Sentences with phrase «great education debates»

Yet it is here that, for the first time in the history of the West, one of the great education debates of the subsequent 24 centuries is laid out in print.

You have kind of tiptoed into the great education debate between the constructivists and the direct instruction / behaviorists.

Not exact matches

In addition to our debates about general education, The Great Civilized Conversation has something important to say about the Chinese tradition and the modern world.

Above all, Tough makes a compelling case for giving poverty greater prominence in the education policy debate.

It goes without saying that the health and safety of infants is of great importance, but effective education and debate does not need to involve specific names; it only invites personal attacks on suffering people.)

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and two other organisations have apologised to the people of the Weija - Gbawe Constituency in the Greater Accra Region for the cancellation of the scheduled parliamentary debate last Saturday.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democratic NYC mayoral contenders Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Sal Albanese (but not Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who dropped out of this event) participate in the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools education debate.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

«It shows us that there continues to be great interest in the history of science and science education, and that they are repeatedly able to make a contribution to current debate,» adds Levit, who has had three publications in the British journal.

Hearing her side of the story, told a great deal through conversations with her multiple - job - working - yet - still - struggling mother, put a human face on broader debates on education, social policy, and culture.

In this century - old debate, the great error of traditionalist educators was their failure to defend cultural values in education, that is, the importance of knowledge.

A Festival like Oppi 2015 would have been a magnet for me, i.e. a chance to experience the world's greatest thinkers debate why gender matters, why the arts are so critical in education today, why kids must have global skills to survive in today's world.

For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools.

I sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons as Catherine McKinnell, the MP from Newcastle, opened the debate by congratulating the Shaw Foundation for the great response to their petition on making mental health education compulsory in all schools.

Daisy said: «OUP have a great reputation for publishing thoughtful, useful and practical contributions to important education debates, and I am delighted that my next book, on assessment, will be published with them.»

Today, debates about the purpose and provision of education — on the left and the right alike — are reduced to platitude - laden charges that it is up to schools to do what the social reformers of the 1960s could not accomplish through entitlements, social - welfare programs, or other Great Society initiatives.

Had a great meeting with Sen. Patty Murray's education aide, a not - so - great debate with Mark Kirk's person.

What a great tribute to Governor Malloy who said during last spring's «Education Reform» debate that he didn't mind schools «teaching to the test as long as the test scores go up.»

Whatever happens nationally, we are determined to continue to act locally: to support our educators, embrace our families, engage in respectful debate, and work together to ensure that every child in Oakland has access to a great public education.

In this The 74 article, three great minds leading the national education debate joined forces to state the case for vouchers for Black children.

The identification of gifted children has long been a topic of great debate in the field of gifted education.

One of the great achievement - gap debates is whether white students are being favored over black students inside the school walls, or whether education administrators are steering better teachers and more resources to white schools.

The need for greater accountability and transparency has been fueled by recent debates over the value of a college education.

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Maria Miller, chair of the women and equalities committee, who argued earlier in the debate that the bill «must make sex and relationships education compulsory» if it is to achieve its aim of promoting welfare for children, tweeted that Timpson's response was «great news».

Education secretary Justine Greening was in parliament this afternoon announcing the proposals and said «every child deserves a place in a great school» and that selection «should be part of the debate».

«Assemblyman Singleton understands the need for greater student achievement in public education and his legislation initiates the debate on many key issues such as independent authorizing authority and greater accountability for New Jersey's public charter schools,» read the statement.

Achievement First Inc. one of the nation's larger charter school management companies with 20 schools in New York and Connecticut, is rapidly expanding in Connecticut, despite the fact that the 2012 education reform debate is supposed to include a discussion about whether the state should make greater use of the charter school model.

Fact # 6: This is not about whether Commissioner Pryor, a well - regarded leader and change agent, should be involved in the great education reform debate of 2012.

Calling themselves the «Connecticut Council for Education Reform «top executives from New Alliance Bank, The Hartford Insurance Company, UBS Private Wealth Office, Yale New Haven Hospital System, Webster Bank, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Nestle Waters North America, First Niagara Financial Group, Yale University, the Travelers Companies, Inc., The Connecticut Business & Industry Association, United Illuminating Holdings Corporation and GE Asset Management are pushing to take center stage in this year's education reforEducation Reform «top executives from New Alliance Bank, The Hartford Insurance Company, UBS Private Wealth Office, Yale New Haven Hospital System, Webster Bank, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Nestle Waters North America, First Niagara Financial Group, Yale University, the Travelers Companies, Inc., The Connecticut Business & Industry Association, United Illuminating Holdings Corporation and GE Asset Management are pushing to take center stage in this year's education reforeducation reform debate.

Oh and last but not least, at the very moment Achievement First and ConnCAN are working to infuse their agenda into Connecticut's education reform proposals, one of Achievement First's greatest champions suddenly shows up to not only sit at the head of the table but to oversee the entire education reform debate.

The fact is, Connecticut's great newspaper does a tremendous disservice to its readers, our state and the quality of the «Education Reform» debate when it says something as naïve as the «Governor should insist on tying evaluations to consequences.»

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Instead of debating whether education impacts the community or vice versa, Gestalt believes the most effective method to support student achievement is an integration of education and community, a true gestalt: a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Education has been at the center of political debate for Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Times obtained a confidential draft of the Great Public Schools Now Initiative.

Richard Whitmire is a longtime education reporter and editorial writer who has chronicled a critical shift in the national education debate: While it was once presumed that girls were falling behind in school, now it appears that boys are at greater risk.

Public legal education and information (PLEI) has a long history in Canada, but recently has received greater emphasis as a key component in the reinvigorated debate over access to justice.