Sentences with phrase «education policy matters»

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He has lectured widely on a range of education policy matters.

With the exceptions of school spending and teacher tenure, the divisions between ordinary Democrats and Republicans on education policy matters are quite minor.

Yet Lindseth argues that the autocratic nature of the courts, which are generally less accountable to voters, is one of the chief reasons to reserve education policy matters for the elective branches of government.

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Considering the high costs of having of a child, coupled with the tension in balancing family - work life matters, states and companies are starting to invest in family support policies, parental benefits and competitive education.

Does he know that public policy no matter how well it follows an education administrator's wet dream can not produce Einsteinian genius regarding scientific truth?

It's also a matter of social practices, governmental policies, political decisions, economic strategies and ideologies that are spread through education and media.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

the view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element.

No matter the restriction policy, all staff will need to participate in food allergy management education and training, consistent with CDC, state, or local guidelines, and will need to know their roll in their schools» policies and procedures.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

Still, event with a raise the agreement in place — believed to be one of the last and most contentious of the policy matters in the budget — there are remaining matters that must be dealt with, including a push to bolster charter schools and funding for education.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

The fact that King will miss the opportunity to weigh in on legislation regarding education policy seems to matter less since Cuomo and lawmakers have become more aggressive in crafting it themselves, in spite of education leaders» opinions.

Of the change in leadership at the Department of Education, Mulgrew said that he had worked constructively with Dennis Walcott in the past, but that ultimately «it doesn't matter who the chancellor is; it's the mayor and his failed policies that matter because the chancellor works for the administration.»

Democracy Matters is a campus - based organization that advocates for campaign finance reform as well as issues concerning the environment, civil rights, education, health care and foreign policy.

The nine - person board has a voice on policy matters, can nix or approve big contracts and budgets, and generally helps steer the direction of Hartford's long - running education reform efforts.

Jacobowitz, who wrote the resolution, said «this is not a matter of politics or even a policy debate; rather, this is a matter of basic government function, an informed decision - making process for our communities, and the right of our children to a sound basic education.»

The proposals will, ministers say, address the long - standing anomaly - known as the West Lothian Question - by which Scottish MPs can vote on issues such as health and education affecting England, but the House of Commons has no say on similar matters relating to Scotland, where such policies are devolved.

Physical education was made a compulsory subject as a matter of military policy, and it is still regulated at the national level today.

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DAAD supports the internationalization of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, assists developing countries in establishing effective universities and advises decision makers on matters of cultural, education and development policy.

At the end of the day, no matter what 50 state departments of education discover in the many complex pages of federal legislation and then promulgate as official policy to local districts and schools, teachers may continue as they please.

«No matter how long I live in Africa, I was not born and educated there,» the Philadelphia native and International Education Policy Program alum says.

Dr Bronwyn Hinz, Policy Fellow at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University, told Education Matters that some schools and parents have overemphasised the importance of the NAPLAN tests, which she says is not a high - stakes test.

On the other hand, Nicky Morgan, education secretary says that the new policy to make the EBacc obligatory for all students is simply a matter of «social justice».

Details and implementation will matter a lot but on the surface there is nothing that hasn't previously been part of the public discussion of education policy or that is scarily radical.

They also issue policies regarding transportation, special education, discipline and other matters.

While Siobhan Gorman («Bipartisan Schoolmates,» Feature, Summer 2002) can be faulted for underestimating the degree to which President Bush's education policy represents major change, she is correct to point out the obvious: Public policy matters only if it is enforced.

So creating and implementing curriculums and education policy is not only an internal matter but has important impact also on global level.

, When Research Matters: How Scholarship Influences Education Policy (89 - 112).

In other words, local control is primarily a matter of state policy rather than a constraint imposed by federal or state constitutional law on the states» role in education.

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

Everyone knows that teacher unions matter in education politics and policies, a reality that is never more evident than at election time.

Two policy factors turn out to matter considerably more: a larger private - education sector (which presumably introduces more competition into the educational system) and the presence of a centralized examination system (which presumably holds students and schools accountable).

Commenting on this year's GCSE results, CBI director for people and skills policy, Neil Carberry, said: «We know that education really matters when it comes to delivering a great future for young people and for the nation as a whole.

In «The Long Reach of Teachers Unions: Using money to win friends and influence policy,» featured in the Fall 2010 edition of the Education Next journal, Antonucci also reveals that teachers unions have become a force in matters beyond education policy, including weighing in on domestic policy issues such as taxation, healthcare, gay marriage and redisEducation Next journal, Antonucci also reveals that teachers unions have become a force in matters beyond education policy, including weighing in on domestic policy issues such as taxation, healthcare, gay marriage and rediseducation policy, including weighing in on domestic policy issues such as taxation, healthcare, gay marriage and redistricting.

As a matter of government policy, education was an area of economic activity exempted from the operation of the Commonwealth's goods and services tax (GST) through A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (GST Act).

And because they are not immersed in education matters, they can not easily envision how policy changes might help or hurt, making it harder to mobilize them on those issues.

As a matter of public policy, however, the public's willingness to endorse online education very much depends on the justification given for it (see Figure 5).

There's little disagreement nationally about the importance of early - childhood education, but settling on the right approach to funding and policy approaches is a different matter.

In addition to writing and co-writing nearly 100 papers and book chapters, she has also co-written three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education, and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter (both published by Harvard University Press), and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press), which received honorable mention from the American Publishers Association for the best mathematics & statistics book of 2003.

Students Matter's proposed Teacher Employment Policy Pillars make recommendations for commonsense changes to the unconstitutional, quality - blind Education Code provisions that currently govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs in California.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

We know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take teacher voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

During the 2015 - 2016 California legislative session — the first full session since the historic Vergara v. California ruling — Students Matter has engaged in a number of key education policy debates.

By simultaneously using litigation to challenge the laws and practices preventing students from obtaining a quality education, while influencing the tide of public opinion through a media and organizing campaign, Students Matter creates both the opportunity and the demand for meaningful and sustainable policy transformation.

His main ambition in this book is to persuade us that, as a matter of normative political theory and public - policy analysis, we should pay more attention to the goal of fostering good citizenship than we have seen in many recent education discussions.