Sentences with phrase «free schools experiment»

Sweden, where the free schools experiment originated in the early 1990s, has slipped dramatically down the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings and there is clear evidence that free schools have increased educational and social segregation.

3 Richard Orange (10 September 2011), «Doubts grow over the success of Sweden's free schools experiment», The Observer [online], Available here.

«Michael Gove is so ideologically obsessed with his free schools experiment that he's willing to see children struggle to get suitable school places,» a senior government source said.

The free school experiment has failed in its most important purpose; ensuring every child has a school place.»

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The Executive Education program at MIT Sloan School of Management recently tried out a new, entirely free, and simple to implement employee benefit, sharing the encouraging results of their experiment on the HBR blog.

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«An ideological experiment out of control»: Tristram Hunt uses Islamic free school in opening attack on Michael Gove

Tristram Hunt has used the ongoing row over standards at the Al - Madinah Muslim free school to launch his first major attack against Michael Gove, with a letter saying a «dangerous ideological experiment has been allowed to run completely out of control».

Asking an argent question in the Commons this morning, Hunt said: «What today's Ofsted report exposes is that the government free school programme has become a free - for - all, an out of control ideological experiment which has closed a school.

Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of the teacher's union NASUWT, brands free schools a costly and unnecessary experiment which will produce misery for children.

«Free schools are a costly and unnecessary experiment in children's education that provides no guarantees to parents or to children and young people.

Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of the teacher's union NASUWT, brands free schools a costly and unnecessary experiment which will produce misery for children: «We are on the side of parents and public who are opposed to free schools.

Continuing my effort to study how cultural experiences affect students, I am conducting an experiment in which school groups can win free tickets to see live theater performances.

Just to summarize, Khan Academy offers short, engaging tutorials in math, science and other subjects and is experimenting with having kids use these during homework time, freeing up school time for problem solving and collaborative work — a concept commonly called «flipping.»

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

We put up with all of this because, as charter schools, we're granted the autonomy to provide educational services in a way that makes sense to us, and we are free to experiment with new models and create the innovative, exciting public schools to which folks in our communities want to send their kids.

The first independent report on free schools shows that, despite ministerial claims, the free school programme is proving an expensive experiment which has not delivered on any of the promises, says the National Education Union (NEU).

Charter schools sprung from the ideal that if educators were freed from bureaucratic, one - size - fits - all rules, they would experiment with new ideas in service of better, more well - rounded academic and life outcomes for students.

Given the difficulty and pushback that teachers and school leaders face in experimenting with practices that «free the sage from the stage» and empower students to take charge of their own learning, teachers need to be able to justify their practices.

Citing the case of the Al - Madinah free school in Derby, which was closed for a week earlier this month on the first day of an Ofsted inspection, Mr Hunt said Labour would not allow schools to become an «ideological experiment».

New Orleans's charter school experiment is built on the notion that the invisible hand of the free market, made manifest in «unprecedented» parental choice, will improve the quality of public schools through competition.

Research shows that, on average, the proportion of pupils in grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals is less than 3 per cent, and the Labour MP Lisa Nandy (pictured top) warned today that the government's proposals could see it «inflict an experiment» on millions of children based on «flimsy evidence» in favour of grammars.

He said the government's schools reforms were «a free market experiment brought in at break - neck speed with scant supporting evidence».

After she and Josef relocated to North Carolina, where they took on teaching roles at the recently established free school, Black Mountain College, following the Nazi closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers went on to experiment with many more unorthodox and vegetal materials such as hemp, corn, jute and grass, as well as industrial materials such as metal thread.

Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQFU) is a self - described free art school and «learning experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art and the world.

«I thought the sheriff from Florida said it perfectly when he said we have experimented with the gun - free zone, it's called a school,» Gingrich said on «Fox & Friends.»