Sentences with phrase «education debate where»

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His questioning of the presumed superiority of prestigious schools — students may fare better at less - elite institutions where their self - esteem takes less of a beating — adds a provocative wrinkle to the hot debate over education.

The hour - and - a-half long debate saw Notley outline her vision of a province where health care and education are protected by asking corporations to pay their fair share.

This debate was also present in my homeland where some argued that money should go more to education and health rather than the army.

After a heated debate, where in response to being presented the Nobel laureate letter, Senator Julie Quinn declared she was «tired of seeing little letters behind everyone's names,» [58] the Senate Education Committee voted 5 - 1 to defer action on SB 70, in effect killing it.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins isn't sure where potential Working Families Party candidate for governor Diane Ravitch stands on all of the issues, but believes she could contribute a lot to a debate on education in this year's gubernatorial race.

«This has very important implications for early education policy in the United States, where we are debating how early to start and whether preschool should be provided to all children or exclusively target low - income children,» said Dearing, a professor of applied developmental psychology who is also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development at the University of Oslo.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

A marathon debate over education funding continues in Ohio, where school groups are already divided over a May 5 ballot measure that proposes hiking the state sales tax by 1 cent in order to raise revenue for schools.

Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York City, where the board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

The results ignited debate in New York City's mayoral campaign, where candidates searched for ways to differentiate themselves from the Bloomberg administration's education agenda.

Where I come out — you can read more in «The End of the Education Debate» — is that America needs not less education reform but far more fundamental and radicaEducation Debate» — is that America needs not less education reform but far more fundamental and radicaeducation reform but far more fundamental and radical reform.

Over 1,000 influential education leaders, practitioners and industry experts from across the region are set to attend the inaugural «Bett Middle East Leadership Forum & Expo» where the future of education will be debated and discussed.

*** In my book Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, Chapter 4 is «Special Education: Abandoned Commitment» where I outline history surrounding PL 94 - 142 and how reformers have continually chipped away at this law.

This topic is particularly relevant in K - 12 education, where debates are waged over whether teacher pension plans should be maintained as defined benefit (DB) systems or if they should transition to defined contribution (DC) systems which are, by definition, fully - funded.

Amid debate about where charter schools fit into the spectrum of public education options, I accepted an invitation to visit Horizon Science Academy - McKinley Park on Chicago's South Side.

It's not a live public forum or debate where we can see the candidates answer questions or exchange views in real time, but it's better than nothing: Educators 4 Excellence, an organization that advocates for teachers to take a more active role in shaping education policies, plans to host a podcast interview with District 6...

Carson, 39, wants to offer students that opportunity in a school, scheduled to open in 2016, where every classroom is filled with teachers who share a common goal and who keep often - bitter debates over education policy out of the building.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

On April 10, hundreds of people on both sides of the charter - school question gathered outside the second - floor committee room where the House Education Committee was set to vote on whether to send the Senate's charter - school bill to the House floor for debate and, ultimately, the first vote to ever take place on charter school legislation in the chamber.

Many of these school leaders will be at our Impact Conference on 24 October, where the issues highlighted in these case studies and many more will be debated by attendees from the education sector and beyond.

Today I am asking WNPR's Where We Live, WFSB's Face the State, FOXCT's The Real Story, CT Report with Steve Kotchko and other appropriate news forums to host a debate between myself and any one of the leaders of these corporate advocacy fronts such as Jeffrey Villar, the Executive Director of Connecticut Council for Education Reform and Jennifer Alexander, the Chief Executive Officer of ConnCAN.

The Education Bill currently being debated in Parliament would give the government the power to «intervene to turn around underperforming schools where authorities are recalcitrant or try to stand in the way of improvement», Mr Gove said.

He is also an associate professor at Sir John Cass Department of Art at London Metropolitan University and initiated the Arts» Party Conference in 2013, where artists and organisations came together to debate the role of arts within the education system.

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, has dubbed this approach the «Gish Gallop,» describing it as «where the creationist is allowed to run on for 45 minutes or an hour, spewing forth torrents of error that the evolutionist hasn't a prayer of refuting in the format of a debate».

Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological debates.

Where the balance lies is open to debate but I wonder if, to some extent, we confuse education with training and mix them up in unhelpful ways.

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With few exceptions, the debates about Indigenous education focus on whether it is better to educate Indigenous children in their own communities or whether it is better to remove Indigenous children to boarding schools where they can access western style education and be saturated in the English language.