Sentences with phrase «policy challenges in our schools»

These kinds of solutions don't surprise me, because states have always been more effective at addressing policy challenges in our schools.

Not exact matches

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

I no longer have children in the school system but would have challenged this if the policy had been in place when they were in school as my kids packed more often than they ate at school.

SNA has updated unpaid meal charge talking points to assist members in responding to questions about meal charge policies and to educate parents, reporters and legislators on the challenges school nutrition professionals face when students are unable to pay for their school meals.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Speaking at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre's Seminar with the theme «Repositioning Nigerian Army Command School for Quality Education in the 21st Century in Abuja on Thursday, Buratai who was represented by Major General Lincon Ogunewe, Chief of Policy and Plans, Army HQ, noted that children who were deprived of quality education would be ill - equipped to face the challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22 century.

«No notice detention already exists but must be used judiciously, with schools ensuring that its use is clear in their behaviour policy and communicated fully to parents to avoid challenges being mounted against the school.

The 2016 flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said that the government's Free Senior High School policy will not help to address the teething challenges in the country's education sector.

In the Spring of 2012, following 16 months of challenging and collaborative work by a dedicated group of community volunteers and Buffalo School District professionals and students, the BUFFALO BOARD of EDUCATION approved a comprehensive and updated District wide Wellness Policy.

On policy, the English commitment to democracy, to equal life chances and to challenging corporate excess can be seen in widespread support for an elected Lords, free school meals and the «Robin Hood» tax.

Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth.»

«We've heard from our military families about the challenges they face when a service member is reassigned, and we need policies that better accommodate spouses with careers and children in school,» Gillibrand said.

In the period since the introduction of the free schools policy there have been substantial challenges for education — not least the political conflation of education and the battle against extremist teaching.

Then one day, unexpectedly, I received an invitation to speak at a conference entitled «Promoting Responsible Conduct of Research: Policies, Challenges, and Opportunities,» sponsored by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and Tufts University School of Medicine.

Paez returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management programs the opportunities and challenges of advancing reforms that seek greater social justice.

One of the biggest challenges for parents and schools is to develop policies and practice for a subject matter that is constantly in motion.

CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research, Professor Geoff Masters, authored a policy update in May 2016 to outline five challenges facing Australian school education.

AS: There's emerging research out of England (Ball, Maguire & Braun, 2012) that's looked at the challenges that schools have in bringing together all sorts of policies and policy documents, legislation, in a coherent way.

Today's advocates for better schools are insurgent groups that challenge the establishment by encouraging parents to engage actively in K - 12 reform efforts, demanding major changes in school choice and teacher policies, as well as school governance.

The new course, Thinking and Acting Like an Education Reformer, will use the case method to understand leadership and policy challenges in high schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected a constitutional challenge to a Massachusetts district's policy of making condoms available to students in its junior and senior high schools without notifying parents.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every chilIn an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every chilin a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivereIn the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deliverein the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

Once again, the organisers have been hugely encouraged by the efforts of schools in all sectors in what has been a challenging year, with several policy changes and funding issues occupying plenty of time.

The four - day leadership development program drew on the expertise and research of Harvard faculty and leading practitioners in framing the challenges faced by charter schools and their school communities while also addressing the larger state - level policy environment.

Individuals, school districts, cities, states, and charities are among those that have challenged the Scouts» policy against accepting acknowledged homosexuals and those who refuse to affirm a belief in God.

Tom Bentley, principal adviser to the vice-chancellor, RMIT University and Glenn C. Savage, senior lecturer in education policy at the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education, recently released the paper, titled Educating Australia: challenges for the decade ahead.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

As educators» discretionary authority over school discipline has been challenged and undermined, counterproductive authoritarian measures such as zero - tolerance policies have been implemented in its place.

With these strengths and challenges in mind, the OECD sets out an ambitious reform agenda covering three key areas: promoting equity; building capacity for teaching and learning; and policy steering, accountability and school improvement.

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

Neil Carberry, CBI Director for People and Skills policy, said: «The drop in England's overall performance will be a concern to businesses as well as to thousands of school teachers across the country who are doing a very challenging job.

Education policy needs to take account of the differing experiences that children have in their communities and at home, and not assume that schools alone can overcome the multiple and significant challenges posed by poverty and social disadvantage.

The challenge, as a recent report by the Consortium of School Networking makes clear, is that both teachers and administrators «struggle with what these new applications mean in terms of school policies and practices.&School Networking makes clear, is that both teachers and administrators «struggle with what these new applications mean in terms of school policies and practices.&school policies and practices.»

Based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP is releasing a set of three Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) today that challenge common assumptions about college - going patterns in U.S. school districts and provide deeper insight into the health and performance of school districts.

First, the programs can be broad, aiming to incentivize policy changes in multiple areas in one fell swoop, or narrowly focused on a specific challenge facing most school systems.

Jimmy Casas, a high school principal from Bettendorf, Iowa, who attended the summit, predicts that meeting the #FutureReady challenge will require an expansion in «student - led initiatives that give students a voice in curriculum offerings, school policies, design of classroom and other learning spaces, lesson / unit design, student - led conferences and feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom.»

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districtIn collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distSchool's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districtin large urban school distschool districts.

In 2007, Mass Insight showed that instruction - driven, curriculum - driven policies could not transform the schools with the greatest challenges, and that the mass dismissal of teachers was a bad idea.

But we believe in private school choice, too — indeed, we believe in every kind of school choice that works for kids — and have previously mapped the touchy territory of accountability for «voucher schools» and advised policy makers on how to deal with these challenging trade - offs and balancing acts.

Alumni from the NACSA Leaders Program are equipped with the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage the challenges authorizers face in aligning their agency's policies and practices with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing and advocate for policy that supports quality authorizing.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

Re: thinking Re: thinking blends personal reflection with a challenge to rethink school culture and policy as 9th grade teacher Ben Wildeboer finds teachable moments in events like the Japanese quake and explains the importance of «hard fun» for students.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by holding that a California father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.

Because these challenges are the result of long - term shifts in city demographics, societal conditions, and urban K 12 public policies, it would seem that there is little that Catholic - school leaders can do to stem the tide.

Five of the eight participating justices concluded that because Michael A. Newdow did not have the legal right to represent his daughter's interests in court, he could not challenge the pledge policy of the Elk Grove Unified School District.

The Tangipahoa Parish, La., school board unanimously agreed last week to change the word «prayer» to «invocation» in its practice on prayers before board meetings, a policy under challenge in a federal court lawsuit.