Sentences with phrase «issues of education»

Reimers will act as one of 30 representatives to the commission, which supports worldwide humanitarian development and values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice from the federal, state, and local governments and from nongovernmental organizations on issues of education, science, communications, and culture.

• The conference will examine the role of education technology alongside the main issues of education including leadership, teaching and learning, and innovation

«I think that on issues of education, I've gotten in trouble with the teachers union on this — that we should be experimenting with charter schools.

Over the next two issues of Education Business, Mark Rosser, membership manager at the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), will examine research on the current levels of resources and budgets in schools.

While the Lib Dems sought «clarification» from the Tories on issues of education funding, fairer taxes and voting reform yesterday Gordon Brown was readying a statement to announce his resignation.

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan spoke to the Press in Switzerland on Wednesday but harped on the twin issues of education and security.

Councilmember Rodriguez touched on the issues of education, affordable housing, economic development and quality of life, and his address was preceded by a series of performances that represented the diversity of his constituency in music and song.

Larry Levy, who leads the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, said Long Island voters typically focus on issues of education and taxes.

Crist must first defeat former State Senator Nan Rich in an Aug. 26 primary before he can take on the governor, but he is already setting his sights on Scott, particularly on the issue of education.

School Sucks is one of the longest running liberty - minded podcasts on the web, and the only one completely devoted to the issue of education (versus public school and college).

So today I'm thrilled to share a conversation with Nicole Baker Fulgham about Christians and the important issue of education inequity.

Silver and Sampson informed reporters that the meeting was held to discuss the remainder of the budget itself — not the next round of extenders, which Paterson told DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett over the weekend might not include the hot - button issue of education cuts.

If you relate this with the issue of education, you will discover that these two states have the worst cases in terms of children's school drop - out rate with more than 50 percent drop - out rate.

Chief Obasanjo further stated that having a specialised University of Education showed «how serious we are in this country, on the issue of education, especially when the University Education is located in Ogun State, which has the highest number of Universities in Nigeria.

While they worked to resolve the impasse over the yeshiva issue, Cuomo and legislative leaders appeared to reach agreements on most other issues, including the crucial issue of education spending.

On the other side of questions such as abortion and same - sex marriage, the governor lists numerous meetings with officials in the Catholic Church, with whom he has allied on the issue of an education tax credit.

Loeb has become a bete noir for liberal groups and the teachers unions for his pet concerns, especially the broadly encompassing issue of education reform.

We have to talk about the issue of education.

Those findings appear in the June issue of Education Sciences.

For more on this topic, see «State Standards Rising in Reading but Not in Math,» by Paul Peterson and Carlos Xabel Lastra - Anadon, from the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

Meanwhile, the same, July 27, 2005, issue of Education Week («Hickok Joins Lobbying Firm»), informs us that Mr. Hickok has joined Dutko Worldwide, a Washington lobbying firm.

In a long piece in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next, Stephen Eide took a close look at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to roll back the education reforms of his predecessor and pursue an education agenda of his own.

For more on this topic by Michael Horn, please read «The Transformational Potential of Flipped Classrooms,» which appears in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next.

A feature story in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, «The Softer Side of «No Excuses»: A View of KIPP Schools in Action,» takes readers inside KIPP schools to see what they are really like.

For more on this topic, please see «Dining Family Style,» by Joshua Gans, from the Winter 2010 issue of Education Next.

In this context, refugee and asylum - seeker communities can be socially and economically advanced if the issue of their education is given priority.

A news story in the Jan. 4, 2006, issue of Education Week about recommendations for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school system («Major Change Eyed for Charlotte, N.C., Schools») should have said that the study containing the proposals was conducted jointly by the American Institutes for Research and the consulting firm Cross & Joftus LLC.

In the current issue of Education Next, Cory Koedel, Shawn Ni and I look at what school administrators get when they participate in teacher pension plans.

Clint Bolick writes about how Judge Gorsuch might approach education issues in a feature article for the summer issue of Education Next.

The randomized experiment on the impact of field trips that Mathews describes in his column appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next.

Charles Sahm investigates What Explains Success at Success Academy in the Summer 2015 issue of Education Next.

The study appears in the Winter 2010 issue of Education Next.

We decided to reanalyze the data used by the CRP authors (the 2007 — 08 U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) and we just published our results in «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

Michael Horn wrote about «The Rise of AltSchool and Other Micro-schools» in the Summer 2015 issue of Education Next and has an article about the way AltSchool is using technology in a forthcoming issue of Education Next.

A photo caption accompanying a story in the print version of the Sept. 21, 2005, issue of Education Week («Reading From the Right,») about Neal Frey, a textbook reviewer in Longview, Texas, included incorrect information.

He ran for governor on that issue, on the issue of education, and then he ran for president on the same issue.»

In the Fall 2013 issue of Education Next, Koedel, Ni, and Podgursky took a deep dive into the design of public school system pension systems, showing that school administrators can accrue considerable pension wealth in a defined - benefit (DB) pension plan.

An article by June Kronholz in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next looked at how Teach for America was growing and changing as it entered its 25th year.

That study, «The Educational Value of Field Trips,» by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen, appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Education Next.

June Kronholz's article, «Teacher Home Visits,» in the Summer 2016 issue of Education Next, explores the development of home visit programs, describes how the visits work, and talks with teachers and administrators about their views of the program.

The Summer 2014 issue of Education Next includes two articles with different takes on Common Core implementation: «Navigating the Common Core: Complexities threaten implementation,» by Mike McShane and «The Common Core Takes Hold: Implementation moves steadily forward,» by Bob Rothman.

The articles, all of which will appear in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next, are now available online:

by Eric Hanushek, published July 17, 2015 on the EdNext blog, which was a response to «Boosting Educational Attainment and Adult Earnings,» by C. Kirabo Jackson, Rucker C. Johnson and Claudia Persico, published in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next.

Revisiting this topic in 2015, the many contributors to this issue of Education Next, writing from a broad range of perspectives, reveal that single parenthood is no longer limited to one racial group but constitutes a problem, with serious consequences for children, that still needs to be addressed.

For more about the articles on the Moynihan Report that will be appearing in the Spring 2015 issue of Education Next, visit educationnext.org/revisiting-moynihan-report-50th-anniversary/.

Therefore, in the last issue of Education Business, we invited Mark Rosser, of the British Educational Suppliers Association, to examine research into the current levels of resources and budgets in schools, focusing on technology.

The Spring 2015 issue of Education Next is dedicated to revisiting on its 50th anniversary Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 report «The Negro Family: The Case for National Action» (generally referred to as the Moynihan Report).

In «High Schoolers in College,» to be published in the Summer 2011 issue of Education Next, author June Kronholz points out that «dual enrollment promises to speed youngsters through college and into the workforce, cutting college costs for parents and taxpayers alike.»

The Butcher and Medley article, «Cheating the Charters: Political and Financial Lessons from South Carolina,» is available at www.educationnext.org and will appear in the Spring, 2012, issue of Education Next.

This, the first issue of Education Next «s fourth year, also features Ron Haskins «s penetrating examination of Head Start's history, explaining why a program with such great promise has had so little success.