Sentences with phrase «for curricular reform»

Beyond hiring innovative law school graduates for fellowships, expect the ABA to continue to press for curricular reform.

Indeed, the pace of globalization among American law schools has become a flashpoint for institutional competition, with numerous institutions jockeying to lay claim to leadership in this arena.5 Not surprisingly, the case for globalization has spawned a variety of explicit proposals for curricular reform.6 These include proposals for both significantly expanding transnationally focused upper - level electives7 and incorporating transnational legal issues into the traditional domestic curriculum, 8 including first - year programs.9

Eberle has written numerous publications on professional development, life planning, and policy change, including co-authoring a white paper summary of the 2015 Future of Biomedical Graduate and Postdoctoral Training (FOBGAPT) symposium, which presented recommended steps for curricular reform and better practices to support postdocs and graduate students.

Not exact matches

While identifying guiding themes for the discussions — National strategy development and implementation; Curricular reform and education at the national and local levels; Competence development of educators; Quality support and monitoring; Campaigning and outreach — the Congress objectives are twofold:

For example, the content knowledge and problem - solving skills measured by the PARCC and MCAS tests are not identical, and the tests might differ in the extent to which they align with specific high - school curricular reform goals or teaching standards.

Alongside transparency - oriented testing based on rigorous standards for the curricular core, here are four drivers of tomorrow's reforms that are already nudging in promising directions and have the potential to push much harder:

OECD's BIAC has also documented employers» wishes for deep curricular reforms to modernize content and embed competencies in order to meet today's market needs.

As a new academic year ramps up, so do goals for student achievement, curricular reforms, teacher development, and more.

In addition, these factors, which are unique to each state yet difficult to account for, may influence a state's decision to adopt reforms like minimum - competency tests and higher curricular standards.

«Second, a structural reform would have to be linked with a curricular reform, otherwise those teachers who resisted the reform may continue to teach their pupils in the same ways as they had for many years.

Since the contributors to this collection are so uniformly hostile to current reform initiatives, from testing and accountability to charters and vouchers and more traditional curricular emphases, it is fair to ask, what education model are they for?

Since the 1960's there have been many attempts to reform education; curricular changes, new approaches toward teaching reading and math, teacher preparation, programs for the disadvantaged, different instructional approaches, new technologies introduced, and so on.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

Another extremely productive use of social science in legal educational reform is emerging from programs designed to help law schools assess their own progress.27 Indiana, for example, tracks both its innovative first - year curricular innovations and its novel forms of law student assessment.

Minow chaired the law school's curricular reform efforts of recent years and was recognized with the School's Sacks - Freund Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005.

Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching pedagogy, exam writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal faculty, curricular reform, law school rankings, and the very identity and purpose of a law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role of the LRW course.

This information is valuable for policy makers who need to identify education policy priorities, schools that need to reform curricular and extracurricular practices, and parents who need to adjust their home learning environments and parenting practices.»