Sentences with phrase «challenge the education system»

Over the years, Steiner quietly built a reputation as a reformer's reformer, willing to challenge the education system's multiple vested interests — from the inside.

These student - led activist organizations use sophisticated analysis, appropriate action, and creative partnerships to challenge the education systems to become responsive to student voice.

To rehash it now would draw attention away from the real challenges our education system faces.

His research focuses on life skill development in experiential learning environments and his most recent book is titled Changing the status quo: courage to challenge the education system published by Rowman and Littlefield.

Not exact matches

Our legislature faces challenges, our prisons face challenges, as does our education system and our state's Medicaid program.

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

This presents challenges, especially for the education system.

B.C.'s renewed Liberal government faces so many unchanged challenges, but in particular a public education system that's still crying out for cash.

Praxis - thinking challenge this assumption of western Christianity, which is the hidden assumption of much of our education system.

The penultimate chapter of this book continues to challenge the reader to reflect upon the tensions found within the formalised education system which prevent true unity.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

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.

Additionally, the Committee is responsible for modern - day education and workforce - related challenges, and seeks to assist in supporting the existence of an education system that prepares children for the future, simultaneously fostering an economy that encompasses American enterprise and entrepreneurship.

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

How would you see off a younger, better looking political rival?Perhaps challenge him to a celebrity boxing match with a post-fight debate on the education system and the state of our economy.

«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.

Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.

Haruna Iddrisu says even though there are challenges facing the economy, youth unemployment and problems with the education system, the President has put in place the requisite measures to address them hence he must be supported.

He said higher education must raise a value system that will enable graduates to have an impact in national development and not deviant in society adding that it must create the relevant knowledge, skills and solutions to challenges impeding national growth and development.

After meeting with economic development, business and space leaders Friday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine called the Space Coast «our Silicon Valley» but said the challenge for the state will be investing in the education system to support it.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

NYSUT is pledging to defend New York's teacher tenure system in the face of a legal challenge backed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown's education reform organization.

This is an opportunity to recognize K - 12 education professionals who have developed innovative solutions to challenges facing our youth through the educational system that serves them.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a sEducation Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a seducation, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

Now despite the pomp and ceremony around government's flagship education program Free SHS, there still remain some challenges that has left some Ghanaians confused The situation is compounded by the perennial challenges with the Computerized School Selection Placement System CSSPS.

Humanists UK will be doubling down on its efforts for a fully inclusive education system, challenging new faith schools applications as they arise.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

A conference to explore the challenges individual institutions and national higher education systems are facing in a global environment, in response to the pressures of an emerging knowledge...

Teenage comedies of this kind don't always have to go down the Porky's route of just being gross or sexist; in fact, the film's ideas about the education system could have been a starting point to challenge such conventions.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

We will have an education system that differentiates between students and finds every child where he or she is in the early years, then gives her the understanding, guidance, increasing academic challenge, and support necessary to traverse each level of our education system successfully, ultimately emerging — after some years of post secondary education — ready for success in a job and in our economy, as a citizen, the head of a family, and a lifelong learner.

Please join Education Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion about challenges associated with developing, implementing, and managing special education programs at different levels of the nation's educatioEducation Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion about challenges associated with developing, implementing, and managing special education programs at different levels of the nation's educatioeducation programs at different levels of the nation's educationeducation system.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

EW: How have the challenges for learning disabled children in the education system changed since you began school in the 1950s?

Stefan: The first challenge is not resources but to improve the quality of the education systems.

Immigrant parents also face challenges such as language barriers, unfamiliarity with the U.S. school system, low education, difficulty assisting children with homework, and little control over work schedules.

Challenges presented by the current reforms to the education system come at a time of overall reform of local authority support and changes to the health service, resulting in a set of challenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress toChallenges presented by the current reforms to the education system come at a time of overall reform of local authority support and changes to the health service, resulting in a set of challenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress tochallenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress to overcome.

Nobody denies there are still challenges but we believe these will best be solved by everybody in the education system working together in a supportive and positive manner.»

With 1.3 million children under performing in the UK (Ofsted, 2016) and 74 % of teachers considering leaving the profession due to unmanageable workloads (TES, 2016), it is clear that the current education system is facing some serious challenges.

A challenge then emerges when this new esprit de corps gets placed in an education system that is not readily amenable to supporting this way of working.

OECD Director of Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher says Indigenous students face tough challenges in most education systems, but analysis of outcomes in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia reveals sustained improvements have been achieved through focusing on several or all of sEducation and Skills Andreas Schleicher says Indigenous students face tough challenges in most education systems, but analysis of outcomes in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia reveals sustained improvements have been achieved through focusing on several or all of seducation systems, but analysis of outcomes in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia reveals sustained improvements have been achieved through focusing on several or all of six areas.

The findings of this evaluation represent the successes and challenges of the provincial education systems as well as those of Save the Children (Save the Children, 2009, p. iv).

The only way to tackle all these challenges at once is to make Australia's education system more adaptive.

The fact that this would be done for the K — 12 education sector at a time when that system was being severely challenged, and when new opportunities for leadership were opening up, was also exciting.

One of the lessons from the failed Annenberg Challenge, he would later explain, was that «You have to have superintendency» — by which he means authority — «so you start to change the system itself... You want to find new ways of supporting education improvement as a matter of routine.»

Suella Fernandes MP said: «With the rapid growth in opportunities for young people to spend money on a daily basis, it is vital that our education system provides them with the knowledge and skills to navigate the financial challenges they face both now and in later life.

«At a time when the recruitment of headteachers is exceptionally challenging with many posts attracting at best single figures this kind of sensationalist report does nothing to help us to achieve the ambitious vision headteachers are working so tirelessly to turn into a reality for our education system.»

Their evolution challenges the stereotype that Asian education systems are built for rote memorization of facts.

The fact that Cisco's elaborate simulations can be scored automatically lends hope to the K - 12 education system that we can measure things that were previously too expensive or challenging to evaluate.