Sentences with phrase «challenges facing school systems»

The slides lay out carefully crafted, well researched and thought - out plans to tackle the serious challenges facing school systems.

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«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.

The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today.

«A key challenge the Government faces in securing a fair funding system is a legacy of the last six years of misguided economic austerity which has been to the detriment of schools and pupils.

«If we do not have a school system that is adapting to and preparing for these challenges — a school system that is not only adapting to the amazing revolution of iTunes, whereby Harvard and Oxbridge publish their most valuable content free, but is also able to adapt to the unknown revolutions ahead - then we will face even worse crises in the years ahead.

«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 statement.

Low - income parents are more likely to say schools should teach students how to use the health care system — perhaps, Clark notes, because these parents face challenges themselves in accessing health care.

«Some of our men and women in uniform face challenges after they return from service and post-deployment homelessness is an extreme case of poor community reintegration,» says Adi V. Gundlapalli, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher with the Salt Lake City VA Health Care System, associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine and corresponding author on the study.

Our educational system faces some of the toughest challenges it has met since America's first public school opened in Boston in 1635.

It discounts real improvements in the city's school system, ignores the tremendous challenges facing some of the city's secondary schools, and distracts from the hard work required to graduate students truly qualified for what comes next.

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.

Reading the results of Riley's survey and observing the systems, environments and day - to - day challenges faced by those working in our schools, it can be readily interpreted that many of these challenges can easily be perceived by school staff as threats, therefore undermining their wellbeing if they respond with classic survival mechanisms.

This report examines some of the most intractable challenges schools face in trying to use technology to improve teaching and learning — and how K - 12 systems are attempting to clear those hurdles.

Hear how this primary and secondary school have faced the removal of levels challenge and their victories so far, including the incorporation of the key elements of a good assessment system and translating these into the classroom, setting appropriate targets, tracking and effectively measuring pupil progress post levels, and demonstrating progress for Ofsted governors.

However, adjusting to a new school system, learning a new language, so different from their native languages, understanding school rules or making friends in a different culture are some of the many challenges they face.

Included: Tompkins talks about the challenges facing rural school systems.

djusting to a new school system, learning a new language, so different from their native languages, understanding school rules or making friends in a different culture are some of the many challenges they face.

For some reason, even though we've known for decades that different schools face different challenges, only a few states have embraced this insight by creating systems that judge schools based on things they control.

One challenge facing the education system in the United Kingdom is that students from non-selective state (public) schools are underrepresented in institutions of higher education.

One of the thorniest challenges facing district leaders today is that of improving teaching and learning — not just in individual schools, but across entire systems of schools.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

However, according to Annie - May Roberts of First Wave Adventures, change is the biggest challenge teachers and schools are facing today: «Changing systems and moving goalposts are challenging teachers every day.»

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

On November 13, 2014, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion with Cami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools since 2011, focusing on the challenges she has faced since taking over a system with a 50 percent graduation rate.

Secretary Arne Duncan speaks with educators at Rogers Heights Elementary School in Bladensburg ~ MD ~ about the difficult challenges facing the U.S. education system.

According to a recent article in the U.S. News & World Report, several big - city public school systems face immense fiscal challenges.

One of the challenges that face educators is to prepare pre-service teachers with the skills and abilities that are essential for success in the school system.

First, the programs can be broad, aiming to incentivize policy changes in multiple areas in one fell swoop, or narrowly focused on a specific challenge facing most school systems.

Our webinar guests will talk about those efforts, describe common challenges that districts face in discussing the common core with parents, and explain how school systems can address parents» fears and misgivings about the standards.

Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

The biggest challenge facing U.S. cities and their school systems is concentrated poverty.

Horace, the journal of the Coalition of Essential Schools, was published from 1989 — 2009 to demonstrate the strength and expertise of the CES network, explore challenges that Essential schools faced, and serve as evidence of the effectiveness of the CES movement to transform the lives of young people and adults, schools, communities, school systems, and the larger environment in which schools oSchools, was published from 1989 — 2009 to demonstrate the strength and expertise of the CES network, explore challenges that Essential schools faced, and serve as evidence of the effectiveness of the CES movement to transform the lives of young people and adults, schools, communities, school systems, and the larger environment in which schools oschools faced, and serve as evidence of the effectiveness of the CES movement to transform the lives of young people and adults, schools, communities, school systems, and the larger environment in which schools oschools, communities, school systems, and the larger environment in which schools oschools operate.

At the same time, California faces significant challenges in implementing the standards in its racially, ethnically, and economically diverse school system.

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them.

Reporters» Notebook Lessons from Our Nation's Schools reveals bright spots in a school system that faces overwhelming challenges.

In recognition of the challenges faced by busy teachers - the constant swathe of initiatives and reforms and the complexity of schools and school systems - the value of collaboration is emphasised.

In striving to make it through the K - 12 system and on to higher education, this small but important portion of public school students faces special challenges.

He is currently writing a book about the challenge of building a first - rate public school system in the face of modern political dysfunction.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

Some of the findings echo much of what I observed through interviews with 13 schools in New Hampshire last year: competency - based education looks different in different contexts; schools implementing competency - based education face real technology challenges; and different students in such systems likely have different needs.

Whether they work inside or outside a school system, they bring a passion and sense of outrage that come from having spent at least two years learning about the challenges that low - income students and schools face.

When Ms. Reed took the reins of the school system in 2005 after earning her doctorate, one of the first actions she took was to give teachers and principals training on the effects of poverty on children so that they could better understand some of the challenges their students face in learning.

«The president doesn't believe that vouchers are a long - term answer to our educational problems and the challenges that face our public school system, where the vast majority of — of students are educated in this country.»

So as your cream off the best students, those students benefit for sure, but it leaves the school system with the students who face the most challenges.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

Hosted by NYC Collaborates, «Diverse Schools: Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating NYC's Public Schools» discussed the historical roots of school segregation; these continue to play out across New York — even over 60 years after Brown v Board of Education - as well as the current challenges our school system faces and actionable solutions to spur inChallenges in Integrating NYC's Public Schools» discussed the historical roots of school segregation; these continue to play out across New York — even over 60 years after Brown v Board of Education - as well as the current challenges our school system faces and actionable solutions to spur inchallenges our school system faces and actionable solutions to spur integration.

So why are we stuck with an education system that many stakeholders believe is not fit for purpose and fails to support schools with the challenges they are currently facing and not meeting the child's real needs?

In its efforts to improve student achievement, MPS faced headwinds on par with the nation's most challenged school systems.

After an electrifying keynote by parent leader Rosazlia Grillier that left attendees standing in ovation, Jesse Sharkey of the Chicago Teachers Union facilitated a panel discussion during the Chicago Story plenary on current challenges facing the public school system and the difficulty for community voices to be heard.