Sentences with phrase «fundamental challenges in education»

«Over the past six months, we've traveled the globe to find the world's most promising startups working to develop innovative solutions to fundamental challenges in education, energy & sustainability, health, and cities & transportation,» says Donna Harris, co-founder of 1776.

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Phil Roscoe, head of education and welfare, is fundamental in identifying and implementing programmes that help ensure the kids at Kirkby are continuously learning and challenging themselves beyond the game.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

This provocative new book by E.D. Hirsch (dedicated to the late Al Shanker) poses fundamental challenges to both of the dominant reform movements in American education — challenges that their leaders would do well to ponder.

In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

And, meeting our education challenges by providing more money appears from history to be easier than pursuing more fundamental changes in schools.

One of the key challenges in education is how to incorporate modern technology into the classroom, without loss to the aesthetics or the fundamentals of good order.

«To take a global view on the challenge, you are stripped down to what might blind you and it gives you a new set of eyes,» she says, noting that the experience reinforced her belief that leadership at all levels of a system are fundamental in education.

This is part of a bigger cultural challenge, in which SEND is still seen as separate to, rather than a fundamental part of, the education system.

Citing two earlier cases that forced changes in state laws regarding students» rights to quality education through money spent and time of instruction provided, as well as evidence in Vergara, he said the plaintiffs «have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental to quality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

In their dissents, Liu and Cuéllar wrote that the appeals court set too high a threshold in concluding that an identifiable group of student, with common characteristics, had to be harmed — the basis for bringing a challenge involving a fundamental right to an education under the state ConstitutioIn their dissents, Liu and Cuéllar wrote that the appeals court set too high a threshold in concluding that an identifiable group of student, with common characteristics, had to be harmed — the basis for bringing a challenge involving a fundamental right to an education under the state Constitutioin concluding that an identifiable group of student, with common characteristics, had to be harmed — the basis for bringing a challenge involving a fundamental right to an education under the state Constitution.

But state education agencies have been steadily drained of staff for years and do not have the capacity or the authority to redesign the education systems of their states to meet the challenges posed by the fundamental changes that have taken place in the global economy over the past two decades.

In general education classes, teachers spend more time on the fundamentals, though we observed plenty of challenging work and engaging projects in those classes toIn general education classes, teachers spend more time on the fundamentals, though we observed plenty of challenging work and engaging projects in those classes toin those classes too.

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