Sentences with phrase «fundamental changes in their school system»

First of all, although Finland can show the United States what equal opportunity looks like, Americans can not achieve equity without first implementing fundamental changes in their school system.

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As such, transforming districts and schools to competency - based systems is not a simply policy change: it's a fundamental reconfiguration of teams and structures inside schools, that allows for students to progress at their own pace and demonstrate mastery in a variety of ways.

Observers like Bracey, Kohn, and others, dead set against any fundamental changes in the nation's schools, usually work hard to dismiss the TIMSS results as evidence of any structural weakness in the U.S. education system.

Choice does not preclude working for fundamental change in public school systems, nor does it necessarily equate with an unlimited endorsement of «privatization,» as opponents frequently charge.

The changes in the school system needed to be fundamental — and calibrated specifically to the needs of the local population.

Solutions to this problem lie in fundamental changes to the nature of the school accountability system and to the culture of testing, not in placing more emphasis on the need for private tuition.

Ensuring that kind of coherence sometimes means changing fundamental systems and even flying in the face of school traditions.