Sentences with phrase «improve education in their public schools»

The report reveals an unusually high level of education progress and highlights the successes gained by the district after a two - year intensive effort to improve education in their public schools.

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requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the curriculum.

Character Education: KRS 156.095 requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the cuEducation: KRS 156.095 requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the cueducation throughout the curriculum.

There was a character education movement in traditional public schools for years, but, apparently, that kind of curriculum didn't seem to change the dynamic that it was intended to improve.

CDC and ASCD developed this expanded model — in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health — to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation's schools.

Mayor Byron Brown says he is open to mayoral control if that's what it takes to improve Buffalo's schools, but feels a conversation is needed with parents and others in the city — and statewide — about how to reform public education.

«For more than 30 years, Robert Jackson has been fighting for New York City's public school children and has championed many causes that have improved education in this city,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.

Improving our public schools in order to provide our children with a first - class education has been my top priority.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

Public Advocate Letitia James expressed disappointment in the lack of ambition from the Department of Education's plans for improving school diversity.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

«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.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

My purpose here is to provide a simple overview of the pivotal roles that teacher unions actually play in public education - and to suggest why, if Americans want to improve their schools, something needs to be done about the unions and their extraordinary power.

In a constructive response to competition, school faculty and administrators may implement reforms that use resources more efficiently, improve the overall quality of education within the traditional public schools, and increase responsiveness to student needs.

State of the Union: The Spotlight on Education In his 1999 State of the Union, President Clinton proposed a five - point plan to improve America's public schools.

14 - 16 — School improvement: Improving America's Schools regional conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, open to the public, at the Sheraton Washington Hotel in Washington.

India's public education system needs an overhaul and eLearning is the only medium I can see improving the current status of education provided by government schools in India.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public eduschools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public eduSchools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools by attracting private investment» in public eduSchools by attracting private investment» in public educpublic education?

Survey Question # 5: In order to improve public education in America, some people think the focus should be on reforming the existing public school systeIn order to improve public education in America, some people think the focus should be on reforming the existing public school systein America, some people think the focus should be on reforming the existing public school system.

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

About Askwith Forums: The Askwith Forum, established in 1998 by an anonymous donor and named in honor of New York City public - relations consultant, writer and publishing executive Herbert Askwith, is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide an opportunity for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share their work, talk with one another, and advance proven practices that will improve learning opportunities for all.

Murray warns against false hope: «Some say that the public schools are so awful that there is huge room for improvement in academic performance just by improving education.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public SchoolsSchools.

«I appreciated [Mitchell's] interest in lessons that could be learned from other countries and jurisdictions, and his generosity in always finding time to speak to various education delegations from other countries that visited Massachusetts to learn about the State's efforts to improve our public schools,» said Professor Fernando Reimers in a remembrance piece.

Interviewed in October on the Today Show, President Obama seemed to be channeling a generation of conservative education analysts in stating bluntly that more money absent reform won't do much to improve public schools.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and dEducation, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivereIn the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deliverein the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation is regulated, managed, and delivered.

This summer, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT)-- an education coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional Eeducation coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional EducationEducation.

Australia's education leaders have supported the Federal Government's $ 70 million Independent Public Schools Initiative as a step in the right direction, but have warned that the focus must remain on improving student outcomes.

He has built a number of educational organizations focused on advancing global education and in improving the quality of education in public schools in Colombia.

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

According to surveys conducted by the Attleboro Public Schools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teSchools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teschools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teachers.

Why It's Time for Mayors to Take the Lead to Improve Public Schools (Washington Post) In an op - ed, Paul Reville underlines the importance of mayors» leadership in education reforIn an op - ed, Paul Reville underlines the importance of mayors» leadership in education reforin education reform.

The need for contraction in public education is bound to continue, write James W. Guthrie and Elizabeth A. Ettema in «Public Schools and Money: Strategies for improving productivity in times of austerity.&public education is bound to continue, write James W. Guthrie and Elizabeth A. Ettema in «Public Schools and Money: Strategies for improving productivity in times of austerity.&Public Schools and Money: Strategies for improving productivity in times of austerity.»

A joint initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) evolved out of the desire to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to help improve student perforSchool of Education and the Harvard Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) evolved out of the desire to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to help improve student perforSchool, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) evolved out of the desire to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to help improve student perforPublic Education Leadership Project (PELP) evolved out of the desire to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to help improve student perforpublic school leaders in order to help improve student perforschool leaders in order to help improve student performance.

Improving Schools for Every Student Huffington Post, 10/28/15» [Professor] Paul Reville, who served as secretary of education in Massachusetts, is quick to defend the standards movement as crucial to establishing higher expectations for all students and maintaining public confidence in sSchools for Every Student Huffington Post, 10/28/15» [Professor] Paul Reville, who served as secretary of education in Massachusetts, is quick to defend the standards movement as crucial to establishing higher expectations for all students and maintaining public confidence in schoolsschools.

In a new article for Education Next, «Mayoral Control in the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in ChicagIn a new article for Education Next, «Mayoral Control in the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in Chicagin the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in Chicagin Chicago.

Looming fiscal trouble in a number of states could inhibit current and future efforts to improve their public schools, a report from the National Education Association concludes.

By using a range of strategies, we raise the level of thinking in schools working in partnership to raise the standard of teaching and of learning, improving outcomes and increasing opportunities for all of those whose futures are so dependent upon the public education system.

In 2016, the Ministry of Education announced that it would be launching a professional licensing scheme for teachers in 2017, with the aim of establishing a set of basic credentials for teachers in public schools in order to improve standards in educatioIn 2016, the Ministry of Education announced that it would be launching a professional licensing scheme for teachers in 2017, with the aim of establishing a set of basic credentials for teachers in public schools in order to improve standards in eEducation announced that it would be launching a professional licensing scheme for teachers in 2017, with the aim of establishing a set of basic credentials for teachers in public schools in order to improve standards in educatioin 2017, with the aim of establishing a set of basic credentials for teachers in public schools in order to improve standards in educatioin public schools in order to improve standards in educatioin order to improve standards in educatioin educationeducation.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

In the Teacher Education Program (TEP), we believe in the power of teacher to take leadership of organizational and social change, transforming urban public schools, and improving liveIn the Teacher Education Program (TEP), we believe in the power of teacher to take leadership of organizational and social change, transforming urban public schools, and improving livein the power of teacher to take leadership of organizational and social change, transforming urban public schools, and improving lives.

Though adults give the nation's public schools only mediocre grades — a plurality confer a «C» — they are willing to invest more money in public education and they are reasonably confident that doing so will improve student learning.

The 1909 law, which is still in place, was intended to improve education by providing increased state involvement in public schools while still permitting considerable local control and accountability.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

After more than two decades of work in the school reform trenches, Mr. Wolk retired in 1997 and moved to Rhode Island, where he has continued to remain active in trying to improve public education.

In this, the second annual national survey of U.S. adults conducted under the auspices of Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University, we observe a public that takes an increasingly critical view both of public schools as they exist today and, perhaps ironically, of many prominent reforms designed to improve them.

LFA is a partnership of national education organizations representing more than 10 million members dedicated to improving student learning in America's public schools.

The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to theEducation's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to theeducation, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.