Sentences with phrase «kind of education system»

Of course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each year).

Second, the rather long period of time in the international limelight has created certain complacency; there is a reluctance to anticipate future trends and inability to envision what kind of education system we need in the future.

Yet we're still keeping them in the kind of education system... that wants nothing from them in terms of their own ideas.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

Not exact matches

If you're the kind of person whose only financial education has come from the limited curriculum of our public education system, this book can really change the way you think about finances.

We don't need these kind of headlines just at a time when the American education system needs more people to pursue the field of science.

Whitehead's lecture on «Immortality» is seen as an example of the kind of cosmic view that comes from the generalization provided by a realistic system of education.

What kind of education, pension or health systems are going to be implemented?

Our education system needs real change... fundamental reform... the kind of reform that Governor Cuomo outlined last month in his State of the State presentation.

With more than 36,000 students, we are home to the world's largest co-operative education system of its kind.

Teenage comedies of this kind don't always have to go down the Porky's route of just being gross or sexist; in fact, the film's ideas about the education system could have been a starting point to challenge such conventions.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

What kind of adults do we want our education system to help create?

Only when those policies are upgraded purposefully to accommodate and encourage a different kind of classroom environment will digital learning become an integral part of the American education system.

«At a time when the recruitment of headteachers is exceptionally challenging with many posts attracting at best single figures this kind of sensationalist report does nothing to help us to achieve the ambitious vision headteachers are working so tirelessly to turn into a reality for our education system.»

So I remain skeptical of the prospects for «disruptive innovation» in our education system if its success will rely on heightening the role of other kinds of intelligence.

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

Sugata Mitra's «Whole in the Wall» experiment teaches us that children left alone with tech will learn on their own which kind of addresses the one big deficiency in the education system — lack of good teachers.

«If we're going to design an accountability system that's true to the broad purposes of education, we need to bring back that kind of national assessment,» he said.

Staff attrition and retention continues to be a problem for education systems around the world, so understanding the factors that influence a teacher's decision to leave the profession and, conversely, the kind of support that might make them stay is a hot topic for researchers.

The Education Redesign Lab is a new initiative you've launched at HGSE to jumpstart the R&D on this — to start researching and building new kinds of systems.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

We eventually hit upon what turned out to be The Big Question — the one that ultimately brought about «Pacts Americana,» the report we're releasing today: Does the education world have some kind of time - tested system — something could be brought to bear on ESEA reauthorization — for combining real accountability with real autonomy?

Both conservatives and liberals support strengthening the education and training system to ensure that young adults will have the kind of opportunities that will motivate them to avoid early parenthood and make marriage more likely.

Defenders of the public education system asserted that the use of vouchers would violate the Constitution, balkanize society, and lead to a kind of educational social Darwinism which would advance the interests of the elite at the expense of the poor.

These are facts I thought a task force charged with exploring the inequities of America's education system would be encouraged by, serving as an indication that the students the NAACP cares about most are being well - educated by the kind of schools the organization is so opposed to — they called for a moratorium on new charters last summer.I waited to speak for three hours before I had to leave.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

But amidst the search for a kinder and gentler education politics, research demonstrating the positive effect of these New York City strategies makes the moral case clear for an incoming President and for states and districts rethinking education policies: The American education system presents intolerably long odds to low - income children attending persistently struggling schools, and sometimes the most appropriate response to dramatic failure is dramatic intervention.

Given the need to improve the quality of instruction and the lack of clarity and shared knowledge about what systems and activities improve teaching, this is the right time to take stock of what is known; what kinds of activities are currently underway; and what will be needed going forward as reforms roll through the education system.

I knew that museum education could be an exciting platform for the kind of work I wanted to do with young people, but I knew I first needed to learn more about the public school system, educational policy, and curriculum design.

In a democratic society people are free to be as conservative or liberal as their intelligence and conscience lead, but institutions built to nurture and sustain such a society are not, nor are their programs.Whether we wish to admit it or not, every education system tries to produce a certain kind of human being, attempts to develop in people dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain ways.

Two and a half years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa left his office steering the nation's second - largest city with a legacy of pushing the kind of changes in the school system that education reformers relish.

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.

This kind of antiquated, «one best system» thinking is detrimental to the future of further advances in education accountability and finance reform, as well as, ultimately, the growth in educational achievement of the children of Texas.

Ironically, as Weingarten wages war on charter schools (and every other kind of school choice that would benefit kids and parents), she managed to pick up the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award, «for her lifelong commitment to improving America's education system.»

What kind of standard is the U.S. Department of Education putting in place as part of its process for approving revamped teacher evaluation systems states are required to put in place in exchange for receiving a waiver?

So how do our education systems prepare for that kind of uncertainty?

They have embraced the kind of solidarity mindset that stifle important efforts to transform America's criminal justice and public education systems that our children and communities need.

The top - performing countries have highly regarded, well - staffed ministries of education at the state or national levels that have the capacity to design and implement the kinds of complex, highly coherent, and powerful education systems now needed.

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.

Taxpayer - funded vouchers have helped thousands of families escape failing public schools, but their structure limits their ability to create the kind of education market system that Milton Friedman advocated at the birth of the school - choice movement.

You don't get great school leaders if you don't have the kind of system leadership to — I think the capacity pipeline in many emerging economies is going to be the biggest challenge that education systems face.

Essentially, the model we use offers our pupils the kind of education they would never have access to through any other system.

There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.

NCLB instituted a system of standardized tests nationwide, which are meant to act as a kind of national barometer for educators — and for federal officials deciding where to send education funding — that is, as a tool for comparing performance across schools and school districts.

Under Renaissance 2010, the system hopes to place different kinds of high schools — from selective enrollment to vocational education to, perhaps, single - sex education — across the city, he said.

In the current education system students do not get time to solve their assignment as they are involved in so many different kinds of activities in colleges and schools.

If you are unsure about what kind of loans you have, you can find information about your federal student loans in the U.S. Department of Education's National Student Loan Data System.

That kind of general information is also being provided in a national education program launched last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and ERA Franchise Systems Inc., Parsippany, N.J.