Sentences with phrase «not about education policy»

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A huge number of doctors — 89 percent — said they believed that consumers had not been adequately educated about how the exchanges» policies will function, and more than 9 percent didn't know if there had been adequate education of consumers.

According to an analysis released in December by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, half of American college freshmen «seriously underestimate» the amount of student - loan debt they have, and about a quarter of students with federal loans do not even know they have such loans.

But concerns have been raised about a below - the - radar maintenance of Section 28 by some schools after it emerged that Colston Girls» School in Bristol's sex and relationships education policy stated: «The governing body will not permit the promotion of homosexuality.»

My platform is about economic human rights — education, jobs, health care — I didn't think I had to say water,» he said, sliding into a critique of Cuomo's policies about cities.

«Isolated changes should not be made outside of the context of broader discussions about higher education policy.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

According to Mote, DOD and its contractors account for about 2 % of the nation's STEM workers — a lot, but not enough to swing national education or hiring policy in any particular direction.

As Bailey writes, «[A] n entrepreneurial education landscape... is one in which [government and foundations] help remove barriers to entry for quality providers and think deeply about the impact their policy or philanthropic decisions will have on the broader educational marketplace and potential investors or entrepreneurs in the field.»

Hill Fight on No Child Left Behind Looms Politico, 1/21/15» «It's not a debate about what education policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Eeducation policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.

Finally, I must mention several «honorable mentions» — people with sky - high Klout scores who tweet about education — but who (in my judgment) don't tweet primarily about k - 12 education policy.

All you need to know about NEA's position on charter schools is actually contained in the original 2001 policy, which states that charters should not exist «simply to provide a «choice» for parents who may be dissatisfied with the education that their children are receiving in mainstream public schools.»

However, a couple of the same caveats remain from previous years: We wanted to limit the finalists to those who tweet primarily about K - 12 education policy, and not education technology, higher education, parenting, or other related topics.

Based on the deliberation above, I claim that the aim of full development of one's personality can not be achieved through the education (and memory) policies lacking the provision of impartial information (which is one of the cornerstones of democratic society) about one's history and therefore the right to education also contains right to truth.

They include Edutopia (focused mainly on teaching, not policy); Inside Higher Ed (obviously aimed at postsecondary education); Getting Smart (dominated by education technology topics); and the Children's Defense Fund and America's Promise (both of which tweet about broader children's issues, and not just education).

NCLB did not include such a requirement, and according to a September 2012 study of the Center on Education Policy, only about half of states (26) on their own require that students pass state high - school exit exams to earn a diploma.

As with my list of top education policy people, I must mention a handful of «honorable mentions» — organizations or media outlets with high Klout scores who tweet about education — but not primarily about k - 12 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.

In her field work in Mississippi, Tieken says she has heard «horrific stories about the kinds of discipline happening and policies not being enforced;» for example, parents not being allowed into the school when they should be, or administrators ignoring required procedures in referring children to special education.

I just don't think we can have a serious conversation about education policy unless we start by talking about who should be in charge of collective decisions and why.

Overwhelmed, dispirited, eager for distraction, I allowed myself to be dragged briefly into a Twitter «debate» about education reform that instantly devolved into familiar rants about who is or is not qualified to set standards or policy, who's funding whom, and who stands to make a buck.

The exact shape of this next generation of education policy is still far from clear — but it is not too soon to think about how we have arrived at this point, and to draw lessons from what has and has not worked.

As one Florida superintendent, Doug Whittaker, put it to Education Week last March in a story about the spread of retention policies: «After 10 years, I don't like it.

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Because, at least when it comes to education policy, just about everything he wants the federal government to do involves things that can't be done successfully from Washington but that well - led states can and should do: raise academic standards, evaluate teachers, give kids choices, and more.

The «best practices» method that is gaining popularity among more - impressionable education policy wonks and that Tucker used in Surpassing Shanghai simply can not support causal claims about «what works.»

The studies succeeded in building teacher capacity and confidence, but also brought to light five concerns about STEM that current education policies and programs do not adequately address.

Losing comparable data would be a blow not just for accountability, evaluation, and research, but also for communicating about the state of our education system and making smart policy decisions.

One note: Whether we're talking about teachers unions backing political candidates or across - the - aisle support for parent trigger laws, it's become abundantly clear that education policy doesn't always fall along clear party lines.

Bennett's office wouldn't even get my information to have someone who knew something about his education policy call me back.

More than a decade ago, when I headed the Center on Education Policy, we produced reports presenting basic data about American schools that was not commonly known.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

«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.

Students are not commonly seen, and student voices are not commonly heard, in meetings and discussions about K - 12 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.

This stagnation in conversation not only threatens our ability to move forward with the best policies for our nation's students, but it also has had the unintended consequence Read more about The New Normal in K - 12 Education -LSB-...]

Current education policy does not seem concerned about the issue of stability and retention, especially at our low performing schools.

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Bill Cibes made a fundamental difference then and does so now when he tells ConnCAN and the other «corporate education reformers» that we will not back down in our commitment and dedication to protect what is right about public education while we seek to develop and implement policies that make a real, honest and positive impact on the quality of education in our state.

But that hasn't stopped privateers from championing for - profit online education, raising serious concerns about how corporate money continues to shape many of the education policies being implemented across the country.

Amid all the talk about student testing, education policy and what not, it's easy to forget that at the center of the conversation are actual children.

«Don't get me started about public charter school no - nothings (sic) on the NC State Board of Education,» Hawkes wrote in an email to Policy Watch this week.

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.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

Although opponents were not able to muster the votes in Congress this time to overtime the policy, lawmakers did include requirements that the U.S. Department of Education begin collecting state, local and federal data about the distribution of teachers in training who are working in classrooms.

Information about such patterns is lost in the blunt, school - level measure of absence embraced by the Civil Rights Data Collection survey, but that does not preclude these data from bringing light to a dark corner of education policy and practice.

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.

This weekend's Wall Street Journalinterview with the foundation's namesake about those school reform efforts once again hit upon one of the most - salient points I had made: That private - sector donations to public school districts and efforts at influencing policy won't be enough to continue the overhaul of American public education.

At least in terms of education policy, the deal seems to continue to bolster Dayton's image as a DFLer who appears to be willing to go to the mat to protect the right to collective bargaining yet isn't terribly concerned about crossing organized labor.

Cashing in on Kids isn't only about highlighting problems — we also will include examples of thoughtful education policies, good practices and effective schools.