Sentences with phrase «challenging education»

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

Principals must constantly innovate, challenging the education communities they lead to raise the bar, as well as to shift direction to respond to new initiatives and technologies.

It's not easy, or cheap, to challenge the education status quo.

It also requires us to tackle one of the biggest challenges education faces — interdisciplinary learning.

The fact that the education status - quo would challenge education choice opportunities for children in court is not surprising.

Hyun - jeong Cho will present «Understanding alternate assessment misassignment and how to prevent it,» which examines when students are not correctly identified for alternative assessments and provides solutions to ensure academically challenging education for students with disabilities.

Voices From the Field Challenge Education Week, May 1, 2011 «I believe strongly that wisdom lies close to the ground; as an academic, I always learn more when I'm in schools listening to people doing the work,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

We helped the nation's top philanthropies establish a joint venture for investing in more effective communications around the importance of challenging education standards.

Even though most universities today offer teens an affordable education and clear career opportunities, many students fall victim to increasingly challenging education standards and are forced to look for additional means of reinforcing their academic learning.

Tohoku International School provides a comprehensive academic program from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 for foreign and Japanese families who seek a quality, challenging education in English for their children.

Christian Addai - Mensah also challenged the education minister, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang who was onetime a lecturer to be proactive in addressing teachers» concerns.

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

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.

Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler disqualified Pillsbury from representing Continental Service Group Inc., also known as ConServe, in litigation challenging an Education Department contract decision.

From Arizona to Florida and everywhere in between, families have seen unions try to deny parents» freedom to choose where and how their children learn by challenging education savings accounts, vouchers, tax credit scholarships, and charter schools.

David is intellectually gifted, and Curry knows that he will receive an academically superior, appropriately challenging education at CFC Academy.

Clinton Challenges Nation to Improve Math and Science Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

Principal Mike McCarthy, a National Principal of the Year in 1997, believes that giving all students — not just those at the top of the class — the highest quality and most challenging education makes the difference at King.

The paper's authors also challenge the education sector to codify current and future resea rch and practical knowledge about quality teaching to improve teacher effectiveness in every classroom and to advance the field of education overall.

They should challenge those education leaders who exclude and ignore them and find true partners and allies.

Ongoing access to collective wisdom is the next implementation challenge education must embrace.

Among the specific challenges Education Infrastructure NSW will be required to deliver on ensuring the Department's maintenance backlog is effectively managed.

The honorees were nominated by their classmates based on who inspired them, impressed them, helped them gain a different perspective on the structures challenging education today, and created a climate that allowed for shared learning and intellectual growth inside and outside the classroom.

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.

California is not the only state in the country with families living in poverty, with high numbers of English learner students or with challenging education politics.

The charter school's board protested the ban, and filed a grievance with the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings challenging the education department's decision.

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

What kinds of teacher education — preservice and inservice — best prepare teachers for the classroom realities of diverse students, challenging education mandates, and high expectations?

WFYI quotes The Mind Trust's Founder and CEO, David Harris, in coverage about a group convened by two key city leaders to tackle challenging education issues.

On November 22, 2005, Stamford Mayor and Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Malloy issued a press release entitled «Malloy Supports Lawsuit Challenging Education Funding System... says that reforming the education funding system is an issue of «fundamental fairness.

Founded in 1889, Barnard was the only college in New York City, and one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education available to men.

Teams in the program receive Living Building Challenge education, membership benefits, a charrette, design development and construction documentation review, as well as other technical support.

With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high - quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.

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.

Obama and Bredesen were on the leading edge of what has become a nationwide cadre of Democrats willing to challenge the education establishment to enact the types of policies necessary to provide every child the opportunity to learn to his or her utmost potential.

The legislation also authorized the state's first charter schools, an innovation designed to challenge the education status quo.

The Nevada Attorney General's Office filed a motion Monday asking a judge to dismiss a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that challenges Education Savings Accounts.

Oftentimes profoundly intelligent young people are not properly identified and, thus, do not receive an appropriately challenging education.

Yegulalp describes his challenging education with Emil Gumbel, which played a formative role in his own path through life.

It challenges the education system to recalibrate.

Taylor went on to discuss the merger of the National College and the Teaching Agency, setting out some of the challenges the education profession is facing and how the new agency will support schools and leaders.

The incredible challenges my students faced humbled me and inspired me to work as hard as possible to ensure that they were experiencing empowering, affirming, challenging education every day.

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

Designing Common Core Tests For All Proving a Challenge Education Week commentary by columnist Nirvi Shah

We can all agree that an engaging and challenging education is the proven path to prosperity and a life - long love of learning.

The existence of that lottery is sadly based on the premise that gifted students don't need an appropriate and challenging education; it is saying that gifted education is optional and gifted children should be able to sit in a classroom and learn what they already know.