Sentences with phrase «education system conditions»

Our education system conditions students to believe that if it's not on the exam, it's not worth learning.

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The experts rate conditions such as whether the education system «encourages creativity, self - sufficiency and personal initiative,» and whether it provides «adequate instruction in market economic principles.»

Post offices, record labels, publishing companies, book stores, TV networks, travel agencies, education systems, economic systems, even governments are all under stress because they have transformed the conditions under which they were created.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

«Currently, breastfeeding promotion focuses on encouraging women to breastfeed without providing the necessary economic and social conditions such as supportive health - care systems, adequate maternity entitlements and workplace interventions, counselling, and education», says Dr Rollins [1].

The Niagara Falls Water Board announced Friday that it plans a publicity and education campaign about the condition of the city's sewer system.

Education stakeholder groups warned that creating a new evaluation system under the same conditions as the last one likely won't lead to better results.

The Niagara Falls Water Board announced that it plans a publicity and education campaign about the condition of the city's sewer system.

«Scotland's continued success depends on the quality of its education system, which in turn depends upon securing decent pay and conditions of service for all teachers in Scotland.»

PISA has long - recognised that the success of any education system depends on creating the conditions in which qualified teachers are developed, recognised and rewarded.

«Despite the presence of a universal health insurance system in Ontario, our research highlights the persistence of significant health disparities in breast cancer screening, particularly for women who are more vulnerable due to severe disability, multiple chronic conditions, low income and lower education,» said Dr. Guilcher, who has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

Drawing from yoga, physical therapy, and various strength and conditioning methods, Onnit's Chief Fitness Officer John Wolf calls Durability «the through - line to our entire fitness education system.»

Drawing from yoga, physical therapy, and various strength and conditioning methods, Onnit's Chief Fitness Officer John Wolf calls it «the through - line to our entire fitness education system.»

The Hormone Health Network's 3D Patient Education mobile application uses the power of 3D visualization to explain the endocrine system and related conditions such as diabetes, thyroid disease, women's and men's health and many more.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

«In addition, though, their incredible work under such adverse conditions was a source of inspiration to fellow participants as they strive to rebuild and reanimate the higher education system in Haiti.»

The condition of K - 16 education systems in the USA and Europe (with the exception of Finland) is abysmal.

Washington — The condition of the nation's educational system figured prominently on the nation's political agenda last week, as President Reagan introduced a four - part plan to «revitalize American education by setting a standard of excellence» during his State of the Union Message to the Congress.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said:» We need to see real and significant changes to teachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's education.»

The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.

These favorable institutional conditions have in some ways compensated for the deficits of our education system.

The report recognises the problem the education system is facing; the UK must provide the additional 420,000 new school places needed by 2021, while simultaneously addressing the poor learning and teaching conditions in many parts of the country.

Although the political conditions may not be ripe for major policy reform in special education this year, there is a growing consensus that we can and must design a better system for diagnosing, educating, and verifying the educational progress of special education students.

That comprehensive plan, as I wrote, would give educators lots of flexibility «by reducing the number of rules tied to federal dollars in exchange for transparency and choice» — conditions that should promote innovation and the reinvention of an education system built for the industrial age.

Kirsty Williams said: «Taking over responsibility for teachers» pay and conditions is an incredibly important step for Wales and our education system.

The overall aim of the group is to understand how the pay and conditions structure contributes towards a highly motivated teaching profession and a high - quality education system.

We don't allow smoky backroom deals arrived at in collective bargaining to dictate the goals, structure, or existence of the public education system, so neither should we use that process to determine compensation and work condition policies.

I hope that society develops some pride in our education system rather than just expecting it to be a child minding creche for deviant miscreants who mask as students... The only power teachers have is to ignore abusive behavior and suffer medical conditions.

Whatever the changes to structures, conditions or curriculums, highly motivated and skilled teachers will always be at the heart of any education system.

In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

What makes the CORE plan unique is that instead of establishing this system under the authority of the State Department of Education, it relies on participating districts committing to specific conditions and responsibilities.

The sky was beginning to fall — and the wolf was approaching the lamb — three decades ago when we joined the National Commission on Excellence in Education in warning that the country's future and the career (and income and social - mobility) prospects of millions of its citizens were in jeopardy due to the weak condition of our educatioEducation in warning that the country's future and the career (and income and social - mobility) prospects of millions of its citizens were in jeopardy due to the weak condition of our educationeducation system.

The members of our network all want to see strong federal and state policy conditions, but as city - based «harbormasters» for ed reform that sit outside the system, they're taking a multifaceted approach to creating the strongest education ecosystem possible.

It shies away from, rather than confronts, the hard truths that tests reveal about our education system — the disparate outcomes, and disparate expectations of what students from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and socio - economic conditions can learn.

The American Statistical Association concluded recently that teachers account for about 1 per cent to 14 per cent of the variability in test scores, and that the majority of opportunities for quality improvement are found in system - level conditions.4 In other words, most of what explains student achievement is beyond the control of teachers or even schools, and therefore arguing that teachers are the most important factor in improving the quality of education is simply wrong.

Achieving those results, however, will require the support of higher education not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a staeducation not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a staeducation systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a staEducation ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a state level.

I believe that we can create these conditions in every school across the state of California — charter, district or private — but it requires all of us rethinking the structure of the education system and the «top - down» mentality of the system as it stands today.

The SEL community of experts agrees that our education system must address social and environmental conditions, such as school climate and relationships, to ensure student academic success.

Public school systems enroll any student who comes into the district's attendance zone from ages 5 to 21 — no matter their handicapping condition, lack of prior education, first language, or even disciplinary or criminal record.

«That's why our consultation on creating more good school places in more parts of the country includes proposals to scrap the ban on new grammar schools — on the strict condition they improve the education of other pupils in the system — as well as harnessing the expertise and resources of our universities, and our independent and faith schools.»

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system.»

In our work to foster system - wide improvement, we've adapted concepts from this article about the conditions for collaborative inquiry (from the Canadian Education Association) to help us guide improvement at all levels of our system.

«includes proposals to scrap the ban on new grammar schools — on the strict condition they improve the education of other pupils in the system»

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

«It is crucial that we set a national framework that defines the roles and sets out the pay and conditions of all those employed in our national, publicly funded education system.

The University of Virginia Partnership for Leaders in Education (UVA / PLE) works with school systems to establish the conditions for change and to build transformative leadership capacity to achieve improved systems and schools for students.

Our future leaders will have been conditioned through inferior education, one in which analytical thinking is undermined and the test results / illusions and learning how to game the system will be inbred.

The definition of equity begins with: «Educational equity is the condition of justice, fairness and inclusion in our systems of education so that all students have access to the opportunities to learn and develop to their fullest potentials.»

Challenging school reformers» beliefs that a wholesale restructuring of the education system will create a better society, Perry added that all social conditions that plague New Orleans» poor and African - American neighborhoods still persist even after 10 years of school reforms.