Sentences with phrase «for equity in our education»

By contrast, dyads offer us a form of Constructivist Listening, adapted by the National Equity Project from the National Coalition for Equity in Education, which rests on a few assumptions:

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

I also invited Mel Ainscow, Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Equity in Education at the University of Manchester, to share his perspectives.

If we hope for equity in education, we may have to abandon our efforts toward standardization and recognize the individuality of our students.

As teachers, we have a responsibility to fight for equity in education; we are the professionals on the ground and are most able to see the disparities and push for change.

Education Post partners with and supports a number of committed advocates for equity in education across the country.

In other news, acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King delivered his first big speech in his new role and used the opportunity to emphasize the need for equity in education.

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We must not abandon our nation's historic quest for equity in our education system and move toward a system in which funding is allocated on the basis of winners and losers.

The implementation of ESSA is a unique opportunity for advocates to push for equity in education.

She exhorts teachers to become activists for equity in education — and make their students allies in the struggle.

Not exact matches

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In individual terms, those that are looking for double - digit returns of stocks to pay for education and retirement are bound to be disappointed, and that's why the cult of equity is dead.

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Other Uses of Funds In view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioIn view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioin the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioin terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary education.

If you're interested in becoming a better advocate for kids caught up in education inequity and are looking for some place to start, consider getting involved in Educational Equity Sunday.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

Chaudhry notes that no action is taken on gender equity in sports unless someone speaks up; the Department of Education is not out actively looking for violations.

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.

He returned the favor to Easton, praising him for having the «leadership and the courage... to stand up for fairness and equity in education funding, standing up for fairness and equity in our tax structure because I'm fairly certain that it was not students who made those terrible gambles that caused this economic hardship.»

Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.

Look at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, and the court settlement there and the fact that to this day we still are owed billions and billions of dollars in education funding.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

Also at 11 a.m, Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa will participate in the Advocates and Organization Leaders» Panel at the Schott Foundation for Public Education 25TH Anniversary Forum: Accelerating Advocacy for Equity and Opportunity, Baruch College, William and Anita Newman Conference Center, 7th Floor, 151 East 25th St., Manhattan.

The Report highlights the significant shift since 2010 in DFID's international development strategy to increasingly promote private sector involvement in the design and delivery of education services, despite the fact that DFID's own research evidence questions the impact of such interventions in relation to education quality and equity for learners.

«The court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was founded on the principle that all schools need adequate funding levels in order to provide every student a «sound basic education.»

The Alliance for Quality Education and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity met with sympathetic members of the Assembly Democratic conference, who heard the results of the advocates» statewide tour through 14 hard - pressed districts, including several in the Capital Region.

He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.

First, advocates who seek additional aid for education frequently invoke the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the Legislature's adoption of «Foundation Aid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewide.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

The governor this week sought to turn the education equity argument back on de Blasio, suggesting that any bill that doesn't approve pre-K for all kids in the state won't pass.

Citing the UFT's battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, keynote speaker Lorretta Johnson, a paraprofessional and the secretary - treasurer of the AFT, urged the event participants to redouble their efforts to fight for fairness and equity in public education.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

While the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was supposed to give the city its fair share of education aid, Walcott said city revenue would cover 61 percent of non-federal education spending in next year's budget.

Ultimately, however, his plan falls short by allocating less than $ 1 billion in new education money this year at a time when public schools are still owed more than $ 4.4 billion in Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) funding.

He also noted education spending was in many ways driven by the result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's 2006 court decision and the following year's legislation enhancing resources for public schools.

«The way to show he supports educational equity with more than fine words in a long speech is to fund Foundation Aid,» said Jasmine Gripper, legislative director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for school funding.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

Cynthia Herriott, Vice President of Public Policy, American Association of University Women of New York State, said, «The American Association of University Women of New York State, continues to play a critical leadership role in promoting equity and education for women and girls.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

The Urban Youth Collaborative called the bill «an unprecedented step to subsidize private education using the public's money,» noting in its release that according to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, «New York City schools are owed $ 2.3 billion» under court judgements against the city and state for not providing a minimum adequate education in the public schools.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a group that advocates for increased school funding, slammed the report for not addressing the question of student need or equity in New York.

At the time, the state faced a lawsuit filed in 1993 by the nonprofit group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that the state's education funding formula was unconstitutional.