Sentences with phrase «education scholars like»

Education scholars like Kahlenberg, one of the nation's leading advocates for economic integration, note droves of research papers that cite the positive impacts of diversity in K - 12 schooling, including enhanced critical thinking, higher academic achievement, greater civic responsibility, higher college - going rates and more lucrative jobs.

Aviv attempts to expand the story to other places by quoting education scholars like David Berliner, Jennifer Jennings, and John Ewing, a former executive director of the American Mathematical Society; throwing in a reference to Campbell's Law; and mentioning cheating scandals in other cities, but ultimately her story is limited in scope.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, at the Hyde School, a private high school in Bath, Maine, dedicated to «family - based character education,» I witnessed a confrontation in an 11th - grade honors English class the likes of which, it is safe to say, few educators or scholars have ever seen.

Like so many other education scholars, Elkind forces all the diversity of American youngsters into false categories assigned by age or grade (a proxy for age).

Following a number of retirements and departures, and with the addition of new programs like Harvard Teacher Fellows and the Ph.D. in education, we are excited to be welcoming so many talented scholars and leaders across several priority areas for the school,» Ryan said.

Being an Urban Scholar is such an honor because I have been provided a priceless opportunity to join a group of like - minded scholars who share this same commitment and will assist, reinforce, and inform my efforts to improve urban education.

This year, the scholars met for special seminars on topics like counseling in urban schools, economic research, special education, and being an urban superintendent.

As education scholar Matt Chingos told the Los Angeles Times last week, «If people like their local schools, regardless of what they think about schools nationally, they're not going to be very likely to vote based on that issue».

Envisioning such a world, we might imagine scholars working to produce products for classroom use, much as consortia like the Stanford History Education Group have done.

Moving forward, the notion of choice was reframed by the writing of scholars like Milton Friedman, who were among the first to suggest a market - based approach to public education.

Lewis Mandell, a SUNY - Buffalo professor and a leading scholar in financial education, says that this kind of activity is more like a game: kids may be engaged, but they're not actually aware of the risks.

If that seems like something out of the ancient past in an age of hundred - million - dollar lawsuits over your phone's bezel design, students can also come to see that education retains an «exceptional» status within intellectual property law that promotes learning through fair use rights (copyright), experimental exceptions (patents), and an academic exception that recognizes the special contribution of teachers and scholars in creating intellectual property that does not simply and automatically belong to their employer (both).