Sentences with phrase «biggest education stories»

The difference in style, along with substance, was clear in one of biggest education stories of the year: the Camden school takeover.

Revisions and approvals to state plans are going to be a big education story this fall, along with in - state debate about how to turn approved plans into reality.

BEST OF THE WEEK There was lots of the usual DeVos outrage coverage this week, but the big education story had to be the Washington Post's investigation showing that some D.C. -LSB-...]

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Overall she was there to champion the widely held view in the Conservative party — that education has been one of their biggest success stories.

Robin finally meets one of his travel editors and gets an education in freelance writing, and together with Julia heads to Macau, the worlds biggest gambling center, to see just how much theyll risk to sell a story.

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The story (by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, with an assist from Justin Haythe) is straightforward enough in its early contours: A mild - mannered district attorney named John Reid (Armie Hammer), returns home to the Lone Star state following his big - city education.

But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).

Ricardo A. tells Education World about his story: «The title of my story is «The Big Change.»

Through the stories of these two schools he addresses the meaning of community in multicultural America, the pros and cons of school choice, and what this all means for today's big education policy debates.

According to research gathered under the auspices of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, the charter story was even bigger than the teacher union story, despite the recall election drama in Wisconsin and the bitter strike in Chicago.

The Report, released jointly by the GMR and the United Nations Girls» Education Initiative, shows that, although the goal has not been met by all, progress towards gender parity is one of the biggest education success stories siEducation Initiative, shows that, although the goal has not been met by all, progress towards gender parity is one of the biggest education success stories sieducation success stories since 2000.

This reminds me of another big, ongoing education story: the exciting news that 17 states have turned in their completed paperwork for their ESSA plans.

By Friday, the big story was not the contest but New Jersey Governor Christie's decision to fire his commissioner of education for misrepresenting what efforts had been made to inform the RTT reviewers about a paperwork error in the application.

The ensuing waves of K - 12 improvement measures known simply as «the reform movement» helped establish, in turn, Education Week's role as the most trusted source of news and analysis on one of the biggest continuing stories in American society.

The August 2009 debut of the daily EdWeek Update e-newsletter further spurred the timeliness of Education Week reporting and allowed the paper to «push out» same - day coverage of major stories, from the release of National Assessment of Educational Progress results to the hiring or firing of a big - city superintendent.

He tells the story of how American education experienced a great leap forward after World War II with the GI Bill, which he calls «the biggest voucher program in history.»

Editor's note: This story was produced in conjunction with On Campus, a Civil Beat podcast series that tracks the first year of a new school in Hawaii and examines big education issues in America.

This is one of the big success stories in public education today.

by Alexander Russo Last week's big education news story might have been the announcement that Facebook was hiring Campbell Brown to help with news partnerships.

It includes personal success stories from different people with different versions of success, original articles by some of the biggest names in gifted education, and even some gifted child humor for the moments you really need to sit back and laugh at it all.

Curious about the big splashy new NPR education story about education funding that just rolled out this week, telling us how massive the funding inequalities are between states and among districts in the same states?

Related story: Big data and schools: Education nirvana or privacy nightmare?

Though the book is endorsed by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, the call for decreased teacher empathy appears to rail against the biggest tenets of teacher training by Teach for America and other reform minded teacher - education programs, which want teachers to see the stories behind the students and embrace their cultures, while finding ways to hold students to high standards (Teach for American, 2016).

Looking at the freedoms that define us — from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine — Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories.

The home page menus for the big newspapers offer you a collection of stories on politics, the economy, sports, style, arts, science, cars, weather, and sometimes education and health.