Sentences with phrase «of traditional education»

What we have seen is that as schools move away from promoting competition, those parents who think schools are not providing enough competitive outlets go outside of the traditional education system.

That's also why criticism is mounting of traditional education schools and teacher - preparation programs.

This has not been one of the strong points of traditional education.

Whether it's due to lack of time or lack of awareness, goal - setting has not been a part of our traditional education system.

The compliant classroom is the picture of traditional education.

And just five percent (down from seven percent last year) of programs had components for a strong student teaching experience, the hallmark of traditional education programs.

Education reform often appears a zero - sum battle, one that pits crusaders demanding accountability and choice against much of the traditional education establishment, including teachers unions.

But the deeper story here is that Douglas County is a compelling case study in the collapse of the traditional education reform agenda.

A company in North Carolina is trying to create new manufacturing jobs, and in the process it is challenging the economics of a traditional education.

But I do think that no matter what side of the traditional education debate you're on, we can envision that things can be different, that we can take different approaches and things can change.

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

What happened in Douglas County is an illuminating case study in the failure of the traditional education reform agenda.

Sadly, the Obamas, Bookers and Fords of the world remain in short supply because the channels that produce them are locked in the grip of traditional education leadership and civil rights groups, like the NAACP, who have lost their way and who now oppose charters and other forms of choice.

Let's talk about other examples of traditional education that have become outmoded because of technology.

The application is priced as a pay - as - you - go model which suits parents and students on tight budgets, and during the uncertainty over the future of traditional education - this seems an attractive proposition.

In the case of traditional education, if you want to enroll for some course that is not available in your city, then you would have to move to that city by putting on stake your job.

The unbundling of services and products encourages a supply - side response that puts pressure on all facets of the traditional education system to be far more responsive to student needs.

Or the student may be frustrated by the slow, piece by piece, step by step, method of traditional education, when he learns best in large chunks instead of individual steps or pieces.

When parents and students make the decision to seek a better education at a public charter school — which comes at no cost to them — they do so because they are dissatisfied with the status quo of traditional education.

In the shorthand of the traditional education lobby, TER was often tied to the powerful Texans for Lawsuit Reform, sharing common lobbyists.

The driving question, stated with simple elegance, was «What is possible when we change the design and delivery of traditional education for children that teachers find hard to teach?»

It compared college and university course grades for students who took dual enrollment courses with grades of traditional education students who attended the same high schools, statistically controlling for prior academic achievement (ACT scores) and self - reported demographic characteristics.

His critique of traditional education helped inspire school staff there to create Learning Unlimited, Indiana's first alternative public school of choice in 1974.

An early 2017 piece by freelancer George Joseph blamed charter schools for fueling urban school resegregation, downplaying the enormous role of the traditional education system (and belittling the decisions of black and brown parents who choose charter schools).

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.

In the classic cognitive skills of traditional education, it's the difference between the bottom of Bloom's taxonomy (memorization) and the top (evaluation).

«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees as a giant hole in much of traditional education — a focus on «academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in life.

Although the current evidence is significantly limited, initial survey data from WGU suggest that the school's performance is comparable to that of traditional education schools.

Her work focuses on design - and maker - centered learning environments, projects that value «learning by doing,» and approaches to documentation and assessment in settings that that don't easily fit «in the box» of traditional education.