Sentences with phrase «different kinds of education»

Charter schools were initially envisioned as small experiments to test different kinds of education.

Maybe one of the things they should do is try to develop different kinds of education schools.

Seeing his love for the club shine through is a disposition a lot of the other players could do with and aside from that his experience and advice will be a different kind of education for some of the players.

Rather, according to Thompson, what is needed is to «purify the dialect of the tribe» through a «new and different kind of education in civics».

Her choice leads to a very different kind of education.

Cherry Director and Screenwriter: Jeffrey Fine A college freshman gets a different kind of education when he falls for an older woman who has returned to school and her teenage daughter develops a crush on him.

The question of whether affluent and disadvantaged kids need a different kind of education — different instructional strategies, different curriculum, maybe even different kinds of teachers — is a serious one.

For one thing, summer is important to get a different kind of education.

Being actively involved in sport shows a different kind of education.

Earlier this year, the Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli — a former Bush - administration official and NCLB champion who has since expressed concerns about the law — observed: «The question of whether affluent and disadvantaged kids need a different kind of education — different instructional strategies, different curriculum, maybe even different kinds of teachers — is a serious one.

Our alumni become different kinds of lawyers because they receive a different kind of education.

Not exact matches

The Department of Education sets fixed rates each year for different kinds of student loans.

The conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.

America needs to ween itself from this huge government jobs bailout and invest in positive investments like infastructure, Space exploration, subsidizing more clean energy programs and manufactures, changing our energy grid to be more flexible to different kinds of input, and education.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

The greatest contribution to pluralism in higher education is to be a different kind of university.

When I came back to return the pricier jar, I got a polite but firm education on the difference between different kinds of coconut oil.

CINDY HARTSHORN: Breastfeeding education is very important especially for moms that may have slightly different circumstances either their baby borns are being born prematurely, in the case of twins, long labor, anybody who has PCOS may have problems that kind of thing.

Both kinds of education benefit different children and benefit the same children in different ways.

And what we see is this real assault on public education coming in all kinds of different forms.»

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

«Ali has an incredible ability to interact with all kinds of people of largely different cultures or educations,» de Thé says.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

I agree with Meredith that the best health education is simply paying attention to how your body responds to different kinds of food, exercise, or stress.

You can search other users in different ways, like their location, their education, the kind of music they like, etc..

This year, Immaculate also began accepting the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, a different kind of voucher that allows students on Individualized Education Plans to attend private schools and receive a voucher worth up to $ 20,000, depending on the severity of a child's disability.

Only when those policies are upgraded purposefully to accommodate and encourage a different kind of classroom environment will digital learning become an integral part of the American education system.

The very nature of education is that difference techniques are more effective in different kinds of situations for different kinds of kids.

There are three major challenges for education today: 1) To become lifelong, beginning in the first year of life and extending to old age; 2) To go beyond curricula (subject matter) in the usual sense and to focus sharply on character (the kinds of human beings we want to nurture); 3) To prepare for a world where the landscape of work is likely to be totally different and changing constantly.

They require different skills from the intellectual ones posited by education reform, new apps of all kinds, the myriad proliferating school choices, and data - driven teaching.

The Romanian Ministry of Education established «a different kind of school week», which usually takes place in every April, before the spring holyday.

So education itself is a pretty broad category when you think of all the different kinds of meetings that take place.

Here at Edutopia, we've had the privilege of visiting so many different kinds of schools and meeting amazing teachers who are working to change education for the better every day.

The St. Louis Rams professional football team, fresh from its Super Bowl victory over the Tennessee Titans, is garnering a different kind of attention in a character education video and curriculum guide produced in partnership with local schools.

The kind of use value for education that I think he prefers refers to ideas, knowledge, self - development — very different from the kind of «use value» that has made business our largest undergraduate major.

But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths — some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands - on and explore actively and try things out — then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

«We thought if we could actually show what standards look like, there could be different kinds of conversations about them among teachers, with students and in schools of education.»

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

A universal and exclusive focus on low - achieving kids ignores the fact that different education strategies work best for different kinds of students.

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

Then, I experienced a different kind of online education when I entered my Master's program at USC.

We hope to be talking a lot more with policymakers, whether it's at the federal level or at the state level like Lindsey had mentioned, to see what possibilities there might be for any new kinds of programs or policies and really to educate those key stakeholders in terms of learning more about the different types, what education savings accounts do and how they can be useful for families.

Students understand that teachers and education leaders need different kinds of information about their academic (and school?)

Character education, or any kind of education, would look very different if we began with other objectives — if, for example, we were principally concerned with helping children become active participants in a democratic society (or agents for transforming a society into one that is authentically democratic).

Either we define our efforts to promote children's social and moral development as an alternative to «character education,» thereby ceding that label to the people who have already appropriated it, or we try to reclaim the wider meaning of the term by billing what we are doing as a different kind of character education.

Findings also suggest the need to make further investigation into the differentiation of materials, models of teacher education, and professional development that might help different types of learners adjust to the teaching profession and to the kinds of broad - based changes that frequently occur within educational contexts, particularly as schools attempt to make changes to meet 21st century learning standards with regard to technology.

There are many different kinds of special education students, and thus many different kinds of related services.

«I've spent time in hundreds of different school models, if not a thousand, just given the roles I've had in education over the years, and I think you can become kind of numb or just comfortable with the status quo of classrooms in which kids aren't engaged, and the teachers have lost their mojo or love for teaching because they're given a scripted curriculum from their district that they have to follow, and they have no ability to be entrepreneurial or creative.»

All the traditional and high - tech resources of education — from whiteboards to the Internet and even to classrooms themselves — are best understood as different kinds of interfaces for relationships that support learning.

Under Renaissance 2010, the system hopes to place different kinds of high schools — from selective enrollment to vocational education to, perhaps, single - sex education — across the city, he said.