Sentences with phrase «challenges in public school education»

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Volume IV, Number 1 ADHD: the Challenge of Our Time — Eugene Schwartz Helping Children: Where Research and Social Action Meet — Joan Almon Computers, Brains, and Children — Stephen Talbott Movement and Sensory Disorders in Today's Children — Peter Stuck, M.D. Can Waldorf Education Be Practiced in Public Schools?

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

2006 Eugenie Scott, the Dover High School Science Department, and R. Wesley McCoy: These dedicated individuals are honored for their determination to defend sound education in U.S. public schools by vigorously challenging attempts to introduce intelligent design into science classes.

The awards recognize three public high schools that demonstrate excellence in academic growth and help disadvantaged students achieve their higher education goals despite social, cultural, and economic challenges.

Any school in the UK can take part in the challenge, which tasks students with designing one building to live in; and designing a public building for one of a range of purposes, including social, sport, education or health.

In The New Challenge for Public Education: Secondary School Reform — Designs, Standards, and Accountability.

Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, in thanking President Neil Rudenstine and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education challSchool of Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education chEducation, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education challschool program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education cheducation challenges.

April 21 — Art: The School of Visual Arts is inviting participants in its 1995 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, to be held in New York City Oct. 18 - 21, to submit proposals for open sessions on the following topics: Whither the Arts — The Right, the Left, and the (Dead) Center; Art and Regionalism; Government Funding of the Arts: Pro and Con; Politics and Graphic Design; Politics and the Studio Curriculum; New Challenges to Multiculturalism; Public Television: Yes or No?

«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.

It was an intense weekend in Philadelphia rubbing elbows — and sharing bagels — with the likes of Ken Starr, Jeffrey Toobin, and Guido Calebresi, but I was surprised by the number of Constitutional questions arising these days in the public schools and was lucky enough to be in a workshop run by Vic Walczak, legal director for the ACLU in Pennsyslvania, a man who has had his share of education challenges lately.

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.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public SchoolsSchools.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

For close to an hour before classes began, the three women met to discuss many of the top challenges facing public education and, more specifically, Garfield — one of 67 K — 5 schools in the BPS.

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 dEducation, 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 deducation 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 delivereIn 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 deliverein 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 deducation and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation is regulated, managed, and delivered.

The systematic evidence clearly shows that school officials dominate special education, parents rarely challenge school officials» decisions, schools win most of those challenges from parents, and parents very rarely get their children placed in private schools at public expense.

Now, educators and policymakers in that state are scrambling to determine whether and how to enforce the new law, a direct challenge to Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that asserts that public schools must provide all students an education, regardless of their immigration status.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education's series of public lectures dedicated to conversations on the challenges facing education was establishedEducation's series of public lectures dedicated to conversations on the challenges facing education was establishededucation was established in 1998.

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.

South Australian - based school principal and recent leadership category winner of the SA Excellence in Public Education Awards, Olivia O'Neill, says despite the challenges of being a principal in the 21st Century principals should focus on the creativity of the job and enjoy it.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing cEducation Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing ceducation, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Authorizers stand behind creating better public schools in a challenging system, a better education for all kids, and a better way to get there.

Potter, who like many education reformers supports public school choice in the form of charter schools but opposes vouchers, argues Nevada's private schools will be exempt from requirements to teach the more challenging students, including those with disabilities or those from poor families.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scSchool Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scschool recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

Increasingly, though, leaders in both higher education and K - 12 public schools are finding new moral challenges in maintaining political neutrality while addressing concerns about students» safety and emotional well - being.

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.

As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

The concept, if not the name, first came into use more than 100 years ago, when education reformers challenged the rote memorization style of learning then standard in most public schools.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

Over the course of the 20th century, some of the most persistent challenges in public education — from the dropout problem in the 1950s, to educational disadvantage in the 1960s, to school discipline in recent years — have been reframed in psychological terms.

I've now been involved in the world of public education for 15 years, as the founder and CEO of Edison Schools, one of the country's first private companies to take on the challenge of improving public sSchools, one of the country's first private companies to take on the challenge of improving public schoolsschools.

As per a recent article in the New York Times, «nine public school students [emphasis added as I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructors.

With a new year comes new opportunities to work together to address challenges charter schools face in Northeastern California, and to improve public education as a whole.

«The Collaborative's adequacy study will be the first to truly explore the unique challenges charter schools face in providing a top - notch public school education to all students.»

Founded in 2006 by East San Jose native and National Board Certified Teacher Frances Teso, Voices is a public charter school network with a mission to prepare all students for the challenges of higher education through the context of an academically rigorous dual - language program.

In April, the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this challengIn April, the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this cEducation (CRPE) and the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this cEducation in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this challengin Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this ceducation directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this challenge.

Previously, she coordinated Walter H. Annenberg's $ 500 million «Challenge» to reform America's schools — at the time the largest private initiative to reform public education in U.S. history — from its inception in January 1994 until June 2000.

Turning around failing schools, high schools in particular, is one of the most intractable challenges in public education.

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.

Home Schooling, Characteristics of Home Schooling Parents, Academic Achievement, The Role of Technology, The Public Charter School Perspective, Definition, Reasons for Reform, Public Education and the Free Market, For - Profit School Management Corporations and School Closure, Successful Charter Schools, Recent Research, Charter School Dynamics in California, Conclusion, Virtual Schools, Background, Distinctiveness of Virtual Schools, Innovative Models, Success - Oriented Cognitive Constructs for Learning in Virtual Environments, Challenges, Advantages, The Virtual Charter Model, Definition and Uniqueness, Organizational Style, Reasons for This Trend, Disadvantages, Summary, Literature Review Conclusion

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.

In a suit challenging the state's school finance system, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that its education provision requiring uniform public schools (Article X, Section 3) related to the character of instruction offered in the public schools, and not the size, boundaries or composition of the school districtIn a suit challenging the state's school finance system, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that its education provision requiring uniform public schools (Article X, Section 3) related to the character of instruction offered in the public schools, and not the size, boundaries or composition of the school districtin the public schools, and not the size, boundaries or composition of the school districts.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

These Networks for School Improvement are intended to support continuous improvement — built on collecting data and testing solutions — in order to tackle some of public education's most pressing challenges.

To help New Orleans become the first high - quality urban education system in the country, NSNO invests in great public schools, helps schools become more effective, and coordinates solutions to citywide challenges.

«Da Vinci Schools is enormously honored to be the recipient of a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant and to work alongside a community of innovators and educators committed to creating transformative, cost - effective change in public education and to dramatically improving college readiness and completion,» said Dr. Matthew Wunder, a Founder and Executive Director of Da Vinci Schools.