Sentences with phrase «movement toward»

Funded with taxpayer dollars but operated independently of the school system, charters now enroll more than 40 percent of the city's students, putting Washington at the leading edge of a national movement toward charters.

Using peer critiques to evaluate and improve student work is a natural outgrowth of the movement toward more authentic assessments in education (Henderson & Karr - Kidwell, 1998).

Secretary Duncan urged the nation's governors and state education leaders to continue the movement toward adopting internationally benchmarked standards for public K - 12 education during his keynote address at the 2009 Governors Education Symposium in Cary, NC.

Given the political climate and opportunities for change — the availability of stimulus funds (including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's commitment of $ 350 million in stimulus funding to support assessment work), the movement toward common standards, and the upcoming reauthorization of No Child Left Behind — we can bypass the debate between the two flawed options of either maintaining the status quo or returning to performance - based assessment systems of the 1990s.

This paradigmatic shift involves a movement toward a participatory culture using Web 2.0 technologies — dynamic environments that are not limited to the interactions of academic classrooms.

In the last decade, there has been a growing movement toward integrating assessment in instruction and learning.

The growth of youth organizing groups signals that the new generation can be a powerful voice in the movement toward equity and excellence in the public schools.

Then critics like the Inquirer rushed to conclude that «the movement toward charter schools is raising costs for public education, and there is no sign of true benefit.»

The movement toward flexible time for assessment is obviously challenging, but these steps can make the shift more manageable — even in the face of immovable educational demands on our time.

The Michigan College Access Network convenes and engages cross-sector partners to galvanize movement toward collaboration.

The movement toward boarding schools for low - income students has made some of its greatest strides in the District, where both Maya Angelou and the SEED Public Charter School receive an extra $ 14,000 in federal tax dollars each year for every student who lives on their premises.

The family engagement team leverages their common interest in student success, using student data to create goals and assess the impact of its activities based on movement toward these goals (e.g. success is measured not by how many people show up, but on whether students are doing better and continue to improve).

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

The Task Force should publish its recommendations to encourage the development of state and local policy that supports the movement toward creating trauma - sensitive schools across the state.

Teachers should, however, scaffold students» movement toward community participation by establishing a service - learning framework that combines critical reflection with classroom community.

With the movement toward research - practitioner partnerships, educational agencies can collaboratively develop effective interventions targeted on improving teachers» discipline practices — exploring their beliefs and raising expectations for minority students.

Perhaps the decade - long movement toward individualized instruction has not yet reached Girard High School.

Teaching in an inner city school was an opportunity to integrate myself in the movement toward social equity but also, I believe, a better use of my skills.

The draft also eliminates performance targets, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.»

The tricky balancing act between teaching these skills and giving children play - based learning is better understood today than it was when the movement toward standards began in the 1980s and 1990s.

But this year, it's taking this work to the next level to encourage a grassroots movement toward making things.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

«These early findings indicate that 4 - year - olds in Massachusetts are more likely to be in formal settings than 3 - year - olds, which could reflect that they have more formal options to choose from at this age, or that parents are responding to the movement toward a year of preschool before school begins.»

The movement toward better overall policy is seen directly in state actions.

As the movement toward making learning a conversation, rather than a measurement, continues, students will become independent learners.

She is a key figure in the movement toward Escuela Nueva, a «new» model for primary education begun in Colombia in 1975 that emphasizes students» independent and active learning, rather than rote memorization, as they move toward understanding of concepts.

American education remains deeply reluctant to do this, since it requires overthrowing any number of traditions and practices — from child - centered pedagogies, assumptions about student engagement, and other progressive education ideals, to local control of curriculum, the privileging of skills over content, and the movement toward mass customization of education.

More meaningful than that, what's really happening is a movement toward mastery as defined by the Common Core State Standards.

We need a new movement toward dadprovement in this country, and a time where every father can look closely at what is truly important and focus his time and energies on what really matters.

Learning institutions can help people understand that movement toward equal dignity may coincide with people becoming highly conscious of indignities — humiliations — inflicted either intentionally by direct mistreatment, or unwittingly through outdated practices, or systemically through obsolete social frames.

Both approaches would lift standards and encourage national movement toward NAEP standards.

«The whole movement toward the notion that teachers don't have a basic right to be in the classroom unless they are effective is proving so powerful as an idea that they're weakened because they've run away from it rather than embrace it.»

To mobilize broad movement toward a common goal is a job for presidents.

EPM students are here because they believe in innovative, research - driven education reform, and want to assume a strong leadership role in the movement toward equity and excellence in our schools.

Instead of the party line, Russian educators are now advocating for a student - centeredcurriculum using project - based learning that has much in common withthe global movement toward twenty - first - century skills.

[I'd make it] a more proactive, heavy, sufficiently financed movement toward school and community partnerships.

There has been a movement toward STEM education in the past few years.

Hardly anyone talks about how the growing movement toward parental choice and competition, in the form of vouchers and charter schools, will affect the teaching profession.

The most recent revision, completed in the fall of 2000, was promoted by NCATE as having aligned its standards with the broader movement toward accountability and outcome standards.

One of the most significant changes in educational policy of the past two decades is the movement toward test - based accountability in the schools.

As the educators and students shared setbacks and progress, it was clear that despite how integration can look different, there was an underlying movement toward a common goal.

As organizers of this inaugural event, we saw how eager our audience was for this kind of cross-sector gathering, and we hope this will mark the start of a continuing tradition: a community - wide network of stakeholders working collaboratively in a movement toward better outcomes for English - learner students.

Some general movement toward self - exploration occurs in the third act, but it fails to add much to the proceedings.

The movie wants to say something about the communications industry and its apparent movement toward a sort of universal hub — a one - stop means by which we can communicate with everyone, even going as far as to literally control another human being's every action — but, as presented here, it comes across as shallow techno - phobia.

The movement toward a new generation of buxom screamers has resulted in a handful of original plots and a bloody slew of stinkers.

There are elements, however, that separate the album from its predecessors and suggest some tentative movement toward a new way of working.

took off as part of a grassroots movement toward greater Internet security.

First, the hair gets the slightest bit of piece - y texture, especially evident in the movement toward the front.

And when I feel lighter, there is a sense of movement toward feeling more alive and creative in all aspects of my life.»

I like the direction that the neuroscience Ph.D blogger, Darya Rose, and author of Foodist takes the movement toward weight loss as a «healthstyle.»