Sentences with phrase «major education debate»

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

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In addition, if seminary education were informed more by theologia as he conceives it, ministers would be better equipped not only to run their churches but to relate them to the major issues being debated in the public realm.

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

Furthermore at a time when both major parties have adopted very similar education policies, the quality of public debate would be diminished if no one in the House of Commons were able to bring forward evidence that may lead to better educational outcomes for the nation's children,» Mr Brady argued.

An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

Education took center stage this budget season in Albany, with teacher evaluations, testing, and tenure the major points of debate as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature worked on the details of the spending plan, which passed this week.

The reform was necessary and was welcomed by the country's major science organisations (the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], the Max Planck Society and the German Science Council) and the organisation that represents university heads (Association of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions, or Hochschulrektorenkonferenz), although the HRG has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the country's academic circles.

On Tuesday the WSU Center for Civic Engagement invited Howard, an elementary education major, and four other panelists to discuss that question in its first Under the Big Tent debate of the semester.

Nine Presidential candidates will gather in North Carolina this week for an unprecedented event in American politics: a major national debate focused solely on education.

A major debate among education reformers over how best to reduce the achievement gap broke out during the 2008 presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON — Although he is a first - term lawmaker from a thinly populated state, Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana has already established himself as a major player in the national debate over the role of telecommunications in education.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

Sound bilingual education policy has generated decades of contentious debate and is a key component of two major ongoing lawsuits over bilingual education funding.

Fifty years after the March on Washington, a major challenge facing California and the West in general is increasing segregation of black and Latino students, reviving a debate that Brown v Board of Education was supposed to resolve: whether it is possible to have «separate but equal» schools.

Two major GOP debates have now passed, and education has barely made an appearance.

Whether it be ESEA reauthorization, funding for Federal education programs, charter schools and vouchers, standards, technology and e-rate, health, child nutrition and school safety, or many others, there is no shortage of education issues being debated in the halls of Congress or among major decision - makers in Washington, DC.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., officially scheduled the bill for floor debate on Wednesday morning, just one day after 10 major education groups joined forces to demand senators prioritize the reauthorization, which had been languishing in the legislative queue for weeks.

The intent of the series was to spark debate and encourage action on the part of local school districts to take the major problems facing education facilities to the national level.

We've been quietly bemused when two opposing sides of a major education policy debate have cited the same Toolkit strand to back their arguments.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest).

Malloy's reform proposals have generated intense debate, drawing support from various education and business organizations but raising objections from teachers» organizations, including the state's two major teachers» unions.

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Still, Edwards and White don't see eye - to - eye on major education issues and were often on the opposite sides of debates over policy when Edwards was in the Louisiana Legislature.

«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

In England, the notion of banning private education — while highly unlikely — has long been a part of the political debate entertained by major - party candidates.

On a national level, the cheating story cuts to the heart of a major education policy debate over accountability.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

The Washington state Legislature opened for business this week and it is expected to debate major early education issues during the next three months, including new funding for state - supported preschool and home visiting, as well as support for school readiness.