Sentences with phrase «by progressive educators»

The idea of chartered schools as incubators for education change was put forward by progressive educators and teachers union leaders.

In 1958, Walter Kolesnik showed that the research that allegedly «exploded» mental discipline (as advanced by Thorndike and others) was deeply flawed, but his work was ignored by progressive educators.

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They have been but a chapter in the efforts by «progressive» educators to legislate equality of results in the schools via the dumbing down of the curriculum.

Progressive educators who emphasize learning by doing would likely say Marie Curie.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

However, some progressive educators and political leaders are working to reverse this trend by implementing innovative, culturally authentic programs for elementary and middle schools.

This was not just a bureaucratic imperative; it also followed the thinking of progressive educators, who viewed the 19th - century high school as elitist, dominated by the wishes of college officials.

Come explore a range of creative and authentic K - 12 tablet activities developed by talented and progressive educators from across the country — and beyond.

Join the American Architectural Foundation as we explore the impact space has on learning, by connecting progressive educators, and administrators with forward - thinking design that embraces the way 21st century students learn - creating flexible learning environments that improve student achievement in practical and replicable ways.

The initiative is the result of a years - long effort by few factions within UTLA, including the United Valley Caucus, the Latino Caucus, and the Progressive Educators for Action, or PEAC.

The reforms brought by the Progressive movement from 1900 - 1920 created control and trust of professional educators, and a politics preferred by pedagogues (Iannaccone, 1967).

In the 1970s, after the publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by the radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, the term «critical pedagogy» came into use and many progressive theorists now use it to mean a deliberate effort to educate for social responsibility.

North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation website contains information by and about this «diverse network of progressive educators dedicated to advocacy for useful, fair, and democratic ways to document and assess children's learning.»

The Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, Canadian Union of Public Employees (Ontario), Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Childcare Resource and Research Unit and Advocates for Progressive Child Care Policy are calling on the leaders of Ontario's three main political parties to respond to concerns about the state of early childhood education and child care by committing, if elected, to six key elements toward a strategy that will begin to fix early childhood education and child care in Ontario.