Sentences with phrase «larger education establishment»

Many schools and districts, however, have declined to participate in these trials, and many in the larger education establishment have greeted them with profound ambivalence.

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He is a staunch advocate of large - scale education in genetic information and in the establishment and implementation of ethical guidelines that address the work and implications of the genome project.

Had the commission been able to develop as a real alternative to local authorization, larger numbers of charter schools could have been established, and that likely would have created a powerful political constituency in support of charter schools, capable of resisting jealous attacks from the public education establishment.

Instead, they argue, as former OERI head Sharon Robinson puts it, «you have to have a range of methods and rigor in all methodologies» and that an exclusive approach created mistrust in large segments of the education establishment, instead of «enlarging the political army.»

The only way to beat the larger and better - resourced education establishment is with superior information.

«I don't know if we're so much caught up in the parent trigger battle going off or more caught up in an even larger battle between the education establishment and education reformers, and this is just another battleground in that war,» said Oklahoma State Sen. David Holt, R - Oklahoma City, whose parent trigger bill cleared the State Senate in March but never made it to a vote in the House.

As with most education policy in Texas, the TEKS was the product of the efforts of a large number of education «stakeholders» — those members of the education establishment and other experts who are qualified by experience and training to know such things as what a student should know and when he or she should know it, and who, by and large, would be responsible for the implementation and success of the product.

Dougco is the most conservative large county in the state, you'd have noted, while opposition to standardized tests has long been concentrated on the political left and within the education establishment, most particularly teachers unions.

In 2015, he founded Sculpture Fields at Montague Park in Chattanooga with a mission to «establish programming, benefiting the local, regional arts establishment as well as the education community at all levels and the citizenry at large».

This is a high volume, fast paced desk, placing candidates with large, well known education establishments in the Midlands area.