Sentences with phrase «most educational systems»

Then reality sets in with their daily practices when they realize that most educational systems block the process.

Taking into consideration broad, economic, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors — all leading social scientists in their fields — suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver.

Not exact matches

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

But the influence of the cultural conditioning by this system is such that most universities and educational systems and even international lawyers, ethicists and moral theologians do not consider this aspect of the world injustice.

During his two - month, 5,000 - mile survey trip, Townsend met a number of key figures, of which the most important was Mexico's director of rural education, Rafael Ramírez, who opened the way for him to study the nation's educational system.

if all [teaching] personnel could simply recognize and accept the fact that they are fallible persons... our educational system would be revolutionized overnight... Gone would be the steady, unchanging infallible mask which is the most prized possession of every teacher....

now I understand the problem why most people can not easily comprehend the reality of God, its because of lack of adequate knowledge of history.But I am optimistic that the process of change or evolution which will take centuries to be realized will be more easy and accelerated in the future, with better educational system.

Since Stalin's death, however, science has been given top priority in financial allotment, in the educational system, and in salaries and public prestige; in addition, the climate of work has improved, and most of those exiled or disgraced have been rehabilitated.

Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history.

After all, most of us had been unaware of the psychological toll that was being exacted on our children by our high - pressure, high - stakes educational system.

Among the kollel wives who are the mainstay of our girls» educational system here in the US, most of them plan to return to work quickly and a lot don't plan to breastfeed.

Did you know that some of America's most pressing ills — obesity, psychiatric illness, and our eroding educational system among them — have a single cause that can easily be fixed?

Early teething trouble with the UK system led to reports of up to 20 % of the most popular websites being blocked, and concerns remain that the lack of transparency may mean that important educational resources continue to be falsely blocked.

The most successful tool your successful nations used in the capture of the resources of the world was their religion, the gun powder as against swords of the world and an educational system based on learning only what they considered as the truth.

Clegg said: «We have, even after 12 years of Labour, one of the most socially segregated systems of education in the world, where the circumstances of your birth determine everything from your educational attainment to the length of your life.

«Entice families to stay engaged in the educational system, by promising free college tuition, but most important, we used our resources to put various types of support in schools for students and their families to enhance opportunities for academic achievement,» she said of the program.

«In his speech today, Governor Cuomo outlined a clear progressive vision for protecting our most vulnerable citizens, continued economic development and job creation, a fairer criminal justice system, a more equitable educational system, greater infrastructure investment and a plan for addressing sexual harassment in New York State.

Most importantly, we must urge our legislators to pass bills that will pump more money into our educational system.

Enticing people back to their neighborhoods without health, educational or criminal justice systems to support them there is difficult, so most neighborhoods have remained deserted in gray shambles with negligible visible change in the past year, according to Speier.

In short, it's an all - out effort to significantly improve one of the weakest — and most despised — aspects of our nation's current educational system.

Our faculty is studying the most pressing issues facing our educational system today — the achievement gap, language and literacy, urban school reform, new leadership models, testing and accountability, to name just a few.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

The Illinois Constitution, with one of the most demanding education clauses, says that the state must «provide for an efficient system of high quality public educational institutions and services.»

If the initiative gathers the requisite number of signatures to be on the ballot, with a single vote this November, California's voters could eliminate one of the most egregious examples of inequity in its educational system — and it won't cost taxpayers any additional funds to do it.

Lee Cronbach, perhaps the most distinguished theorist of educational evaluation today, argues that in the real world of education too many factors influence the system to isolate the one or two that were the primary causes of an observed change.

The challenge is that most school systems are not doing it well for a variety of reasons,» says Scott McLeod, an educational technology expert and associate professor at Iowa State University.

The zone comprises the quadrant of Rochester's schools with the most entrenched problems, and the city schools will manage an integrated system of health care, welfare, public safety, housing, educational, and social services.

Because the current system, with all of its flaws, ensures that many of America's most vulnerable children are given access to special services and, whenever possible, significant exposure to a regular educational environment, parents and advocates oppose reforms because they fear losing the opportunities that children now have.

Even though most education policy debates have focused on school quality and student achievement, most research on the economic impact of schooling has focused narrowly on the number of years students remain in the educational system.

Developing systems that support teachers in sustained professional learning and refinement of teaching practice is perhaps the single most important way to promote student learning and educational opportunity in schools or districts.

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

From the first day of school I found myself mixing with one of the most talented and intelligent group of people, from across the globe, from different creeds and cultures, all congregating at this one school to lead educational institutions and systems that benefit all children.

The most important step in making an Education Nation a reality is not a greater investment of dollars, but a greater understanding of what this new educational system should look like.

The K12 educational publishing has its very distinctive needs which are very different from those in corporate training or higher education, which is where most Learning Management Systems and authoring tools are focused.

Buery, the former president and C.E.O. of the Children's Aid Society, which manages community schools in New York, said he's most interested in seeing how Cincinnati has integrated the community schools into its overall educational system.

In light of the seemingly endless civil rights violations in the news daily, I was shocked to see our premier civil rights organization, the NAACP, call for a moratorium on the most effective vehicle for delivering better educational outcomes than our traditional school systems.

The Rogers Family Foundation (RFF) seeks to catalyze organizations and systems to achieve and excel at the highest level in positively transforming the educational experience and opportunities for Oakland's most disadvantaged students.

We argue that the third approach is the most desirable for use in educational evaluation systems.

What educational improvement has occurred in the Washington, DC, public school system seems to be concentrated heavily among the most advantaged students.

Some of the most important foundational principles of edupreneurship include paying close attention to your students» wishes and desires, rewarding them appropriately, minimizing unneeded bureaucracy and administration from the educational system, as well as having a strong desire to succeed, an entrepreneurial mindset and a viable business model, which are 3 things most professionals say are probably the most vital when it comes to edupreneurship.

The «exhaustion and anger of teachers» referred to in the article is seldom directed at the «educational establishment» but more often at policymakers - and most frequently at those who offer unbalanced and poorly substantiated criticism of the education system and whose own policy ideas are so obviously ideologically driven.

«We call it an «educational ecosystem» because it deploys the most advanced and integrated technology system in higher education.

These urban systems contend with the toughest — and most expensive — educational challenges in the nation.

As states and districts across the country aim to create a robust set of educational options including alternative settings, they must be able to effectively collect and use the most relevant and reliable data to develop accountability systems.

We still have an educational system that fails thousands of students every year, most of them students of color.

PISA measures how well 15 - year - olds, who are nearing the end of their compulsory schooling in most participating educational systems, are prepared to use the knowledge and skills in particular areas to meet real - life opportunities and challenges.

The Cloud Institute monitors the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability, and transforms them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.

Most importantly, a scholarship tax credit program will move New Hampshire from an educational system where access is primarily determined by a student's zip code and accident of birth toward a system tailored to meet the individual needs of every child.

Even the most visionary districts can make the mistake of over investing in one metric of success, and educational researcher Michael Fullan says, «In most of the schools and education systems we have observed, the only student learning outcome measures available for accountability purposes are measures of curricular content mastery.»

The truth, as researcher Linda Darling - Hammond has stated, is that «the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world, and students routinely receive dramatically different learning opportunities based on their social status.