Sentences with phrase «education pieces about»

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Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Those sentiments are echoed in a similar piece about breakfast - in - the - classroom in Daranelle, Arkansas, which quotes Board of Education President Jerry Don Woods on his support of the program: «If we can't feed our kids, you can't expect them to learn.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

As a compliment to this piece, I've written my own op - ed about the critical need for student education to ensure that all this new, improved food is actually eaten.

As a matter of fact Crowley mailed a piece of campaign literature all across Queens to curry favor with those deeply concerned about Education in her bid to become your Congresswoman from the 6thDistrict, however upon research and review and confirmation from her office spokesman, she's taking credit for schools that were budgeted and started construction prior to her even being elected to the City Council.

Joining me was Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser, author of two pieces, who spoke about how, done right, with an emphasis on education, the greater density of humanity afforded by urban living can help us innovate our way out of the problems facing us today.

Chapman: Yeah, and that's a good piece of work and what it did for me — to go on to continue that thought about the way in which it was an education — is what I saw was that it was possible for a complicated scientific subject to be discussed in front of a lay audience, not be patronizing to the lay audience, get across a lot of information and excite people because the local people were meeting outside the court and they were saying, «Well did you hear the things about the bacterial flagellum?»

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

With a hard - hitting opinion about the current state of public education, and many opportunities for the two stars of the piece, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, to go big acting-wise, this has all the hallmarks of the sort of prestige film that is looking ahead to awards season.

With a hard - hitting opinion about the current state of public education, and many opportunities for the two stars of the piece, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, to go big acting-wise, this has all the hallmarks of the sort... Read More»

And then of course he also embodied that commitment personally, in the sense that some of our very first pieces that we created for Usable Knowledge were about mind / brain education, with Kurt being willing to step forward and talk about it in popular ways.

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformereducation reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformerEducation Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformerEducation Reformers.»

«I never thought about a doctor getting an educational degree,» she says, acknowledging that education is a huge piece of the puzzle when it comes to the medical world treating children, especially those with developmental disabilities.

In education we tend to talk about pieces of a school or district (teacher quality, technology, early - childhood education, etc.) and pay too little attention to what makes schools coherent and productive organizations and how government can promote or detract from those attributes.

Last year, Cameron Sinclair wrote a piece on Huffington Post in response to Secretary of Educations Arne Duncans statement that its not about the building in terms of school reform.

Just about every state is frantically working to get its Title I plan to Washington by the March 2017 deadline, and battles are raging over the Education Department's interpretation (via draft regulations) of several key pieces of the new law.

Teacher stopped by Monash University's inaugural Education Expo and asked members of the Graduate Panel to elaborate on one piece of advice that they would give pre-service teachers who are about to enter the profession.

«I appreciated [Mitchell's] interest in lessons that could be learned from other countries and jurisdictions, and his generosity in always finding time to speak to various education delegations from other countries that visited Massachusetts to learn about the State's efforts to improve our public schools,» said Professor Fernando Reimers in a remembrance piece.

Earlier this fall, Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, wrote a highly critical piece about the Teach for America project for the education journal Phi Delta Kappan.

Sahlberg said that it wasn't necessarily about moving the Finnish education system like a box and bringing it to America, but perhaps taking pieces of it and applying it.

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.

-LSB-...] written, I think the piece that might have had the greatest impact is an open letter I wrote on my personal blog about the design of accountability systems under the new federal education law.

Her piece is titled «5 Things to Know About Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Education Choice.»

The idea that we would pass a major piece of legislation about education and, in effect, shovel money into states and say «Do with it what you want», and not have some accountability for how that money is spent, I think, is appalling.

executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy and publisher of PRWatch.org and ExposedByCMD.org Her new piece is titled «5 Things to Know About Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Education Choice.»

Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.

Please subscribe to my irregular newsletter that I distribute when I have news of note about my writing on education history and policy, and you will occasionally receive some piece of writing that is not yet ready for prime time, but which I want to share with you.

As states consider whether to apply for the first or second round of Race to the Top Fund grants under the economic - stimulus program, the U.S. Department of Education is emphasizing that they shouldn't worry about being first in line to win a piece of the $ 4 billion being awarded.

«That piece about student achievement and teacher evaluation, and doing all those things in a collaborative way, I don't think anybody else has got them all together,» said Roger A. Erskine, the executive director of the Seattle Education...

It's also true that I have been conducting experiments on how the performing arts affect students, including this piece on a musical performance, and a forthcoming piece in Education Next about an experiment in which students were assigned by lottery to see Hamlet and A Christmas Carol or to serve in the control to identify what students learn from seeing live theater.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Matter?

Miller and Carlsson - Paige's critique of the Common Core, along with a New York Post piece about kindergarteners cracking under pressure, ignited a debate this week about how the new standards are shaping early education.

We engage with our colleagues — at the NEA, the AFT, TURN, and with public education advocates nationally — through web - based and real dialogue, conferencing, and seminars; publishing opinion pieces and other print materials;; and by sponsoring or convening national conversations about key issues in public education and education unionism.

In Education Week Teacher, Elena Aguilar writes an insightful piece about the promise of transformational coaching.

Education reporting on the hurricane recovery efforts in Texas and Florida was steady and strong, including this Washington Post piece about kids returning to school and a Miami Herald piece about school workers doing double duty at 42 schools operating as shelters.

But as if their claim about Connecticut becoming Wisconsin wasn't misleading enough, the labor leaders use their commentary piece to mock our ongoing effort to push back the corporate education reform industry and re-take control of our system of public education.

There were a couple of questions about the piece, though, including mine about the dearth of named USDE sources in the piece (there's just one) and NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz's question about whether the 80 percent of students attending public schools cited in the piece was accurate (that figure apparently excludes charter schools, which are public).

All told, the DeVoses have contributed at least $ 7 million to lawmakers and the state Republican Party in recent years, and their influence can be seen in just about every major piece of education - related legislation in Michigan since the 1990s.

Fellow Connecticut education advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publiceducation advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publicEducation Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publiceducation and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

The piece, «Dueling Blogs: Don't Leave Education to the Experts,» opines about my blog, Wait, What?

After reading his piece, one can only assume that the proponents of the Common Core; President Obama, Secretary of Education Duncan, Governor Malloy, Commissioner of Education Pryor and Education Gadfly Michele Rhee are either purposefully misleading parents and the public or are incredibly ignorant about the facts.

Public Education Advocate and Hearst newspaper columnist Wendy Lecker has another MUST READ piece this week about the Common Core.

Public education advocate and fellow commentator Wendy Lecker has an outstanding piece in this weekend's Stamford Advocate and other Hearst Media outlets about Hartford's recent «school choice» debacle.

Last week in a post for the Fordham Institute's Flypaper, Erika Sanzi wrote a compelling piece about imposter syndrome in education reform — and began the conversation about who the real imposters are when it comes to education reform: Impostor syndrome is «the fear that you'll be found out at any moment as an impostor who doesn't belong in your...

You can learn more about this particular proposal by reading Wendy Lecker's commentary piece here: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Lecker-Charter-school-pitch-not-about-helping-5338987.php and a news article about the Stamford Board of Education's opposition to the Bronx Charter School proposal here: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/Stamford-school-board-votes-against-charter-school-5352577.php

«The PR piece of this is essential because for the first time, we're having a dialogue in this country about anachronistic laws and how we revamp our public education system for the modern world so it serves children first and foremost,» Brown said.

Excerpts from his piece appear below: Educators and policymakers together have failed to develop the capabilities needed to achieve the higher levels of education achievement demanded in the Read more about A Partnership between Evidence - Based Policy and Practice - Based Evidence -LSB-...]

We're not political reporters, so we won't discuss the odds of any piece of it passing, but instead will focus on what the impact would be on students and what clues it gives us about the Trump administration's education agenda going forward.

Read between the lines of June Kronholz's Education Next piece (Still Teaching for America) and you'll see find lots of interesting tidbits for both Teach For America (TFA) fans and skeptics — though, alas, nothing specific about TFA LA.

Becky Higgins, president of the Ohio Education Association, also has deep reservations about the retention piece, even though she supports the overall goal.