Sentences with phrase «for education reform in»

«Everyone that applied for Race to the Top is charting a path for education reform in America,» said U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a prepared statement.

Earlier this year, the Center for Education Reform in Washington, D. C. announced that South Carolina had moved from seventeenth to twelfth in the nation regarding the best state public charter school laws.

«Student Movements for School Equity and Integration» is a year - long elective course designed for HS students to develop an understanding of the history of 20th and 21st century student leaders and movements for education reform in the United States.

The New Jersey Education Association, which represents more than 200,000 educators statewide, recently took a bold step toward setting the course for education reform in the Garden State with the release of a multi-faceted action plan, «Growing the Garden State For All Students.»

The lawsuit was praised by the Center for Education Reform in Washington, D.C., which called the plaintiffs «brave.»

As we built a political movement for education reform in Los Angeles, one of the most diverse cities in the world, our small, racially diverse staff had to confront our differences.

Excerpts of his post in Fordham's Flypaper appear below: Let me suggest three principles we should all try to adhere to — and what they could mean for education reform in the months ahead.

Paradoxically, in a city that found inspiration for education reform in academic failure, New Orleans» greatest intellectual exports — artists — are in abundance.

The battle for education reform in Louisiana has major implications both for the future of the nation's schools and for the future of American politics.

«It's been one of the most important seasons for education reform in American history,» Mr. Schnur said.

Governor Cuomo has appointed a commission to explore policy proposals for education reform in New York.

Longtime teacher, principal, and school district superintendent Arlene Ackerman advocates for education reform in an guest editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled «School change must come from the outside.»

CCSA's Annual Advocacy Day is shaping up to be the one of most important advocacy events for education reform in California.

Regardless of the outcome, the Massachusetts proposal could offer a way forward for education reform in other states.

That is in keeping with its stated mission, «to prepare low - income students with the scholarship, dedication, and honor necessary to succeed in college and lead exemplary lives, and be a catalyst for education reform in Chicago.»

Will this be Booker's formula for education reform in Newark?

In the end, deciding that school is the place where we teach poor children to read and do math — and that everyone else will be left alone to figure out the rest — seems an impoverished and ultimately self - defeating agenda for education reform in the 21st century.

With a new Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, looking for common ground, Mr. Garofalo predicted, «you've got what's going to be a very good session for education reform in Minnesota.»

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 7) about what the defeat of Adrian Fenty in last month's mayoral primary is likely to mean for education reform in Washington, D.C.

In April, Reville traveled to Ireland to open a classroom for children with autism, meet with dignitaries, and discuss best practices for education reform in both Ireland and the United States.

He will be an asset to Harvard, and we hope to draw on his experience and wisdom as we accelerate our efforts for education reform in Boston.»

If Rosenbaum's experience is foretelling, lawsuits like Reed may provide a more productive avenue for education reform in states where elected officials disappoint.

We are at a critical juncture for education reform in America: forty - six states have adopted a brand - new set of English Language Arts Common Core State Standards for college - and career - readiness, and most are on the verge of implementation.

In this installment of the Education Next book club, host Mike Petrilli talks with Michelle Rhee about becoming Michelle Rhee, what she's learned over these last tumultuous years, and what she thinks the future holds for education reform in America.

Governor Cuomo has appointed a commission to explore policy proposals for education reform in New York.

Not exact matches

The company cited the 2018 tax reform bill as motivation for the initiative and said that participants in their program can pursue «qualifying higher education or vocational training» that are outside the scope of their current responsibility.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the countFor example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the countfor school systems across the country.

In a research report recently completed for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, I document some startling findings: Canada, perhaps more than any other country, has played a pivotal role in the development of China's system of higher education since the beginning of China's period of Opening and ReforIn a research report recently completed for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, I document some startling findings: Canada, perhaps more than any other country, has played a pivotal role in the development of China's system of higher education since the beginning of China's period of Opening and Reforin the development of China's system of higher education since the beginning of China's period of Opening and Reform.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

And one of the great tasks of all true education, social reform, and religion combined, is so to present to men and make possible for men those aims in life which are worth serving, that men may choose them, love them, become patriots for them, organize their lives around them, and so harness all their fiery energies to the service of the light.

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.

Show Me Democracy tells the story of seven St. Louis college students who are battling injustice, raising awareness about police brutality and fighting for real reform in their community and within the local education system.

To be successful in addressing issues of justice, land reforms must be accompanied by the development of «infrastructures» such as credit for the poor, agricultural extension services, conservation education, and supportive industrial development.

The proposals of John B. Cobb, Jr., and Joseph C. Hough, Jr., for the reform of theological education may be found in Christian Identity and Theological Education (Chico, California: The Scholars Preseducation may be found in Christian Identity and Theological Education (Chico, California: The Scholars PresEducation (Chico, California: The Scholars Press, 1985).

Certainly those forces included the Crusades, the rise of nationalism, the broadening of opportunities for education, various political reform movements, the rise of democracy, the Reformation, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of humanism and the birth of a new interest in the natural sciences.

That Msgr. Shea and his colleagues in Bismarck have welcomed him to the University of Mary, giving him a platform from which to extend his work into the Latino worlds of U.S. Catholicism while continuing to be the go - to consultant for Catholic Studies programs across the country, testifies to that young school's bright future as one of the leaders of Catholic higher education reform.

She'll be joined in the department by Nick Gibb who returns to Government as Minister of State for Schools, «to ensure no let up in education reforms», according to a tweet from the Prime Minister as David Cameron announced his appointment.

The «Berlin» type of excellent theological education, which 1 comprises the two distinct enterprises of Wissenschaft and «professional» education for ministry, came to dominate Protestant theological education in North America by the middle of the twentieth century, in large part in the wake of a series of major studies of theological education that were widely read and sometimes led to significant reforms.

The difference between education understood only as training in technical skills within the ideology of the economic growth and education for promoting a technical society within the framework of a culture of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform», is indeed great.

This article is a scathing rebuttal of any assertion that reform is unneeded in higher education: there are numerous errors in punctuation (eg, «Latino's» for Latinos), capitalization, and especially syntax.

You've written in the New York Times Magazine about the education - reform movement — organizations like Teach for America and the KIPP network of charter schools.

Download one chapter at a time due to the very large file size Chapter One Waldorf Education and Education Reform Chapter Two The Waldorf Understanding of the Purpose of Education Chapter Three Research Objectives and Procedures Chapter Four How Waldorf Teachers Set Learning Goals Chapter Five Teaching and Making Assessments in a Waldorf Classroom Chapter Six Formal Assessments in Waldorf Education Chapter Seven Learning - centered Assessments: Waldorf Methods in Concept Chapter Eight The Preparation, Profession, and Practice of a Waldorf Class Teacher Chapter Nine Teacher Evaluation in Waldorf Elementary Schools Chapter Ten Waldorf Education and the Future of Assessment for Learning

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

BARRINGTON Karen Rogers, professor of gifted studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and author of «Reforming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child,» will talk about four things parents must ask of schools for their gifted children at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hough Street School, 310 S. Hough St.. The program is sponsored by the Barrington Council for the Gifted and Talented, and there is a $ 5 fee for non-members at...

A reader hoping for an in - depth analysis of inequalities in the American educational system and promising approaches towards school reform would likely be better off picking up a copy of Linda Darling - Hammond's book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future.

Our plan is to have our website serve as a primary reference for external inquiries so that other individuals and organizations can replicate the work of the Fund, or tailor our successes in early childhood education, school food reform, and disaster readiness to fit their own communities and organizations.

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

De Blasio, before a panel of state lawmakers, called in his testimony for a permanent extension, saying it was the most efficient vehicle for education reform.

In order for Spain to achieve such objectives it will need to first of all reform its secondary and tertiary education systems, which are struggling to produce the talent needed to feed an increasingly globalised export - driven private sector.