Sentences with phrase «curriculum reform»

The act offers new directions for curriculum reform, provides new systems for teacher recruitment and training, and extends national educational requirements.

What would be your position on curriculum reform, including the role of the arts, the treatment of ethics, and the adoption of blended online learning?

Although recent curriculum reforms and a new national college entrance exam promote the importance of «quality education,» few schools and teachers have fully adopted the approach.

A challenge is to develop credible indicators of such capabilities and to use these indicators to evaluate curriculum reform efforts.

I've previously called these the «dog whistles» of top - down curriculum reform, subtle signals that give local advocates license to promote unpopular positions on controversial issues.

Because the former is curriculum - based, was this a sign that in fact the British curriculum reforms and school management interventions were working?

This is particularly the case in countries where curriculum reform has occurred in recent years.

She is passionate about 21st century competencies, its integration into the curriculum design and the way curriculum reform and education policy can support this change.

The move comes as part of dramatic curriculum reforms designed to improve the value and reduce inflation of top grades, allowing schools, colleges and employers to better differentiate between candidates.

A faculty champion and the assistance of a subject matter expert will be required for successful curriculum reform.

Think of a typical districtwide curriculum reform project.

They're trying to cope with curriculum reform, a recruitment crisis and justifying the meagre money they've managed to get from government to create some services to sell.

Central to my suggestion is the belief that change and transformation in theological education will never be achieved through curriculum reform alone.

Lord Baker remembers his part in Conservative education changes in the 80s and the National Curriculum reform.

Several online social studies curriculum reform efforts were reviewed, along with human - centered interface design, and ECM investigations that directly informed our work.

Inside Higher Ed has the story, and details of the program and the law school's other curriculum reforms are available on the law school website.

That's where efforts at law school curriculum reform in the United States can have an impact in Canada.

141 (1983); Gerald Torres, Teaching and Writing: Curriculum Reform as an Exercise in Critical Education, 10 Nova L.J. 867 (1986).

Research on High School Students» Everyday Life in the New Curriculum Reforms Implementation Progress in China

The history of science curriculum reform in the United States.

As Diane Ravitch seeks allies in her lifelong crusade for meaningful curriculum reform, she might stop and ask: Where will she find her friends now?

«However, it is concerning that despite rising levels of sexual bullying and sexual harassment by children and young people, the provision of PSHE and SRE has been under pressure as a result of Government - driven curriculum reforms, funding cuts and changes to accountability requirements.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has expressed dismay at the dropping of vital curriculum reforms, including a Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) entitlement for all young people, from the Government's Children, Schools and Families Bill.

After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting social justice curriculum reform within the network.

The new framework also takes into account curriculum reform and the greater freedoms that this reform hopes to introduce, with schools required to provide evidence that they are delivering a curriculum that is broad, balanced and meets the needs and interests of pupils, and promotes high levels of achievement, good behaviour and successful progression to the next stage of education, training or employment.

Her keynote will look at: «the significance of curriculum reform matter, what can we do about it and how can we support our learners in asking for it?»

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high - quality curriculum is a more cost - effective means of improving student outcomes than many more - popular ed - reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform.

Also high the agenda, are issues surrounding curriculum reform, teachers» pay, special educational needs and school funding.

Some of them, she adds, «resolved to go home and make curriculum reform a priority in their own states, saying, «We need to do this.

As these less - demanding, nonintellectual courses proliferated, a new «movement» was born, the Life Adjustment Movement, a federally sponsored curriculum reform effort that began soon after World War II.

It was when she moved to third grade, looping with some of the kids she had two years earlier in the first grade, that her passion for curriculum reform reached its peak.

To promote curriculum reform — and make better use of education dollars — this report provides new insight on how curricula are selected in every state across the country and examines the costs of those curricula.

The truth is that proponents of common - sense curriculum reform — e.g., the notion that schools should choose textbooks and reading programs that can display some evidence of effectiveness — haven't had any levers by which to advance such reforms.

Russ, for instance, has eloquently written that «leaving curriculum reform off the table or giving it a very small place makes no sense.»

As Dr. Haertel points out, LTT's content is simpler and more traditional than that espoused in current curriculum reforms.

On the other side of the globe, China has undertaken a nationwide program of curriculum reform since 2001.

In districts such as Long Beach, Calif., and Aldine, Tex., teachers well informed by smart professional development carried out sophisticated curriculum reforms.

For NUT members an anger about privatisation, testing and bungled curriculum reform will all be in the mix.

However a discredited system of performance - related pay, a series of top - down and botched curriculum reforms and the downgrading of qualified teacher status also attest to a profession under pressure.

As a result of a 6 - year curriculum reform and dissemination grants from the Federal Department of Education and 4 - year grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, he and his colleagues have designed an institution - wide Music - in - Education Concentration for students of all majors and created a Research Center at New England Conservatory.

This announcement «misses the point that we need curriculum reform, not just exam reform», says the CBI chief.