Sentences with phrase «different values of an education»

In a new book, Stanford scholar Susanna Loeb encourages education policy - makers to consider the many different values of an education, beyond test scores, alongside available research evidence when crafting their decisions.

Not exact matches

These beliefs and values are rooted in the concrete circumstances of women's lives — their educations, incomes, occupations, and the different marital and family choices they have made along the way — and they work simultaneously to shape these circumstances in turn.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Individual views on food are just too different; not everyone has the same education, values or definition of «healthy.»

CEP describes character education not as an «add - on» to the curriculum, but as «a different way of teaching; it is a comprehensive approach that promotes core values in all phases of school life and permeates the entire school culture.»

As Clayton Christensen has observed, clusters may be particularly important in more nascent fields — like blended learning — in which the ecosystem is still immature, performance has yet to overshoot its users» performance demands, and how the different parts of the ecosystem fit together are still not well understood, and thus the ecosystem is highly interdependent, even as proprietary, vertically integrated firms do not — or in the case of education, often can not — stretch across the entire value network.

A new study conducted by home education provider Oxford Home Schooling considers how many trips children at different levels in the education system attend, alongside parent's thoughts on the value of these trips, and the benefits of educational versus fun school outings.

These two groups also are more likely to pronounce a clear view about the quality of schools and the value of different education reforms.

Of course, pupils should have access to a challenging and stimulating academic curriculum, but to truly work for all children, the education system needs to value and make space for different types of learning and success.&raquOf course, pupils should have access to a challenging and stimulating academic curriculum, but to truly work for all children, the education system needs to value and make space for different types of learning and success.&raquof learning and success.»

In light of the recent and wide ranging changes within the education sector, the Co-operative Group sought to understand the practices, values and impacts of different models of school governance and engagement to inform the development of a sustainable, impactful model of future activity within education.

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.

There are different arguments for vouchers, such as that they would give parents more choice, reduce the role of government in education, enable parents to transmit values and religion to their children, and deliver cost - effective education.

Members of the Multiple Pathways to a Diploma Coalition believe that measuring college - and career - readiness requires valuing several different and equally valid ways to evaluate students» knowledge needed for success in the workplace and higher education.

Different forms of service learning are of value in themselves as good education.

The fight over The Project School cuts to the heart of what makes charter schools different and once again highlights an instance in which reconciling two prevailing values of the state's current education policy regime is far from simple.

This study looked at two different types of motivation — intrinsic, which described if students enjoyed and were interested in math, and instrumental, which described if students valued math for its role in their education or career goals — and found both correlated to math achievement.3

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Jacobson's chapter, «School - Community Partnerships: A Typology for Guiding Systemic Education Reform,» draws on the experiences of the Coalition for Community Schools and other partnership efforts to help policymakers and researchers understand the value and different types of partnership approaches.

A panel of peer reviewers assembled by the Education Department assigned states» plans different point values and doled out the money on that basis.

«Each student learns differently, has different needs, thrives best in different environments, and each family has different values for their children's education,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

Across all subjects, cross-curricular themes and skills are explicitly mapped and taught: literacy, numeracy, Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education and the fundamental British Values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

Economist Luke Sibieta, programme director for education at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also gave evidence to the education select committee and said it would take «a matter of minutes» to make the pupil premium part of the national funding formula, adding he didn't see much value in having «one factor with different values in different formulas».

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Wilmington renters insurance can be very different from policies in other states, or even other parts of North Carolina, which is why education is part of our core values.

-- Students could transfer their credits to a school of equal value to finish their pursuit of their degree, including attending one of the Zenith Education Group schools who agreed to buyout 56 different Corinthian campuses and accept their students.

Because of my education, I turned to the scientific literature seeking an answer to the question, but while different elements of enrichment had been valued (like music, smells, toys, etc.), no one had tested a structured program in a real - life setting.

According to the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, «the cash value of a policy is different from the policy's face amount.

Wilmington renters insurance can be very different from policies in other states, or even other parts of North Carolina, which is why education is part of our core values.

With the EchoLink token as a common method of value exchange in the system, EchoLink seeks to provide a common measure of the quality of education in different countries, institutions, and disciplines that can be measured in a consistent way.

If you've completed your higher education then hopefully you have undertaken a couple of different summer internships — although degrees in physics, engineering, maths and so on are important, what employers really value is hands on experience.

I recently came across two different articles that I wanted to share with you regarding education and the career value of graduate school.

Success in education may look very different for different children, but we believe the progress and achievement of all children must be valued equally and celebrated.