Sentences with phrase «old model of education»

The centuries - old model of education — the teacher as an expert who passes information along to the kids — is now turned on its head.

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But even Gates, a vocal advocate for uplifting those in the developing world, has said the old - school model of education doesn't always cut it.

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

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Johnson himself bemoaned the fact that he had to devote «this rare and sacred column space» to the issue, highlighting a range of issues he would have rather put thought to, including «singing a hymn of praise for my old chum Gove» over the education secretary's plans to scrap GCSE exams in England in favour of a traditional model styled on the old O - level.

By shifting to Career Pathways, the administration abandoned an old model of rapidly pairing workers with available jobs («rapid - attachment»), instead investing in the skill building and education that produce lasting employment.

In the fully adjusted model (model 4), more years of education and higher net worth were associated with a significantly lower odds of dementia, while older age, being African American or Hispanic, and having a history of stroke or diabetes were all associated with increased odds.

Through funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Lipitz Center will offer health care providers information, education and technical support to promote the adoption of the Hopkins - developed Guided Care model for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.

Rather than asking how reforms can encourage an array of options (public, private, or for - profit) to emerge that fit the needs of today's students, the free - public - college crowd wants to simply cram more people through the same old expensive, mediocre model of education.

But it isn't entirely clear yet whether XQ truly represents a more promising way of approaching high school redesign and education philanthropy or is simply a return to an old, somewhat discredited model in which funders let a thousand flowers bloom but never achieved large - scale improvement.

It's true that Gates is already investing in the development and refinement of the virtual hybrid school model, but a complete commitment to building new rather than reforming old would give him the potential to do what Rockefeller, Stanford, and others did to higher education.

For older education researchers, all calls to conduct formal experiments probably have a «déjà vu» quality, reminding them of a battle they thought they had won long ago — the battle against a «positivist» view of science that privileges the randomized experiment and its related research and development model whose origins lie in agriculture, health, public health, marketing, or even studies of the military.

«In the old model, expectations were very low,» confirms Veronica Aguilar, director of English learner support in the California Department of Education.

«We need,» said Blair appointee Estelle Morris just before resigning in 2002 as secretary of state for education, «a shift in understanding away from the old model of teaching as transmission of facts and figures towards one which captures the teacher's role as expert practitioners in advanced pedagogy.»

By 1997, as it became evident that this goal wasn't going to be met, President Clinton returned in his State of the Union speech to the old model of substituting quantity for quality: «We must make the 13th and 14th years of education - at least two years of college - just as universal in America by the 21st century as a high - school education is today.»

«They feel that it is good for the younger kids to have older role models in the building every day, that it gives them an understanding of the purpose and progression of education,» she went on.

Over the last several years, we have seen new approaches to Catholic education that shake free of the older models of how schools should be organized and run and provide proof points for a new type of Catholic school system.

Although the model was originally designed for older - than - traditional - age college and graduate students, Fann believes «there's nothing stopping» the principles of competency - based education and assessment from working in primary and secondary schools.

All states that meet federal criteria will now be allowed to take part in the U.S. Department of Education's 2 - year - old experiment with «growth models,» which let states measure individual students» achievement gains as a way of ensuring accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

This old model was well designed for efficient delivery of instruction in a world (1910 - 40) in which most students were not expected to finish high school, become great readers or mathematicians, or consider higher education.

Andrew Blumenfeld, a 20 - year - old member of the La Canada, Calif. school board (and a public face of Students for Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to smodel — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to sModel of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to serve.

«Under the old model, you got nothing,» says State Board of Education spokesperson Marc Lotter.

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

For more than a decade New Jersey's schools have served as a national model for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 2013.

The UTLA report suggests that L.A. Unified would save money on special education costs if all charters reverted to the «schools of the district» status, which is the old model for how charters used to operate regarding serving students with disabilities.

«I fear that, because this is the most aggressive model for this program, the privatization of education... will spread like wildfire,» said Electra McGrath - Skrzydlewski, whose 12 - year - old daughter is a student in the Clark County School District.

Schools and community colleges are moving from the old model of vocational education to the new model of school - to - work programs.

Following up on my most recent post about «School - Level Bias in the PVAAS Model in Pennsylvania,» also in Ohio — a state that also uses «the best» and «most sophisticated» VAM (i.e., a version of the Education Value - Added Assessment System [EVAAS]; for more information click here)-- this seems to be a problem, as per an older (2013) article just sent to me following my prior post «Teachers» «Value - Added» Ratings and [their] Relationship to Student Income Levels [being] Questioned.»

Under the precepts of the decades - old, traditional public education model the district clings to, children are supposed to come to school well - fed, well - rested and from stable, middle - class families.

It is time we lean into urban education as a place to jump - start the revitalization of an old - fashioned plodding system into a model for the 21st century.

In Azerbaijan, where the art education system, although rapidly changing, is still to a large extent based on an old Soviet model, the question about the formative role of art within a society sounds exceedingly timely.

Statistical modeling shows there are substantial differences between younger and older Americans that are independent of people's political beliefs, education levels or other factors.

In law schools, we are ahead of the curve in witnessing the decline of old higher education models.

Our Fellows have models that are globally unique and high impact; they are working on areas ranging from empowering older people and the disabled, ending starvation in Africa, providing global free education, to building a mass movement of food growers.