Sentences with phrase «education problems»

Unlike just about any other public education problem, this is an easy problem to fix.

I do not believe we have education problems as much as we have money problems.

But over the past few years, our focus has shifted to a host of other education problems, initiatives and battles.

In collaboration with faculty and peers, participants design and conduct advanced inquiry projects to examine and resolve contemporary education problems.

The city does, by any standard, face huge education problems.

I try to apply economic tools to analyze education problems.

But it offers scant hope of solving education problems on the scale that America needs.

This has worked very well in Florida over the past decade in a program called the MacKay Scholarships and could be the best long term solution to the true special education problem in Texas, but to date unfortunately it has been blocked by the various educator lobbies.

Under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) supports national research and development centers that are intended to contribute significantly to the solution of education problems in the United States by engaging in research, development, evaluation, and national leadership activities aimed at improving the education system, and ultimately, student achievement.

Ingham ISD Plan for the Delivery of Special Education Programs and Services, June 2011 Paraprofessional Guidelines (adopted 10.23.13) Parent Handbook: Guide to Special Education Problem Solving Facilitator Guide 11 - 12 Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) Evaluation and Eligibility Guidelines rev 8.2015 Specific Learning Disabilities Guidelines Quick Guide rev 8.2015 Summary of Performance (Mich Transition Outcome Project SOP rev Feb 2011)

Districts are becoming more receptive to business solutions for education problems as public patience with school reform wanes.

It would be wrong to blame all of Sweden's education problems on voucher schools — even with their rapid expansion, only about a quarter of secondary - school students are enrolled at private schools; among elementary schools, the rate is only about 13 percent.

For decades, our nation tried to wage war against our urban - education problems with a conscript - army mentality: Compulsion and a rigid, hierarchical system were the tools at hand to drive change.

The answers to our country's pressing education problems need to come straight from professionals in the classroom, write Evan Stone and Sydney Morris (Eduwonk...

My views on how to solve some of these seemingly intractable education problems have been informed by two experiences: my four years as chair of the New York City Council's education committee and, more recently, my role as founder and executive director of a new charter school.

The two panels began with divergent notions of the key education problems needing to be solved.

Knowledge Alliance is comprised of leading education organizations that share the belief that high - quality, relevant research is key to solving the biggest education problems facing our country today.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members participating in an Askwith Forum panel discussing the controversial documentary Waiting for «Superman» expressed mixed emotions about the film's emphasis on charter schools and teachers unions, and agreed it's a small glimpse of a large and complicated education problem.

The focus on educational struggles and failures only serves to compound education problems and confirm existing stereotypes.

One of MOOCs education problems is a student is not awarded with any degree.

The NEA is concerned about how the shortage of minority teachers will affect and worsen urban education problems.

A part of that low - quality education problem lies with the low expectations among teachers and principals, many of whom share Gardner's outdated (and historically, racialist - driven) thinking.

«It's another example of the «blame teachers first» approach to solving complex education problems.»

This is not to say that integration is a panacea for all of the nation's current education problems.

Are Finland's education answers really going to solve OUR education problems?

Inspired by his optimism and real — life solutions to large and small education problems, we return to our jobs invigorated and ready to resume our work with renewed energy.

Urban public education is not about the «chicken and egg education problem.»

This brief highlights four components of culturally and linguistically - responsive prereferral interventions: 1) preventing school underachievement and failure among culturally and linguistically diverse learners, 2) early intervention for struggling learners, 3) diagnostic and prescriptive teaching, and 4) availability of general education problem - solving support systems.

Apply a selective (not «competitive») application of Federal aid — aimed at strengthening, the independence of existing school systems AND aimed at meeting our most urgent identified education problems and objectives;

Before getting to the big news, let's review the dominant fairy tale: As embodied by New York City's major education announcement this weekend, the «reform» fantasy pretends that a lack of teacher «accountability» is the major education problem and somehow wholly writes family economics out of the story (amazingly, this fantasy persists even in a place like the Big Apple where economic inequality is particularly crushing).

New America, Education Policy Program: The Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation — a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute — uses original research and policy analysis to solve the nation's critical education problems, serving as a trusted source of objective analysis and innovative ideas for policymakers, educators, and the public at large.

Exactly how much of Mississippi's education problem results from poor funding and how much of it is the education community's resistance to change is subject to debate.

At its core, CASDA is committed to changing with the times, while preserving its original purpose of bringing local educators together in order to improve school districts, solve common education problems and enhance student achievement.

Gavin Newsom believes that solving California's public education problems starts with educators.

One of the major early childhood education problems that stems from a lack of funding and resources is the fact that US educators are underpaid.

CAP is a program that provides free legal services to help safeguard children's education rights and to resolve education problems that have a legal remedy.

In the current issue of its membership newspaper, NEA Today, the union notes that four years after the first statewide teacher - competency law was passed, «politicians are no longer promoting such statutes as a cure - all for education problems.»

Need help with special education problems?

As a school leader, I hope to bring my advocacy, analytical, and problem - solving skills to assist the district in developing innovative solutions to Chicago's most pressing education problems.

Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, said Cuomo is using teachers» unions as scapegoats for New York's education problems in order to pander to pro-charter school billionaire hedge funders who have donated millions to the governor's campaign.

While we understand the desire to solve the nation's education problems on a large scale, there are many schools out there that are helping a hundred or two hundred kids at a time.

What has struck me more, however, is the number of contemporary education problems to which technology offers at least a partial solution — but only if we can picture it holistically, not simply as a tool for doing one thing or another.

There are lessons to be learned from other education systems, sure, but I don't think the nearly all - white, tiny nation of Finland is going to provide much guidance in how to solve our nation's biggest education problem, which is inequity.

One obstacle for the professionalizers is that many of their proposed changes end up worsening other education problems.