Sentences with phrase «current education system»

We have always asserted that Canada needs to make amends for the damages caused to our languages and cultures from residential schools by providing the supports needed to advance and protect them in current education systems — First Nations or provincial.

Charging that the city's current education system doesn't do enough for kids looking to bypass college in favor of careers as plumbers, electricians and carpenters, state Sen. Simcha Felder said a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo should help even the playing field.

Saying that «Americans want great schools for their children,» Trump went on to describe the nation's current education system as one «flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.»

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and several organizations that provide services to families and children across the state of Connecticut argue that the state's current education system perpetuates inadequate and unequal state aid for public schools, and that the broken ECS formula is not based on a rational, evidence - based assessment of the actual cost of education.

Yet, there are growing signs — within state and national education trends — that point to the fact that the state's current education system does not serve many students well, and the outlook does not look better for the future.

«The current education system neglects a large part of our diverse student population inclined toward other types of learning and career paths.»

At an open forum at Pace University, education leaders joined teachers and students to voice their concerns over the current education system.

He pointed out that our current education system does not serve all students equally well.

Yet, until all schools develop the capacity to develop such alternatives to state tests, Murnane maintained that we must not discard the imperfect measures we have now; they are needed to keep the light shining on the inequities that pervade our current education system.

«I know what a working model can do on a limited scale, but there are too many children getting lost in our current education system,» Kovacic says.

Australia needs to rethink the way it teaches its students, supports teachers and runs schools, as the current education system does not fit its purpose, according to a new discussion paper by think tank the Grattan Institute.

With 1.3 million children under performing in the UK (Ofsted, 2016) and 74 % of teachers considering leaving the profession due to unmanageable workloads (TES, 2016), it is clear that the current education system is facing some serious challenges.

Full - time virtual schools are one small but important part of transforming our current education system from today's monolithic state that standardizes teaching for students into a student - centric one that can customize for each child.

Technological advances and rapid globalisation continue to guide our current education systems and workplace recruitment.

Instead, trumpeting the importance of state and local control has too often served as a vehicle for those privileged by the current education system to maintain their advantage and avoid accountability for effectively educating all children.

One of the largest gaps in our current education system is financial literacy.

We believe that we need leaders who share the racial and economic backgrounds of our students as well as those who bring the privilege of our current education system and a commitment to using that privilege to create greater equity.»

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

Friedman: In a way that's evidence of the failure of our current education system.

For Lidia Parra Ortiz, project manager at Gijon Smart Kids, and Miguel Angel Acero Alvarez, from the Technological Center of Information and Communication, the current education system is not putting enough emphasis on the need for development of digital skills and creativity that young people need to address social and economic challenges, and that are necessary for the construction of future cities.

Our current education system is the product of multiple generations of previous reforms, also promoted by well - meaning activists and educators.

Our current education system is failing the emotional well - being of our teachers so to expect these same teachers to be in an emotionally good place to enhance the mental health of children is unlikely.

The transformative potential in combining a synchronous and asynchronous approach to the current education system results in an eLearning approach to education called blended learning.

Under the current education system, it is not surprising that so many ambitious, talented individuals leave their hometowns in order to seek more engaging and remunerative job opportunities.

The current education system, grafted haphazardly onto rural communities, is anything but fitted to local economic need.

This article will probably not be printed due to the fact I am not a Teacher Librarian but I would like to say that Professional Librarians do exist and we would like to be recognised for our contribution to our current education systems.

«The report shows that the current education system fails to provide these young people with opportunities to develop the technical skills they need to get the jobs they want.»

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the current education system has produced expectations for student performance that are «simply too low,» a Congressionally mandated panel last week called for high national standards for student achievement and a national system of assessments to gauge their attainment.

Last month the Federal Government gave a strong indication that education policy and delivery will remain the responsibility of the states and territories in its issues paper titled Roles and Responsibilities in Education which summarises the progression of both Commonwealth and state and territory involvement in Australia's education arrangements, along with analysis of the current education system, and forms part of the white paper on the Reform of the Federation, due for release early 2016.

YoungMinds stated that the survey results suggest that the current education system is «fundamentally unbalanced», with an «over-emphasis on exams and too little focus on student mental health».

«I don't believe the current education system is serving our children well,» Wilson said.

Released on the 23rd December last year, the paper summarises the progression of both Commonwealth and state and territory involvement in Australia's education arrangements, along with analysis of the current education system, and forms part of the white paper on the Reform of the Federation, due for release early 2016.

Following March's Education Show, we asked several exhibitors what they thought about the current education system in the UK, including what is being done well and what they would change

That characterization is actually quite remarkable for it could just as easily apply to the current education system — with its swirl of private labor unions delivering wheelbarrows of cash to «certain politicians» and with its profiteering text - book companies (and a host of other entrepreneurial sorts) milking public education for their personal and investor profit — as to the one Fang describes.

In the end, the real contribution of these books lies neither in their appeals to the heart nor in the practices they catalogue, but in the moral condemnation each makes of our current education system.

I believe that charter schools should not be used as «safety nets» for problems in the current education system but as innovation labs that can feed and build the whole public school system.

Is our current education system preparing children with the vital life skills to thrive in the fast - changing knowledge economy?

There are greater percentages of low - income, Latino, and English Language Learner students than in generations past; these students are the very ones who have been historically underserved in the current education system.

America's current education system is not preparing all students for the future demands of college, career, the global economy, and effective...

In a recent Los Angeles Times article, writer Howard Blume reports on the increasing polarization of teachers» unions, charter schools and our current education system.

Based on statistics, more than 11,000 of these highly passionate and well - educated members of our society will choose to leave the profession within five years, because of conditions which are almost impossible to endure in our current education system (attrition rates are generally higher in charter schools, for a number of reasons).

page: The Studio School is a new concept in education, which seeks to address the growing gap between the skills and knowledge that young people require to succeed, and those that the current education system provides.

Unfortunately in our current education system, parents have very few options.

We want to present a Black - centered response to the many questions that result from looking at equity in our current education system.

Socio - economic level is a PREDICTOR of student achievement because our current education system doesn't serve all students well.

Advocates respond that the current education system is not working.