Sentences with phrase «educational mandate of»

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These highly self - conscious groups have deliberately, and on the basis of well - articulated evangelical mandates, provided the means for motivational and educational upbuilding.

The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission called for legislation to mandate increased children's educational programming.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

Probably more important is the fact that the DOE does not set mandated unified educational standards, so it would be difficult to claim it's a centralized control of anything.

The Foundation, which has the main mandate of attending to the welfare and prosperity of Nigerian students in all facets of their educational endeavours, was opened to the general public at an event attended by dignitaries from all walks of life on Saturday in Lagos.

The bill requires priority be given to public libraries and educational opportunity centers, and mandate a report on where investments have fallen or are being planned by June of 2016.

The lower court's 2016 ruling had mandated a sweeping overhaul of the state's education system, including changes to teacher evaluations, educational standards and special education services.

The state Supreme Court has overturned a Superior Court judge's controversial ruling that would have upended the state's educational - funding scheme and mandated a vast overhaul of teacher evaluations, educational standards and special - education...

The state Supreme Court has overturned a Superior Court judge's controversial ruling that would have upended the state's educational - funding scheme and mandated a vast overhaul of teacher evaluations, educational standards and special - education services.

Other laws impose new restrictions on participating private schools as a condition of participation, including eligibility requirements, testing mandates, and educational content or course requirements.

We need educational programs in glocality for women who will become mothers and for men and women who will become teachers, to reverse the miseducation of young children and more precisely address the original 1945 UNESCO mandate, namely, «since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.»

Therein lies the importance of laws such as the parent trigger, which give parents a government - sanctioned mandate to organize and take control of the educational destiny of their children.

This set him apart from his more - liberal colleagues, who viewed Brown v. Board of Education (1954) not as a prohibition on the use of racial classifications in education, but rather as a mandate for judges to do whatever they could to promote «equal educational opportunity.»

In Chingos's words, «the study strongly suggests that monies restricted for the purpose of funding class - size reduction mandates are not a productive use of limited educational resources.»

The current signals mandate a union interest in the economics of teaching, but they do not say that educational quality is the union's responsibility.

After reviewing the programmatic changes made for ELL students in Nogales, the Court reached the conclusion that «the weight of research suggests these types of local reforms, much more than court imposed funding mandates, lead to improved educational opportunities.»

Some of these Brown trustees have even begun to take steps to eradicate the Court's Brown mandate, pushing instead for initiatives, like vouchers, which use public dollars to, at best, extend educational opportunities to a select few.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

The state - mandated tests now being used are so insufficient they «are causing educational harm, perhaps irreparable harm, to thousands of American children,» W. James Popham, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the chairman of the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment, argued at a press conference here.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).

The authors argue that these developments face a difficulty operating a collaborative strategy in today's educational landscape without a strong sense of cohesive mandate.

Instead of states mandating a single curricular approach within their geographic boundaries — much less a single national approach such as Common Core — states should empower local school systems and other educational providers to select quality standards and aligned tests that fit their instructional philosophy, while also empowering parents to choose from among different schools the one which best meets the needs of their children.

In addition, the bill would mandate that two - thirds of all workforce investment board (WIB) members be employers, and would eliminate representation requirements for WIA partner programs, local educational entities and labor organizations.

The Court found that the «weight of the research» indicated that structural, curricular and accountability - based reforms, «much more than court - imposed funding mandates, lead to improved educational opportunities.»

«Utah has mandated the review of educational curriculum since 1907, and has recently formed a Digital Teaching and Learning Team to support the integration of technology into our schools,» stated Dr. Sydnee Dickson, Utah State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

On the unrelenting pressure to improve schools without corresponding improvement in teachers» skills: «In its least desirable face, educational reform can become a kind of conspiracy of ignorance: policymakers mandating results they do not themselves know how to achieve, and educators pretending they do know what to do but revealing through their actions that they don't.»

Moreover, the goals — and effectiveness — of inclusion must be determined by each child's individual education plan, or IEP, the outline of their educational program that schools are mandated to create.

Nevada school superintendents pleaded with state lawmakers Thursday for flexibility from educational mandates to try to meet a 10 percent budget reduction that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs statewide.

Citing research evidence about the lack of a relationship between spending and educational outcomes and about the ineffectiveness of previous court - mandated funding, the Supreme Court said that the lower court should also consider other school programs.

Fullan is a worldwide authority on educational reform with a mandate of helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children learning.

Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).

Why should I feel better about PARCC and Common Core just because a state bureaucrat or leader of a taxpayer funded school board or school administrator association tells me we have had state mandated standards and testing for a long time when the original set of standards and tests were broken and built from an economic view point, not an educational one.

The need to respond to mandates in national and state legislation has prompted SEA staff members from different offices to break out of their silos and share responsibility for educational success.

Thus, New Jersey's first set of mandated curriculum standards and high stakes tests were created to satisfy legal and political mandates, not for educational reasons.

The 2003 law that authorizes the program mandates that parents and students be provided «with the widest range of educational options.»

Among the recommends are the integration of the health sector within the education system; better understanding of the core mandates, constraints, and characteristics of educational systems; a focus on the growth and development of the whole child; and a systems - based, organizational development approach.

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.»

This core educational philosophy is represented in NSCS evidence - based curricula and through student participation in a successful, spiraling curriculum, direct instruction, and the «teach to the top» philosophy that has helped NSCS students report some of the highest state - mandated, year - end assessment results in the state of Idaho.

Teacher educators must reach out to their colleagues across the spectrum of educational institutions, especially vertically, to leverage their shared mandate to improve teaching and learning.

The decision also rejected an attempt by the lower court judge to usurp the authority of the governor, legislature, and state department of education in setting educational policy and mandates on a variety issues.

One of the ways in which the CEA accomplishes its mandate to support and promote innovation in education is through its awards program for educational researchers.

Our public schools have been enhancing public education in spite of federal mandates and regulatory requirements that curbed school board members» ability to devise even more innovative educational opportunities.

When Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it included a mandate for a nationwide study to assess the effects of inequality of educational opportunity on student achievement.

A second piece of legislation, SB 1346, focuses heavily on requirements around English learners and adds a mandate to include reclassified English learners to the subgroups of pupils whose educational achievement must be measured by the state's Academic Performance Index.

Right away the system would revert to one mandated observation per year for tenured teachers who have reached salary step 8B and Danielson observations would get thrown into the trash bin of failed educational ideas where they belong.

... the time that a local educational agency or school extends its normal school day, week, or year to provide additional instruction or educational programs for all students beyond the state - mandated requirements for the minimum number of hours in a school day, days in a school week, or days or weeks in a school year.

«I've heard from many parents around the state who are worried not only about the quality of these federal educational programs but that they are mandated across the state, limiting the ability for individual towns and cities to decide on their students» education,» Avard said.

Why do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»

The study's findings will help explicate the tensions that arise for countries with entrenched histories of racial conflict, as they navigate post - / neo-colonial relations, re-invent their educational missions in response to new mandates, and carve out their place in an increasingly competitive, globalized marketplace for higher education.