Sentences with phrase «debate about educational issues»

Since its beginning in 1943, ASCD has been a strong voice in the debate about educational issues that affect learning and teaching.

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It has helped to clarify what is known about issues related to large educational debates.

Before the debate, learn more about the issue, as well as the speakers» stances on charter schools and educational equity.

Current schools superintendent Tony Evers and challenger Lowell Holtz talked about the state's educational issues during a debate hosted by Wisconsin Public Television.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.