Sentences with phrase «debates around education»

I hate the way the debates around education have become so either / or.

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.

Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett authored an opinion piece on Fox News last week announcing Conservative Leaders for Education, a new group that is calling on conservatives to raise their voices in the debate around education reform and ESSA.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

Not exact matches

Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

What is still missing from the debate around legislation to protect from the harm of pornography is effective awareness and education.

The focus of the public debate around the 2011 education white paper was on fees and access: if we are to use the market discourse then it was about the demand side of the brave new education market.

The debate around how to finance undergraduate education at English universities has been reignited by a new report from the business, innovation and skills select committee questioning the sustainability of the current student finance system.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

Nearly one in three children lives in rural America, «but if you listen to the education policy debate, particularly around the impacts of the new «No Child Left Behind» law, chances are you will still not...

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.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

As an education governance question, most of the debate has centered around «parent involvement,» a tired phrase that has been all too frequently abused by schools not wanting to shoulder responsibility for educating children: if we just had better parents.

The larger public that engages in the K — 12 education debate could shrink dramatically, to just partisans engaged in the war of ideas around schooling.

While the education world debated and strategized about ways to improve outcomes for students around the world, Adukia suspected the answer to her question was yes.

It's high time we move beyond a broken debate and simplistic research around whether technology in education is good or bad that serve no one's interests.

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has reverberated around the nation, reigniting the debate on how best to improve the education of all schoolchildren.

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

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.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students explore instances of segregated education around the world, supporting and refuting the idea through debate and persuasive essay.

«We are concerned that an early recommendation does not allow members to be participants in a real debate around the issues that are still unfolding,» Nebraska State Education Association president Nancy Fulton said in a statement Wednesday.

And some organized groups (teachers, superintendents, parents) are familiar faces around the General Assembly as education legislation is discussed, debated, and voted on.

At a time when the debate around the path forward for American education is increasingly polarized, both sides agree that magnet schools must be part of the solution.

It always seems the debate about education revolves around inputs (funding) and never about outcomes (results).

Around the globe, and throughout history, leaders have worked to improve education as well as debated its aim, yet one area of growing consensus is in the education of the whole child.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

Across the nation, the debate rages on among policymakers, teachers and education advocates: Do parent - trigger - type laws have the potential to turn around underperforming schools when bureaucrats fail to act?

I believe, and I think you might too, that the debate around the CC standards should not be whether or not they are good or bad, but on how we can implement them to provide the best education possible for our students.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

To better prepare teachers, Solorzano and Yosso (2001) believe that teacher education programs must be comprehensive, provide opportunities for discussion and debate around the issues, and identify and challenge racial stereotypes in the media, arts, and professional settings.

We think of parent trigger not as a new law, but as a new paradigm, as an entirely new way of thinking about public education and education reform and a break from the debate that has dominated the conversation around education reform for a good part of the last decade.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the Senate education chairwoman who shepherded the new tenure law, has said she will have legislation ready in the coming months, but given the vitriol around charter schools the last four years, the debate is unlikely to be quick and easy.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paula White, NJ State Director [email protected] DFER - NJ on Proposed NJ State Board of Education Regulations on Public Charter Schools Newark, NJ — In response to continued debate around proposed New Jersey...

Throughout the campaign, Clinton's ideas around public education have been much debated, with self - proclaimed reformers worried she would be hostile to their policies, while many rank - and - file teachers remained skeptical that Clinton would stand up for unions and fight efforts to privatize public schools.

This is changing the entire debate around public education... and we urge you to learn more about it.»

More than 270,000 teachers and students around the world celebrated this historical event through a live, global school assembly hosted by Discovery Education, in partnership with The National Archives in London and The National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.. Now, schools have the opportunity to debate and contribute to their own modern day contract with Discovery Education's online resources.

Judging from recent coverage of debates around character education, this criticism is still valid in critiques of the views of character expressed both by Morgan, and Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt.

The dispute has been percolating for months, as union leaders, pro-charter groups, civil liberties advocates, parent leaders, students, teachers and principals have re-framed their ongoing debate about the quality of the city's schools around the safety of the 1,800 schools run by the Department of Education.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

You know this when their debates about education reform are centered around teacher rights, and not student rights.

Though not yet at the scale of the national civil rights movement, parent organizers around the nation are currently working in communities to ensure that historically marginalized parents and students can participate in local, state, and national education debates and decisions.

It is an opportunity to bring our issues before 500 PTA leaders from around the state each year with important health and nutrition information for a minimum of 1/2 hour of education and debate.

There's plenty of debate around character education and whether or not it makes any difference.

The Education Bill currently being debated in Parliament would give the government the power to «intervene to turn around underperforming schools where authorities are recalcitrant or try to stand in the way of improvement», Mr Gove said.

The film was shown as part of an initiative of AROS, supported through the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around theEducation, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around theeducation landscape around the country.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.