These issues affect students living in poverty far more than their peers.
In the second episode of Walking the Talk, we explore obstacles on the road to college, and other
issues affecting student equity, in a conversation with John Silvanus Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College and former executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a position to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.
Environmental Justice, which examines
issues affecting students» own neighborhoods and the politics involved, includes student - led outreach for public awareness.
The webinar discussed several research - based practices to help charter schools more effectively serve students with disabilities; 2) in March 2015, in conjunction with CSP's annual SEA, CMO, and non-SEA project directors» conference, the CSP held a Students with Disabilities Summit to provide technical assistance to grantees on
issues affecting students with disabilities in charter schools.
CTU President Karen Lewis and her leadership team, with whom the AFT worked closely throughout this process, have represented their members well and made clear that their concerns go beyond wages and benefits to include all
the issues affecting their students» education.
In this situation, it seems likely that there are fundamental social, resource, and perhaps leadership
issues affecting student engagement and performance in schools, such that significant improvement without changes in those fundamental conditions is unlikely, even through curricular and instructional improvements informed by detailed analyses of assessment data.
State: Washington Source: Teachers United Teachers United began with a group of three teachers from high - poverty schools who met every Tuesday at 7:00 pm to discuss
the issues affecting their students and how teachers could -LSB-...]
First, candidates were asked to respond to a questionnaire to assess their knowledge of the education landscape in Memphis and Shelby County and measure their support (or lack thereof) of
issues affecting our students and families.
Her recent experience includes helping to develop initiatives to improve secondary school literacy, navigating policy
issues affecting students in pre-k through college for higher education officials and ensuring that instructional practice in education is driven by high quality research.
Teachers United began with a group of three teachers from high - poverty schools who met every Tuesday at 7:00 pm to discuss
the issues affecting their students and how teachers could play more of a role in advocating for teacher quality.
How do environmental justice
issues affect our students, schools, and communities?
Rather than a being seen as
an issue affecting students» education, pensions are often viewed as a budgetary dilemma for state legislators.
The George Washington University Law School's Military Law Society (GW MLS) is dedicated to promoting knowledge and awareness of military law
issues affecting students, legal professionals, and members of America's armed forces.
(iii) a school community forum highlighting mental health
issues affecting students and local service providers
Not exact matches
The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and
student awareness of campus safety
issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those
affected by violence.»
The school encourages
students to pursue their individual passions, explore ideas and tackle serious
issues affecting society.
Whatever his fellow
students» political positions, they're all
affected by the
issue.
This post
affects 200
students... My question is how does the Vatican handle this
issue in the EU or other nations with single payer provisions and are non-secular by definition?
By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the
issues behind MFM,
students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will
affect them and future generations.
«The research is clear: hunger negatively impacts
students... it hinders their learning, increases behavioral
issues and
affects their physical, mental and emotional health,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.
Glick said the Cuomo plan also needs to be studied for its possible impact on capacity
issues within the SUNY system to accommodate an expected rise in attendance and, in turn, how such a trend might
affect ability of in - state
students to get into a SUNY or CUNY school.
Also, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University, LASU and member of Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Momoh was prominent for his doggedness in maintaining high level integrity and professionalism, and selfless defence of staff and
students» welfares, as well as strictly adherence to ethical standard on addressing
issues that
affected staff and
students.
We could even have drop in centres where
students can ask questions about
issues that
affect them.
While he says he believes in the election of board members, he says he would like to see different decision makers at the board table to deal strictly with education
issues and how that will
affect students in the classroom.
Identifying poverty and a race - wide
issue, not just
affecting inner - city or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo
student interms to assist those in the community.
As
student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Samantha Dempsey, an exhibiting artist, decided that she wanted to make art that could
affect and raise awareness of
issues in science, including extinction.
At the college level, teacher subject knowledge is not a problem, the
student population is far more homogeneous, and there are far fewer
issues that may
affect learning.
Being involved with postdoc
issues, and having to seek out career answers for herself, has
affected the way she mentors her own
students.
While a raft of past research focused on factors that enable the academic failure of young black men, the special
issue spotlights key academic and social factors — both positive and negative — that
affect black
students, through the eyes and in the words of the
students themselves.
Global About Blog We Are Chefs is American Culinary Federation's blog focusing on
issues affecting chefs,
student culinarians and food from an industry perspective.
Once you've identified your
issue, invite two to three parents or other community members who are personally
affected by this
issue to share their perspective with your
students.
Have
students practice divergent thinking by describing an
issue in the community and asking them to suggest all the people who could be
affected by it, or give
students a «big idea» question and ask them to think of all the possible answers to it.
Since the spring 2007 slayings at Virginia Tech, Lecturer and National Certified Counselor Josephine Kim has been working to raise awareness of mental health
issues that
affect Korean - American
student populations.
This study makes an analysis of the impact of a civic and intercultural education methodology requiring
students to analyze the situation of the Roma community at local revel and formulate a public policy proposal related to an
issue affecting members of Roma communities.
The formulas are complex and opaque: in the Every
Student Succeeds Act, Congress asked the Institute of Education Sciences to
issue a report explaining how the current formulas
affect different types of districts and school attendance areas.
«I hope that through these conversations, teachers will feel empowered to have a voice around policy
issues that
affect their
students» futures.»
Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses
issues that
affect access and educational attainment among all
students, particularly underserved
student groups, including adult learners.
The researchers will collect qualitative and quantitative data to address three
issues: 1) How
students» cumulative experiences within and across settings
affect their development over time 2) How
students» characteristics and skills interact dynamically with the settings in which they find themselves 3) How these interactions shape children's experiences and developmental trajectories.
It advises
students, for example, to think about the structure and format of the televised debates and to determine how that
affects the presentation of the
issues.
«A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining
affects students» employment and earnings later in life» will be available Tuesday, November 17 on educationnext.org and will appear in the Winter 2016
issue of Education Next, on newsstands by November 20.
This is an
issue that doesn't just
affect students in New Jersey.
In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial
issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would
affect 550,000
students, according to district officials.
Teachers» «Antennae» Help Them Better Understand At - Risk
Students Educator Kathie Marshall makes an extra effort to know the «whole
student,» including outside
issues that
affect student performance.
Schools need to prepare
students for a world in which people need to work with people of diverse cultural origins, and appreciate different ideas, perspectives and values; a world in which people need to develop trust to collaborate across such differences; and a world in which people's lives will be
affected by
issues that transcend national boundaries.
What will increasingly differentiate outcomes for schools, states, and nations is how well responsible adults carry out the more complex instructional tasks: motivating
students to go the extra mile, teaching them time management, addressing social and emotional
issues that
affect their learning, and diagnosing problems and making the right changes when learning stalls.
As you said, the 3rd - grade baseline predicts later success, and all sorts of
issues affect disadvantaged
students.
They provide simultaneous feedback on the many different kinds of
issues worth raising about a reform —
issues about the quality of implementation, the meaning various actors ascribe to the reform, the primary and secondary effects of the reform, its unanticipated side effects, and how different subgroups of teachers and
students are
affected.
The
issues affecting Indigenous
students are complex, deep and longstanding.
I believe that as educators, we must understand and help address the
issues that negatively
affect our
students well before they ever arrive at school.
Although we understand a good deal about
student - level characteristics that influence school success and failure, there is much still to be learned - and much knowledge still to be shared across disciplines and professions — about children who struggle with emotional and behavioral
issues that
affect education.