It is reasonable, then, to wonder whether we need to abandon high - stakes testing altogether or whether better tests and smarter measurement
of school and educator performance might help address the failings that Koretz describes.
«We see a solid base
of schools and educators committed to using those important tools for improving their students and the communities in which they live.»
He also tries to debunk some well - known examples
of schools and educators that succeed with disadvantaged minority youngsters.
Because the toolbox and similar approaches do not frontally address the capacity
of the schools and educators to deliver an appropriate education.
Rising racial tensions this year throughout America, El - Amin says, «reinforce the significance
of schools and educators being able to prepare students of color to survive, thrive, and deconstruct a racist society.
She had a clear, attractive message and stuck to it: We need to unleash the creativity and innovation
of our schools and educators, and stop trying to make one size fit all.
For example, she heavily used standardized test scores for the evaluation
of schools and educators, even though assessment experts said it was a bad idea.
Convening and working with networks
of schools and educators has been integral to CCE's work from the start, with projects ranging from the 20 + year old Boston Pilot School Network (now the Boston Autonomous Schools Network) to newer networks such as the Rhode Island Scaling Up Proficiency Based Graduation Network.
Drummond - Forrester is attuned to the changing landscape of education and works collaboratively with the Open Circle programming team to provide curricula, professional development, and implementation support that keeps the wellbeing of students at the center while meeting the needs
of schools and educators.
A negative experience in their own education has resulted in a mistrust
of schools and educators.
Not exact matches
(PISA's willingness to accept only this limited sample is typical
of the gullibility
and compliance
of many foreign NGOs, especially in education, when dealing with China; I have seen numerous foreign
educators fall victim to obvious Potemkinism, including believing that Beijing No. 4 High
School — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.&r
School — the rough equivalent
of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public
school.&r
school.»)
Conversely, 36 %
of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood
educators,
and secondary
school teachers — all
of which fall within a less than 1 % chance
of automation.
The MDR division
of Dun & Bradstreet works to help companies engage with the best
educators for their brands through online communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET,
and School Leaders Now.
Part
of the problem is
educators» adherence to traditional thinking,
and schools» reliance on pedants rather than innovators to deliver entrepreneurship education, Blank says.
He was fascinated by the career
of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's
schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983
and a legendary
educator who pushed for integration
and better performance in public
schools.
«The role
of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the
educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out
and see what really works super well
and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland
schools conference, according to the Post.
Classical pianist Ivan Davis, a music
educator at the University
of Miami's Frost
School of Music for 42 years, won international awards
and played alongside luminaries like Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein
and Van Cliburn during his career.
Lawmakers also decided to set aside $ 400 million in new spending on
school security and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educ
school security
and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus
of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educ
School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students
and educators.
During his career as an
educator, he was a teacher with the Roman Catholic
School Board in St. John's, a Supervising Vice-Principal with the Port - au - Port Roman Catholic
School Board
and a Supervising Principal
of the Placentia - St.
Its world - class
educators work in partnership with engineers
and designers to build
and test an education technology platform within AltSchool's network
of lab
schools.
As an
educator, Wendy is an adjunct professor at the University
of British Columbia's Sauder
School of Business, where she leads programs for business families
and their advisors in the Business Families Centre.
Teachers in Arizona
and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea
of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public
schools in a bid for better pay
and education funding, building on
educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.
Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale
of high - capacity ammunition magazines
and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children
and six
educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown in 2012.
Sangeet is the co-chair
of the MIT Platform Strategy Summit at the MIT Media Labs, an Entrepreneur - in - residence at INSEAD Business
School,
and an executive
educator with Harvard Business
School Publishing.
If a dozen different public
school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part
of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams
of educators, parents
and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.
If the family really is the domestic church
and parents the primary
educators and protectors
of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting
and supporting them as the first
and best
of teachers in the home, the
school of human virtues.
Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in
educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts
of how poor kids get cheated by the tightwad public
schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society
of the United States.
Bad
school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker
and educator of the year for 2009.
Catholic University
of America in Washington was the site
of a meeting with hundreds
of educators,
and, echoing the language
of John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990), Benedict underscored that Catholic
schools are «integral to the mission
of the Church,»
and «the primary mission
of the Church is evangelization.»
And to win the support
of educators who do not share the neoconservative commitment to educational reform rooted largely, if not exclusively, in Western traditions, he argues that in pluralistic America, if
schools do their job there can indeed be one cultural vocabulary.
Combativeness may appear in a gunman, swaggering, contentious
and violent, or in an
educator who has declared war on the ignorance
of a Chinese province,
and against all obstacles is building
schools with which to win his fight.
Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
Of course, The Laurels
and The Cedars are just two
schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in
schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home
educators,
and about a range
of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of other initiatives including the steady growth
of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of the Catechesis
of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of the Good Shepherd
and the projects arising out
of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake
and Beauty in the Word.
For Protestants, a church
school with teachers, subject matter, curriculum resources, age - graded classes, supplies, equipment, classrooms
and, if possible, a professional church
educator has been the norm; for Roman Catholics, parochial
schools or some other form
of catechetics.
Every parent has a right
and a duty to ensure that their primary role as
educators of their children is not sub-contracted out to
schools.
Again, the questions raised by Roman Catholic
educators about their own
schools and methods often run parallel to those
of Protestants
and their reflections are helpful to the latter.
Here, under «Home,
School and Parish», a spirit
of «collaboration» is mentioned
and the «Church» teaching that parents are the «first teachers» (not «primary
educators») is explained as «underlin (ing) the role
and responsibility
of parents within the home as the place where faith is formed
and nurtured.»
Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects
of low levels
of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the
educators — as well as the negative effects
of family socioeconomic variables
and race displayed in public
schools.
Indeed, nearly half
of the nation's public
school educators are practicing Christians
and 95 percent
of Protestant pastors believe Christians should get involved in helping public
schools (Barna).
After all, it was through political
and legal struggles over many years,
and as a result
of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature
of a free society
and adopted policies protecting the rights
of parents
and of educators to maintain
and receive public funding for faith - based
schools.
So it is a case
of agreeing to disagree
and of seeking to reduce conflict by allowing
educators to create distinctive
schools and allowing parents to choose among those
schools without financial penalty.
Clearly Catholic
educators would not wish to remove the Gothic, the detective story (which W. H. Auden claimed was part
of a Protestant tradition) or the novel from their
school curricula, not least because redemption is a central Catholic concept
and even the novel can be redeemed.
And for that to happen the Catholic
school needs to take on board Benedict XVI's reminder to Catholic
educators in the USA in 2008 that there is much more to Catholic education than the nature
of the curriculum: «Catholic identity,» he said, «is not dependent upon statistics.
Various explanations are offered in the article to explain the resistance
of Jewish
educators to teaching more courses on Christianity in religious
schools» the hostility born
of victimization, fear
of opening Jewish children to proselytizing,
and «monism» in Jewish thinking.
Obviously, parents remain important
educators,
and some are able to transmit their values in ways that supplement or even oppose those
of the
schools.
Educators who believe deeply in the mission
of faith - based
schooling should become consistent in translating it into every detail
of school life,
and doing so without apology.
It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association
of Theological
Schools (ATS)
and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work
of some theological
educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions;
and by a series
of seminars
and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some
of the results
of this research
and reflection.
As my research indicates, where the leadership
of the diocese is theologically orthodox, there are more vocations that could fill the role
of educators in these
schools, the altars
of the Churches,
and a wide array
of needs, both practical
and spiritual,
of the Church, at large.
The real issue is not the threat such projects pose to the authority
of the home
and school, but the fact that young people come to high
school so dismally uninformed religiously by home
and church that responsible
educators feel obliged to take up the task.
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