Sentences with phrase «education wars»

The Thinking Edge Changing our thinking about teaching and learning and calling a truce to the wasteful education wars that pit one school of thought against another — from the reading wars of phonics skills vs. «whole language» and children's literature, to the debate over 21st Century skills vs. «core curriculum.»

It has brought more education wars: competition in opposition to cooperation, choice against commonality, rigor versus flexibility.

True, the ideological education wars still rage.

Zimmer acknowledged that the foundations» plans have opened a new front in public education wars that have roiled LA Unified and other large districts for years.

It is not out of line to see this as a big middle finger aimed at the bitter education wars that in many cities block their plans to expand BASIS charter schools.

Today's principals know all too well that to continue the education wars while holding fast to ideological perspectives, without acknowledging the strengths and limitations of each one, will keep us trampling on the hopes and dreams of children and families — all of whom are praying that we will do what is necessary to secure their future.

Teacher unions, long both the whipping boys and the power brokers of the education wars, now promote themselves as key partners in reform.

Like Hillary Clinton, Trump paid disappointingly scant attention to education issues on the campaign trail, perhaps fearing, as she did, the alienation of potential voters who were feverishly caught up in various «education wars» over «hot button» issues like charter schools, Common Core, teacher evaluation, and testing.

Four Pillars to Achieve Powerful, Purposeful Public Education... Or Reigniting the Education Wars (National Press Club, Jan. 9, 2017

Recently at a Century Foundation event ~ a distinguished panel of education professionals joined Foundation Fellow Greg Anrig ~ author of the recent book Beyond the Education Wars: Evidence that Collaboration Builds Effective Schools.

Tune out the education wars; and 2.

In the end, the most pressing questions in the education wars are not just empirical, scientific questions, but also ethical ones regarding the unfortunate social consequences of the progressive faith, especially the perpetuation of the test - score gaps among racial and economic groups.

U.S. News & World Report A Standoff in the Education Wars Stiff competition between charter and district schools presents an opportunity to collaborate.

«What we're having now is an education war over the best way to prepare people.

Results from a new USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times poll released over the weekend had a little something for everyone in the education wars, with overall results that were anything but shocking.

The New York education commissioner whose tenure was a flashpoint in the state's education wars is about to lead the nation through its own rocky education reforms.

All in all, Steven Brill should be credited for vividly highlighting the class dimension of the education war going on «for the soul of the Democratic Party.»

One result of the education wars thus far is the takeover of our education policies and practices at the exclusion of «us» in the process.

In the education wars, the sides are no different — unyieldingly stubborn — but the education wars are on many fronts.

The top - down education mandates for accountability tied to higher «achievement» scores, through No Child Left Behind (NCLB *) only furthered our resistance to change, made a bad situation worse for many, and escalated the education wars.

«We've got no time for these education wars!»

The high level of frustration produced by the education wars has made easy pickings for those looking to make a buck off of us, the government of the people.

«We've got no time for all these education wars.»

He is the author of Beyond the Education Wars: Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools (Century Foundation, 2013).

But if you think that the education war is over think again.