Sentences with phrase «public education stories»

This roundup of Texas Tribune public education stories has relative information for all school districts at all levels.

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Of course science has a different story to tell us and until someone refutes the scientific basis for the age of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public education.

How many good stories of public education in America can one count?

But for All Families Shanna Mall, principle of the Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage, AK and Interim President of the Alliance shares an inside and personal story about the birth of Public Waldorf Education in the SPRING 2015 edition of CONFLUENCE.

The truth is, there are no success stories of people who've truly risen from poverty to security on their own, without (rightfully) taking advantage of some kind of federal program, from public education to basic infrastructure.

News 12 Brooklyn story on BP Adams leading City University of New York (CUNY) students in a rally calling for greater affordability and investment in public higher education by the State.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Members of the Buffalo Public Schools Board of Education gave their side of the story following a controversial tweet by Carl Paladino last week.

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The remarkable true story of one mother's tireless struggle to fulfill her dream to give her severely disabled twins some semblance of a normal childhood - the friendships, learning and cultural experiences provided by a public school education.

Prior to work in film, Katie worked at global design firm IDEO, where she led qualitative research that used stories to inspire new systems in education and the public sector.

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It is part history, detailing the unexpectedly collaborative relationships that were instrumental in the expansion of these top public schools and part forward - looking; it's a story about the visionaries who reinvented American education for poor and minority children and are now reinventing it again.

Setting aside that this is less than 0.16 percent of the more than $ 625 billion spent annually on public education nationwide, the report tells only half the story.

By including a wide range of illustrative examples, quotes, stories, and statistics, Cookson helps readers grasp the living conditions of children today, allowing them to become informed and involved in the national dialogue surrounding the future of public education.

Statistics tell only part of the story about what states are doing to improve public education and raise student achievement.

«Twenty years ago, all - girl schools seemed headed for extinction, a footnote in the story of American education,» writes Ilana DeBare, author of Where Girls Come First, an account of public and private schools for girls going back into the 1800s.

«Here's a story that talks about American history and the ideals of American democracy... in a vernacular that speaks to young people, written by a product of New York public education,» Rodin told the New York Times.

Hechinger places national, long - form stories in prominent publications across the country; StateImpact taps into the infrastructure of National Public Radio affiliates in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio to go deep in their home states (on education and other issues).

That's the subtitle of my new story in Education Next, about an experiment to take a successful religious school education model to the publiEducation Next, about an experiment to take a successful religious school education model to the publieducation model to the public sector.

Charter history is rife with stories about small - time crooks taking advantage of lax public oversight to steal dollars meant for education to enrich friends and family.

A story about school construction in urban districts in the July 14, 1999, issue of Education Week misidentified Stan Childress, a Detroit public schools spokesman.

To read the full story of the schools, please see «Catholic Ethos, Public Education,» by Peter Meyer, which appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next.

When it comes to the story of Massachusetts's public schools, the takeaway, according to the state's former education secretary, Paul Reville, is that «doing well isn't good enough.»

What I've found is a story that confounds the traditional battle lines in public education, and gives each side in the school reform war reason both to cheer and to rethink its assumptions.

The story he found, which appears in the Washington Monthly magazine, confounds the traditional battle lines in public education and points to the D.C. reforms as a model for the nation.

[View the story «Is Public Education Dead?»

Wisconsin's curtailment of the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees was undoubtedly the top education news story of early 2011.

But the book's story begins with the ostensible failure of public education and its rapidly rising costs, mediocre student achievement results, poor high - school graduation rates, and limp international rankings.

But given the rising role that parental choice and public perception play in education decisions, it's important for schools to tell their story.

The NAEP - score «flatline» stories that have dominated the education policy news cycle this month just don't apply to DC's public charter schools.

The unit's work ranges from Web - based video «explainers» on pre-K-12 issues in the news to highly textured broadcast stories that air on public television under an Education Week partnership with the PBS NewsHour.

Interestingly, today's extraordinarily high - performing urban charter schools — arguably the greatest story in public education in a generation — bear a curious resemblance to the Catholic schools of Baby Boomer memory.

One way forward, she said, could be through a ballot initiative and appeal to the voters with the stories of students who are receiving an inadequate education in California public schools.

Everyone with a stake in education is encouraged to support this campaign by sharing why they #LovePublicEducation on social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, et al.); by submitting a story that details the importance of public education, here; by adopting a resolution in support of public education in your own school district (read ours, here.)

Sen. Lott tried to woo the crowd of 650 with stories of his family members who were teachers, his education in public schools and universities, and his days playing the tuba in his high school band.

So the story of a group of very successful Jewish lawyers in New York not only points to the period when they were born, a time of low birth rates, which meant that the New York City public schools they attended were uncrowded and gave a good education, but also to a Jewish propensity to seek out and seize opportunity.

A story in the Feb. 5, 2003, issue of Education Week inadvertently omitted the word «not» from a sentence describing the views of Bill Montford, the superintendent of the Leon County, Fla., public schools, regarding a class - size - reduction plan put forward by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

The book will offer stories of people and groups that have stood up to the recent attacks on public education to offer hope and some ideas for resistance.

And though a Newark story, «The Prize» is just as much a cautionary tale for places like North Carolina, where decision - makers are dismantling public education in a seemingly short - sighted fashion.

The unending cacophony of stories of public education failure and a need to reform it for the future has been ongoing since before the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002).

I would love to find this story to begin a series of spotlights in our public «No Child Left Behind» education system.

American public education: An origin story, http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/american-public-education-an-origin-story/#sthash.yIumzIZl.dpuf

Pictured: The NYT's Reader Center produced one of this week's most - shared education stories (about the conditions of public schools).

Your story about the absenteeism crisis in New York City public schools highlights the need for the city Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workers.

This is one of the big success stories in public education today.

* Clarification: This story has been updated to attribute concerns about the Common Core tests to teachers and include Carol Burris's new role at the Network for Public Education.

Krista Glazewski, an IU professor we interviewed for our story last week, points out blended learning has been introduced in small charter schools that don't necessarily serve the broad populations of students public education must serve.

It is a story of a political and blinded policy that distrusts traditional public education for private - like solutions that have no track record of success at scale.

Nearly everyone in public education has a story that illustrates the Kafkaesque process of trying to remove a tenured teacher.