Sentences with phrase «only model of education»

Because I was a public school educator, the assumption was that the only model of education I'd ever support was that of a traditional public school.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Not only does Wood distance himself from the «Berlin» model's picture of what is involved in education in Wissenschaft he also rejects its definition of theological education as professional schooling: «Theological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education» (93).

Though these two elements — integration and formation — are the most costly parts of college life, they are also the only reasons not to reduce the spendy, four - year residential model to a two - year, web - based, vocation - focused, trade - school model of higher education.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

On the other hand, if you appropriate the «Berlin» model's stress on Wissenschaft on the «Athens» model's terms (wissenschaftlich education as paideia - like «formation» in capacities for critical inquiry) do not suppose that you can omit the other pole of «professional» education, for as we have seen, Wissenschaft is theologically relevant only insofar as it is tied to church leadership roles.

Now that the education of midwives has moved mainly into the university clinical model, we are on the verge of having a monoculture of birth where there is only one way for birth to unfold in the system.

It's a lot of work, but a good education when you're already a successful model is only an advantage.

The charity is the only organisation enabling state schools to utilise the experience of alumni as work experience providers, mentors and e-mentors, career and education role models and as governors, fundraisers and donors.

[8] While individual - level models controlling only for race and gender showed blacks more likely to be identified, adding a family socioeconomic status variable eliminated the effect of race for blacks, while Hispanics and Asians were significantly less likely to be in special education.

We need gentle pressure, relentlessly pursued toward transparent and defensible targets, esteeming the expertise of educators who make these difference, while building a profession based on this expertise... an education implementation model that is shared between schools and not resident in only a few.»

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School District).

The «one size fits all» model that characterizes American education typically encourages students to earn bachelor's degrees, even though today, as Symonds points out, the percentage of Americans who actually earn bachelor's degrees by age 27 is still quite small — only 30 percent.

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

The Edcamp model has not only made an impact, but it has sustained and continues to grow — so much so that it took over the United States Department of Education during the summer last year.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

Except that, given that the report explicitly celebrates teacher «residencies,» flags only models like the Boston Teacher Residency, talks explicitly of «instructional rounds,» and so forth, the near - certainty is that higher education and state education agencies which run with the NCATE agenda will do so with BTR as the model.

There's little doubt that many education decision makers see the value of self assessment and improvement planning but in the face of changing college structures driven by area reviews and new entrants to the apprenticeship delivery market, including many who are migratingfrom sub-contracting models to direct contracting with the ESFA, a review of good practice can only be beneficial.

It is the only organization in West Africa that is committed to the development of global education through Model United Nations Programs.

In Hibel, Farkas and Morgan (2010), the «underrepresentation» of blacks in special education becomes statistically significant only once the test score controls are included, going from Model 2 to Model 3 in Table 5.

Only then will we be positioned to address the big questions and concerns facing the field, including that of «fade out» — the observation that positive effects of exposure to high - quality early education are not maintained through the school years — and those of scale, including what models work, for whom, and under what conditions.

Schools of education can only go so far if they try to reach new outcomes within the confines of their existing business models.

Only a few studies to date have investigated the application of the TPACK model in special education settings.

«The Teaching for Better Learning (TBL) model and standards set out in this article contribute an innovative approach to our thinking about teaching standards that not only challenges persistent and oft - criticized norms in the design and approach to standards set out for the teaching profession, but proposes an alternative approach,» said Associate Professor Mark Barrow, dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland.

Not only is it important for the future of education to make sure student teachers are placed with successful role models, we must do the same with new teachers in our schools.

Otherwise, we risk squandering the great potential charters have to transform not only the lives of children in their care but also provide models for how all public education can improve.

ISAAC, a public charter middle school serving grades 6 - 8, is one of more than 150 EL Education model schools nationwide, but one of only 18 chosen to be a part of the project.

But for young people caught in the middle, and for an education system caught up in a whirlwind of reform, this feels like something that should only be introduced after careful planning and modelling and widespread consultation with schools, colleges and the young people it will affect.

Agile Mind is honored to be one of only two education companies to receive the 2016 Tibbetts Award, and to be identified as a beacon of promise and model of excellence in high technology.

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

In the IDRA bilingual education cost model, only those costs unique to the implementation of the specialized program were considered (Robledo, 2008).

Expanding school choice for all families would shift how we presently fund public education from the «taxes - > public schools only» model to a «taxes - > families (in the form of education savings accounts (ESAs) or flexible vouchers)- > one or many educational options» model.

There need to be more male role models for children in early years education, the school leaders» union NAHT says, as only 3 % of teachers in this field are men.

Rocketship education model declared «unsound» Alum Rock's board of education voted to deny Rocketship in a packed standing room only board meeting that lasted until late Thursday night.

I accept that there is a strong case for revamping the stakeholder model by making greater use of co-opted governors with insights gained from outside education such as business, social services, police, health etc but without sacrificing the common - sense and commitment made by local people, especially but not only parents, with a strong interest in their community's, not the academy trust's, schools.

At the same conference, a session featuring the education minister of Finland, whose education system is considered a model by many reformers, was standing - room - only.

Outside of parenting, the only model we see consistently is education.

However, the systemic problems in our education model are so pervasive and entangled that — asked only to address the constitutionality of our spending — Moukawsher has found himself requiring the state to produce a plan that also addresses standards, human resources, special education, and the relationship between state and local government.

This budget assumes that the State will enact education funding reform along the lines of Senate Bill 1, which is the only evidence - based funding model that has won approval from the General Assembly.

It was not what I expected from an invitation - only gathering for more than a thousand education leaders, including many who have been obsessed over the years with «disrupting» and «reimagining» a perceived «factory model» of education.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

They reinforced that mode of schooling, in which only a few children received a high - quality education, and they were used to sort students hierarchically within that model.

When all of these essential components are in place, online learning establishments have the ability to not only provide students with the skill sets and knowledge base that they are looking for, but a virtual education platform that helps to contribute to the future success of (and serves as a model of excellence for) the e-learning industry.

Apple is the only major name in the low - cost tablet category and it launched a new model of iPad priced at $ 329 for the education market.

The Institute also highlighted the Golden Gate National Parks» local food work at Muir Woods Café, which not only serves as a national model of local and organic food sourcing, sustainable packaging, waste management, and customer education, but also thrives as a local culinary hotspot.

The aim is not only to draw attention to the vital role of education and to the challenges of reform but also to introduce new perspectives on learning and creativity with potential new educational models in mind.

In preparing for PowerPlay, Chicago executed extensive drawings of the male nude, which she recalls as being frightening and difficult due to only ever having access to female models during her art education.

Maybe with the few great movers and shakers of today along with the one presidential candidate and his VP pick, both of whom provide models, again, of the power of education and literacy, of restoring peace and dialogue as the first order, we can restore not only the impeccable English written and oratory skills of yesterday, but also restore our sense of obligation for caring about our one, finite planet.

The study proposes a «paradigm shift» to outcome models, recognizing that sanitation not only remains a focus of international development targets but is also linked to many other development issues such as health, environment, education, gender, disability, tourism and economic growth.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31