Sentences with phrase «intractable education problems»

Education Week covered a post-election ESSA conference hosted by the Hunt Institute, noting that the event focused on «states» intractable education problems.»

My views on how to solve some of these seemingly intractable education problems have been informed by two experiences: my four years as chair of the New York City Council's education committee and, more recently, my role as founder and executive director of a new charter school.

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The seemingly intractable and intertwined problems of drug abuse, violence, poor education, broken families, and health disparities have endured for decades without budging despite plenty of efforts to help.

The really intractable problems for choice in education lurk, rather, in those poorly understood and profoundly important sources of law, the state constitutions.

Students are not exempted from the challenges faced by adults, and in their education, they learn about intractable problems such as economic inequality or global climate change.

When people tell you education is an intractable problem, you have the option of choosing faith in your work; you have the option of choosing to move forward.

Students presented business plans that they had developed, offering new ideas aimed at tackling some of the most intractable problems in education around the world.

Can they help solve the most intractable — and costly — problems, or would they be put to better use supporting more routine challenges or, as Michael Petrilli recently argued in this column, helping advance basic education research («Big Data Transforms Education Research,» what next, Winteducation research («Big Data Transforms Education Research,» what next, WintEducation Research,» what next, Winter 2018)?

One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves and the have - nots.

Heretofore, making education schools» curriculums pertinent to the real problems of improving teaching and learning has been its own intractable problem.

As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying «drop - out factories» and «academic sinkholes,» methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.

«Sometimes people think education is an intractable problem,» McCartney said, citing the scale of the issues, the flood of unanalyzed data about students» performance, and the apparently inadequate American level of learning revealed on tests administered around the world — not to mention the daunting gaps in performance between and within U.S. districts.

HBCUs are making a significant difference in solving one of the most intractable problems in K - 12 education: how to recruit, retain, and develop teachers for high - need schools.

As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying «dropout factories» and «academic sinkholes,» methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.

«It is immensely gratifying to release a report which demonstrates that high numbers of charter schools are generating results that provide hope that public education's most intractable problems can be addressed, in spite of all the challenges charters face.

In addition, an unprecedented range of policymakers and philanthropic organizations are also setting their sights on community colleges to wrestle with some of education's most intractable problems — low achievement for poor and minority students, and embarrassing college completion rates.

Michelle Molitor is the founder and CEO of The Equity Lab, formerly Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education (FREE), an organization with the mission to support individuals and institutions as they take on our most intractable race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) problems, accelerating our transition toward a more liberatory, community - centered society that values the gifts and potential of all of its members.