Sentences with phrase «model of education does»

But even Gates, a vocal advocate for uplifting those in the developing world, has said the old - school model of education doesn't always cut it.

Not exact matches

That doesn't mean Shirky is content with the current model of education, either.

His keynote was directed at the education of young students, but the model for engaging students came from somewhere I didn't expect.

It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

Here is where Nelson, of St. John's, has a point (though he didn't actually make it): Economics is tough to apply to education because it uses an economic model not found anywhere else in the wild.

A quick aside as to why Stratechery doesn't have an app, then a review of Apple's educational event, and why the company's business model limits it in education relative to Google.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Not only does Wood distance himself from the «Berlin» model's picture of what is involved in education in Wissenschaft he also rejects its definition of theological education as professional schooling: «Theological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education» (93).

I have a problem with churches owning so much money, property and buildings; I question liturgy and orders of worship; I struggle with the one - man monologue sermon model; I have always wrestled with «full - time paid ministry» pastor positions; I disregard Sunday dress; I don't like the control of worship music by a select and talented few; I don't believe in tithing; I question the sacraments, formal Christian education, and our whole approach to the New Testament.

On the other hand, if you appropriate the «Berlin» model's stress on Wissenschaft on the «Athens» model's terms (wissenschaftlich education as paideia - like «formation» in capacities for critical inquiry) do not suppose that you can omit the other pole of «professional» education, for as we have seen, Wissenschaft is theologically relevant only insofar as it is tied to church leadership roles.

However, do not suppose that it is theologically sufficient to appropriate «Athens» solely into the «professional» education pole of theological education on the «Berlin» model's terms (construing «professional» education as, say, paideia into the habitus of faith).

Due to its understanding of education as the reshaping of a child's soul (in contrast to «discovery» models of education, for example), the method tends to develop thinkers defined by who they are instead of workers defined by what they do....

Or does it tend toward the model for which we let «Berlin» be the emblem in chapter 4, with its combination of professional education and research - university Wissenschaft?

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

Kathy Alexander, food services director of the Addison Northeast and Addison Northwest school districts, put it this way: «We're trying to fit a restaurant business into a school education model, and it doesn't work.»

«How do we encourage them to inspire them to use their God - given talents too soar, to reach for the stars, when a sitting board member responsible for their education demonstrates such contempt of their role models.»

In the ruling, PERB said that the attempts by the Department of Education to change the improvement model it planned to use for the schools «does not nullify its obligations» to negotiate with the teachers» union.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

«We don't go by reputation, we go by the evidence,» explains panel chair Adam Gamoran, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, about Culberson's assertion that Thomas Jefferson should be the sole model for NSF's study.

That publicity culminated in Hopkins's trip to the White House and the Clintons» praise of the university for doing the right thing — and for creating what they said should be «a model for the rest of higher education.»

A combination of circumstances makes model - based sensitivity estimates of distant times and different climates hard to do, but at least we are getting a good education about it.

I'd done a subject in the Assessment Research Centre [at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education] and got acquainted with this model of developmental learning, teaching and assessment, and his book Assessment for Teaching.

«In the area of education the spectrum is so broad, that from anything that has to do with data you can extract some juice, turning it into information, and, from there, develop or improve new models.

Research by the leading education charity Future First shows some state schools don't harness the valuable talents of alumni as relatable role models for the current generation in the way that many private schools and universities have done for generations.

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

I favor prevention and education as the best course of action, and I do my best to point out and model exemplary behavior.

It is hard for us to convince students that they need to have technology skills when they don't experience much of it in their education and they don't see it being modeled during their field experience.

Either voucher proponents have very different views of equity than most citizens, or they don't really view vouchers as a replacement model for the current public education.

It's true that Gates is already investing in the development and refinement of the virtual hybrid school model, but a complete commitment to building new rather than reforming old would give him the potential to do what Rockefeller, Stanford, and others did to higher education.

The factory model of education still in place was designed for producing assembly line workers to do assigned, repetitive tasks correctly.

Even though the situation might have slightly changed within the past decennia with the introduction of peace education, sustainable economics, holistic learning and dynamic system modeling within education of economics and business, nevertheless, the concept of the self - made individual man or woman who benefits society by doing what's good for him or her is still being emphasized.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

Deeper Learning: 10 Ways You Can Die Education Week, 8/25/16 «One of the things I've learned in my own journey in trying to teach people about deeper learning is that the most powerful things you can do is give adults models and experiences that mirror what you are hoping they will do for students.»

«I've seen work done with high school students that can convey very complicated ideas or allows space to grapple with huge community or social problems through the arts that students aren't able to do in conventional models of education,» she says.

The factory model of education, still in place today, was designed for producing assembly line workers to do assigned tasks correctly.

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

«The power of models is really underused in all that we do in education,» Berger says.

The refusal to choose between one instructional emphasis or the other symbolizes the work being done to build career pathways in nine school districts as part of Linked Learning, an initiative cited as a national model of career and technical education.

Except that, given that the report explicitly celebrates teacher «residencies,» flags only models like the Boston Teacher Residency, talks explicitly of «instructional rounds,» and so forth, the near - certainty is that higher education and state education agencies which run with the NCATE agenda will do so with BTR as the model.

They don't present evidence regarding effects of these initial efforts on student achievement but do explain how RAND diagnosed the weaknesses in the Qatari system, devised the Education for a New Era reform model, and the challenges of implementing standards, independent schools, and the Qatar Student Assessment System.

Anthony, given your work from the ground up with schools who are establishing one of several models of blended learning, a practice some view as one of the more important innovations in K - 12 education right now, why don't take this next question from gale.

But current models of refugee integration don't fully provide students with either short - term stability or longer - term opportunity, says Dryden - Peterson, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Does our current traditional model of education meet the needs of most students?

I think that any of those models are fine so long as they do have an Outdoor Education program at all age levels.

A: We look at standardized test scores in the district, and we also had an evaluation done of some of the models that [Lecturer on Education and Director of the Human Development and Psychology Program] Terry Tivnan did here at HGSE along with Lowry Hemphill, who's now at Wheelock College in Boston.

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Asked by Education Week to comment on our findings, the lead author of the NCES report freely acknowledged the problems with some of the variables used in the NCES analysis, but asserted that our alternative models may be «underadjusting for the disadvantage in the public sector» because we do not control separately for mothers» and fathers» eEducation Week to comment on our findings, the lead author of the NCES report freely acknowledged the problems with some of the variables used in the NCES analysis, but asserted that our alternative models may be «underadjusting for the disadvantage in the public sector» because we do not control separately for mothers» and fathers» educationeducation.

Although I have some doubts about the wisdom of the Race to the Top competition, and there are other steps that I think the federal government could take that would support a more systematic transformation of our education system, this Race to the Top competition does have the potential to reset American schools» relationship with technology by encouraging a transformation from a one - size - fits all schooling model to one that can customize affordably for each student's unique learning needs.

A third question is whether adults in education can do a better job of modeling civil discourse than we see writ large in America right now, or if we're inevitably trapped within the nation's larger polarization.

I don't want to send everyone to four years of ed school, nor do I think the science model applies to education as well it does to medicine, but I do think that in education it is the problem - solving side which is underdeveloped and the accountability side which is overdeveloped.