Sentences with phrase «most education observers»

Though most education observers are sanguine about the RTT's potential, these same factors — enormous state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education directives, school - level preferences for existing jobs and programs, union opposition — are still in play and could lead to the same disappointing spending patterns.

Not exact matches

Although Italy is one of the most world's important fashion markets, home to top global brands and high quality manufacturing, some observers say that Italian fashion education needs a complete rethink before its schools achieve equivalent importance.

A search committee last week named three local schools superintendents as finalists for the post of Kentucky commissioner of education, which observers predict will be among the most closely watched education jobs in the nation.

In what most observers see as a major step toward making teaching a full - fledged profession, the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy last week announced the establishment of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Inc., a majority of whose members will be teachers.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Not only did the Congress finish its most pressing education business — reauthorizing several key programs in its final days — but, observers say, it was able to fashion consensus bills that in effect reasserted a federal role in education.

Let's turn to Alexis de Tocqueville, the most famous observer of American society in our history and see what he can tell us about national education standards.

In addition, larger - sized districts are, according to most observers, powerful actors in the education policy system; they sometimes drive state action rather than simply responding to it.

Some observers, including education historian Diane Ravitch, noted that American students have never been top performers on international tests dating back to the 1960s, but that has not prevented the country from becoming one of the most successful and innovative in the world.

However, most education policy observers think it is highly unlikely that Congress will pass a comprehensive bill this session.

Until tonight, observers could safely say that the single most outrageous political maneuver during Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's tenure has been his claim that he was pro-public education while being the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in so - called «turnaround» schools.

Cosby's wry and insightful commentary on the roles of parents and children, the importance of education, and the insidious onset of aging have made him one of the most celebrated observers of contemporary American life.