Sentences with phrase «century education debate»

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Since the emergence of the religious education movement a half century ago, a debate has gone on, sometimes openly and sometimes covertly, between the advocates of Christian nurture and evangelism.

We preview the Albany Law Review event, A Loaded Debate: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the 21st Century, with Robert L. Schultz, Founder and Chairman of the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc. and Robert Spitzer, Ph.D., SUNY Cortland professor and author of Encyclopedia of Gun Policy and Gun Rights and The Politics of Gun Control.

One of the most passionately debated topics of 21st Century education surrounds the primary tenet of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: All students, and that means 100 percent of enrolled students, will test at or above proficiency levels by the 2013 - 2014 school year.

In this century - old debate, the great error of traditionalist educators was their failure to defend cultural values in education, that is, the importance of knowledge.

For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools.

The school system currently in place evolved over centuries of back - and - forth debate about the purpose of education, the best way to prepare children for their futures and the right way to test and evaluate kids, schools and states.

Yet it is here that, for the first time in the history of the West, one of the great education debates of the subsequent 24 centuries is laid out in print.

Even as far back as the nineteenth century, policymakers overstepping their bounds in the debate over education were a problem.

Since the rise of formalized, compulsory education over a century ago, continuous debate has ensued about how educators might best proceed.

Debate of the Century: One of the Biggest Threats to Education Today is School Segregation (Sonia Park) Moderated by former secretary of education in the Obama administration, John B. King, Jr, Professor Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University and Dr. Howard Fuller of Marquette University debated the question of how to prioritize the challenges of equity and opportunity in educatioEducation Today is School Segregation (Sonia Park) Moderated by former secretary of education in the Obama administration, John B. King, Jr, Professor Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University and Dr. Howard Fuller of Marquette University debated the question of how to prioritize the challenges of equity and opportunity in educatioeducation in the Obama administration, John B. King, Jr, Professor Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University and Dr. Howard Fuller of Marquette University debated the question of how to prioritize the challenges of equity and opportunity in educationeducation policy.

In the first instance, we who are heavily involved with K - 12 reform are in a continuing debate with those who would predestine many of our students to a vocational pathway that is void of the rigor necessary for success in the 21st century workplace, which is synonymous with postsecondary success on either pathway — college or career education leading to industry certification.

Throughout the 20th century the «struggle for the American curriculum,» as one education historian called it, ebbed and flowed for decades as debates raged over the very purpose of schooling — whether to prepare an engaged citizenry, develop a competitive workforce, or ensure an educated populace capable of reaching its intellectual potential.