Sentences with phrase «debates over those choices»

Different locales will make different choices and the debates over those choices will no doubt be lively and interesting — and hopefully enrich our children's education in many ways.

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Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

If we consider where this debate over paying the preacher truly comes from, it comes from a position that preaching the gospel is not a legitimate career choice.

Much of the debate over Stark's work has focused on his application of «rational choice theory» to religion.

The film explores the social debate over breastfeeding among those who want to breastfeed, those who can't breastfeed and the cultural impact of breastfeeding choices.

Such discussions over school lunches and healthy eating echo a larger national debate about the role government should play in individual food choices.

Studies in Australia, 13 Canada, 14 and the United States15 16 have concluded that in some settings midwife managed home birth can be associated with as low a perinatal mortality as hospital birth for low risk women, reviving the debate over the need to allow women genuine choice.17 18

His roles in Europe mean that he is likely to play a role in influencing the domestic debate over the EU referendum and the lack of a viable alternative candidate at this crucial time leaves the party with little other choice.

We made a point of trying to get away from the campaign to cover the choice: the 6 and 10 did a series on big issues, from airports to defence spending to social care, that weren't getting much play in the campaign; Newsnight interrogated the future of the NHS; Andrew Neil's series of Daily Politics debates analysed policy, department by department over two weeks; and, online, from Reality Check to constituency profiles, we scrutinised the detail.

The debate over national school choice policy was on display in Indianapolis Monday as US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to the capital city...

The drawn out debate over approving Keystone XL leaves Canada with tough choices for alternatives

This year, the debate over the top choice — the first detection of gravitational waves — was brief: The achievement fulfilled a 100 - year - old prediction, opened up a potential new branch of astronomy, and was a stunning technological accomplishment.

The magazine's January cover surfaced on our forums over the weekend and we are currently debating Anna Wintour's choice of cover subject.

Presumably these choices are agonized over and debated at length behind the scenes since they're always so carefully representative of a wide range of celebrities appealing to all kinds of mainstream moviegoers from kids to grandparents to sophisticated cultural mavens to soccer moms.

That's not a life - or - death choice — paying for his pregnant wife to cross over from Mexico might be — but that's part of McKay's point: it's taken for granted that Jose has the right to fun and rest, flying in the face of the blame - the - worker «self - reliance» arguments of political debates.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.

With a new administration taking office, ESSA implementation underway, and the debate over school choice heating up, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of the most important developments in the education field.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

For the most part, the language of economics has informed the public debate over school choice.

The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

Above all, an inordinate number of words and pages are devoted to laying out what is depicted as zealotry and inconsistency among other participants in the debate over school choice, as if that tells one anything about the schools themselves.

The nationwide debate over parental choice in education may be heading for a decisive battle in the California legislature next year.

Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell's article, «Voucher Research Controversy» (Check the Facts, Spring 2004), was informative regarding the academic debate over school choice.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.

The enactment of voucher programs renewed the debate over the role of private school choice in American education.

The debate over school integration now requires discussion of school accountability, parental choice, and measures designed to enhance the quality of the teacher workforce.

But the debate in Britain over school choice is very different from that in the United States and is mired — as sooner or later everything is in Britain — in arguments over class and privilege.

From creating tradable «enrollment rights» to help integrate schools to providing parents with better school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over school choice offers ways to enhance the benefits while mitigating the risks.

I also understand, however, that the more it is diversified and tailored and the more choices that are made available to families and communities, the more debates will inevitably arise over issues of fairness.

It is time for the evaluation debate over school choice to begin shifting its focus to real world outcomes, like high school graduation and college attendance rates.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.

Our results may also have implications for debates over school choice and voucher systems.

Just as lively (and divisive) as the controversy over school choice and home schooling has been the debate over teacher pay and licensure.

A specific debate rages over what forms of government accountability to impose on private schools participating in choice programs, which already are accountable to parents, who can vote for or against them with their feet.

Debate over school choice will move from the policy arena to the courts following the passage of legislation last month that made Ohio and Wisconsin the first states to approve tuition vouchers for children who attend religious schools.

This is essential reading for policy specialists concerned with balancing school autonomy and government oversight, and with debates over parental choice of schools.

The dispute over Wolf's methods and the resulting data, which can grow quite heated, reflect the ideological divides — teacher unions versus school choice advocates — that shape many of today's education debates.

And as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos settles into her new post, her unbridled support for school choice and vouchers has electrified debate once again over how — and if — such provisions should fit into an American school system that many see as deeply flawed.

These last findings suggest that information may actually polarize the debate over charter schools — and could also portend a major shift in the political landscape of school choice, note Howell and West.

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It doesn't even mean that every debate involves moral considerations; this is certainly true when it comes to discussions over what policies will be most - effective in expanding choice or improving teacher quality.

As a researcher who studies both vouchers and other forms of school choice such as charter schools (independently operated public schools) I believe the new Louisiana studies are important to longstanding debates over the extent to which such choice enhances academic outcomes.

Good Morning Interesting article from The Advocate — debate over Einstein Charter Schools busing policy «pits school autonomy vs. parent choice.»

Interesting article from The Advocate — debate over Einstein Charter Schools busing policy «pits school autonomy vs. parent choice.»

The debate gets bogged down over issues such as merit pay, standardized testing and school choice.

As the recent hearing in the Texas legislature shows, the school choice debate is far from over.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.