Sentences with phrase «education writer for»

In 1989, when the Chicago School Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others could not.

Mooney, a former education writer for The Star Ledger and The Record before launching the magazine, described the effort to enact a markedly different statewide evaluation program, where at least 50 - percent of the rating criteria must be based on student performance.

'' [The concern with test scores] has to do with reputation,» adds Richard Colvin, an education writer for the Los Angeles Times.

Linda Starr, a former teacher and the mother of four «nearly grown» children, has been an education writer for almost a decade.

The voucher proposal, which Trump advanced during his campaign, seems an open invitation for more federal control in schools, said Joy Pullman, an education writer for The Federalist.

Nicholas Ferroni, an education writer for The Huffington Post, says that laughter activates dopamine and the learning centers of the brain.

(Dave Murray, veteran education writer for the Grand Rapids Press, kept his cool and had three stories about the conference posted before he even left it.

Linda Starr, a former teacher and the mother of four children, has been an education writer for nearly two decades.

Jay Mathews, education writer for The Washington Post, wrote a recent column about teachers who refused to give students back their graded tests.

Not exact matches

«I think Coursera and Udacity will be as bad for higher education as the University of Phoenix,» said Clay Shirky, a writer - in - residence at NYU's Journalism Institute.

ESPN senior writer Tim Keown, in his profile of LaRoche describes it this way: «Adam LaRoche was now a conduit for opinions on education and money and privilege and kids in the workplace.

Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Parents, teachers, writers, ministers, and others responsible for education are, of course, not solely accountable for individual and social values.

The younger writers are so self - conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can't condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex.

Downing also calls attention to the images that had been incubating for years in Lewis's fertile imagination and that suddenly came to life in the Narnia stories, and Jacobs suggests that we should hardly be surprised when a writer with a long record of concern for moral education turns to writing stories for children.

Sherkat, speaking out of school, confidently told a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education in July [2012] that Regnerus's study was «bull ****» when his audit was still in draft form and neither Regnerus nor Wright had written a response to it.

Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, may have surprised many by repeatedly calling for the teaching in schools of authors such as Chaucer, Dryden and Pope but his suggestion deserves a response from the Catholic community, for each of these great writers was a Catholic and each of them is horribly neglected even in Catholic schools today.

Paul Tough is a writer who's been focusing on education for some time now.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

In December, the Education Writers Association's Educated Reporter blog gave its «Water Cooler Award (for one of the most talked - about stories of the year)» to my article in the New York Times Magazine about character, «What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?»

A homeschool speaker and writer specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method, Sonya has been studying, practicing, and teaching Charlotte's gentle methods of education for twenty years.

She is a mother, a grandmother, a parent educator, childbirth educator, a doula, a feature writer for Parent & Family, a motivational speaker on parenting and birth, and a sponsor of community education events.

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

John Hildebrand is Newsday's senior education writer and has covered school news and policy issues affecting Long Island for more than 40 years.

A science teacher, writer, and filmmaker, he has spent most of his professional life sharing his passion for science and education with the public.

We're looking for writers here at ShakingNews to cover and explain New York politics, especially around topics like healthcare, housing and real estate, transportation, education and tech policy.

Formerly Managing Director, Communications and Public Reporting at the Audit Commission and founding editor of Guardian Public, he was also a leader writer and specialist correspondent for The Times and the Independent, and began his career in journalism on The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Since 1982, Just Buffalo has led the way for literary arts education in Western New York, bringing professional writers into Buffalo Public Schools and other communities through creative writing programs that reach 2,500 students per year.

An article entitled «Faculty Diversity When Jobs Are Scarce: Debunking the Myths,» written by Daryl G. Smith for the 6 September 1996 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, backed this writer up by asserting that many minority Ph.D.'s insist that they must struggle to find positions.

Previously, he directed technology and science coverage for The Chronicle of Higher Education as a senior editor, was a senior writer and editor at U.S News & World Report, editor - in - chief at Earth, deputy news editor at Science, and a senior editor at Discover.

«Conversely, a spelling error, like substituting «hite» for «height,» might be attributed to a lack of education or to a cognitive challenge such as dyslexia, traits over which the writer has little control.»

She teaches at Columbia Journalism School and was an editor and writer at Newsweek for more than 20 years, covering education, health and social issues.

Peg Tyre, a former senior writer at Newsweek, contributes to Politico and the Atlantic, where she was a National Magazine Award finalist for her coverage of education.

A professional freelance writer with wide - ranging interests in medicine, fitness, health, psychology, tech, and fashion, Kim's unique composition of life experiences includes working as an aide for a Democratic member of Congress, a senatorial nomination to West Point, extensive work with women's relief and aide organizations, and a life - long commitment to helping others obtain and further their education goals.

Guest Writer: Irene Liu, CNP Irene Liu is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a passion for nutritional education.

Emma Sturgis holds a degree in MA and currently working as a freelance writer in Boston, with a passion for health education.

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About Blog As a derivatives trader, and writer of SingaporeStocksTrading.com, Jeff Sun seeks to provide education on short term directional trading by helming the largest LIVE trading team (High Probability Trading Team) in Singapore with over 1,500 over members within two years, which he educates on «Trade for Growth, Invest for Income».

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

It's as if Soren, writer Nicholas Stoller and the rest of the creative team intentionally crafted this story as light - hearted payback for the years they spent in the education system.

The director of Dallas Buyers Club, the writer of An Education, and baity source material will give Witherspoon her best chance at another nomination since she won this category for Walk the Line.

British writer Nick Hornby poses during a photo - call for the movie «An Education» at the Berlinale in Berlin, on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009.

STX Entertainment has unveiled a new trailer for the film Their Finest, the latest feature from writer / director Lone Scherfig, of the films The Riot Club, One Day and An Education (one of my favorites).

Shane Safir is a writer, coach, and facilitator who has worked in public education for over 20 years.

I am an experienced writer of resources who has written two Computing text books for the Scottish education system.

Though this is a complicated issue, it is a classic example of the trade - offs that federal policymakers routinely face and one that a thoughtful education writer with a national platform seemingly could explore for readers.

Prior to joining The Achievement Alliance, she wrote two regular columns on schools and education for The Washington Post, and before that was senior writer and executive editor of Black Issues In Higher Education (now called education for The Washington Post, and before that was senior writer and executive editor of Black Issues In Higher Education (now called Education (now called Diverse).

A former staff writer and multimedia producer for Edutopia, I've also written about education for Change.org (education.change.org) and KQED's MindShift (mindshift.kqed.org).

I'm currently the writer - in - residence for Education Post, where I write about innovations and trends on a national level.

I'm Katie Ash, and I am a staff writer for Education Week and our magazine Digital Directions.