Sentences with phrase «new educational system»

A major hurdle for these leaders will be how well they can construct a new educational system that truly empowers all students.

With the help of the National Governor's Association and dozens of organizations that were paid by the Gates Foundation to sell the Common Core, the corporate education reform industry proclaimed that their new educational system would transform the nation's schools and ensure that every child was «College and Career» ready.

Kentucky's overhaul was so sweeping that when the General Assembly created a new educational system, it included a more equitable way of paying for school construction.

As the city recovered from the storm and residents began the long process of rebuilding the city, Louisiana implemented a bold and expansive new educational system in New Orleans based on charter schools.

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.

They learn in a fundamentally different way than we over-40s did (and certainly those of us way - over-40) and they are teaching us how to restructure this new educational system.

The final chapter of this book gives Whitehead's reasons for thinking that social progress depends on a new educational system, one that will give equal importance to «appreciation of the concrete» and «facility with abstractions.

A typical case was that of Domingo F. Sarmiento in Argentina, who in 1869 - 70 invited for the first time a group of Protestant teachers from the United States for the purpose of introducing new educational systems throughout the country.

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.

His responsibilities included planning, executing and supervising an effective marketing and sales program along with creating educational concepts designed to expand the European and Asian customer base along with integrating the new Euro currency effectively into the clearing and settlement system at the global exchanges.

To turn GDP growth around, Yellen recommended that Congress adopts policies that «encourage business investment and capital formation, improve the nation's infrastructure, raise the quality of our educational system, and support innovation and the adoption of new technologies.»

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

There you have it: the elders offering final counsel to the successor generation, the beneficiaries of the greatest educational system in the world, the bearers of civilization's legacy across new frontiers of human aspiration and achievement.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

Much of the new middle class is actually in the business of culture, is in control of many of the institutions that produce and disseminate cultural symbols, notably in the educational system and the communication media.

Here in Georgia it seems a new multi million dollar mega church opens every week while the educational system is falling apart.

Hackley School 293 Benedict Ave Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.hackleyschool.org A member of both the Ivy Preparatory League and the international schools consortium Round Square, Hackley has a 285 - acre woodland campus in Tarrytown with extensive facilities to support our K - 12 educational program, including a science building, geothermal library, competition cross-country trail system, eight athletics fields, and a new 110,000 - sq ft Center for Health and Wellness.

In this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situation.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

Since the United States educational system usually develops policies from the local level, some districts feel that the new standards rolling out nationwide are simply too cookie cutter and won't be in the best interest of local areas.

Scheduled improvements at the 13.9 - acre Lindberg Park include renovated ball fields and tennis courts, a new field for soccer and lacrosse, a new park shelter and playground, an educational native plant area and a looped trail system.

We believe that our commitment to farmers and to building small - scale local food systems pairs well with the commitment Health Foundations has in providing wellness and educational services for expectant and new moms.

«Sam is a true leader in the fight to bring transformational change to New York's educational system,» Bloomberg writes.

«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.

Leaders of the New Suffolk school district, the only Long Island school system to propose piercing the state's property tax cap, said last night that doing so is necessary to preserve key educational services.

The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today.

The event kicked off Renew New York, an educational initiative by Hofstra, Newsday and News 12 Long Island; the latter two are owned by Cablevision Systems Corp..

«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.

«Our entire educational system in New York is too bureaucratic, burdensome & top heavy.

Once again, we say congratulations to our new D - G Kor and may the Lord continue to guide you to guide GES and our educational system!

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

«We will not stop working until the bright light of opportunity shines on all New Yorkers,» Cuomo said, emphasizing also the need for economic equity in the educational system, racial and economic justice in the judicial system and voter empowerment in the electoral system.

The students after receiving the computer device described the innovation as a prompt action taken by state government in the right direction, saying the new development has helped to boost the educational system in the state.

The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Kwaku Asomah - Cheremeh has stressed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is committed to providing effective and efficient educational system in the country to enhance the quality of human resource needed for development.

«I can not imagine that David Steiner will sleep well tonight; he wrestled with his conscience and settled on a nightmarish scenario for the million - plus children in the New York City public schools — placing at the helm of the New York City public school system a person with zero educational credentials,» he said.

Mr. Cuomo, speaking from a small stage on the 64th floor of the new 1 World Trade Center, said Americans were losing confidence in their economic and educational systems while questioning how justice is meted out in the wake of Eric Garner's death last summer.

The office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is touting some unflattering figures about New York's educational system today — «73 percent of New York's students graduate from high school and 37 percent are college ready.»

We heard about groups like the Western New York Book Arts Center, Young Audiences of Western New York, Theatre of Youth and many others stepping in to fill widening gaps in an educational system less concerned than ever with culture and creativity.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

As an adjunct associate professor at the University of New Mexico and having a son complete high school and college in the United States, she has seen enough of the American educational system to give a fair assessment.

Unique adverse events captured by this system will be used to generate new alerts to anesthesiologists and new educational materials to advance patient safety.

Those guidelines and new educational activities will help partners at Aurora Health Care System (Wis.), Emory University / Grady Memorial Hospital (Ga.), Magee Women's Hospital (Pa.), Mount Sinai (N.Y.), UC San Diego Health (Calif.), Northwestern (Ill.), St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (N.J.), University of Chicago (Ill.), and University of North Carolina (N.C.) to promote a variety of proven techniques for improving care for older patients — from coordinating expertise among various professionals to ensuring that older people can transition from the hospital to outpatient settings (like homes or community - based settings) whenever and wherever safely possible.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

Shah Reza proceeded to modernize the country (new industries, a national educational system, a rail system), but his crackdown on opponents was minor compared to the last Shah, who continued modernization dictatorially despite political opposition (some from the very middle class that the modernization created).

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Advances in technologies for the «Internet of Things» (IoT), as well as cloud computing are making smarter systems more accessible to the educational sector, providing new and exciting opportunities not only for system providers, but also for IoT and cloud solution companies.

Also, with the democratic changes that have occurred and the new reforms that are to be implemented, there has been significant political interference in the educational system.

A year after a police shooting set off racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., the school system and its new superintendent are looking to correct educational disparities and «give kids a voice» in determining their future.

The Green Paper published in March 2011 set out the vision for a new system to support the 1.7 million children and young people currently identified with special educational needs and disabilities.

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.