Sentences with phrase «into conversations about education»

Craig Kemp, an educator in Singapore, is on our Top 12 for making waves with #whatisschool hashtag on twitter, which has brought many new voices into conversations about education.

(This is an open letter to my fellow bloggers who are standing tall and brave and doing the hard work of speaking up against powerful and intimidating forces to fight to inject some sanity into the conversation about education.)

Not exact matches

It has since turned into a growing conversation about my own personal journey as well as an education portal for people.

Richard Rothstein's American Prospect investigation into the details of Joel Klein's childhood (no, I'm not kidding here) is really not worth reading, but it unfortunately exemplifies two of the most toxic aspects of the current education reform conversation (fwiw it also contains some interesting information about the history of post-war public housing in NYC):

The impending closure of the Manual Education Complex in Denver is sparking a conversation about what can be learned from the experience at a time when the nation has pinned high hopes on improving secondary schools by turning them into smaller, more personalized environments.

Creating an awareness about whether and how students can develop more ownership around their learning environment is an important step toward incorporating this conversation into the culture of the broader education system.

Learn various frameworks for thinking about financial sustainability, and how to move the conversation about high tuition into a conversation about the 21st century education.

Students around the world are asserting themselves into local, state, national and international dialogues about education transformation and other essential conversations about schools.

Conversations about public education — where you send your kid to school, where other parents send their kids, and who gets to decide — have exploded into acrimonious bickering, full of charges and counter-charges.

I think it is time of us to bring professional educators, such as those who understand why NCTE did not endorse the Common Core Standards, into the conversation in Connecticut about education so that all of our children have opportunities for real learning as they progress through Connecticut schools.

In conversations about Finland's stunning success over the past decade, many education leaders look at what makes the system work so well — the high bar for entry into the teaching profession, the absence of standardized tests, the embedded professional development and support systems, to name just a few — and ask «Why can't we do this in my country?»

«We hope that the lessons we've developed will help educators guide their students into meaningful thought and conversation about what happened during World War II, what similarities and differences they observe in the world today, and why it's important for everyone to be vigilant about protecting the democracy of the United States,» said Allyson Nakamoto, the museum's Director of Education.

My co-author, Kate Glover, and I used Rod Macdonald's conception of legal pedagogy to posit that undergraduate and graduate legal education should not be polarized and siphoned off into separate silos where, inevitably, much of the conversation about legal education excludes graduate study.