Sentences with phrase «control over their curriculum»

In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.

Will it usurp local control over curriculum?

UTLA president A. J. Duffy sensed an opening, negotiating with Villaraigosa to grant teachers greater control over curriculum and pedagogical practices.

That is, each school should have significant control over its curriculum, methods, budget, staff, and calendar.

Nevertheless, Klein gave her control over curriculum and pedagogical decisions during the planning stages of Children First.

He and the board initially chose to centralize control over curriculum, budgets, hiring, and almost everything else.

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

The zone is a public - private partnership that gives principals and teachers more control over curriculum, schedules, staff, and budgets.

When experts or politicians said that Common Core would not lead to a surrender of local control over curriculum, Heather and Erin knew better.

In education's public sector, by contrast, the work is actually less interesting than it is in private schools, where teachers enjoy more control over the curriculum and more autonomy in the classroom.

Community Magnet is an affiliated charter which allows flexibility in many areas of school management (budget, staff selection) as well as school site control over curriculum selections and school - based enrichment.

While districts have local control over their curriculum, their students are expected to meet certain expectations which are assessed.

Note on Gifted Ed Regulations: While districts have local control over their curriculum, text books, and lesson plans, there is an over-riding State requirement with gifted education.

Instead of giving more control to parents and local school boards, his administration has pushed to consolidate control over curriculum to the U.S. Department of Education.

Heads have more control over curriculum, teachers» pay and conditions and the length of school terms and days.

The schools are established as academies, independent of local authorities and with increased control over their curriculum, teachers» pay and conditions, and the length of school terms and days.

The government ultimately wants all state - funded schools in England to become academies - meaning they would be semi-independent, with greater control over the curriculum, the school day and pay and conditions of staff.

Some observers predicted that at least two consortia would receive funds to allay fears of a «national assessment» and of usurpation of local control over the curriculum.

Tom Vander Ark, the education chief who had championed small schools, was out the door and replaced with Vicki Phillips, a superintendent whose claim to fame, such as it was, came from serving as Portland's superintendent where she consolidated schools (not breaking them into smaller ones) and centralized control over curriculum and instruction.

From the get go, NCLB deferred to the states, saying «nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system.»

Not exact matches

I think that a lot of educators over the past few years have tried to find a curriculum or a textbook that is somehow going to help kids become more perseverant and more self - controlled.

The task force recommended a revamp of the common core system, more stakeholder input, a reduction in standardized testing, and increased local control over standards and curriculum.

The GMB ™ Curriculum builds strength, flexibility, and control with fun movement skills that carry over to virtually any activity.

Your supplementation of the basic curriculum truly enhanced my understanding of the impact of nutrition and behavior on the operation of our body systems and how much control over our health we actually have.

In this quasi-experimental study on the Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) program, 11 LTTA schools were compared to control schools over three years to examine the benefits of an arts - integrated sixth grade curriculum.

When online learning is used as the primary driver of instruction, teachers inevitably give up control over many aspects of curriculum planning and lesson delivery; and in low - quality implementations of blended learning, the teacher's professional judgment ends there.

They have influence over the curriculum taught, flexibility regarding the use of their funding, including salaries paid to staff, and overall, greater control of the school's strategic direction and ability to innovate.

For instance, a federal or state education chief is a non-local actor with control over a public school's teacher evaluation progress or college - and - career ready curriculum.

I have no control over the standardized curriculum, or who's assigned to my classroom.

The New Leaders were promised greater control over budgets, staffing, curriculum, and professional development.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

The kindergarten curriculum of the Department of Defense Education Activity says that kindergarten students in military schools will «begin to form letters with control over size or shape.»

«The culture wars over control of and focus for the National Curriculum may also be left to experts in education given the much more progressive views of the new Prime Minister and the Minister of Education.

For those that found autonomy to have a positive effect, most cited freedom on the curriculum (63 per cent) and control over resources (60 per cent).

American education remains deeply reluctant to do this, since it requires overthrowing any number of traditions and practices — from child - centered pedagogies, assumptions about student engagement, and other progressive education ideals, to local control of curriculum, the privileging of skills over content, and the movement toward mass customization of education.

On the contrary, the model of self - governing schools — whether private or public — with significant control over their own operations, staffing, curricula, and budgets is far more likely to serve the ends of performance - based reform.

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and operations.

This move toward quality control could be the first step back toward renewing the drive for national curriculum standards that flared up and flamed out in the 1990s in disputes over ideology, pedagogy, course content, and control of the public schools, speculated Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor of the 64 - campus State University of New York.

Assessment is important in driving curriculum, and the evolution of national assessment developed through federal sponsorship will undermine state control over textbooks, curricular stresses, and assessment costs

Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.

Unlike local - authority - run schools, they are exempt from teaching the national curriculum and have increased control over teachers» pay and conditions and the length of school terms and days.

They will lie, cheat, and crush their opponents, so why would we want to give these folks control over a nationalized set of standards, curriculum, and testing.

To support state control over standards (which drive curriculum decisions), Common Core must be repealed.

Their primary goal was to get direct parental control over choosing a principal, and change teacher contracts so the principal would have full control over hiring and firing all employees, school spending and curriculum.

The Houston Chronicle reports that district leaders also proposed handing over control of hiring, curriculum and governance of eight other schools to two nonprofit organizations.

When provided with the following definition, «Charter schools are public schools that have more control over their own budget, staff, and curriculum, and are exempt from many existing public school regulations in exchange for more accountability,» support rose to over 70 percent.

This is about a centralisation of control over the school curriculum.

Sen. Dick Brewbaker's resolution that passed the Senate but was not brought to a vote in the House «encourages the State Board of Education to take all steps it deems appropriate, including revocation of the adoption of the [Common Core] initiative's standards if necessary, to retain complete control over Alabama's academic standards, curriculum, instruction, and testing system.»

Learning objects (individual instructional units that can be used separately or together) seem to provide the best solution for schools that want control over how curriculum is constructed and blended.