Sentences with phrase «of the alternative education movement»

Individual and school members get access to our conversational listserve and an extensive video library of speeches and interviews with some of the most famous and influential voices of the alternative education movement.

Individual and school members receive access to our global listserve and an extensive video library of speeches and interviews with some of the most famous and influential voices of the alternative education movement.

Not exact matches

My blogs and other writing cover topics on the impact of science on society including the effects of pseudoscience, the problems of alternative medicine, the anti-vaccination movement, gene patents, and the influence of sports on higher education.

The decision was perhaps the biggest advance yet for a movement that embraces not only vouchers, but also an assortment of new arrangements in public education, among them charter schools, corporate management of public schools, open enrollment, and other alternatives to traditional schools.

In CECIP's perspective, Brazil needs to foster Global Citizenship Education — with whatever denomination it takes -, since its methodologies and strategies for active learning, racism / sexism deconstruction, democracy reinforcement and glocal citizens formation make us more and more able to value and to use our great assets of joy, art, movement, ancestral sustainable values, attitudes and skills to increase our capacity to develop creative alternatives to unsustainable public policies.

Superintendents and union leaders looking for an alternative to a high - stakes, data - driven movement in education have showered the community schools model with praise, noting that it has expanded access to health care and social services, tackling problems thought to be causes of academic failure.

As parents dissatisfied with schools in both districts flock to charters, the debate continues: What is their impact on public education, and can traditional educational models amicably coexist with an alternative movement that shows no signs of abating?

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

Author of many books on education, including Summerhill: a Radical Approach to Childrearing, in 1960, which many feel inspired the free school and alternative school movements.

The American Federation of Teachers union is unveiling a seven - figure advertisement campaign ahead of Dec. 9, a day that the group has billed as a «national day of action» against the education reform movement and push alternative solutions.

BHQFU IS PERHAPS the highest - profile example of a growing alternative arts education movement.