Sentences with phrase «educational mainstream»

Only the «sects,» like the Jehovah's Witnesses, have maintained both the vision and the motivation to seek people outside the economic and educational mainstream of the nation and transform the contours of their social realities within a community of faith.

But either way, there's no denying that the online learning movement is marching steadily to the day when it becomes an integral part of the educational mainstream.

In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West talks with Michael Horn, whose article, «Virtual Reality Disruption: Will 3 - D technology break through to the educational mainstream?»

Since World War II, the General Educational Development program has offered more than 12 million high - school dropouts a ticket back into the educational mainstream.

And the conditions appear ripe, as well, which is fueling the latest round of eager speculation about virtual reality's readiness to break through to the educational mainstream.

Early intervention allows ineffective remedial programs to be replaced with effective prevention while providing older students who continue to need services with enhanced instruction so they can return to the educational mainstream.

The «Strategic Plan for Agricultural Education» calls for, among other goals, developing a more science - based agricultural curriculum; increasing the nation's agricultural «literacy;» attracting more women and minorities to the agriculture field; and including the subject and its teachers in the educational mainstream.

So thoroughly has the ged entered the educational mainstream that the test has been revised to reflect changes in high - school graduation requirements and emphasis on problem - solving skills, and scholarship programs that once would have been available only to high - school graduates are now open to recipients of equivalency diplomas.

Those changes were a response, she said, to parent concerns as well as a districtwide push to speed the transfer of bilingual program students into the educational mainstream.

In some reform periods, the ideas of the group have met with and profoundly influenced the educational mainstream — its progressive, democratic ideas have had what the Chinese call «the mandate of heaven.»

In the current program, Mr. Smith tracks America's search for schools and school districts that have been effectively raising student performance in high poverty areas and closing the achievement gap between minority and low - income students and the educational mainstream.