Sentences with phrase «discussion around education»

The discussion around education has become stale and a disservice to our children.

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A panel at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International Conference on Tuesday led a discussion around how China's education system must adapt to cultivate future entrepreneurs.

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

Michigan's premier student - led organization dedicated to education and discussion around blockchain & distributed ledger technology.

I shall organize the discussion around an axis whose poles are our two normative types of theological education.

In the examination that follows of five voices in the recent discussions of what is theological about theological education I shall use «Athens» and «Berlin» as types, as ahistorical and artificial constructs around which to organize the analysis.

The 2018 Expo West education sessions included the first - ever CBD Summit, an in - depth look at the opportunities and challenges that exist for the hemp - derived cannabidiol market; and the Disrupted Retail Summit, a discussion around the changing consumer purchasing habits and opportunities at retail and online.

Part education and part support group, this class is structured around the questions and concerns of attendees and provides a supportive and informative space for education and discussion.

We saw their sense of openness around subject matter discussions related to their children's education, alternative behavioral support options and their understanding of their advocacy role in their children's lives.

San Francisco About Blog EE Times connects the global electronics community through news, analysis, education, and peer - to - peer discussion around technology, business, products and design.

But #EduColor has made it so that we can be as long or as short as we'd like, while our sharp focus on principled discussions around race and education allows us to push conversations deeper and with more humility and complexity.

Blogs are giving voice to educators who have often been closed out of the discussions of education taking place around the country.

This summit gives education leaders the opportunity to meet, learn from and enter discussions with leading figures in UK education and from education systems around the world.

Whilst it is very early days in the discussion around voice and education applications, it will be interesting to see if this overarching technology trend extends into demonstrations on the show floor at BETT 2018.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Education Next, and the Hoover Institution have teamed up to bring forth two pointed discussions, each centered around a critical question.

Specifically for non specialist teachers and cover supervisors: 3 lessons on parliament built around the text book offering with starters, plenaries, video clips, discussion points and homework (Citizenship Education for Key Stage 3 By Terry Fiehn and Julia Fiehn) The lessons are very and full so could easily work for 3 sessions on a focus day or by allowing extened discussions the activities could be spread over a half term.

In this watershed moment, the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andeducation, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and society.

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

As discussions around the post-2015 development agenda are consolidating, the international education community is calling for an education that promotes not only cognitive skills but also those values, attitudes and skills that are necessary for forging a more peaceful, just, inclusive and sustainable world.

The Roundtable also provides skills - based training in areas such as inclusion or social - emotional learning, and a forum for discussion around larger issues of diversity or education reform that will shape our work moving forward.

The event, taking place at the Leicester Marriot Hotel from Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 March, seeks to bring together teachers and school leaders from around the country to engage in discussions around the key issues facing education and to share best practice around the use of education technology.

Features in the winter 2013 issue include a discussion of how math education is changing in the United States in light of the Common Core Standards; a look at the storied career of alumna Margaret H. Marshall, former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; and a piece about the critical and difficult work that many Ed School alums are engaged in around the world educating children in post-conflict zones.

In addition to matters of contraception and prevention of STIs (the «nuts & bolts» of secondary sex education), discussions should be happening around:

Quality Counts 2015: Preparing to Launch takes a broad look at the issues and forces shaping the discussion around early - childhood education.

Toward the end of the discussion, Vander Ark, acting as an emcee, walked around the room acknowledging lawmakers who had recently passed pro — education tech laws this year.

For a discussion of legal considerations around criminal history questions, see Bradley D. Custer (2016), «College Admission Policies for Ex-Offender Students: A Literature Review,» The Journal of Correctional Education 67 (2), pp. 35 - 43.

First and foremost, we're going to focus at the federal level, making sure that, to the extent possible, we have a presence at the table in discussions around the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

In Texas there has been significant discussion around the so - called cap that implied that Texas schools should maintain an 8.5 % or below qualification for special education.

The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «community conversations» designed to engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis.

A: A lot of the public discussion around early childhood education stems from our concern with the achievement gap and our knowledge that it appears before the start of formal schooling.

Through frequent discussions and special workshops, the education staff of arts organizations learn about specifics of DCPS content standards and other curriculum requirements as well as other pressing topics in arts and humanities education to be able to adapt their offerings to better meet classroom needs and to plan and strategize around approaches to leading the education improvement agenda.

«The bad news is we're not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,» said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida - based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «community conversations» designed to engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis.

Indianapolis — The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «Community Conversations,» which engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis, next week.

«It's a tough balancing act,» said Douglas Harris, the Alliance's director of Education Research in a text - message discussion about this column, adding, «Any effort to turn around low - performing schools (closure, takeover, or anything else) is going to create disproportionate upheaval for people of color.

Issues highlighted in recent research undertaken by the Sex Education Forum into young people's experience of sexual education shows there needs to be more focus on the safety around the exchanges of digital images between pupils — with discussions needed on the impact «sexting» has on younEducation Forum into young people's experience of sexual education shows there needs to be more focus on the safety around the exchanges of digital images between pupils — with discussions needed on the impact «sexting» has on youneducation shows there needs to be more focus on the safety around the exchanges of digital images between pupils — with discussions needed on the impact «sexting» has on young people.

If Secretary Duncan is irritated that so many people are now opposing the standards and the accompanying testing, he might want to learn that, in general, people do not like turning around and finding out that the entire basis upon which they thought their children's education rests has been changed without public discussion.

Participants will consider tactics for working with state officials, informing legislators of relevant research, and conducting discussions around state standards with higher education and PK - 12 colleagues.

Schedule a date on your school calendar for the Science Festival and start engaging your school community in discussions around the importance of STEM education.

In addition, iNACOL published a briefing around Competency Based Pathways, where a discussion is around the reform needed in online education in order to have true student - centered learning.

Sadly, as the public university struggles with budgets, we are going to see more corporate partnerships like ASU and Starbucks, but I also think we're also poised to see quality public education programs that attend to nontraditional students, as well as community colleges, emerge as key figures in the discussions around the necessity of actually teaching today's students.

The document is the result of hundreds of roundtable discussions, including a lunch session with ASCD's Legislative Committee members at the Annual Conference in Philadelphia, that the Department of Education's Teacher Ambassador Fellows have had with educators from around the country in the past year about the state of the teaching profession and what can be done to improve it.

WHAT: Forum and discussion on public education featuring Diane Ravitch and a panel of parent activists from around the nation.

«That a set of government officials, especially in education, would seek to limit the kinds of discussions around some of the most important policies in education not only in Victoria but in the world, is a very worrisome position to take.»

Education Week veteran reporter Catherine Gewertz facilitates a discussion with school and district - level leaders around testing.

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.

Instead of parents «firing» a school or having to shop around for their children's education among wildly divergent charter «products,» PAA supports the kind of empowerment which involves parents authentically at the ground level and in district -, state -, and nationwide policy discussions about how to improve schools.

Because of these two factors, in the absence of a dramatic change in the balance of federal, state, and local revenues for education, any policy discussion around improving funding equity must focus on the state and local levels.

The event will also feature presenters and an in - depth discussion on the state of public education, the impact that Education Secretary DeVos is having around school privatization, zero tolerance discipline policies, the declining number of teachers of color and communityeducation, the impact that Education Secretary DeVos is having around school privatization, zero tolerance discipline policies, the declining number of teachers of color and communityEducation Secretary DeVos is having around school privatization, zero tolerance discipline policies, the declining number of teachers of color and community schools.