Sentences with phrase «education watchers»

The new year started off with a bang for education watchers in Los Angeles: a new leader will be chosen this year for the nation's second - largest school district.

This has been brilliantly and devastatingly explicated by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, as well as by organizations such as Common Core, education thinkers like E.D. Hirsch and Diane Ravitch, and veteran education watchers such as Jay Mathews.

The book focuses on the difficulties in implementing change in Newark, despite bipartisan leadership, financial support, and the attention of education watchers nationwide.

Education watchers say the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering dean Subra Suresh to lead the National Science Foundation may lead to greater action on an interagency strategy for science, technology, engineering, and math — or STEM — education research, which has been in the works for a while now.

Even for veteran education watchers, however, this is difficult, not only because the Trump administration's budget and policy proposals are more skeletal than those put forward by previous administrations, but because the Department of Education does not directly oversee the nation's 100,000 public schools.