Sentences with phrase «great educational system»

It is a great educational system for driving or learning to drive!

We have a shortage, not a surplus, of great teachers — and so it's naïve or shortsighted (or both) to think we can somehow fire our way to a great educational system.

There you have it: the elders offering final counsel to the successor generation, the beneficiaries of the greatest educational system in the world, the bearers of civilization's legacy across new frontiers of human aspiration and achievement.

We've all been hearing about great educational systems of nations such as Finland and Japan.

Not exact matches

Not only are they examples of great content, but they're also educational about the system.

They have created Prelude, a suite of educational tools that develops soft skills — imagination, intuition, hunch, affect and creativity — the value of which is beginning to be properly recognized in the education system and greater society.

Much of what the authors argue for here makes great sense» for example, injecting «a healthy dose of competition» into our educational system through the use of educational vouchers.

I do have great concerns about the American educational system, especially when people use sites like that as their source of what is really the truth!

Accordingly, the educational system makes far greater provision than ever before for scientific and technical studies.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

As an educational consultant, I believe the TAG system is a great example of technology that genuinely engages kids in learning.

«In his speech today, Governor Cuomo outlined a clear progressive vision for protecting our most vulnerable citizens, continued economic development and job creation, a fairer criminal justice system, a more equitable educational system, greater infrastructure investment and a plan for addressing sexual harassment in New York State.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

These laws hold great potential to expand educational opportunity and remake the entire education system in ways that better and more efficiently meet the needs of children.

Online educators make great efforts to bring serious changes in the educational system.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

Admittedly, online learning is spreading more rapidly within the higher educational system than it is among high schools, and that could be due in part to weaker union power and greater competitiveness among colleges and universities.

«We are committed to establishing a worldwide educational system by simultaneously raising the standards of learning, affording greater autonomy at the local school level, and creating increased accountability for student success,» said Lillian Gonzalez, the director of the Department of Defense Education Activity,...

By following the 3 major keys to enrich blended learning, students and teachers will be able to effectively utilize this novel educational system to its greatest potential.

Greater access for women to education must be ensured in the educational system.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

The most important step in making an Education Nation a reality is not a greater investment of dollars, but a greater understanding of what this new educational system should look like.

A voucher system might foster a variety of options among schools, but an ESA fosters a greater variety of educational options beyond the traditional classroom.

The 21st century is placing great demands on our students and educational system.

In an effort to engender greater equity within California's educational system, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) today joined members of the California Legislative Black Caucus and members of California's African - American community to announce Assembly Bill (AB) 2635, which will secure additional educational funding for African - American students by fixing a fundamental flaw in the state's educational budget known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

The intent of California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is to give districts more flexibility with their state funding but at the same time to create a new school finance system that recognizes that students with specific demographic factors need greater support to address their academic needs and improve educational outcomes: English Learners, low income students and foster youth.

Our mission is to provide a caring environment of high expectations, individualized attention, and great teaching via a distance learning delivery system that is sufficiently adaptable to help K - 12 students in traditional and non-traditional educational settings achieve their maximum academic potential and life goals.

«Not only does the legislation implement a toothless teacher evaluation system, the bill could jeopardize school district efforts to put great teachers in every classroom,» said Tim Melton, vice president of legislative affairs for StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based national educational advocacy organization.

Our university partners» expertise will help us develop not just great teachers, but great leaders for the Welsh education system, who can help deliver our vision of ending educational inequality.

Sacramento, CA - In an effort to engender greater equity within California's educational system, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) today joined members of the California Legislative Black Caucus and members of California's African - American community to announce Assembly Bill (AB) 2635, which will secure additional educational funding for African - American students by fixing a fundamental flaw in the state's educational budget known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

That the traditional teacher compensation system, focused on rewarding teachers based on seniority and degree attainment, is ineffective in spurring student achievement fails to reward good - to - great teachers and keeps laggards in classrooms to continue educational malpractice.

A good oversight system for educational testing is as much about protecting and validating great work as it is about identifying cheating.

An equitable system would give her the tools and information to help her steer her son to greater educational opportunity.

In particular, this history demonstrates that while these data provided only mixed progress towards the stated goal of greater educational equity, they proved «useful» in other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equity.

«It's time we said, «Let's all contribute to making Utah's educational system great.

Joe the Plumber (the «common man») and the idea of Computational Thinking literacy for all People are gaining a great deal of Computational Thinking literacy through our informal «learn by doing» educational system

The foundation is investing in cities where conditions support system - wide educational improvement, where they can have the greatest impact, and includes Denver.

If children's welfare is the highest educational priority, then teachers, parents, and administrators should work together to design assessment systems that bring the greatest benefits to children.

Diane Ravitch, Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. W. Bush and the author of The Life and Death of the Great American School System and Reign of Error, pointed out that the Common Core has accomplished nothing that it promised and does not meet the educational needs of children.

But the new student attendance policy coupled with the fact that the virtual charter schools» contracts don't require students to be actively working online for a minimum amount of time would suggest that there is great potential for «gaming the system» by those who want to invest minimal effort in order to progress through the state's public educational system.

T4SJ educates and organizes teachers and community - based educators, and implements programs and projects aimed at developing empowering learning environments, creating more equitable access to resources and power, and realizing a just and caring culture within the educational system and greater society.

National Teacher of the Year award winners Michael Geisen, Kimberly Oliver, Jason Kamras, and Kathy Mellor reflect on what it takes to be a great teacher and the issues facing our educational system.

In 2010, Diane Ravitch, a renowned education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and school choice.

Like the project that brought together the nation's greatest minds for a common goal, the school system set the bar high for educational excellence from the beginning.

In her 2010 book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, former policy maker and educational critic Diane Ravitch traces the origin of the school choice model, as well as its growing influence in the United States.

I think that there is great merit in establishing accountability in schools, but only to the extent that the those systems imbue a sense of ownership and stake for those providing educational services.

«When it comes to meeting the needs of evolving markets, growing educational systems and new reader demands, international collaboration can yield great results — both for companies looking to offer their services and for up - and - coming markets wanting to fill gaps in their developing supply chains.

If a teacher in the public school system of New York City, you have a great opportunity to earn money back for your educational debt.