Sentences with phrase «in education circles»

While previously well known in education circles, she gained a much broader audience after she publicly rejected almost everything she had once believed.

There is a long - running debate in education circles about the benefits of teacher customization — having teachers modify the content and structure of existing lesson plans.

There's a lot of talk in education circles about the literacy gender gap.

But it's the second part of the book that is gaining attention in education circles.

Back in the 19th century, clergy held sway in education circles.

As everyone in education circles knows, reversing the course of a failing school is incredibly hard.

The use of research and data in decision making has become a popular mantra in education circles, but putting it into practice presents some real challenges.

Independent public schools are a highly charged issue in education circles — but do they get results?

In 2010, he was persuaded to turn his notes into a book, which became a surprise best - seller in education circles.

Surprising many in education circles, the country looks like it is moving ahead with common education standards.

Philosophy, developed by ChartHouse Learning, has many fans in education circles as well.

He is a well - known figure in education circles both locally and nationwide, earning a reputation as a tough union leader whose hard - nosed — and strategic — bargaining style has netted Buffalo teachers strong contracts.

While the idea of teaching critical thinking has been bandied around in education circles since at least the time of John Dewey, it has taken greater prominence in the education debates with the advent of the term «21st century skills» and discussions of deeper learning.

«Academic conversation» has become a popular buzzword in education circles.

philosophy developed by ChartHouse Learning is rapidly fans in education circles as well.

Ohio and Utah are known in education circles for having extraordinarily troubled charter school sectors, and the same is true in Pennsylvania, where Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a report this year and declared his state's charter school law the «worst» in the nation.

But Dr. Starr is a candidate to be New York City's next schools chancellor, and so his visit to a Crown Heights restaurant and the Brooklyn Museum — which he documented on Twitter — left people in education circles chattering.

researchers found a correlation that went against 40 years of prevailing wisdom in education circles.

Singapore has been a hot topic in education circles ever since it began to appear near the top of the pack of international assessments in math and science in the...

There is a difference between Projects as conventionally understood in education circles and Project - based Learning that fosters inquiry.

Resilience is a trait that seems increasingly popular in education circles.

After all, two voucher initiatives — one in California, the other in Michigan — were roundly defeated in the 2000 elections, and since then the buzz in education circles is that vouchers have dropped in popularity.

Unfortunately, this line of thinking has been all too common in education circles...

Flooding impoverished schools with a range of services and resources is not new, and there's still lively debate in education circles about whether it's something schools should take on.

Klein and Bloomberg have been a dynamic duo in education circles since the mayor's administration began in 2002.

Though it might be a buzz term in education circles, don't assume that AR is just another fad.

That previous paragraph has been written ad nauseum in education circles, and I'd like to expound on one point: you can't, through perfect planning, make a good STEM lesson.

After two years of trials and scrutiny from within and from teachers» unions across the U.S., the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers was just a vote away from adopting a pay structure rarely seen in education circles.

Compton's film is partly responsible, but what the leaders of BASIS say in the film runs squarely against some of the soundest convictions in education circles.

Knewton, an adaptive learning company, has long been discussed as one of the exciting entities in education circles, but few could put their hands around what exactly they were doing and what their impact has been — or will be.

Questions that I wonder about and that I think need to be discussed in education circles include the following:

A common perception in education circles is that there is no need to take any particular reform effort too seriously, if only because in short order it will be supplanted by something else.

It's not all serious, of course — even in education circles, Twitterers trade family tidbits, travel updates, and occasional gripes.

SEL is a hot topic in education circles today, and it should be, writes reviewer Rita Platt.

But first, let's look at some of the key policy decisions and how we got to a situation in which «overtesting» has become a household verb in education circles and beyond.

More established traditional schools and universities such as Yale, Stanford and Harvard may still receive universal praise for their standing in education circles, but a lot of online schools are quickly establishing themselves as key players in the education spectrum.

While President Bush met with congressional leaders this week about the upcoming reauthorization, there was some rumbling in education circles about an article written by Michael Petrilli, a former U.S. Department of Education official who helped promote NCLB.

Those numbers reflect what is colloquially referred in education circles as the tipping point, the moment in which white parents pull their children from a school because it's too black or enroll their children in a school because it has the right composition of black folk (typically middle class).

NCLB should be recognized for the way it shifted the dialogue in education circles.

As California and many regions across the country grapple with crippling education budget deficits, Wolk hopes this book will inspire discussion not only about instructional reform in education circles, but also about education funding with policymakers.

For years, most in education circles have been acutely aware of a «boy crisis» in education — though around the world, girls are less likely to enter school, boys are significantly more likely to be held back, suspended, fail or drop out than their female counterparts and are more likely to be labeled as special needs — a truth that has remained for decades.

[email protected] In education circles, they call it «out of school time» — programs to benefit children from...

INDIANAPOLIS — Reform: There is perhaps no idea more embraced in education circles nationally — and especially here.

He has been replaced, at least for the interim, by yet another Kramer, Eli, who was kind enough to inform me when I called him for this story that there is in fact yet another Kramer lurking out there, but not in education circles.

The clash over education had been building throughout the three - day convention, underscoring a larger debate taking place in education circles.

As the prominence of social and emotional learning (SEL) to support students» development in school and beyond continues to grow in education circles, challenges implementing SEL programming have also arisen.

One of the most enduring and contentious debates in education circles concerns the best way to hold schools and districts accountable for improving outcomes for students and closing achievement gaps.

The person Murdoch hired to lead his charge, Joel Klein, is familiar in education circles.