Sentences with phrase «plagued education»

The rollout of the Common Core standards offers California — and most of the nation — an opportunity to address some of the issues that have plagued education reform in the past.

This is unsurprising given the enormous uptick in online courses and technology tools in K — 12 schools nationwide, not to mention the promise that technology holds to dismantle barriers to access and experience that have plagued the education system for years.

We thought that these new methods of causal inference had enormous potential for resolving critical problems that plagued education research.

Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), a Christian charity which trains church members to offer regular one - hour mentoring sessions to youngsters in difficult circumstances, told Premier that «injustice» plagues the education system.

She wrote, «It's a joke, of course, but it speaks volumes about the problems plaguing education today.»

As an education writer, I winced, then laughed, then winced again when I read Alia Wong's rumination in The Atlantic on what plagues education reporting.

During the discussion at Askwith Hall, Rhee shared her experiences and warned the audience that she didn't have a lot of answers to the issues that plague education, but that she certainly had many opinions.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

«We need to see serious change to the data - driven madness plaguing education policy and increasing teachers» workload way beyond manageable levels.

We are dedicated to eliminating the severe racial inequities that continue to plague our education system.

Frances, if I understand you correctly, you're claiming that the fundamental financial problem plaguing education in CA after insufficient funding is overpaying teachers.

Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and research fellow at The Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said many educators and others are «sympathetic» to issues plaguing education today.

Today, controversy, suspicion, and accusations plague education, from the kindergarten classroom to federal level policies.

A reinvigorated and purposeful tenure system could provide answers to some big problems plaguing education: teacher quality, differentiated professional development and pathways for teachers, and attracting and retaining teachers through better support systems and recognition.

James is evidence of the lemons that plague the education system that Principals fantasize about getting rid of but can't.

Not exact matches

Together they had found a soulmate in another product of a strict Christian education — Nikos Kazantzakis, of Greek Orthodox background — and decided that his novel, presenting a fictional version of a Jesus who had trouble resisting all the tempting opportunities that plague the rest of us, should be made into a movie.

More me thinking about the state of education in America through the historical and theoretical sources of our present discontent: The central object of Lockean education, the rational control of nature, begins with the defective natural constitution that originally plagues all children,....

The central object of Lockean education, the rational control of nature, begins with the defective natural constitution that originally plagues all children, «their natural wrong inclinations.»

«My message to everyone is you got to get this done by June 30 and that the results of not getting it done by June 30 is that we start back down the road of a system that failed our children,» added de Blasio, referring to the old Board of Education system that was plagued by political patronage and other problems.

Today is a nationwide «Day of Action» around issues plaguing public education.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

In addition to the economic and social development challenges that face individual countries, regional disparities in the capacity for scientific advancement and research and in the quality of education continue to plague the development of a strong, unified research community.

Organizations like the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Environmental Working Group are at the forefront of education and activism in dealing with this plague of toxicity.

Reviewed by Ralph A. Raimi California's «math wars,» the struggle over what is sometimes called the «new New Math,» illustrate all the ills and disagreements that have plagued American education for the past century.

California's «math wars,» the struggle over what is sometimes called the «new New Math,» illustrate all the ills and disagreements that have plagued American education for the past century.

Thus writes Matthew Lambert in his new book, Privatization and the Public Good: Public Universities in the Balance, an analysis of present - day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.

In a new article for Education Next, Richard Lee Colvin reports that Anderson's replacement, Chris Cerf, is effecting positive change for students and leaders in a district previously plagued by conflict through his commitment to listen before acting.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

Simultaneously we must capitalize on the resources at HGSE to embark on an endless pursuit of best practices and strong practitioners with whom we can foster equity in public education and begin to chip away at the opportunity debt that still plagues our nation.

This is another plague of education, so to have some more fun I call it «aboutitis.»

This is a persistent plague of education, so to have a little fun I call it «elementitis.»

Many of the problems that plague American education are beyond the control of the schools and will have to be addressed by other means.

With minorities composing 20 percent of the enrollment, the school could easily experience the kind of self - segregation that plagues many education institutions.

Enabling high school students to take college courses for college credit while still enrolled in high school is intended by its advocates to help solve multiple problems that plague American education.

Still, it wasn't until Figueroa was an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, studying the social, political, and economic issues plaguing low - income Latino communities that the field of education called out to him, he says.

Another issue plaguing the online education space is the lack of intermediate level courses.

The reason we have been plagued by these public school wars is that we have compelled all taxpayers to support a single official organ of education.

This School of Education, along with many of our peers, remains committed to the understanding that high levels of academic accomplishment for all demographic groups is an essential, if not fundamental, factor in closing the achievement and opportunity gaps that plague our nation.

A mayor's capacity for leadership addresses a significant problem that has plagued urban education for decades - namely, shifting and rival coalitions backing school reform, weak and unstable school boards, and frequent changes of superintendents.

That capacity for leadership addresses a significant problem that has plagued urban education for decades - namely, shifting and rival coalitions backing school reform, weak and unstable school boards, and frequent changes of superintendents.

The WRONG way to think about federal policy in education is to identify the myriad problems plaguing our schools, and then dream up federal solutions, as if Congress could pass a law and magically things would change in the real world (and without any unintended consequences).

To start making a dent in a supply problem that plagues schools nationwide, Bloomberg and Klein turned their backs on old - school education administration programs at universities and instead opted to create a nonprofit leadership academy to train school leaders to be the kind of principals who can transform struggling schools.

With innovation as its approach to tackling entrenched problems and attitudes that plague many urban centers of education, Project L.I.F.T. relies on several research - proven programs and applications in its turnaround strategy.

program is crucial to addressing the issues plaguing the American education system.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

Why is American education plagued by «been there, done that» syndrome?

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

I left teaching, in part, due to my frustration with the school reforms that plague public schools and are intent on privatizing education.

The Walton Family Foundation is dedicated to changing the trajectory of young people's lives and helping end the poverty that plagues so many of our nation's communities by expanding K - 12 education opportunities for all students.

All were plagued with underdeveloped education systems, low levels of literacy (40 % in Portugal in the 1950s), low school completion, and high rates of emigration to the US.