Sentences with phrase «not about improving education»

At some future point you will realize that this effort is not about improving education nation wide but about wealth transfer.

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She described herself as a «strong believer in high - quality pre-K,» but said she still has not seen a plan from the administration about how to improve education for grades K - 12.

If Stephen Twigg's speech was genuinely about improving education it would have been very different, and not the Gove - lite we heard at the RSA.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

He spoke not about the decision, but said he wanted to get back to work improving job creation, education and health care and bringing the troops back home.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

«You say you're excited about improving STEM education, but I don't see it.

But even as they bring together a number of people living with stis, they don't seem to do much to improve general education about living with herpes and other stis.

If you are not following these individuals and their work in eLearning, then you are not really serious about improving the quality of your Instructional Design efforts whether in the learning culture of a business or in the formal education setting.

Participants reported many positive benefits including changing the way they think about education, having an opportunity to engage with HGSE professors, and learning that teaching does not have to be stagnant because there is always room to improve their practice.

«The absence work combined with this work has served to highlight that improving education outcomes is not just about spending more money,» Muralidharan says.

We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.

For many students, the education system isn't working as well as it ought to, and figuring out ways to improve it is what I'm most passionate about, and why I'm so eager — and honored — to take on the role of dean at HGSE.

As New York City councilwoman Eva Moskowitz noted in a letter to Justice DeGrasse, «Education spending has increased by about a third since I took office in 1999, yet our schools have not improved by a third.»

But we're also looking at sleep education, to see if teaching adolescents about good sleep practices - how to get sleep, how to maintain good sleep, how to deal with stress so that it doesn't interfere with your sleep — if that improves sleep and what effect that has on attainment; and also looking to see if these two interventions combined help the effect.

Our new GreatSchools Summary Rating offers expanded information about important aspects of school quality — including student access to advanced courses, student progress information, and equity data to help parents see whether or not all students are being served similarly — that parents across the country can use to support their children's education and take action to improve their local schools.

I'm more convinced than ever that we can't improve U.S. education until we figure out how to talk and write clearly about it.

But the success of charters doesn't necessarily provide us any answers about what will improve education on a larger scale.

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL Education Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.&raquEducation Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.&raqueducation to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.»»

It is difficult to fathom how public education imagines bringing about great advances in teaching and learning when its current structure does not allow it to invest seriously in understanding or improving its practices.

It has not been for want of trying to improve education, so the problem must be the way we have gone about it.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

Isn't it time that experienced teachers — who actually know something about the topic — have a say about how to improve education?

Adela responds to Bradley's question about the need to improve schools for students whose first language is not English, and suggests revisiting leading models of bilingual education used in the late 1990s.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Some argue that states, rather than districts, could assume the roles now played by the federal government, but precedent suggests this will not bring about the national reforms needed to improve education for all.

While many states and districts have complained about the law's demands, some organizations like the Education Trust have argued that state and federal governments haven't gone far enough to improve the equitable distribution of teachers.

«There is not a better motivator than the nectar of victory to push along the issue that you care about, and that's improving public education and ensuring that every child in every school has a high - quality teacher,» Trujillo said.

The end result of the McCleary case was not so much about improving education for children, but in expanding the power and money of the union within the system.

The DeVos interventions are not about improving public education; they are about pushing a political agenda that is rooted in ideological obsessions rather than an understanding of how to improve schools.

Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.

To put this figure in perspective, public education's price tag has surpassed $ 500 billion annually, including some $ 14 billion2 (about $ 240 per student) for teachers to take professional development courses and workshops that teachers themselves say don't always improve their teaching (Killeen, Monk, & Plecki, 2002).

His arguments underscore what many already know: voucher schools are not about students or improving education.

«It's not simply a matter about what they scored last year and did they improve,» said Juan Copa, director of research, evaluation and educator performance at the state's Department of Education.

Simply force - hiring more teachers isn't going to improve outcomes, and it will reinforce the «good money after bad» mantra about public education when the results of class size reduction aren't as significant as expected.

While special education dollars (about $ 50 billion nationally) can do good things for students where placements are appropriate and service models are well thought out, state legislatures and departments of education need to understand that allowing districts to place more and more students into special education programs does not actually improve education outcomes, not even for the students placed therein.

The best thing about physical education is that, not only are they improving their physical bodies, but there's also the mind - brain connection.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

Although some of my thoughts are a mere dream, most are already becoming a reality (if not a reality in many classrooms) and by the distributive nature of Education, I expect many trends to spread across the world like wildfire as they are proven successful and more research comes out about how they have improved student learning.

I can't help but listen to the UK team and learn about their education structure and think we have a common mission; to educate all students to the highest level that they can possible attain in order to improve our society and quality of life for each and every student.

Let me say to the Education Secretary and all Government Members that if they take serious action to make the changes our education system needs, I will be the first to support them, because education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all Education Secretary and all Government Members that if they take serious action to make the changes our education system needs, I will be the first to support them, because education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all education system needs, I will be the first to support them, because education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all education policy should not be about ideological dogma, but about looking at all the evidence and pursuing policies that will improve the lives of all children.

Working with grassroots activists on the ground to provide parents buses that can inform families about the quality of choice options (along with information on, for example, what a child should know by third grade) would not only improve data quality, but also bolster support for school choice and education reform overall.

Whenever I hear public officials and education policy decision makers suggest that closing schools is a legitimate strategy, I know that person is not serious about actually improving educational outcomes.

Thank you so much for all your valuable help - not only improving our scores by about 92 points, but also for the education which is worth its weight in gold!!

To use education as a tool to improve the care received by breeder dogs assumes that those caring for these dogs actually give a damn about their health and welfare. Bottom line:  they don't.

More interesting, many of these schools - such as City University of New York or University of Dayton - are not considered «top tier» by conventional standards, so it's gratifying to see that those at top schools are open minded enough, and concerned enough about improving legal education to look to these programs as models.

What is great about working in the education industry is you are not only a mentor and confidant to students, but you also help them improve the quality of their lives by imparting wisdom and knowledge.

Our new GreatSchools Summary Rating offers expanded information about important aspects of school quality — including student access to advanced courses, student progress information, and equity data to help parents see whether or not all students are being served similarly — that parents across the country can use to support their children's education and take action to improve their local schools.

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Maybe that should be re-thought, maybe we should look at improving the odds by increasing the education, the cost, the license process (training period), and make the training more about learning how to serve our clients and not about how to use pressure to motivate people to buy or sell.