Sentences with phrase «debate on education issues»

is a series of pieces by guest authors published on the NUT's website on a twice termly basis that reflects the Union's commitment to fostering debate on education issues.

NEARLY A YEAR AGO, charter school proponents threatened to force a statewide debate on education issues by mounting a ballot campaign lift the cap on charters schools.

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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.

«The Church is as keen as ever to encourage wide debate and discussion on the issues which matter - social justice, poverty, education, peace.»

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.

Now entering his second term, the governor appears to have lost high - profile debates in the state budget session to the state's teachers union on education issues while he's had difficulty in getting Senate Republicans to agree to disclosure legislation.

Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham insisted it was «a huge change in tone» following a debate on the issue in Parliament on Tuesday evening, in which the plans were repeatedly attacked by Labour MPs.

, 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.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher moderates a debate between them, as they discuss education, government consolidation, economic development, and other issues.

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.

They are also expected to debate other education issues, including charter schools and distance education on July 5 and 6.

At the dynamic Education Fast Forward 12 Debate on January 19, I spoke with Stefan Dercon (Chief Economist Department for International Development in London) and Andreas Schleicher (Special Advisor on Education Policy OECD in Paris) about their opinions on the issues raised in the «Turning School Performance to Economic Success» discussion.

Have students practice skills they've learned or topics they've come to understand in service learning, debates, leadership / volunteerism / community service, or by having opinions on «real» issues like education reform or the 2012 election (shriek!

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.

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.

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.

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«His objective and insightful reporting has highlighted the most serious educational challenges we face in elementary, secondary, and higher education, and has transformed the policy debate on these issues.»

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

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.

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

The panel touched on key issues around what education is for - an essential debate that has never been more timely.»

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.

Education reform issues have long defied easy political pigeonholing on the left - right spectrum, generating particularly passionate debate among Democrats.

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.

Also in this issue, a look at how laptop and tablet use in the classroom can disrupt learning in college courses; a debate about whether the U.S. Constitution is colorblind on issues of education; and a discussion on how an industry buzz word is all about how you define it.

And Education Post, a new organization committed to supporting a «respectful» and «fact - based» debate on reform issues, including Common Core, just opened for business.

As congressional debate bogged down over an array of spending and philosophical issues late last week, it appeared that the House and the Senate would not vote on their education spending bills until this week.

«That's why today we are calling on Controller Wendy Greuel to join us in a debate focused on education issues and the role of education in the mayor's office.»

This issue of ASCD Express looks at the complex debate on national standards and asks if creating such a set of standards is even a viable option for the U.S. education system.

Kelle Stewart, an elementary school teacher from Tennessee, said the heavy focus on tenure keeps the education debate from focusing on real issues that significantly affect public schools.

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

One of the reasons I love working on education policy is that academic research on education is ever - evolving, and chock - full of hotly - debated issues.

Because discussions about teacher pay rarely reference these data, the policy debate on education reform has proceeded without a clear understanding of these issues.

As federal and state officials follow that debate closely, I spoke with Rosario Marin on a range of education issues.

«Assemblyman Singleton understands the need for greater student achievement in public education and his legislation initiates the debate on many key issues such as independent authorizing authority and greater accountability for New Jersey's public charter schools,» read the statement.

His position on the House Education Committee requires him to debate and vote on school bills, she said, but she doesn't lobby him on issues that specifically affect her charter.

Still, Edwards and White don't see eye - to - eye on major education issues and were often on the opposite sides of debates over policy when Edwards was in the Louisiana Legislature.

The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.

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.

Many of these school leaders will be at our Impact Conference on 24 October, where the issues highlighted in these case studies and many more will be debated by attendees from the education sector and beyond.

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.»

I have been amazed at the level of knowledge and debate that occur at road side tea shops and noodle shops in India and China on complex issues like the economy, fiscal policy, foreign investment and education / job opportunities.