«Florida is rated the fifth - best state
on quality of our public schools by Education Week's Quality Counts report, despite the fact that the state is ranked close to the bottom in funding for schools and teacher pay,» said Andy Ford, president of the statewide teachers union.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting
on inaccuracies in the articles
of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion
of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke
of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow
of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack
of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number
of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations
of allegations by former members concerning the practices
of Scientology; corruption in the leadership
of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic
of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record
of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values
of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out
of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy
of various proposed solutions to the failed war
on drugs; the poor -
quality televised news program for teens (with lots
of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many
of America's
public schools; an early exploration
of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study
of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one
of the world's last substantial rain forests.
An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the
quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less
on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing
public school students to switch to Bridge
schools.
«Maintaining mayoral control
of city
schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend
on high
quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO
of the Partnership for New York City.
Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after
school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying
of LGBT students in
public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the
quality of life
on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale
of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.
I have been proud to lead the fight in creating several high -
quality schools with more
on the way, opening new
public parks and upgrading our waterfront, new retail, and the rebuilding
of the World Trade Center.
Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing
of the party
on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals,
schools and other vital
public services to drive up the
quality in a more cost effective way.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point remains
on warning by its academic accrediting agency even as the
school has improved all but one
of the five
quality benchmarks it failed last year, according to a status update made
public yesterday.
«Maintaining mayoral control
of city
schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend
on high
quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president
of the Partnership for New York City.
«This decision should bring an end to the politicking and grandstanding and allow us all to focus
on what matters most: continuing to improve the
quality of education we offer New York City's
public school children,» Mayor Bloomberg said.
On Thursday, with the New York State Board
of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and
public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all
public school students have access to high -
quality teachers.
Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction
of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation
on longer
school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining
public safety and
quality of life.
Collaborating with the Alliance for
Quality Education and Citizen Action
of New York in efforts to fairly fund
public schools, she sits
on NYSUT's LGBTQ Task Force, which resolves to support legislation banning conversion therapy and to protect intended parental rights.
«Our landmark achievents
on education has been manifested in the
quality of public school products.
Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district
public schools to make decisions based
on teacher
quality, does violence to the cause
of improving the
quality of education for the overwhelming majority
of students who don't attend charter
schools.
In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest, acting
on behalf
of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free
Schools, a coalition
of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the
School Construction Authority and the Department
of Education for violating the
Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental
Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.
Smitsonian Institution Programs Summer Archeology Programs Connected with DC Universities [Program for Deaf Students] Drinking Water
Quality Research Center, Miami, FL [proposal for outreach to disabled students] Museum
of Science and Industry, IL Chicago
Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report
on Survey
of the Special Educational Programs
of Members
of the Association
of Science Technology Centers University
of Kentucky Outdoor Education for Handicapped Project Directory
of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes
on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League
of Hard
of Hearing, NY Center
of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County
Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info
on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal
of Education and Interpretation OOPS Out
of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out
of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 1980 - 1981
«My concern is that independent trials are
on the decline and that means we have less high -
quality data to inform
public health that are not influenced by commercial interests,» says study leader Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Bloomberg
School's Department
of Epidemiology.
The
quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact
on the number
of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health researchers suggests.
«The findings
of both studies support a growing body
of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve
quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader
of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor
of Epidemiology at Yale
School of Public Health, and principal investigator
on both studies.
In 2014, researchers from nine institutions, including the Harvard
School of Public Health and the University
of Michigan, concluded that BPA is a «reproductive toxicant,» based
on studies showing that it reduced egg
quality in women undergoing in vitro fertilization — and said there's strong evidence that it's toxic to the uterus as well.
In addition, he is looking to work with partners for creative solutions
on delivering
quality early literacy education, which he sees as a vital initiative for stemming the low - performance culture
of Holyoke
public schools.
«I credit my own Montana
public school education for affording me the opportunity to go on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're from.&
school education for affording me the opportunity to go
on to the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're from.&
School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance
of giving all kids a
quality education, no matter where they're from.»
The
quality of America's
public schools ultimately depends
on the competence and commitment
of its teachers.
Assessment is at the heart
of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely
on these scores to judge the
quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether
public schools are up to scratch.
On the third page
of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the
quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at
public schools attended by students lotteried out
of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»
Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert
on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in education policy is shifting, as issues
of school quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»
This education reform documentary, produced and directed by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty
of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona
public school who set out
on a journey toward improving the
quality of their teaching by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.
The
quality of our
public schools has been measured in innumerable ways, and stakeholders may draw
on any number
of sources for rankings to support a particular agenda.
This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis
of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken
on field trips to see high -
quality theater performances; a study
of teacher evaluation systems in four urban
school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses
of different evaluation systems; and the results
of Education Next's annual survey
of public opinion
on education.
The program's effect
on today's participants may differ due to changes in which private
schools participate in the program, which students participate, and the
quality of the
public schools that FTC students would otherwise attend.
If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the
quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities
of meaningful influence over
school curricula; centralize a great deal
of power in the hands
of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use
of large amounts
of personal data
on students without the consent
of parents; usher in an era
of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums
of public funding that could be spent to better effect
on other aspects
of education.»
The fact that traditional
public schools experienced net gains in performance, despite a slight decrease in average student
quality, suggests that our estimates
of the effects
of charter -
school competition may understate the true effect
of charters
on traditional
public schools.
For much
of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the
quality of public schooling, discussions
of magnet
schools have centered
on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models
of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the
public system.
Charter
schools have the potential to have broader effects
on student achievement if traditional
public schools respond to the threat
of losing students to charter
schools by improving the
quality of their own education programs.
The issue
of the relative
quality of private and
public schools was at the core
of our research, and we relied
on both data
on school resources and day - to - day operations and
on student achievement scores.
Since my focus is
on life and learning at the intersections
of the arts and education, there seems to always be considerable work ahead to ensure that high -
quality arts learning experiences are available to all through our
public schools and out -
of -
school settings.
Moreover, the similarity
of trends in
public and private
schools casts doubt
on explanations that emphasize the failure
of public schools to match growth in parental demand for teacher
quality.
The Project
on the Next Generation
of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future
of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
This research is part
of the Project
on the Next Generation
of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future
of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
He has built a number
of educational organizations focused
on advancing global education and in improving the
quality of education in
public schools in Colombia.
A recent report from the National Council
on Teacher
Quality (NCTQ) tracked teacher retention across the Miami - Dade County Public Schools as one of several indicators correlated with teacher q
Quality (NCTQ) tracked teacher retention across the Miami - Dade County
Public Schools as one
of several indicators correlated with teacher
qualityquality.
Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents
on local education issues, including assignment processes for
schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the
quality of Boston
public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group
of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).
Rockoff and Lockwood also examined survey data
on New York City parents whose children attended both types
of schools and found that parents whose children attend K - 8
public schools rated their
schools higher
on education
quality, academic rigor and
school safety compared to parents whose children attend stand - alone middle
schools.
If Republicans and Democrats disagree strongly
on the options for
school reform, changes are unlikely — despite clear signs that the
public is concerned about the
quality of public education.
The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional
schools, including those focused
on education,
public health,
public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the
quality of life for us all.
It was thought early
on that
public charter
schools would serve as «laboratories
of education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high -
quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.
Since 1968, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an office
of the Department
of Education, has collected data from
public schools on student and
school characteristics to ensure all students have equal access to a
quality education.
Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely
on these scores to judge the
quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold
public schools accountable for providing the high -
quality education every child deserves.
That would seem to be a pretty clear
public vote
on the
quality of the district's middle
schools.