Sentences with phrase «day debate on education»

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The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

Milton Friedman's book Capitalism and Freedom set off a debate on education governance that continues to this day.

Illich would use CIDOC as an experiment in education and as a center for discussions and debates on important social topics of the day.

EW: How do these finding affect the debate on whether physical education is a luxury many schools can not afford these days?

If you step back from day to day vitriol that characterizes the current education - policy «debate,» and glimpse the larger picture, two worldviews on education reform emerge.

The site will cover all aspects of education in the United States — from the policy debate that will play out in the presidential election to the day - to - day human stories of school superintendents, teachers, parents and kids on the front lines in our nation's schools.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., officially scheduled the bill for floor debate on Wednesday morning, just one day after 10 major education groups joined forces to demand senators prioritize the reauthorization, which had been languishing in the legislative queue for weeks.

Ongoing debates: The state board will also take up ongoing code proposals on teacher evaluation and charter schools, two of the hottest topics in education these days.

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

If you step back from day - to - day vitriol that characterizes the current education policy «debate» and glimpse the larger picture, two worldviews on education reform emerge.

The shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, who requested the research and is leading an opposition day debate on Wednesday, said there would be heavy cuts to the number of teaching assistances, extra-curricular activities, subsidies for school trips and one - to - one tuition.

Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

After three days of debate, the consideration of 57 amendments, and ample compromise from both sides of the aisle, the committee reached a consensus on what it believes is the best way to move education policy forward, away from the long outdated policies of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell recently slammed mainstream media outlets for biased coverage of the Higher Education Act provisions in the recent tax bill: «If professional journalists can't manage to [cover serious policy debates] when it comes to education, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the daEducation Act provisions in the recent tax bill: «If professional journalists can't manage to [cover serious policy debates] when it comes to education, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the daeducation, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the day.»