Sentences with phrase «power over curriculum»

Primary schools in England would get more freedom from council control and power over curriculum, budget and hours under new Conservative proposals.

Greater power over the curriculum and the choice of texts has been a long - standing goal of the California teachers unions, which have sought, unsuccessfully, to pass state legislation that would have placed the issue squarely into collective bargaining negotiations.

The teachers, meanwhile, will have power over curriculum decisions that used to be left to the board.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

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The episodes will be disseminated to New England high school classrooms with the help of Harvard's Life Sciences Outreach (LSO) Program; on the website of the Amgen Biotech Experience, a curriculum that is implemented by over 70,000 students nationally and internationally; and by leveraging the considerable PR power of Harvard and the other institutions the team visits.

Under the reforms, communities gain unprecedented power over local schools» curricula, significant portions of the school day go to arts instruction and community service, and teachers are required to incorporate hands - on, exploratory teaching techniques pioneered by researchers such as HGSE professors Eleanor Duckworth and Howard Gardner.

Don't lead students to believe that contributing to curriculum decisions means that they will have sole power over every assignment, test, and project.

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.»

Giving schools power over designing the curriculum syllabus, approving textbook lists, and determining the school budget seems to be detrimental to student performance.

A Note to Educators: Pedagogy Surpasses Curriculum — In this blog series, Carrie and our CEO, Kristyn Klei Borrero, discuss the power of pedagogy over curriculum and high - leverage pedagogical strategies that make up any effectiCurriculum — In this blog series, Carrie and our CEO, Kristyn Klei Borrero, discuss the power of pedagogy over curriculum and high - leverage pedagogical strategies that make up any effecticurriculum and high - leverage pedagogical strategies that make up any effective lesson.

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

The theory invites a great deal of creativity in teaching and learning and over the last 35 years, arts educators, in particular, have used the theory to develop arts - integrated curricula that acknowledge the power of artistic processes to produce and share knowledge across core subject areas.

I guess what bothered me about the teacher powered school is that so many teachers work in schools today that have no say over the curriculum.

Now here is the interesting thing: We haven't changed the curriculum, we haven't brought in some high - powered consultant, we haven't changed the standards, and the kids over there are still taking the country's mandated tests.

Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last December guaranteed that significant power is being handed from the federal government back to individual states to determine curriculum, assessment guidelines, and control over funding.

Started in 1995 at Dallas» The Winston School, this year's event will attract over eighteen teams of high - school students who have completed a two - year curriculum culminating in the construction of a solar - powered car.

There's this question of what powers, if any, do law societies have over curriculum?»

When you combine the power of iPad, the creativity of Apple Pencil, over a million iPad apps in the App Store, the rich curriculum in Everyone Can Code and Everyone Can Create, and unique Classroom and Schoolwork apps that support students and help schools manage technology in the classroom, we believe we can amplify learning and creativity in a way that only Apple can.

«When you combine the power of iPad, the creativity of Apple Pencil, over a million iPad apps in the App Store, the rich curriculum in Everyone Can Code and Everyone Can Create, and unique Classroom and Schoolwork apps that support students and help schools manage technology in the classroom, we believe we can amplify learning and creativity in a way that only Apple can,» Apple's Philip Schiller said.