Sentences with phrase «public education system in this country»

Kentucky had one of the worst public education systems in the country before KERA, the Kentucky Education Reform Act, beset by nepotism, incompetence, and inadequate support.

... The outrage comes from the fact that we have a public education system in this country that systematically delivers a massively inferior education to low - income and minority kids.

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The «right» to a public education in this country has made schools impotent to discipline young people who have turned the education system into a race for the bottom.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

They reflect an overall impact of multiple causative factors similar to those of other developing countries where rice is not a major staple.8 Various deficiencies including zinc, vitamin C and D, folate, riboflavin, selenium and calcium occur in the context of poverty, environmental degradation, lack of public health systems and sanitation, lack of proper education and social disparity.

Even in a country whose progressive public education system dispenses with tests and grades until middle school and provides every high school student with a laptop, Nordahl Grieg stands out for its commitment to innovation.

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.

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

The U.S. and the U.K. were both awakening to being «nations at risk,» due in no small part to the parlous state of their public education systems, and reformers in both countries were pushing for big changes — changes that their respective «education establishments» didn't want to make.

«The country is in real peril,» cautioned Canada, who cited research that indicates the nation's failing public education system is hurting a wide swath of middle - class families.

With their respective spouses, the establishment of the Lisa Foster and Alan Bersin Financial Aid Fund in Education Leadership, the Todd and Mari Gutschow Financial Aid Fund, and the Mayerhsohn - Seamonson Financial Aid Fund showcases their personal drive to help future generations address the challenges facing the country's public educatioEducation Leadership, the Todd and Mari Gutschow Financial Aid Fund, and the Mayerhsohn - Seamonson Financial Aid Fund showcases their personal drive to help future generations address the challenges facing the country's public educationeducation system.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomeIn their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomein Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

The Council on Foreign Relations report says — in direct contradiction to America's federal system and the primary responsibility of the states for public education — that «clearly» there can not be «can not be different standards and expectations» in «a single country.»

But he isn't in finance or economics, he's in education policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to help reform the country's public school systems with the help of a program at Harvard's Graduate School of Educatioeducation policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to help reform the country's public school systems with the help of a program at Harvard's Graduate School of EducationEducation (HGSE).

With the goal of strengthening our nation's public education system, AEP Annual Convenings bring together the country's foremost leaders to discuss what works in arts education and to advance best practices that help ensure a complete education for every child in America.

With the mounting changes in the education landscape, Public Schools Week creates a platform for Americans to express their feelings toward public school systems and why their success is a key determinant when it comes to our country's future.&Public Schools Week creates a platform for Americans to express their feelings toward public school systems and why their success is a key determinant when it comes to our country's future.&public school systems and why their success is a key determinant when it comes to our country's future.»

Dating back to the 1970s, our state leaders attempted a series of ineffective initiatives to turn around one of the worst public - education systems in the country.

Charter schools in New Jersey ARE public schools, and this transition team understands that we have an opportunity end the us versus them mentality, and focus on what we all care about: making the New Jersey public school system number one in the country, for the sake of all public education students.

First introduced around the country in the early 1990s, the concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their children's needs.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

As the only CDFI in the country focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school facilities with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American public education system

Properly implemented, charter schools hold the potential for bringing meaningful reform to Washington's public education system, as they have in other parts of the country.

Disappointed by the lack of rigor in the U.S. public education system but encouraged by the small number of countries that have dramatically improved student performance, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley set out to uncover what is happening in their public schools that we could — and should — be doing in our own classrooms.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

To help New Orleans become the first high - quality urban education system in the country, NSNO invests in great public schools, helps schools become more effective, and coordinates solutions to citywide challenges.

I left law practice in 2000 to become a teacher because I felt that in order to give back to America what this country has given me and my family, I needed to do my part to support its system of public education.

Since our last look at the rampant fraud and abuse of school voucher programs around the country, North Carolina has implemented its own voucher program that provides low - income students with funds to flee the public school system in exchange for a private education.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The consequences in the strongly socialized country of Sweden have been dire, while public education systems in neighboring Finland have performed quite well.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

The Committee for Education Funding was founded in 1969 with a mission to advocate for adequate federal financial support for the country's public educatioEducation Funding was founded in 1969 with a mission to advocate for adequate federal financial support for the country's public educationeducation system.

Ark, which has 36 schools, aims to improve the quality of education in developing countries through partnerships between the public and private sector, as well as better accountability systems through its EPG arm.

With National School Choice Week behind us, the battle — and it is a battle — to free our children from a monopoly by zip - code public education system is being fought on fronts all over the country, and in red and blue states alike, more and more Democrats are breaking ranks and joining Republicans in the fight.

Over the past three legislative sessions, the Texas public education accountability system, once rated by national organizations as the best in the country, has come under relentless attack by a firestorm of misguided opposition to standardized and so - called «high stakes» testing, so that by the end of the 2013 session, the system had essentially been gutted.

«The PR piece of this is essential because for the first time, we're having a dialogue in this country about anachronistic laws and how we revamp our public education system for the modern world so it serves children first and foremost,» Brown said.

In the same way, DeVos's denunciations of the federal government and her refusal to make even a tepid call - out to the value of the public education system, can't help but have an effect on the way some Americans feel about their neighborhood public schools, which educate the vast majority of the country's schoolchildren.

While we live in the state with the best public school education system in the country, we know that not all of our communities reflect this measure.

We work with public education stakeholders at every level: state legislatures, governors» offices, state education agencies and boards of education, business leaders, foundations, school district superintendents and business officers, county - level leaders, teacher associations, and numerous other groups interested in improving our country's education system.

Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President - elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America's public education system, the country's most important civic institution...

In 2012, the New York City Department of Education, or NYCDOE — the largest public school system in the country — and the United Federation of Teachers, or UFT, designed a teacher career ladder to extend educators» skills beyond their individual classrooms and allow teachers to be powerful levers of change in school communitieIn 2012, the New York City Department of Education, or NYCDOE — the largest public school system in the country — and the United Federation of Teachers, or UFT, designed a teacher career ladder to extend educators» skills beyond their individual classrooms and allow teachers to be powerful levers of change in school communitiein the country — and the United Federation of Teachers, or UFT, designed a teacher career ladder to extend educators» skills beyond their individual classrooms and allow teachers to be powerful levers of change in school communitiein school communities.

From California to Illinois to New Jersey, unions across the country have been threatening strikes, combatting legislation, and kindling protests in response to attempts by governors to reform their states» public - education systems.

If public and private high schools across the country catch on, this seemingly small ideological tweak in the charter sector has the potential to transform the entire American education system.

«If we are to provide a world - class public education to the residents of the District of Columbia, we must have the most effective educators in the country,» said Chancellor Kaya Henderson as she unveiled results of the second year of the system's employee evaluation system, IMPACT.

Goldstein rightfully notes that public education in this country differs in two key ways from high - performing systems in Europe and Asia.

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Washington, D.C.: to revise a system for accrediting professional development in public school settings, where prospective teachers around the country were receiving practical training.

Despite the fact that over 2.5 million children are served by over 6,500 charter schools across the country, the majority of Americans have been swayed by tall tales and misinformation about the role of charter schools in our public education system.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Critics say DeVos and Trump want to privatize the public education system, the most important civic institution in the country.