asked the NYC Department of Education's Portfolio Planning director, Elizabeth Rose, to facilitate a tour of Innovate Manhattan, a charter school that is temporarily sited at Tweed this year until the school finds a permanent home elsewhere; as well as a tour of the rest of the four - story building that houses D.O.E.'s headquarters.

It starts by classifying a story's topic as either a world problem (disease and poverty, for example) or a social good (health care and education).

Share information regarding your favored interests as well as pastimes, remarkable stories with your education and learning as well as career, and also charming stories concerning your family members, pet dogs as well as buddies.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story A young boy who grows up to become a brain surgeon realizes he owes his success to his single mother, who had a vision of what he could do if he acquired a good education.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Working from a script by Gaby Chiappe, Scherfig — best known for the winsome coming - of - age drama «An Education» — skillfully keeps the tonal shifts in working order, keeping the story afloat in a series of crisp, sharply focused vignettes awash in clattering typewriters, smoldering cigarettes and other appurtenances of a bygone age.

The Story of Anvil» Best Animated Feature: «Up» Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, «The Hurt Locker» Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino, «Up» Most Promising Actor: Carey Mulligan, «An Education» Most Promising Director: Neill Blomkamp, «District 9»

In the last few years, it's been worth keeping an eye (or an ear, rather) on the Sundance buzz, as the festival has birthed a number of future critical hits, and even awards - season success stories: recent Best Picture nominees «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Precious,» «An Education» and now «The Kids Are All Right» and «Winter's Bone» all premiered there, as did «Frozen River,» «Blue Valentine» and a plethora of Oscar - nominated documentaries.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

This story of a girl's resolve to leave her troubled Toronto neighborhood and secure a good education offers lessons on determination and pride.

When Usable Knowledge launched in September — with a handful of stories focused on the Common Core, how teachers can make caring more common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response might be.

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He told stories of his own humble upbringing, his determination to receive the best education possible, and his fight to give students with similar struggles access to the same.

The Campaign 2012 collection page includes recent election - related stories, blog posts, and tweets, as well as a must - see comparison detailing each candidate's views on education policy issues.

The vignettes of teaching practice, the illustrations of any research that supports their efficacy, and the story of how well - networked reformers such as Deborah Ball (dean of the education school at the University of Michigan) and others learned from one another, are the best reasons to read the book.

I work in special education so told the story myself and this was a visual aid - just as well I'm a bit of a drama queen!

For example I noticed that all my students are very talented in music, some real fine artistic qualities or amazing vocals, some are very good at math, have a great vocabulary and a very good education, are young budding actors, I can reveal stories through shadow theater, dance or recite.

When it comes to the story of Massachusetts's public schools, the takeaway, according to the state's former education secretary, Paul Reville, is that «doing well isn't good enough.»

Above all, the evidence should inspire those who are working for school choice in America: stories of parents» overcoming all the odds to ensure the best for the children in Africa and Asia, stories of education entrepreneurs» creating schools out of nothing, in the middle of nowhere.

«I think the story of Cinderella has lasting appeal because it is the classic story of good versus evil,» Solomon, a sixth - grade language arts teacher, told Education World.

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The Harvard Education Letter was awarded AEP's «Best News Story» in the category of Adult Learning for «Stopping Sexual Harassment in Middle School» by Colleen Gillard.

Contrary to many stories in the media about how low - wage jobs have dominated since the recovery began in 2010, the study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce claims that the largest job growth has come from good jobs; these jobs paid more than $ 53,000, tended to be full time, and provided health insurance and retirement plans.

Colourful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child's grammar through the use of: • Spoken sentences • Answering W / H questions • Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives • Story telling skills • Written sentences and language comprehension Colourful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.

* Colorful semantics is an exciting language intervention that indirectly works on developing a child's grammar through the use of: • Spoken sentences • Answering W / H questions • Use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives • Story telling skills • Written sentences and language comprehension Colorful semantics works particularly well in the special education classroom, helping students with difficulty in understanding language to compose sentences.

Launched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in education.

The federal government is most certainly guilty as well for creating an alphabet soup of acronyms that bogs down stories about national education policy with explanations and parentheticals about what all the abbreviations mean before readers ever get to the point of whether the policies are actually working.

Unfortunately, the narrative associated with education reflects the stories of hardship, exhaustion, and the pressure of test scores, which can be unappealing to possible candidates who may be the best and brightest.

But his emphasis on assessment and accountability as tools for managing education bureaucracy is only part of the story — and cold comfort for families who want and need the information to access the best education for their children now.

So the story of a group of very successful Jewish lawyers in New York not only points to the period when they were born, a time of low birth rates, which meant that the New York City public schools they attended were uncrowded and gave a good education, but also to a Jewish propensity to seek out and seize opportunity.

Here's my best guess at eight education stories we just may be reading in the year ahead:

One of the best programs, Baby Think It Over (see a related Education World story), works well to discourage teen pregnancy, but it can be prohibitively expensive for schools — especially junior - high or middle schools in cash - strapped communities — to implement.

I would argue that educators have done far better, overall, than the private sector dot - coms, although the story is also mixed on the education side.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan put it best: «A remarkable story.»

Stories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of eduStories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of edustories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of education.

If we could get back to the basics — great schools — and empowering families to make the decisions that best suit their child's education, we might see more success stories for students, which is at the heart of why educators like McKeon signed up for this work in the first place.

Rocketship is among the most interesting stories in education today because the schools show vividly the challenges and opportunities of creating better schools.

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REPUBLICAN REVERSAL: One of the best stories of March was Michael Scherer's Washington Post article about Republican lawmakers changing course and now supporting higher education spending levels: Why Republicans are now bragging about their investments in education.

Your story about the absenteeism crisis in New York City public schools highlights the need for the city Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workers.

In a statement in response to the AP story, Shavar Jeffries, national president of Democrats for Education Reform, said sarcastically, «Apparently, the school segregation problem boils down to Black and Brown parents choosing schools that aren't White enough, as if the doors of all - White schools would magically open if only they had the good sense to seek to enroll their children in them.»