Sentences with phrase «biggest education challenge»

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My parents faced a big decision: Should they keep me in the same school and allow my challenges to direct me toward a special education program?

The biggest challenges for low income families considering cloth diapers are start - up costs, and education and support programs for cloth diaper users.

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

That said, I think we have two big challenges in our education system, neither of which I think we've got great solutions for right now.

Cheating is a symptom of a bigger problem in education, said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford University and co-founder of Challenge Success, an organization that works with schools and families to improve student well - being and engagement with learning.

Over here in our exam - orientated education system, I find that the biggest challenge our kids face is time management.

, «What is the biggest challenge or difficulty for you when working in parent education?»

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

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Christine Quinn City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, running in the Democratic primary, highlighted the challenge of affordable housing which she says is a big concern for the CEOs of companies from all backgrounds, and the need to improve education through an emphasis on literacy and offering tablets instead of textbooks.

A systemic hierarchical culture can be taxing to navigate, but «the biggest single challenge» to Japan's current and future triumph in science is language - related, says James R. Bartholomew, a professor of history at the Ohio State University with a specialty in the history of Japanese science and higher education.

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He believes it's possible to find entrepreneurial solutions to address the biggest global challenges in health, education, women's empowerment, and more.

The longer - term challenge we face is that the days of big spending in education may never come back.

Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash Fast Company, May 18, 2011 «Another of the competition's judges, [Senior Lecturer] Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»»

In my recent Teacher article «Big five» challenges in school education I argue that one of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to identify and develop the knowledge, skills and attributes required for life and work in the 21st Century.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and...

NU: The biggest challenge, and this is what I speak about in my [education] talks, is communication with parents.

One of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to identify and develop the knowledge, skills and attributes required for life and work in the 21st Century, writes Professor Geoff Masters AO.

He uses those lessons daily in his work with Big Picture Learning, a Providence, R.I. - based nonprofit that advocates an individualized approach to education, including a «Who Am I» project that challenges students to write a 50 - page autobiography.

One of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to raise the status of teaching as a career choice, to attract more able people into teaching and to develop teaching as a knowledge - based profession, writes Professor Geoff Masters AO.

However, is it possible that the biggest challenge to adult education exists right inside the online learner's mind?

«From my perspective, the biggest challenge floaters face is organization, especially for those who have never taught before,» McKay told Education World.

Canada urged community members to take risks and embrace boldness as they tackle the biggest challenges in improving education.

It also requires us to tackle one of the biggest challenges education faces — interdisciplinary learning.

«Higher education has a big challenge,» Taylor says, pointing to escalating tuitions and continuing exclusivity in college admissions as impediments to students using higher education as an avenue from poverty to middle class.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

I went through a period of time where I feared that comprehensive education reform might be too big of a challenge to execute well.

Nicholas Lemann, in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, builds an even more challenging case against the dominance of standardized tests in education.

Families entering the challenge will receive free home access to Discovery Education Espresso until 10th September, when the Make Your World Bigger competition closes.

While education has been largely sidelined throughout the U.S. presidential campaign trail, a well - trained, highly skilled and globally competitive workforce is crucial to solving some of America's biggest challenges.

Can they help solve the most intractable — and costly — problems, or would they be put to better use supporting more routine challenges or, as Michael Petrilli recently argued in this column, helping advance basic education research («Big Data Transforms Education Research,» what next, Winteducation research («Big Data Transforms Education Research,» what next, WintEducation Research,» what next, Winter 2018)?

It speaks directly to the old / new tapestry of this work, noting that her team's biggest test is staying faithful to Catholic education's «historic mission while updating it to stay relevant to a new generation of children and the challenges of the twenty - first century.»

In my recent Teacher article «Big five» challenges in school education I argue that one of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to raise the status of teaching as a career choice, to attract more able people into teaching and to develop teaching as a knowledge - based profession.

There have been many exciting challenges with starting a business and transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship, but one of my biggest challenges is designing a course without the strict guidelines and cushion of a higher education provider.

O'Neill says staying up - to - date with technology and its role in education is one of the big challenges for today's principals.

But that task paled in comparison to the challenge of anticipating what's next under President Trump, who promises big changes to education but faces uncertain legislative backing for his top priority: expanding school choice.

This is part of a bigger cultural challenge, in which SEND is still seen as separate to, rather than a fundamental part of, the education system.

The first stream will focus on challenges, innovation and the future of education, probing into some of the biggest challenges facing senior school leaders.

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A big challenge — and one he said is essential to preparing children for a labor market in which routine and individualized tasks are being automated — is making sure this style of education is not lost in higher grades, when teachers turn to lecturing and standardized curriculums.

Candidates for the Google for Education Certified Innovator program are selected based on their professional experience, their passion for teaching and learning, their innovative use of technology in school settings, their potential to impact other educators, and their desire to tackle some of the biggest challenges in eEducation Certified Innovator program are selected based on their professional experience, their passion for teaching and learning, their innovative use of technology in school settings, their potential to impact other educators, and their desire to tackle some of the biggest challenges in educationeducation.

Support state education agencies, districts, mayors and others in devising new strategies to address their big challenges

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

How the power of games inspires solutions to today's biggest challenges By Lara Cole For Sasha Barab, professor of innovation in ASU's School for the Future of Innovation in Society and professor of education in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, it's «game on» as he and his team create virtual solutions to society's challenges.

Johnson said his biggest challenges were finding qualified substitutes and special education teachers.

Another of the competition's judges, Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»

But Tom Torlakson and Marshall Tuck, the two leading candidates, both Democrats, share similar views on the two biggest education initiatives — and challenges — of the decade in California.

The articles below from Education World's archive shed light and share principals» reflections on the biggest joys — and challenges — of the job.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.