Sentences with phrase «purpose of schools»

A central purpose of schooling in a democracy is to educate citizens so that they can make informed decisions about controversial issues.

If we believe the fundamental purpose of schools is learning and we are clear about what it is we expect students to learn, how will be know if they have learned it?

* Providing a balanced education, not teaching basic skills, was considered a primary purpose of schools.

But academic performance in reading, maths and writing isn't the sole purpose of schools.

And they represent the ultimate purpose of our schools: to prepare young people to pursue their aspirations and participate fully in our economy and democracy.

The other 30 % disagreed or said they did not know, indicating there was a very basic disagreement about the explicit purpose of school.

In the current fever over using high - stakes testing for accountability, little discussion has been given to how this strategy affects the democratic purposes of schools.

Teaching practices, then, reflected both the conflicting purposes of schooling and the social organization of the school.

The program is based upon the philosophy that helping young children learn — academically, socially, emotionally, and physically — is the real purpose of schools.

Schools that function as professional learning communities operate on the assumption that the fundamental purpose of schools is to ensure high levels of learning for all students.

Excludes state assessment results for English learners in their first year of enrollment in U.S. schools for purposes of school accountability (however, these students must still be assessed and included in assessment participation rates), and then includes their state assessment results in their second year of enrollment in U.S. schools based on the English language progress measure.

Our mission is to serve only public schools and as a result, we share the priorities, values, character and sense of purpose of our school leaders.»

In a small but growing minority of schools, they are increasingly working for the larger purpose of school management, evaluation and student engagement by moving past representative governance and towards Student / Adult Partnerships.

In «Tug of War» (Research, Fall 2003), James B. Murphy argues that «the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.»

As we celebrate National School Choice Week, education - reform advocates would be wise to reflect on purpose of school choice as articulated by Milton Friedman, the father of the modern school choice movement.

By adopting a vision aligned with the FRS framework, the state would be reaffirming the central purpose of a school system: preparing students for the future.

When these questions were last addressed, respondents chose «prepar [ing] people to become responsible citizens» as the least important purpose of schooling from among those offered.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

One of the more important purposes of a school chaplain, IMO, is to be an adult, perhaps the only adult in the kids lives, who isn't asking the kids to perform / become better / grow up / score well / study hard / etc.

In 1983, a blue - ribbon education commission appointed by Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education, Terrel H. Bell, announced that America's «educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them.»

«I was excited when I was meeting members of the faculty, staff, and administration, and I look forward to becoming a colleague of theirs and helping them drive the core academic purpose of the school to higher levels of excellence.»

But I think that American school culture revolves so strongly around the core of athletics, extracurriculars, and social life that sometimes we can lose sight of the true purpose of school, especially in the early years.

This is because the main purpose of school - based LS is to seek a solution to a question broader than the topic of the lesson, called a «research theme.»

By moving through the frameworks for Meaningful Student Involvement, students and adults can work in partnership to address countless issues across the entirety of the education system, ranging from curricular areas to identity, the physical plant to the societal purpose of schooling.

Preservice teachers participating in this study had varied and, at times, even conflicting understandings of the educational merit or purpose of school music programs.

The economic aims of education should not obscure the personal and civic purposes of schooling.

Preparation for employment is a legitimate purpose of schooling.

The overarching purpose of the School Safety Toolkit is to establish an outcome - based framework and methods for assessing any school or district's safety system with respect to student outcomes, safety, and cost - effectiveness.

As a result, the work of managing the external environment always has to extend beyond the individual school and take into account the larger purposes of schooling and the role that successful schools may play in helping or hindering efforts to improve surrounding schools and society as a whole (Fullan, 1993, 1999).

The first (and the biggest) of the big ideas is based on the premise that the fundamental purpose of the school is to ensure that all students learn at high levels (grade level or higher).

My view, briefly stated, is that the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.

A three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, ruled without dissent that the 19,600 - student district could «exclude subjects from the nonpublic forum that would be disruptive to the educational purpose of the school.»

Since the increase in large - scale, standardized tests being used for higher - stakes decisions and measures of school effectiveness, there is a sense that the overall purpose of school is to achieve a certain score or better on a standardized test versus students achieving critical learning and confidence that will propel them to success in the future.

On average, today's teachers are older and hence their preparation for teaching occurred when academic achievement was not recognized as the primary purpose of schooling; their professional experience was in institutions that did not demand academic performance from them or their students.

When we look to test - based evidence — and look no further — to decide whether choice «works,» we are making two rather extraordinary, unquestioned assumptions: that the sole purpose of schooling is to raise test scores, and that district schools have a place of privilege against which all other models must justify themselves.

The authors assert that all new learning involves transfer based on previous learning and that transfer from school to everyday environments is the ultimate purpose of school - based learning.

Educators themselves struggle over the very purposes of schooling, understanding that while governments can advocate for higher standards and great aspirations, their students» lives may be much more grounded in the daily struggle to survive.