Sentences with phrase «child education demands»

And instead of giving educators a pass, whole child education demands more of them.

Not exact matches

The demands on a woman to obtain the roundest education, the most fulfilled career, the highest promotion, the perfect relationship, and to «squeeze in two children» — all these are set against a backdrop of her diminishing fertility.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Her father, Obediah Scott struggled for a decent livelihood and his children demanded education.

She has both her Masters in Theology and a Masters in Education, and yet she writes: «I am in a very difficult and life - threatening marital situation and it is imperative that my children and I get to safety as soon as possible (before I become a statistic of domestic violence)...» For her the ethical choice is clear whether to live on in a farcical and dangerous relationship so as to serve the demands made on her by society... or to protect herself and her children.

[5] Pius XI made clear in his encyclical on education, «when the faithful demand Catholic schools for their children, they are not raising a question of party politics, but simply performing a religious duty which their conscience rigidly imposes upon them.»

People who demand religion in schools are either a) too lazy to provide religious educations to the kids themselves or b) trying to indoctrinate the children of others.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first feChildren's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fechildren arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

With the demands of education, it has become a requirement that being a parent not only involves teaching children children right from wrong, but also being their chid's first teacher.

While the United States government demands that every child receive an education, it does not stipulate how or where this education should be given.

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

The increasingly diverse and creative education system that the Government has created is far more suitable for gifted children — and in fact children of all abilities — because it can be so much more responsive to the demands of children.

CNN's coverage is a good example (seeNavarrette's eye - popping statement that unions «protect teachers from public demands for... a better education for our children.»)

The fee - free Senior High School project, she noted, provides the demand side of incentive for SHS in addition to the easing of barriers for parents who wish to finance their children's education at the secondary level, but do not have the means.

Buffalo's taxpayers give the Board of Education $ 70 million per year, and that contribution demands that the children in Buffalo are provided with the best, the most innovative, and most effective educational opportunities.

Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring church congregations from meeting in public schools.

New York, NY — More than one hundred district school parents stood outside the Department of Education's headquarters today to demand equity for their children — and full transparency from Mayor de Blasio.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

As a public figure who is charged with decision - making on behalf of our children, we demand that Carl Paladino be held to the same standard as our BPS students, and be immediately removed from the Buffalo Board of Education,» stated the BPTO.

Cuomo's campaign spokesperson, Abbey Fashouer, counters that he «has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

That's why I work with Citizen Action of New York to build a powerful grassroots organization that demands a quality public education for every child.»

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

As external assessments become a regular part of the American education system, parents may demand that report cards offer accurate information about their children's progress.

New York State's education department is studying a proposal that would bring children to school at age 4 and gradually phase out the 12th grade — a plan that officials say would adjust the schools to modern demands as well as address teacher shortages.

The Department of Education is seeking proposals for 21 comprehensive centers spread across the country that will provide expertise to states and school districts working to meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act.

While the school district contended that the language of IDEA demanded attendance at a public school first, the Second Circuit had already ruled in a prior case that this was an incorrect reading of the law, and could unreasonably require parents either to place children in an inadequate program or shoulder the financial burden of a private education, a result it called «absurd.»

In another timely feature, Shep Melnick gives us an assessment of the October 2014 «Dear Colleague Letter» from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which demanded that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to each school in order to avoid allegations of racially disparate impacts on children.

Let's not kid ourselves that those of us who pay a premium price for our child's education, whether in private - school tuition or school taxes in well - off communities, don't demand and receive schools largely free of the hardest to teach.

We should demand that schools receive what they need so that our children's education will not be based on the art of selling but in the arts.

For many years, children from non-English-speaking families «were placed in separate classes with lower demands,» says Carrie Hahnel, deputy director of research and policy analysis at Education Trust - West.

Proponents assert that children's education, generally, and public education, as an institution, will improve only to the degree that the public is actively involved and demands change and improvement.

Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70 Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as possible.

Thanks to the MDGs, more children have attended school and there is a greater demand for quality education.

Like many of our education colleagues around the country, we have struggled with the constraints brought on by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, initially seeing its demands for consistency as the enemy of classroom creativity and innovation.

I am delighted with this news which will expand the conversation into the future of education and how we can best support children (and teachers) for the global demands facing society.»

And since putting the emphasis on test scores, instead of on educating children, overwhelms schooldays with memorizing and boredom, the efforts that go into improving poor children's test scores necessarily take away from efforts to provide them with a demanding and engaging and worthy education.

«Massachusetts has a long history of leading the nation in education reform, and we have an opportunity now to lead again in developing the competent readers our children's future and our country's future demand.»

Making Parents Part of the «In» - volved Crowd Parents can be invaluable partners in their children's education, but many take themselves out of the equation because of mistrust, misunderstanding, the demands of work and home, or other factors.

Budget cuts and the demands of No Child Left Behind have made language education an easy target, according to Nancy Rhodes of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).

«This survey shows that children and young people really want to learn BSL, so we urge the Department for Education to respond to this demand.»

The White House, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and their allies have spent the last couple weeks drawing lines in the sand, blasting House Republicans, manufacturing new demands (like addressing pre-K in ESEA), and finding all kinds of creative ways to accuse Republicans of unconcern for low - income children.

In 1998, the courts increased funding to the district, but also made specific demands including making public education available to children by the age of three, meeting targets on assessment tests, and requiring specific facility and class size targets.

The online petition states that «there is no evidence that becoming an academy improves the outcomes of our children and young people» and demands that the Department for Education allows local authorities to «take back democratic control of the academies in their area».

Social justice also demands and it has to be remembered, as pointed out above, that the constitutional directive on compulsory education under Article 21 - A includes children with disabilities as well.

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

Parents» education levels are more influential in sparking demand for and supply of child - care places than is family income.

We believe the most promising approach is to move decisionmaking closer to the consumers of K — 12 public education by unleashing pent - up demand and empowering parents to choose schools for their children.

Certainly, if a child study team agreed that the best place to meet the services listed in the student's individualized education plan was, say, KIPP or Princeton Charter School, then the student would, I suppose, enroll in the lottery (both schools» demand for seats outpaces availability) or, perhaps, the state could pass a law allowing special treatment.

In response to the publication of the SEN Code of Practice for parliamentary approval by the Department for Education, the AEP has stressed that an uncertain funding future for the initial training of the educational psychology workforce and the ever increasing demand for educational psychologists» posts will mean that there will be an insufficient number of educational psychologists supporting local authorities and schools in future, which could put the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people across the country at risk.

This year's report also focuses on early - childhood education as its special theme, examining how new academic demands and accountability pressures are altering the learning environment for young children and the educators serving them.