Sentences with phrase «much education policy»

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Science, technology and education should determine policy not baseless opinions as much.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

Despite much touted policies of compulsory primary education, there are no proper school facilities for dalit children, Family planning and other health - care programs rarely reach dalit women.

The district partners with a local non-profit, Research, Education, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education proEducation, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education proeducation programming.

«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.

But much of that added spending is tied to backing Cuomo's education policy changes, including more stringent teacher evaluation measures and strengthening the state's charter schools.

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school employment, and for the current legal requirement for schools to hold daily acts of collective worship to be repealed.

That won't be used much to slap the government's education policy across their chops as we run up toward the general election, will it?

The latest National Policy Forum consultation document on «Early Years, Education and Skills» recognises there is much work to be done within the education sector yet seems to miss some keEducation and Skills» recognises there is much work to be done within the education sector yet seems to miss some keeducation sector yet seems to miss some key points.

And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense, how New Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy needs at home.

Cuomo would increase education aid in the state budget by as much as $ 1.1 billion, but much of the funding is linked to his policy proposals, which also include a strengthening of the state's charter schools.

Lib Dem delegates are expected to offload their frustrations over a series of coalition policies that they feel are being driven too much by Conservative dogma, including those on education and NHS reform.

A former education minister under the Rawlings regime, Dr. Spio Garbrah mocked the government's much touted «Free SHS policy» arguing that it is not achievable.

But so much of the governor's $ 142 billion budget proposal when it comes to education spending is linked to his policy proposals.

But lawmakers this legislative session have chaffed under what they see as an executive overreach with linking so much controversial policy to spending increase for education and the funding of capital projects.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

Cuomo is tying much of the increase to approval of his education policy changes in this year's budget, including a new teacher evaluation system, addressing failing schools by having them taken over by a state monitory and a strengthening of charter schools.

The state Board of Regents, a semi-independent entity charged with setting education policy in the state, last year set its funding aspirations at $ 2 billion, twice as much as what Cuomo has proposed with policy measures approved.

The Assembly's budget also does not include Cuomo's broad education policy reforms, with much of those measures linked to a $ 1.1 billion proposed spending increase for education.

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.

He is now restoring credibility to Tory education policy after the grammar schools fiasco - although some of the more striking of his policy announcements owe much to the under - acknowledged work of David Willetts.

«Mr. de Blasio's policy and ours, as you all know, are pretty much in alignment on education.

Government has unveiled a logo for its much touted Free Senior High School Education policy.

To underscore the urgency, the city's Department of Education released a list Sunday night outlining the potential impact of the cuts school - by - school if the policy was not repealed, with some schools losing as much as 70 percent of their teaching staff.

It reminds me of that Yes, Minister sketch when Sir Humphrey Appleby says that it is much better that civil servants and teacher unions decide education policy because ministers are always changing.

«In a very short time he has to absorb whole sets of very complex policy areas - complicated fields like health, housing and education which he has not had much to do with in recent years.»

His comments come ahead of a speech that he will make on Thursday in which he will criticise the «ideology» of Tory education policy which, he will argue, mean free schools have too much freedom.

«Much of what the ambassadors hope to do is influence policy, specifically in the invention landscape,» said Neela White, senior program associate with AAAS» Education and Human Resources department and one of the managers of the Invention Ambassadors program.

«So much of the energy in education policy is in improving the quality with which grade - level material is taught in classrooms,» Ludwig said.

While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks.

Involved in Public Policy, Legal Services, Education, Member Benefits, and much more.

Much of the discussion concerning American education policy focuses on the achievement gap between high - and low - performing students.

Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy — high school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows.

By the time they can measure «student A» from the fourth grade through post secondary and beyond, education changes so much through initiatives and new policies that right there the data is irrelevant from one year to the next, and of course from one student to the next!

Much like the United States, education policy in Germany is not controlled by the central government, but by the states, where educational achievement varies.

This got much easier recently when House Education Committee Chair John Kline and K - 12 Subcomittee Chair Todd Rokita introduced the Student Success Act, which bars the feds from offering grants or policy waivers contingent on a state» s use of certain curricula or adoption of certain assessment policies.

Education professionals looking for a detailed review of the policies, procedures, and regulations used under NCLB will find much that is useful in these annual studies and other CEP publications on NCLB.

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

A full year of schemes of study, a vast range of supporting slide shows, student and staff handbooks, student feedback forms, policies including Health and Safety and a Gifted and Talented policy, cross curricular information such as colours in different languages, a vision for Art Education, Art Technician duty list and much more....

Until late last week, however, I thought education would itself play a minor role in the 2012 election, as in 2008, partly because other issues loom larger but also because Duncan and Obama stole so much of the traditional GOP ed - policy thunder as to leave Republican candidates with little to say that's fresh or differentiating on this topic.

Second, that raises the critical point that so much of education reform today can feel like a bizarre stand - off between those who champion the power of «culture» and those who insist on the importance of policy change.

«I think it's pretty much a given that most educators — the sane ones, anyway — will have mixed reactions to standardized tests,» explains Kathe Taylor, Ph.D., policy director for the Washington State Board of Education.

«Reflecting on much of my past research and policy advisory work to support the expansion of educational opportunity,» said Reimers, «I realize that I had tried to support the improvement of educational quality without really asking what the purpose of education should be.

I may not be able to read the continually revised commandments on the barn wall much better than Boxer, but I'm pretty sure that issuing policies with respect to school discipline, special education, admissions, and transportation necessarily interfere with school operations.

Other highly visible education schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and University of Washington have forfeited much of their research agenda to other parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tanks.

In the chapter I wrote a decade ago, I suggested that if foundations wanted to change the education system they would have to engage in policy change to re-direct how the much larger pool of public resources is spent.

As for research, schools of education have been loath to explore, much less acknowledge, any potential benefit from a policy opposed by public schools and teacher unions.

Because so much of her nomination hearing focused on questions of her family's political contributions or particular facets of K - 12 policy, we still don't know where she stands on key higher education issues, like Pell Grants, student loans, or for - profit colleges.

Several Web sites, geared toward parents, teachers, and even policy makers, offer the raw data on these and other issues — including how much a school spends on special education programs or what percentage of students graduate.