Sentences with phrase «criticized education colleges»

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has criticized education colleges, praised the ratings.

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While at times community colleges have been criticized for a lack of academic rigor, there can be little question that they have made formal education more readily accessible to larger segments of our population, and fostered a sense that education is an ongoing, lifelong process.

In my concluding proposal, I have criticized current higher education, including liberal arts colleges, and expressed my hope that they can direct some of their vast resources to helping humanity find its way through its most difficult problems.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

While the state Department of Education has claimed implementation of common core aims to better prepare students for college and careers, many parents and educators have criticized the move because they believe teachers are being forced to abandon true learning for «teaching to the test.»

He also criticized Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders» formula for free college education.

Terrel H. Bell, secretary of education during President Reagan's first term, has criticized the Administration's proposed cuts in aid to college students, saying they constitute an «unwitting assault on the nation's colleges and universities.»

The report criticizes as «weak» the college education of prospective teachers and calls for major revisions in teacher - training programs, including a more rigorous general education, fewer education courses, revised financing formulas for colleges of education, and the development of alternative - certification plans.

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.»

In 2006, Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, published a lengthy report on the state of teacher education, calling it a «troubled field» and criticizing schools of education for having low admission and graduation standards, and «wide disparities in institutional quality.»

This setting of low expectations by the state, which has been criticized by reformers in the state such as former Commissioner for Higher Education Stan Jones (now the head of College Complete America), makes a mockery of the otherwise strong efforts by the state to transform education for Education Stan Jones (now the head of College Complete America), makes a mockery of the otherwise strong efforts by the state to transform education for education for children.

DeVos, who has said very little about her views on higher education, criticized colleges for being hostile to conservatives.

KZ: Teacher education provided in U.S. colleges and universities has been routinely criticized since its inception in the early nineteenth century, sometimes deservedly.

Warren also criticized what she said was DeVos» «paper - thin record on higher education and student debt,» pointing out that the next education secretary must continue to help those struggling with student debt and protect them from for - profit colleges offering worthless degrees.