Sentences with phrase «debate issues of education»

Details: An international blogging competition from the NUHA foundation established «as a platform to debate issues of education and development, and to provide an opportunity for authors to be published and to develop their self - confidence».

In public forums, on social media and in neighborhoods across Newark, we have witnessed years of consistent toxicity when it comes to debating the issue of education.

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April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

Thus Wood's proposal adds an important new issue to the agenda: In what conceptuality do we most fruitfully formulate the basic issues confronting theological education today, propose resolutions of those issues, and debate our disagreements?

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education.

, particularly members of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG), on legislation related to faith schools and education in Parliament, and organising debates in the House of Commons and House of Lords on relevant issues.

NYSUT and Cuomo have been at odds on a variety of issues ranging from the tax cap, to the state's education spending formula and the ongoing debate over the state's teacher performance evaluation law.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education, and acts as a unique watchdog and lobbying organisation.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins isn't sure where potential Working Families Party candidate for governor Diane Ravitch stands on all of the issues, but believes she could contribute a lot to a debate on education in this year's gubernatorial race.

POUGHKEEPSIE >> Democratic state Sen. Terry Gipson and Republican challenger Sue Serino sparred over issues including the SAFE Act, funding for education and the influence of New York City lawmakers on the Hudson Valley during a debate Tuesday before the Dutchess County Association of Realtors.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

While issues of crime, education and economic development were discussed, debate over how the city handled tax breaks for Destiny USA sparked the most heated exchange between mayor Stephanie Miner and Common Councilor Pat Hogan.

Though the current election has more in common substance - wisewith Dancing with the Stars than with the Lincoln - Douglas debates, it «sclear there is one issue the candidates should be pressed on: improvingthe state of public education.

In the following debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement around this issue of school choice and school quality.

The contours of this debate suggest a relatively strong consensus around the importance of making new state investments in higher education (or, alternatively, the estimated $ 163 million price tag is so absurdly low that cost hardly seems an issue — a point I discuss further below).

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in theducation experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in thEducation Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

When underlying VALUES are deliberately identified during the discussions and debates about topics, issues and concerns raised in SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development) and fundamental British Values sessions, PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic education) lessons and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) slots, young citizens begin to appreciate the significance of how values provide standards, principles and signposts that guide decisions andeducation) lessons and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) slots, young citizens begin to appreciate the significance of how values provide standards, principles and signposts that guide decisions andEducation) slots, young citizens begin to appreciate the significance of how values provide standards, principles and signposts that guide decisions and actions.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

«Dean Murphy has been at the center of the national debate on school reform, and he has encouraged active engagement by faculty and students with critical issues in the field of education.

«Education is a pressing issue of national and international concern, and Harvard University, led by the Graduate School of Education, has a critically important role to play in shaping the debate, advancing the research...

Matt Ladner and Nelson Smith debated that question in the Summer 2016 issue of Education Next.

Social mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.

President Barack Obama, balancing his blueprint to recalibrate the nation's economy against a looming confrontation with Republicans over federal spending, will use the issue of education to help frame the budget debate.

Debating this issue were Charles Barone, policy director, Democrats for Education Reform; Robin Lake, director, Center for Reinventing Public Education; Mike Petrilli, executive vice president, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Delia Pompa, senior vice president of programs, National Council of La Raza; and Nelson Smith, senior advisor, National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

President Reagan's campaign on behalf of merit pay, now more than eight weeks old, has thrown the leadership of the National Education Association (nea) off balance and has provoked a debate within the organization over the issue, recent events and interviews with union officials suggest.

Tracing ESEA from its earliest days through its various reauthorizations over the years (of which NCLB is the most recent) reveals a rich history of debate around education issues that continues to capture headlines.

In this issue's forum, legal scholars Shep Melnick and James Ryan examine this debate through the lens of the education rulings of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.

However, Levinson believes conversations about the plethora of ethical issues have been missing from the contemporary education reform debate.

This blog entry is part of a debate over «Boosting Educational Attainment and Adult Earnings,» by C. Kirabo Jackson, Rucker C. Johnson and Claudia Persico, a study which was published in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next.

Issues raised by the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case — such as racial equality, integration, and quality education — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's WakEducation case — such as racial equality, integration, and quality education — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's Wakeducation — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's Wake.»

Learning is a dynamic and complex process, and the issue of providing the best possible education to young children has become a matter of debate as the student population has become more diverse in their needs.

However, for far too many people, debates on education policy would be welcome issues — the challenges of the fortunate.

In a forum in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next, Rick Hess and Joanne Weiss debate «What Did Race to the Top Accomplish?»

In the Summer 2012 issue of Education Next, Ze'ev Wurman and Stephen Wilson debated whether the Common Core math standards are a step forward or a step backward.

Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.

Though hardly the only issue to be debated during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act, annual testing has taken center stage in discussions so far.

The Summer 2016 issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether education reformers should suppEducation Next includes a debate over whether education reformers should suppeducation reformers should support ESAs.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

It's a compelling discussion that avoids two of the more frustrating positions in debates about these issues: testing is all that matters or there are not actually serious problems in American education.

This year's general election highlighted this, as education, and all its related issues, became the focal point of party manifestos and political debates.

Janus and West Virginia touch on issues within a long - standing debate: the role of organized labor, specifically teachers» unions, in public education.

With the charter - expansion question a settled issue, at least for now, leaders of the No on 2 campaign say they want the education debate to turn to funding of schools statewide.

All this tilted the center - weight of education reform more toward the left, bringing with it a host of social and other non-cognitive issues to reform debates.

Andy Rotherham admonished that the lack of education debate this time around doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the absence of a campaign to promote education issues.

In addition to advising prominent politicians like Senator John McCain, Moe is a board member of the Center for Education Reform, a pro-privatization think tank that issues policy papers and ads to influence the debate.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, who will be taking over the Senate's education committee, has declared an NCLB update his top priority, and he wants to attack the issue fast, potentially having a bill up for debate before the end of January.

The findings are important because of what they may contribute to the debate over changing how teacher evaluation is conducted, which has emerged as a hot - button political issue favored by the so - called education reform movement.

The debate between the two policy analysts, which appears to have influenced both majority and minority opinions of the court, is presented in the upcoming issue of Education Next.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.