Sentences with phrase «education observers say»

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

Not exact matches

Some observers would say that theological education has been too much focused on the cognitive dimension of learning as opposed to personal and social transformation — doing and feeling.

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

Charter advocates and education observers have said they believed the cap and mayoral control would be linked at the end of the session as a way to create pressure on both sides to pass versions of each proposal; that configuration seems unlikely if the extension passes.

Observers say Westlake could become a beacon on China's higher education landscape.

Although Italy is one of the most world's important fashion markets, home to top global brands and high quality manufacturing, some observers say that Italian fashion education needs a complete rethink before its schools achieve equivalent importance.

Observers continue to take exception not to what the report actually said, but to what it failed to say - complaining, for instance, that the report didn't deal enough with X, Y, or Z, or offered an «incomplete diagnosis» of the problem in American education, or that it wasn't «radical» enough in its analysis or prescriptions.

Congressional Democrats reaped modest gains in last week's hard - fought elections, which some observers here say could step up pressure for a more centrist, bipartisan approach to federal education policy on Capitol Hill next year, regardless of which candidate ultimately wins the White House.

Although gubernatorial candidates regarded as having strong records and stands on education fared well over all in last week's elections, observers said the poll results also carried a warning that voters are likely to balk at costly education reforms.

The 15 - member Select Committee on Education Deliberations appointed by Gov. William P. Clements had bogged down, observers said, in a divisive internal debate that left it unable to agree on a single recommendation.

Not only did the Congress finish its most pressing education business — reauthorizing several key programs in its final days — but, observers say, it was able to fashion consensus bills that in effect reasserted a federal role in education.

A series of unsavory revelations about the U.S. Department of Education's efforts to sway the public in favor of its major school improvement measure could stain the law's reputation and cast doubt on future information from the agency, say many observers, including supporters of the law.

Yet the Atlanta - based multinational company has stepped up its presence in the lives of students and in the education world in other ways, some industry observers say.

The Governor favors such vouchers, but he would prefer an unequivocal show of support on the issue from the Republican - controlled legislature before committing himself to a session devoted to the voucher plan and other education proposals, observers said.

Within hours, California's two top education leaders acknowledged in a news release what observers had been saying: There's no way the state will get such an... read more

Never before in the state has education featured so prominently in a race for governor, observers there say.

The sweeping education plan proposed by President Bush last week reflects a growing political consensus that the federal government should step up the pressure on states and school districts to improve academic achievement, especially for disadvantaged children, observers say.

As the 109th Congress begins this week, the Senate education committee is expected to get a new chairman — Sen. Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming — who observers say will bring to the job a blend of pragmatic conservatism and a keen appreciation for the challenges of rural communities.

«We're encouraged that independent observers of public education share our support for legislative and school board candidates across California who support parental choice and who are working to provide high quality education to all children,» said Gary Borden, Executive Director of CCSA Advocates.

«They send it in knowing there may be revisions required,» said Howard O'Cull, director of the West Virginia School Board Association, a close observer of state education policy.

Some observers in the U.S. find fault with the decentralized nature of American education, saying it no longer makes sense for each state to do its own thing.

Observers say it speaks to how mainstream broad - based education reform has become, although it's not likely to be a defining issue in the presidential election, where the economy and the broader role of government dominate.

Monaghan said he expects between 500 and 1,000 teachers at the Capitol on Wednesday, a crowd that would, many times over, fill the House Education Committee chamber and two other rooms that House leaders are reserving for observers to watch proceedings on closed - circuit television.

Until tonight, observers could safely say that the single most outrageous political maneuver during Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's tenure has been his claim that he was pro-public education while being the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in so - called «turnaround» schools.

After noting the total contributions from those interests, she framed the piece this way: «Some observers say the big dollars foreshadow the next chapter of a fierce fight in Tallahassee: the privatization of public education.»

Some observers doubt the trigger will ever be tried (or succeed) in LAUSD, given the past two years of struggle: «It is hard for me to believe that it will go much further than it has,» said one longtime education journalist via email on Friday, calling it «a waste of time, energy and money.»