Sentences with phrase «education school critics»

Many education school critics say in - classroom experience should be an essential if not the main focus of a teacher training program.

Education school critics frequently assert that too many courses are characterized by an ideological tilt that influences content.

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The B.C. New Democrat Women's Caucus, along with New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby, is calling on Premier Clark to show solidarity with women in B.C.'s advanced education institutions after it became public that students at UBC's Sauder School...

The B.C. New Democrat Women's Caucus, along with New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby, is calling on Premier Clark to show solidarity with women in B.C.'s advanced education institutions after it became public that students at UBC's Sauder School of Business were participating in pro-rape chanting during frosh week activities.

«B.C. was the second - best province in Canada just six years ago for youth economic engagement, but now Statistics Canada says that one in 10 B.C. youth between the ages of 15 and 19 are not working or in school,» said New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby.

Sep 2015 — Sir Ken Robinson Opens Up About Learning A noted author, educator and cultural critic discusses the benefits of Personalized Education, The Independent School Magazine (NAIS)

The NYC Department of Education claims there has never been a case of a lead poisoning from city school water — but school - age kids are rarely tested, critics charge.

Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has challenged political critics to name secondary schools that are congested because of the Free senior high school (SHS) educatioEducation Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has challenged political critics to name secondary schools that are congested because of the Free senior high school (SHS) educationeducation policy.

Bloomberg has closed 140 struggling schools since taking charge of the education system in 2003, drawing the ire of critics including mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the former City Comptroller, who called for a legal moratorium on closures this year.

Nixon, 51, has been a longtime advocate for more funding for public schools and a critic of what she calls unequal distribution of education funds.

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgSchools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

The East Ramapo school board, in a letter written Friday, is accusing state Education Commissioner John King of empowering critics who are prejudiced against leaders of the Rockland County district because of their religion.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

Cuomo also appointed a new deputy secretary for education, a schools superintendent from Westchester who is a Common Core critic.

Local developer and longtime school district critic Carl Paladino, and two other newcomers, Theresa Harris - Tigg and Jim Sampson, were elected Tuesday to seats on the Buffalo Board of Education.

Critics have questioned when de Blasio would announce the bulk of his education policies, considering he has focused mainly on pre-K and the city's 94 struggling «Renewal Schools» since taking office.

In the waning days of the Bloomberg administration, when many of the mayor's controversial education ideas are once again under attack, one chief target of critics has been the school network structure, which broke up the geographically organized school districts and allowed principals to self - select into one of about 60 support organizations.

Many education reform advocates have not fully embraced the phrase, which is often used by critics of charter schools that promote strict, zero - tolerance discipline codes.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

Hawkins is a strong critic of charter schools, citing them as part of the drive by the Cuomo administration for the privatization of the education system.

Nominating Ravitch, a vociferous critic of Common Core - based testing and charter schools, «would bring to W.F.P. the people in education who are disgusted with what Cuomo is doing, and marry one powerful force with another one,» said Dorothy Siegel, the party's treasurer.

And there's a larger philosophical issue at stake: Moskowitz is a constant critic of the Department of Education and its schools, and has sought to define her network in total opposition to the hulking bureaucracy of the DOE.

The charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools, a frequent critic of the education policies advanced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, was a plaintiff when the lawsuit was filed in Brooklyn federal court in April 2016.

Commenting on the panel and its critics, Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which has campaigned successfully for the teaching of evolution in schools, objected to the «hijacking» of science for arguments about religion: for or against.

In this country where critics and the public often cite the low quality of education, especially for the poor, localized funding for public schools and a proliferation of expensive private schools creates a vast divide between poorer and richer students» schools.

The harshest critics of dispositions assessment accuse education schools of acting as ideological gatekeepers to employment in public schools.

Critics were quick to point out that schools already fall short of carrying out their principal responsibility, preparing young people who graduate from high school for citizenship and for higher education or productive work.

New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high sSchool of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high schoolschool.

Last week, officials from the U.S. Department of Education met with critics of school discipline policies that were put in place under the Obama administration.

The bar has been set not by its critics but by KIPP itself: if KIPP and other No Excuses schools are to fulfill their promise as game changers in American education, and rewrite the script on reaching and teaching underserved kids, their graduates must not merely be accepted to college; they must demonstrate success once they get there.

The Senate confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the U.S. secretary of education saw critics hurl accusations that the charter school sector in her home state of Michigan was a «Wild West» of low student performance and authorizing chaos.

Critics of the province's education funding system hailed the findings, which recommend bringing school spending in line with inflation and current teacher - salary rates.

Now, in a new article appearing in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next, Marcus Winters finds that «as critics have claimed, there is in fact a special education gap,» but there is no evidence that «charter schools are driving special education students away from their doorEducation Next, Marcus Winters finds that «as critics have claimed, there is in fact a special education gap,» but there is no evidence that «charter schools are driving special education students away from their dooreducation gap,» but there is no evidence that «charter schools are driving special education students away from their dooreducation students away from their doors.»

It's here that the critics of single - sex education begin to sound like opponents of another kind of separation: the racial and economic segregation in American public schools documented by Savage Inequalities author Jonathan Kozol and others.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

His use of the word «paternalism» sparked a raucous debate among education reformers and reform critics about «No Excuses» schools like KIPP, Amistad Academy, and Cristo Rey.

Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critic of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments, advises caution when educators emphasize the results of one test.

Critics of testing will take no comfort from the findings of the 2015 Education Next poll — but neither will supporters of the Common Core State Standards, school choice, merit pay, or tenure reform.

Critics speak of high - priced preparatory schools as though they are the only, or at least the most common, type of private education in the United States.

Nevertheless, critics of private education often implicitly extend the limited definition of «public» to mean the population served by the school.

In an interview with BBC Radio 5, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan agreed that critics had raised «important issues» regarding government plans to make every school in England an academy.

Surprisingly, neither the defenders nor the critics of education schools have produced research that answers that central question — which is why my colleague Susan Rozen and I embarked on a project several years ago to evaluate the course syllabi at selected schools of education.

A plan by Pennsylvania officials to redirect funding from private schools for students with special needs to public school districts could force the schools to shut down and disrupt the children's education, critics of the proposal have charged.

A highly regarded English professor and literary critic early in his career, he is the author of several acclaimed books on education issues, including Cultural Literacy (Vintage, 1988), The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (Anchor 1999), The Knowledge Deficit (Houghton Mifflin Harourt 2006), and The Making of Americans (Yale University Press 2010).

Critics (often including ourselves) typically assert that these organizations are the prime obstacles to needed reforms in K — 12 schooling, while defenders (typically, also, supporters of the education status quo) insist that they are bulwarks of professionalism and safeguards against caprice and risky innovation.

Drawing on earlier criticism of the organization society and its alienating effects, social critic Paul Goodman, already famous for his subversive Growing Up Absurd (1960), condemned the school system in toto with a slim volume called Compulsory Mis - education and the Community of Scholars (1962).

In Neil Postman's The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School, published in 1995, the seemingly clairvoyant social critic explains how «the computer and its associated technologies are awesome additions to a culture.»

All our schools should be great, safe places where kids learn and thrive, and there are many more such schools out there than most public education critics are willing to admit.

Student teachers were placed directly in high - poverty schools, without going through indenture in subpar education schools that critics saw as adding little value but turning away potentially smart teachers.