Sentences with phrase «educational equivalent»

Kane, a professor of education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, points out that there is no effective educational equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration, where medical research is rigorously vetted and translated into solutions.

Or are we already pigging out on the educational equivalent of fast food — fattening but not nutritious — and will supersizing our portions just make matters worse?

So the community was stunned when the district leveled the educational equivalent of a death sentence on the school.

Second, it» s not in the interest of private schools or colleges to acknowledge that they have a problem — lest it create the educational equivalent of a run on the bank, with clients fleeing for fear of being abandoned after a sudden collapse.

Middle class families — place - bound; not highly mobile — wall themselves off within the educational equivalent of gated communities through attendance zones, selective schools, and district lines.

The educational equivalent of the WWII problems is now the achievement gap.

It's hard to develop feelings for anyone who's expecting the educational equivalent of a one - night stand.

We are much more interested in the educational equivalent of pop - up ATMs than in investing in vibrant black neighborhoods that produce and oversee their own great schools.

And after a half - century, Kane writes in a new article, we should have made much more progress toward closing the achievement gap: the educational equivalent of the fight against cancer.

What's needed now is the educational equivalent to Paul Polak's work fostering progress in rural agrarian communities in poor places.

Employers typically prefer candidates who hold at least a high school diploma or educational equivalent.