Sentences with phrase «much about education policy»

It's easy for those of us who spend a lot of time thinking and talking and writing about these things to forget that most people, including most parents and teachers, just don't care that much about education policy.

Note that some of the people and organizations in Anthony's spreadsheet will drop off because they don't comment much about education policy.

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«However much the Government tries to spin and distort it, the Education Select Committee's report highlighted serious concerns about Government policy in scrapping the EMA.

The policy also calls for all state schools to teach impartial education about religious and non-religious worldviews that is inspected by Ofsted, for much stricter limits on religious discrimination in «faith» school employment, and for the current legal requirement for schools to hold daily acts of collective worship to be repealed.

But education is too important to become a footnote in the left's lexicon and it has come to something when the best that can be said of Labour's policy stance is that nobody knows anything much about it.

Entering the Ed School both as an aspiring teacher and as someone with little knowledge of education as a whole, my goals were to acquire a repertoire of skills that would allow me to leave HGSE with a solid foundation in preparation my first year in the classroom and to gain as much knowledge about current issues, policies, and trends in education as possible.

Our estimates of the impact of vocational education on age - employment profiles indicate that much of the policy discussion about education programs is too narrow.

Few people, even few political activists, know much about the workings of education policy.

They also includes articles about curriculum design and professional development, national, state and local education policy, job openings and much more.

«There's not much left for Republicans to be distinctive about,» said Chester E. Finn, Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy group.

It's appropriate to think about how we can maybe modernize existing programs, the education programs for military families to transition them into choice - based policies at the end of the day, no matter what population it is, but it's critical for military families who move so much.

So, instead of preparing remarks about teacher leadership, evaluation, or career pathways, instead of talking about education policy or equity, curriculum or assessment, I had a much different set of questions to...

When the media discusses a school district, they are not going to stress, about operations and policy as much as they would discuss that a district is a good place for a child to get an education because several schools have met accreditation status.

But Chad Alderman, a policy analyst at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justiEducation Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justieducation board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justification.

And, just as the Bush crew did, the Obama team likes to paint its policy opponents as people who prefer the status quo, a passive - aggressive way of saying that these folks don't care as much about kids as the education secretary does.

Because my MP (who knows who I am and that I know a little about education policy post 2010) sent me a something that read very much like a standard letter in response to my email objecting to mass academisation.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

Much in the same way that Colbert broke through the cheap dialogue about «patriotism» and «strength» that surrounded the Iraq War, Louis C.K.'s plain speaking about his daughter's education seared through the bland rhetoric about «standards, expectations, and achievement» that dominates the debate about education policy.

On Saturday, May 13, about 30 Indivisible volunteers gathered at Battle Born Progress» Las Vegas office to discuss Donald Trump, Congress, health care policy, education, state and local government, and much more with Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D - Las Vegas).

And yet, the education policy discussion has devolved into a near exclusive debate about common core standards, testing, and access to higher education when so much more needs to be considered.

Historian Diane Ravitch criticized Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school policies.