Sentences with phrase «contentious education debates»

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An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

While both President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan support charter schools, there continues to be a contentious debate over such schools.

The roots of the long and contentious debate about whether we should spend more for K - 12 education can be found in two sentences from the famous 1966 report led by James Coleman:

You can change the way schools are inspected as many times as you like (and Ofsted does — on average two substantial changes a year to inspections frameworks or guidance since Michael Wilshaw became chief inspector in January 2012) but until you can guarantee the quality of the process (let alone the contentious debate about whether the right aspects of education are being looked at in a methodologically sound way), Ofsted inspections will be flawed.

Education policy debates have been some of the most contentious and difficult debates of any policy issue.

Sound bilingual education policy has generated decades of contentious debate and is a key component of two major ongoing lawsuits over bilingual education funding.

Last summer, California's State Board of Education passed new regulations to the Parent Empowerment Act, or «parent trigger» law, which has sparked contentious debates among education stakEducation passed new regulations to the Parent Empowerment Act, or «parent trigger» law, which has sparked contentious debates among education stakeducation stakeholders.

Tennessee has made a decade long effort to raise ours standards in public education, with mixed results and contentious debate among stakeholders and policymakers.

One of the most enduring and contentious debates in education circles concerns the best way to hold schools and districts accountable for improving outcomes for students and closing achievement gaps.

The most contentious debate over additional taxes on the wealthy and businesses is unlikely at this point to much on education spending.

August 27, 2013 — Those of us involved in journalism, education and science like to believe that facts and science illuminate the way through contentious debates.

But over the next year prepare to see plenty of debate about whether the NSS and the TEF are adequate teaching improvement tools or whether they constitute innocuous methods for a nation world renowned for its quality of Higher Education to remove the highly contentious cap on tuition fees.