Sentences with phrase «persistent challenges in education»

The 2014 i3 competition includes priorities that target specific areas of need, expanding the i3 portfolio of solutions that addresses persistent challenges in education.

At the same time, we need to continue to build a broad and deep portfolio of solutions that address persistent challenges in education, particularly for disadvantaged students,» said U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Jim Shelton.

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«The track record of top - performing countries, early evidence of positive effects from faithful implementation of high - quality curricula here in the United States, and the persistent evidence that our classrooms are under - challenging our students at every level compel us to put materials that we use to teach at the core of serious education reform.»

«I look at problems in education that are persistent and challenging,» he said, «and work my way back to the kinds of pedagogy, content, assessment, teacher professional development, parental input, and other variables involved to see if there might be a way that technology could make a difference.»

Over the course of the 20th century, some of the most persistent challenges in public education — from the dropout problem in the 1950s, to educational disadvantage in the 1960s, to school discipline in recent years — have been reframed in psychological terms.

«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.

Given the charter landscape here, leaders are able to quickly plan and test solutions to some of our nation's most persistent challenges in public education.

One of our persistent challenges will be to develop and integrate more authentic classroom experiences in which preservice teachers can explore the use of technology to promote pedagogical goals within our teacher education programs.

«While the overall trend lines are positive, these persistent and significant gaps are a reminder of the importance of the commonwealth's efforts to improve instruction and raise achievement in schools challenged by poverty and other impediments to learning,» Secretary of Education Anne Holton said.