Sentences with phrase «new type of school»

A deeper debate, therefore, would not merely endorse new types of schools and models, but would call the existing framework into question.

Cahill made the point that she thought that school systems needed to own the kind of accountability for graduation that NCLB aimed for but that systems needed the opportunity to also create new types of schools using the successful models of transfer schools and YABCs and that this demands some revisions within the NCLB approach.

One of my main questions is whether the devolution of public authority in communities that start decentralized schools, has influenced the creation of new types of schools.

Second, it's gratifying to see new types of schooling entities receive the grants.

Is the apparent lack of accountability simply a by - product of layering new types of schools onto old accountability structures and would more knowledge lead to more robust accountability?

Creating a department to push for innovative new types of schools was one of the ideas suggested two years ago by McKinsey & Co. as a part of its package of recommendations for school reform.

The second issue will deal with schooling: what is an authentic pedagogy, the revival of classical education, home - schooling and new types of schools and colleges.

The MPs concluded that it is too soon to tell whether these new types of schools are increasing the attainment of their pupils or not.

We could accomplish this by vesting these authorities in the democratically elected mayor, the democratically elected D.C. state board of education, a new «portfolio management» body, or a new type of school board.

What's most heartening: In Charlotte - Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T., the candidates were so eager to work in this new type of school that many who were not selected for Opportunity Culture advanced roles were willing to take regular teaching jobs in those schools, just to get a foot in the door for future openings.

Sitting alongside studio schools and suggestions given by the review into vocational education led by Professor Wolf, a new type of school is being mooted, the University Technical Colleges.

With plans to accommodate over 1000 students aged from three to 18, and 400 staff, the Smart School educational complex has a vision to «create a new type of school».

Families, no longer merely told where to send their children to school, have collaborated to push for new types of schools and directed the evolution of existing schools.

Because some ESA programs permit parents to «roll over» unused funds to use towards college tuition at a later time, this new type of school choice program encourages parents to be price - sensitive in the education marketplace.

They will explore a new type of school assessment model centered on disruptions and designed to help schools thrive in hyper - change.

Introducing a new type of school will only make things worse for Australia's already inequitable system.

Despite growing critical of the charter movement, Shanker (1988) believed that his proposal for charter schools could drive widespread reform, leading to, as he put it, «thousands and thousands of schools in this country where people are building a new type of school that reaches the overwhelming majority of our students» (p. 21).

«You're really empowering Milwaukee Public Schools to go to those schools, go to those teacher unions and say listen, you need to work with us, we need to do something radically different, because if you don't do something radically different, you're subject to be spun off into a new type of schools,» Kooyenga says.

He shook the education world with an extraordinary speech in which he proposed the creation of «a new type of school,» 6 which he later referred to as «charter schools.»

From idea to implementation, it has been an exciting journey to develop this new type of school for profoundly gifted students.

We tried to take advantage of the opportunity to build a new type of school system.

The charter arrangement could result in a new type of school, Dr. Budde said, that would give teachers increased responsibility over curriculum and instruction in exchange for a greater degree of accountability for student achievement.