Sentences with phrase «education debates from»

Kelle Stewart, an elementary school teacher from Tennessee, said the heavy focus on tenure keeps the education debate from focusing on real issues that significantly affect public schools.

The organisation, launched yesterday, pledges to shift the education debate from the «elites in Whitehall» and mobilise parents and teachers to make the case for education reform.

The shift in the education debate from «how much» to «how best» is a welcome change, but for students to feel the full benefit the federal government must resist intervening.

Not exact matches

That thought, on display during Wednesday's presidential debates, is also at the heart of a battle raging between Democrats and Republicans, whose views about governement involvment in everything from health care and education to business are diametrically opposed.

The debate over the age of consent for access to digital services distracts from the fact that we all need a balanced education on technology, argues John Kennedy.

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

Both sides in this debate argue away from the assumption that a rather rich education, and a pretty fair amount of experience in the world, would be required of anyone who might plausibly be designated author of the Shakespeare corpus.

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

Several legal initiatives have been rushed through Parliament without due debate, ranging from the extension of religious education classes and the conversion of secular state schools into Islamic institutions, to harsh limitations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

What is still missing from the debate around legislation to protect from the harm of pornography is effective awareness and education.

If so, a certain Education Spokesman would prefer to have his degree from the University of Life, rather than Oxford (a sentiment light blues feel entirely plausible), and a certain PPC for a South London constituency lead a debate suggesting No confidence in a Government represented at the debate by a certain Kenneth Clarke.

In a letter to the Guardian 48 headteachers expressed concern over «the flight from consensus» in education bill debates last week saying it could damage «a number of guarantees for children, including the right to one - to - one tuition.

Moderated by WNYC economic development journalist Janet Babin, candidates Rubain Dorancy and Jesse Hamilton answered questions submitted by the community and debated topics ranging from education to public schools to affordable housing.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education.

NYSUT and Cuomo have been at odds on a variety of issues ranging from the tax cap, to the state's education spending formula and the ongoing debate over the state's teacher performance evaluation law.

Neither state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia nor NYSUT President Karen Magee is backing down from her respective position in the Common Core debate.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democratic NYC mayoral contenders Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Sal Albanese (but not Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who dropped out of this event) participate in the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools education debate.

The debate around how to finance undergraduate education at English universities has been reignited by a new report from the business, innovation and skills select committee questioning the sustainability of the current student finance system.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education, and acts as a unique watchdog and lobbying organisation.

Yet education was altogether absent from the first presidential debate and the debate between candidates for vice president.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

The debate was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), with support from the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), Open Society Initiative...

The debate was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), with support from the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and Coalition for Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO), and its partner organizations towards next month's general election at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

Members of Connecticut's largest teachers» union will be rallying in support overhauling the state's education system and urging lawmakers to include voices from educators in the debate over Governor Dannel P. Malloy's education proposals.

As debate continues over how to fund universal pre-kindergarten in New York State, an Assemblymember from the Hudson Valley wants to ensure that funding for special education programs is part of the plan.

The lack of a debate this year could spare de Blasio from having to litigate some uncomfortable aspects of his education agenda, including his troubled Renewal School program.

Throughout the grammar schools debate there has been an underlying suspicion from many that the Eton - educated Tory leader is denying others the kind of elite education that grammar schools traditionally provided poorer parents.

«Our research from Natsal is timely with the current debate on sex and relationships education in schools, but it's also important to remember that introducing statutory SRE in schools won't solve everything.

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.

There long has been debate about the role prison - based education programs can play in preparing inmates to return to society and keeping them from returning to prison.

It's partly because the topic is highly relevant to my forthcoming Letters to a Young Education Reformer, partly because of the well - deserved attention to Don Hirsch's new book Why Knowledge Matters, partly because expert predictions about everything from the consequences of Brexit to our current election have been so off, and partly because deference to (a vaguely conceived) «expertise» offers a fault line to so many of our current debates.

Programme highlights From early years practice to high - level debates on the provision of music education for all, the programme aimed to provide a balance of practical, advice - led sessions, useful practice - sharing workshops and discussion to broaden thinking both on practice and the broader political context of musical and cultural education.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in theducation experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in thEducation Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

This strand included a panel debate which brought out some key examples of SEND best practice from the Music Education Council's national awards for music services, with contributions from music education hubs in Hertfordshire, Brighton & Hove and Bristol (which is currently working to set up the first specialist training centre for young musicians wiEducation Council's national awards for music services, with contributions from music education hubs in Hertfordshire, Brighton & Hove and Bristol (which is currently working to set up the first specialist training centre for young musicians wieducation hubs in Hertfordshire, Brighton & Hove and Bristol (which is currently working to set up the first specialist training centre for young musicians with SEND).

-LSB-...] discipline has become the subject of one of the most polarizing and entrenched debates in education: Opponents of the Obama guidance argue that it has handicapped schools from ensuring schools are safe and productive learning environments; proponents assert the rules promote equity and prevent educators from resorting to punitive discipline practices that are ineffective at best and pernicious at worst.

My own sense from watching this debate play out is that most of the «white suburban moms» who oppose Common Core also share a romantic, progressive view of education that is at odds with traditional schooling in general.

24 debaters from 11 countries will explore answers to the question in the Education Fast Forward live global debate on September 24.

Social mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our objective is to change the nature of the public debate from whether we should be investing in early childhood education to howwe can maximize the return on that investment through evidence - based teaching.

Parents» perspectives on education reform are often missing from the education policy debate, with technocrats typically arguing with one another about what parents want or what's best for them.

A Look at an International Debate from Legal, Ethical, and Pedagogical Points of View» Studies in Philosophy and Education 20, pp 213 — 223, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

As research became salient, so did «good» research, and as the congressional debate over education became inseparable from a broad endorsement of «accountability,» an autonomous IES became a marker of members» commitment to that cause.

Tracing ESEA from its earliest days through its various reauthorizations over the years (of which NCLB is the most recent) reveals a rich history of debate around education issues that continues to capture headlines.

A Look at an International Debate from Legal, Ethical, and Pedagogical Points of View» Studies in Philosophy and Education 20, 213 — 223, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

But the proposed amendment, which has been heavily debated in the last two legislative sessions, is likely to encounter strong opposition from a coalition of religious and education groups that are concerned that such a law would seriously threaten the state's public schools.

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My personal highlights included inspirational warm - ups from conductor Dominic Peckham and ex-STOMP member Ollie Tunmer and fascinating debates on the future of GCSEs and on increasing student engagement, the latter of which was filmed for James Rhodes's upcoming Channel 4 documentary on music education.

I believe real progress will be made only when these assumptions are resisted and when those involved in the numerous and passionate debates about education instead start from the assumption that those with whom they disagree are operating in good faith and share their most basic values.