Sentences with phrase «education circles people»

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But for policymakers, the goal must be to increase X. Otherwise, for each person whose education gets them into that circle, there's someone else getting pushed out.

But Dr. Starr is a candidate to be New York City's next schools chancellor, and so his visit to a Crown Heights restaurant and the Brooklyn Museum — which he documented on Twitter — left people in education circles chattering.

As we have learned, global citizenship is not just a buzzword within present - day education circles, but is a worldwide phenomenon that is changing the way people think about the world and their place in it.

The issue is that more times than not, the only people who are hearing about it are already in circles of education,» says Conklin.

But they didn't want the Futures of School Reform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of education.

In addition, several people within Mr. Clinton's inner circle have expertise in education.

If the study circles are going to discuss an education issue, the steering committee might include people from different areas of the education system (such as teaching, administration, the board of education, and building employees) as well as other sectors of the community — such as municipal government, community organizations, and business.

Aaron Pallas, a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University and a frequent critic of the accountability system, said that while Mr. Polakow - Suransky's tenure as a teacher and a principal lend him credibility, his years as part of Mr. Klein's inner circle «will leave other people skeptical that he can show independence.»

Education policy circles are filled with people who think the schools are in desperate need of major reform, but who also believe that collective bargaining and unions are necessary components of public education (and work life generally)-- and they know the two sets of beliefs are inEducation policy circles are filled with people who think the schools are in desperate need of major reform, but who also believe that collective bargaining and unions are necessary components of public education (and work life generally)-- and they know the two sets of beliefs are ineducation (and work life generally)-- and they know the two sets of beliefs are in tension.

«When I found out that the reviewers would be people who are not directly involved in K - through - 12 education, I got concerned,» recalled Paul Pastorek, the Louisiana schools superintendent who is widely admired in reform circles.

This revelation used to draw strange looks, but most people, especially in schools and education circles, now have an idea of what I do.

Treating your mortgage — or your 401 (k)-- like a piggy bank: In the last few months, too many people in our circle have taken a second mortgage on their house to pay for their kid's college education.

From my own social circle, I know that many people had reservations about I732 primarily due to the potential negative impact on state revenues, given the lack of funding for education, the various Tim Eyman - penned constraints on taxation, etc..

The Circles of Learning Indigenous Awareness Workshops are a new offering by Portage College Public Legal Education Program and are aimed at creating safe learning environments for participants to gain understanding of the historical and contemporary contexts of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.