Sentences with phrase «case challenging the education»

David and Bonnie Cavanaugh of Middlefield, Ohio, sought to represent themselves in their case challenging the education program provided to their son by the 1,400 - student Cardinal Local School District.

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Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

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The curricula of our higher education programs are rigorous and timely, with cases drawn from and learning applicable to the most pressing challenges the field faces today.

Throughout the program, fellows also have a chance to analyze issues and problems on deeper levels by getting involved with case - based «think tank» seminars, including one led by Reimers that is looking at education reform in Brazil, among other «cutting - edge education challenges and solutions,» he says.

Education Next's legal beat columnists Martha Derthick and Josh Dunn wrote about the case as it worked its way through lower courts in Colorado, noting that a state supreme court ruling against the vouchers on Blaine Amendment grounds could open the way for a challenge to Blaine Amendments before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The new course, Thinking and Acting Like an Education Reformer, will use the case method to understand leadership and policy challenges in high schools.

Two blockbuster research findings reported recently in the national press — one from the field of education, the other from medicine — have something important in common: They are the latest cases in which widely used, widely accepted practices have been challenged by scientifically rigorous evaluations.

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

«The best education around gender violence and the most effective by far in working with men,» says Katz, «is having honest conversations about how cultural attitudes and beliefs about manhood... both contribute to perpetration and, in many cases, impede men's and young men's likelihood of challenging and interrupting abuse.»

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.

The case study tells the stories of the efforts these schools went through to launch their programs — the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, the Relay Graduate School of Education, and Match Education's Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education — to help illuminate the benefits and challenges that schools face when creating their own teacher certification and master's degree programs.

In this edition of the EdCast, Levinson speaks about the book and the cases that inspired it, and looks at challenging questions of ethics, justice, and equity in education practice and policy.

Fisher challenges the holding in the 2003 case, Grutter v. Bollinger, that the educational benefits of diversity in higher education serve a compelling governmental...

This includes developing courses that challenge students with real higher education leadership cases derived from sitting presidents, provosts, and deans; creating opportunities for students to interact with the most noted senior leaders in higher education; developing course structures that allow HGSE students to interact with higher education students at other universities around the nation, in order to compare ideas; and developing opportunities for our students to visit different colleges and universities, exposing them to places and viewpoints otherwise not accessible by simply sitting in the classroom.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a ruling in a special - education case that school groups fear will result in more parents challenging the decisions of administrators over educational plans for children with disabilities.

On March 4, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu rejected a motion to dismiss the Vergara v. California case and continue the state's education trial where nine students are challenging the laws over teacher job protection.

Many middle schools use stronger co-teaching models where the special education counterpart teaches two subject areas or one subject and small groups, but even in those cases, co-teaching in middle school presents challenges.

This past spring, Figueroa was part of the Harvard team — including students from the Kennedy School, Law School, and Business School — that took first place in the Public Schools Urban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban eEducation Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban educationeducation.

Taken together, the new cases create a vivid opportunity to connect to the real challenges of global education, bringing «the experiences of young people and teachers to the forefront of issues that are usually framed in more abstract policy terms,» Dryden - Peterson says.

«Given that only two in 10 children have access to a high - quality early education setting in the U.S., CEEL, through interactive and case - based materials grounded in scientific insights, is designed to equip early education leaders with the core knowledge and tools to navigate the decisions, challenges, and opportunities associated with quality improvement,» said Nonie Lesaux, academic dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Ineducation setting in the U.S., CEEL, through interactive and case - based materials grounded in scientific insights, is designed to equip early education leaders with the core knowledge and tools to navigate the decisions, challenges, and opportunities associated with quality improvement,» said Nonie Lesaux, academic dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Ineducation leaders with the core knowledge and tools to navigate the decisions, challenges, and opportunities associated with quality improvement,» said Nonie Lesaux, academic dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education InEducation and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education InEducation and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education InEducation Initiative.

Fourth and fifth - grade students argued the case for or against term limits for members of Congress and Supreme Court justices at the finals of the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Education's Citizenship Challenge.

Case studies provide lessons from three leading education improvement efforts that are tackling the problem of how to improve rural education in the face of challenges such as population change and financial constraints.

Using case studies and surveys, the report outlines special education requirements for charter schools — including the challenge of pursuing unconventual approaches but still staying true to the legal foundations of federal special education law.

Justice Antonin Scalia's death earlier this year came in the middle of an education - related case — Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association — in which an Orange County elementary teacher challenged teachers unions» ability to collect fees from nonmembers.

The report came under criticism recently in an opinion piece written by Paul E. Peterson, director of Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, in a report that challenges the «case» against Rhee and can be found on the website of the publication Education Next.

In most cases, piloting an initial education pitch event is the easy part; sustaining momentum and iterating is where things become challenging.

Yet education associations and teachers unions wasted no time in challenging the laws in court, as has been the case for school - choice reforms for the past 20 years.

More and more schools are proving that through hard work, innovation, and, in many cases, by throwing out the broken policies of old, our education system has the power to do right by children even in the most challenging circumstances.

In this case, an «at - will» teacher filed a lawsuit challenging her dismissal by the charter school, claiming it did not comply with the Education Code provisions applicable to school districts.

The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.

The Fordham Institute is hosting «The ESSA Achievement Challenge» to «identify states with strong plans and distinct approaches and hear state superintendents and education advocates make the case that their work will lead to greater student success.»

Citing two earlier cases that forced changes in state laws regarding students» rights to quality education through money spent and time of instruction provided, as well as evidence in Vergara, he said the plaintiffs «have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental to quality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

The elementary teacher education program at one university is used as an example case to demonstrate pivotal decisions made in the redesign effort and to depict challenges faced and solutions implemented.

The budget scenario is different for private schools and in higher education, but in all cases IT is challenged to keep up with student demand to use the latest and greatest technologies.

The case, brought forward two years ago by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and education activist Dave Welsh, challenged the court to weigh teacher job protections against a student's constitutional right to equal access to a quality education.

Spotlight topics take a closer look at key education issues, using research and case studies to help cities address the fundamental challenges to improving student outcomes.

Janus wants the Supreme Court to overturn its 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, a case brought by a Detroit public school teacher who challenged a Michigan law that required him to pay agency fees to the Detroit Federation of Teachers (in an amount equivalent to the union's dues), even though he refused to join the union.

The historic CCJEF v. Rell case — a once - in - a-generation education adequacy and equity lawsuit challenging the state constitutionality of CT's PK - 12 education finance system — ended on August 10, 2016.

Take this major VAM case in Florida: In 2013, the National Education Association and its Florida affiliate filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that required at least half of a teacher's evaluation to be based on VAM.

Increasingly, advocates are making the case that digital learning can play a leading role in addressing a range of challenges facing K - 12 education.

The challenges with regard to locating field placements that provide opportunities for rich technology integration experiences for our preservice teachers potentially can be addressed by incorporating more video case modeling activities into our teacher education courses or by developing and sharing additional technology modeling activities with preservice teachers.

If these analytical distinctions and research findings are at all justified, our case study suggests that many of the potential challenges, tensions, and opportunities associated with the use of Web 2.0 technologies in teacher education may hinge on teachers» and teacher educators» negotiating the distinctive ethos stuff of new literacies.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice released the following statement in response to a ruling this afternoon by Eighth Judicial District Court (Clark County, Nev.) Judge Eric Johnson in a case challenging Nevada's education savings account (ESA) program, which has attracted more than 6,000 applications since its inception despite legal challenges preventing the accounts from operating.

In this spirit, a new Policy to Action Brief, released today by the Foundation for Child Development, The Case for Investing in PreK - 3rd Education: Challenging Myths about School Reform, overturns three widely held assumptions about school reform.

In 2002, Frank Kemerer, regents professor of teacher education and administration at the University of North Texas, reviewed each state's case law and judicial climate in order to characterize the likely orientation of the courts if a voucher law were to be challenged.

The journal continues to challenge the (re-emerging) orthodoxy of fixed ability thinking and practice, whilst also making the case for the democratic control of education and education as a public good.

In an effort to document and promote school models and practices that effectively serve students with disabilities in charter schools, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) asked the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) to conduct two case studies about exemplary schools that respectively leverage available opportunities and mitigate challenges.

He further showed how the Court discounted a precedent from a case decided only 15 years ago, Tunstall v. Bergeson, which challenged an education program for incarcerated youth run by contractors.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), with the help of pro bono partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, brought these cases to court, challenging the New York City Department of Education's (DOE) failure to provide free breakfast and lunch to children with disabilities who would ordinarily be entitled to receive meals in school.