Sentences with phrase «kind of education secretary»

In an article for Education Next that was published early in his tenure as secretary, Richard Lee Colvin wrote about what kind of education secretary Arne Duncan was expected to be.

«He will be the kind of education secretary who will benefit a lot of kids.

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This morning, The Today Show's Savannah Guthrie asked DeVos about the remarks, saying, «I wonder, as the education secretary, who's in charge of what our kids learn, what do you think of that kind of language?»

But over the weekend, I noticed a flurry of tweets referring to some kind of threat made at CPAC by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos regarding the school lunch program.

In a recent conference call with reporters, Marshall S. Smith, the acting deputy secretary of education, countered that that was «nonsense... kind of fuzzy nonsense.»

These kinds of meetings have become a routine part of the job of Secretary of Education.

The White House, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and their allies have spent the last couple weeks drawing lines in the sand, blasting House Republicans, manufacturing new demands (like addressing pre-K in ESEA), and finding all kinds of creative ways to accuse Republicans of unconcern for low - income children.

The newly minted secretary of education is pushing for schools to take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to give every child the kind of broad background «that engages and intrigues kids, allowing them to discover interests in the arts and the sciences and world languages and so much else.»

That kind of expansive out - of - school learning should be an entitlement for all young people, says former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville.

Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that in the context of the «ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention», the government would be «well - advised to consult with teacher training institutions, and take a hard look at whether the tests are assessing skills of a kind which it is absolutely essential for teachers to attain».

While promising more free schools, the education secretary speech also emphasised the importance of valuing all kinds of schools in England.

He'll join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and educators and leaders from around the world for a first - of - its - kind event detailing best practices for the teaching profession.

Education Secretary Kirsty Williams: Reform is needed «not to teach to the test... but to develop a curriculum that enables our children to perform better in the kind of skills that Pisa tests»

The new law specifically provides that the U.S. Secretary of Education has no authority to require states to implement any kind of teacher evaluation system, and that all waivers have no legal effect on or after Aug. 1, 2016.

Former Milwaukee School District superintendent and Marquette University education professor Howard Fuller, Walker said at the New Hampshire Education Summit, is someone he admires and is the kind of person he would look for when naming a Secretary of Education if elected peducation professor Howard Fuller, Walker said at the New Hampshire Education Summit, is someone he admires and is the kind of person he would look for when naming a Secretary of Education if elected pEducation Summit, is someone he admires and is the kind of person he would look for when naming a Secretary of Education if elected pEducation if elected president.

And if Howard Gardner were Secretary of Education, he tells me he would use the platform «to call attention to positive as well as negative examples; to cheerlead for promising initiatives; and, whenever possible, to demonstrate by example the kind of education that I favor, and the kind of society that I hope we can achievEducation, he tells me he would use the platform «to call attention to positive as well as negative examples; to cheerlead for promising initiatives; and, whenever possible, to demonstrate by example the kind of education that I favor, and the kind of society that I hope we can achieveducation that I favor, and the kind of society that I hope we can achieve.»

The Republican insistence on transferring educational oversight from the federal government to the states fails to recognize, as stated by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, that «history shows that, without some kind of accountability, states and districts do not always meet the needs of the most vulnerable students.»

Education Secretary William J. Bennett claims that poor parents with educationally disadvantaged children will have the same kind of choice that I have.