Sentences with phrase «public education gain»

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«It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology or any other industry will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system,» said Williams in Facebook's 2016 diversity report, released Thursday.

Education workers» compensation gained 0.6 % (2.1 % y / y), health care and social assistance 0.9 % (2.5 % y / y), and that for public administration workers went up just 0.2 % (2.2 % y / y).

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

These programs are designed to provide a free and appropriate education for students who have behavioral, physical, mental or cognitive needs that prevent a child from gaining any benefit from a regular public education classroom.

Duncan gained a reputation as a supporter of charter schools both as Education Secretary and in his previous role as CEO of the Chicago Public School system.

My 2 - year (2002 - 2004) postdoctoral fellowship in science education provides me the opportunity to gain experience with all aspects of the Learning Center's programs, introducing me to the culture and challenges of public education, both in Utah and across the nation.

By elevating these issues in the public dialogue, U.S. citizens gain a fighting chance of learning whether those who would lead them have the education, wisdom and courage necessary to govern in a science - driven century and to preserve democracy for the next generation.

Mounting evidence, including findings from the current study, suggests that public health interventions should include sleep education programs as part of strategies to prevent weight gain.

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Proponents of greater public funding for early childhood education (ECE) argue that too many children, often those from challenged communities and homes, arrive for kindergarten with insurmountable development gaps and that low - income and disadvantaged children who are exposed to high - quality pre-K programs gain lifelong benefits.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

There is much to be gained from incorporating voluntary exchange as a core principle of public education.

According to the latest Education Next poll, public support for merit pay gained significant ground over the past year and now outdistances opposition by a 2:1 margin.

The 2017 EdNext Poll — including the Trump Effect on public opinion about education Charter schools lose favor but opposition to vouchers declines; Opposition to Common Core plateaus and support for using the same standards across states gains ground

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on eEducation Next's annual survey of public opinion on educationeducation.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

As online learning gains share and transforms our education system, for some time I have argued that foundations and philanthropists would be wise to spend their dollars in moving public policy, creating proof points, and the like to create smarter demand and not invest on the supply side in the technology products and solutions themselves.

With close to a $ 10.5 trillion economy, the unrealized gain for 2002 alone would have amounted to $ 450 billion, or more than the nation's total annual expenditure on K - 12 public education.

We have changed how we approach public education and watched unprecedented student achievement gains flow from those changes,» said Neil E. Duke, chair of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners.

We first compare the average gains made by all students in charter schools with the gains made by students in traditional public schools, taking into account differences in gender, ethnicity, and the highest level of education completed by their parents.

In addition to dipping into his private fortune for unlimited campaign ads touting his test score gains, he has total control of a $ 15 billion education empire that doles out jobs and no - bid contracts to potential critics and spends millions on a well - oiled public relations machine, but spends nothing on independent research or evaluation of classroom programs.

Applicants will receive a bespoke programme, including briefings relating to the UK's education system and the international education market, business training and advice on public relations, marketing and sales, access to BESA's research database, market intelligence reports on education industry suppliers» market confidence and sales and briefing sessions with headteachers and curriculum subject experts to gain insights on schools» resourcing needs.

Many high - performing public schools employ strategies to screen out such students as well, either by not providing the services needed for special education students, or by employing admissions policies that make it difficult or unlikely for such students to gain access.

Micro-schools are gaining traction among families who are dissatisfied with the quality of public schooling options and can not afford or do not want to pay for a traditional private - school education.

Sustainability, Environment and Conservation Minister Ian Hunter gains the new portfolio of Climate Change while Minister Close retains the Public Sector portfolio and takes on Education and Child Development.

He directs a cross-national effort to advance the improvement of public education towards greater relevance in supporting students to gain the cognitive and socio - emotional competencies essential to thrive in the 21st century Global Education Innovation Ineducation towards greater relevance in supporting students to gain the cognitive and socio - emotional competencies essential to thrive in the 21st century Global Education Innovation InEducation Innovation Initiative.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

Nor can the gains in education be easily attributed to changes in public school funding.

He added: «It is disgraceful that these three individuals pocketed public money intended for the education of Bradford children for their own personal gain.

During her three years supporting public education and associations at the Alliance, she gained a deep appreciation for the...

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

In coming to HGSE, I hoped to gain a more expanded view of public education through conversation with students and faculty from around the country.

Through perspective gained in courses and discussions in HGSE's Higher Education Program (HE), and his internship at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership, the Maine native is ready to start making his impact on the world.

Second, I felt an immense sense of gratitude to the much - maligned American public education system, where no one has to win a lottery to gain admission.

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Across the U.S., legislation to privatize public education funding continues to gain traction.

As part of our mission, CUBE creates educational opportunities for urban school board leaders to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to serve as effective local education policymakers and as advocates for excellence and equity in public education.

That's «really important for making sure the gains that are made in preschool programs are sustained all the way up,» says Laura Bornfreund, senior policy analyst for early education at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank in Washington.

STANFORD — Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that show no learning gains in math for American 4th graders, the nation's public schools will likely have more money and a larger and better paid labor force than they had in 2009, according to education researchers James W. Guthrie and Arthur Peng of Vanderbilt University.

Both are iconoclasts who abuse public education for their personal fame and gain.

Despite long waiting lists and well - documented academic gains for Success students, leaders are in a near - constant battle with city education officials for the space in under - utilized public - school buildings that will allow their programs to continue to grow.

Levin and Feinberg, more than a decade later, have invented something very rare in American education: a way of teaching low - income children that actually works in 36 public middle schools, producing the largest and fastest learning gains around the country.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

Diffusing the crisis would pose a serious challenge to the huge financial gain that privatizers, Charter Management Organizations and mega-testing providers like Pearson are poised to make off the public's 150 + years of solid investment in free public education.

Had competition between private schools been maximising the quality of education each provided to its voucher students, we would not have observed such a large gain in test scores once schools knew their results would be made public.

The school choice movement is gaining momentum and is becoming an accepted public policy option in the education reform agenda.

A replacement for the much criticized No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the reauthorization gained support from groups as diverse as The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Education Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, The National School Boards Association, the National Governors Association and Fairtest, an organization that addresses issues related to fairness and accuracy in testing.