Sentences with phrase «heated education debates»

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The case restarts amid heated debate over education spending and mandates in campaigns for governor and other state offices this year.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

After a heated debate, where in response to being presented the Nobel laureate letter, Senator Julie Quinn declared she was «tired of seeing little letters behind everyone's names,» [58] the Senate Education Committee voted 5 - 1 to defer action on SB 70, in effect killing it.

While issues of crime, education and economic development were discussed, debate over how the city handled tax breaks for Destiny USA sparked the most heated exchange between mayor Stephanie Miner and Common Councilor Pat Hogan.

Ironically, although it adopted a positive outlook, the IOM committee itself was formed in the midst of a heated debate about government regulation of responsible conduct of research (RCR) education.

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

With a new administration taking office, ESSA implementation underway, and the debate over school choice heating up, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of the most important developments in the education field.

Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York City, where the board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

Second, these heated debates have led school - choice proponents to pay too little heed to crucial questions of market design and implementation — especially the extent to which reforms have, or have not, created a real market dynamic in education.

If I can make one final, general point: Education debates are often intense, and unfortunately sometimes involve more heat than light.

«The Silenced Dialogue» and the book it spawned, Other People's Children, are staples on the syllabus of teacher - education programs and spark heated debate and wounded egos.

The dispute over Wolf's methods and the resulting data, which can grow quite heated, reflect the ideological divides — teacher unions versus school choice advocates — that shape many of today's education debates.

(Calif.) Middle and high schools will be prohibited from starting the regular school day before 8:30 a.m. under a bill at the center of a heated debate Wednesday during a Senate Education Committee hearing.

The first half of 2016 brought high stakes and high drama to Los Angeles» education scene, from dire budget predictions to heated charter debates to attempts at overhauling teacher tenure laws.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

With debate about the Common Core State Standards and related testing at a steady boil, the Christie administration and the state Board of Education yesterday turned the heat up as they responded to critics.

As Congress considers bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the most heated debate has been over how to hold schools accountable for student performance, and...

This legislation has sparked heated debate over issues such as the federal role in education, testing, and funding.

The Debate over Common Core Standards for K — 12 Education is Heating Up.»

The Forum developed in 1997 out of a sense of urgency that middle - grades school improvement had stalled, amid a flurry of descending test scores, increasing reports of school violence, and heated debates about the nature and purpose of middle - grades education.

They are sometimes useful measures, and even then, ought to be used and viewed with caveats that are usually missing from the often - heated debates over who's doing what to whom in education.

Instead, there would be heated debates between legislators, education officials and other policymakers about how best to proceed.

The Associated Press reported that Duncan's seven years in office were «marked by a willingness to plunge head - on into the heated debate about the government's role in education.»

Education outcomes in America continue to lag globally; the debate over Common Core State Standards remains heated; and educational choice options such as education savings accounts and charter schools continueEducation outcomes in America continue to lag globally; the debate over Common Core State Standards remains heated; and educational choice options such as education savings accounts and charter schools continueeducation savings accounts and charter schools continue to grow.