One thing that's not being discussed enough, however, is the influence of
quality public education on health outcomes.
Not exact matches
An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the
quality of the
education, arguing Bridge focuses less
on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing
public school students to switch to Bridge schools.
We're increasing enrollment in high -
quality early
education, raising standards in our
public schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and working with the business community
on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.
The only people against
QUALITY public education is the $ 300,000 a year low life who cheats
on his partner MICHAEL MULGREW.
«She will be an invaluable member of the Senate Democratic Conference and with her support we will be able to finally take action
on ensuring New Yorkers have access to good paying jobs, real mandate and tax relief, high -
quality public education, and affordable health care,» Stewart - Cousins said.
Hawkins will speak
on the need to fully fund and desegregate
public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a
quality education for all students in New York.
He gets a 68 percent negative job performance rating
on improving the
quality of
public education in New York.
«I have known Jimmy for many years, and I am greatly impressed with his work
on the issues that matter most, like
education, transportation, libraries,
public safety and
quality of life.
On Tuesday, both the WFP and the Alliance for
Quality Education lashed out at Cuomo over his
public budget stance in the negotiations.
At 1:30 p.m., parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for
Quality Education call
on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to fund «real» Foundation Aid for
public schools and not «need - neutral» aid, lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.
«This decision should bring an end to the politicking and grandstanding and allow us all to focus
on what matters most: continuing to improve the
quality of
education we offer New York City's
public school children,» Mayor Bloomberg said.
On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading
education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and
public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all
public school students have access to high -
quality teachers.
«I believe that Rubain is a man with a clear and focused vision to tackle head
on the issues impacting residents in the 20th district, such as
public safety concerns and NYPD policing reforms; the lack of
quality affordable housing; sound and
quality education for the youth; and the lack of jobs and unemployment.
I thought there were good ideas,» said
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who applauded Quinn's focus
on early
education and the need for more and higher -
quality affordable housing units.
Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded,
quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack
on teacher's unions.»
Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving
education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation
on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining
public safety and
quality of life.
Collaborating with the Alliance for
Quality Education and Citizen Action of New York in efforts to fairly fund
public schools, she sits
on NYSUT's LGBTQ Task Force, which resolves to support legislation banning conversion therapy and to protect intended parental rights.
«Our landmark achievents
on education has been manifested in the
quality of
public school products.
«His proposed policies
on public education will weaken, not strengthen our
public education system, and they would represent a step away from the principle of high
quality public education for all students.
Powers has said that he will focus
on fighting for affordable housing, supporting
quality public education and strengthening
public transportation.
«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve
public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobby
education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for
Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobby
Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference
on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.
Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district
public schools to make decisions based
on teacher
quality, does violence to the cause of improving the
quality of
education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.
Insisting that the CFB allows elected officials to conduct ordinary communications with constituents, she added, «In the final days of this election, while Mr. Doyle continues to complain over the experience Mark Gjonaj brings to this race, our campaign remains focused
on the issues at hand, which is
quality of life,
public safety,
education and transportation.»
In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest, acting
on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of
Education for violating the
Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental
Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.
Smitsonian Institution Programs Summer Archeology Programs Connected with DC Universities [Program for Deaf Students] Drinking Water
Quality Research Center, Miami, FL [proposal for outreach to disabled students] Museum of Science and Industry, IL Chicago Schools Cooperative Museum Program, IL Recreational Faculties for the Handicapped at Rend Lake, IL SELPH Material Lawrence Hall King Report
on Survey of the Special Educational Programs of Members of the Association of Science Technology Centers University of Kentucky Outdoor
Education for Handicapped Project Directory of OOPS Programs Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD [notes
on interview] ABCD Collaboration Science Program Non-Mainstreamed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Technical
Education Research Center Camp Happy Hollow, Mayrille, MI Squam Lakes Science Center, NH Science Enrichment Program Opened to Handicapped Students NY League of Hard of Hearing, NY Center of Science and Industry, OH Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Pacoma Environmental
Education Center, PA Roanoke Valley Science Museum, VA Fairfax County
Public Schools, VA US Geological Survey Earth Science Program, WI ERIC - CRESS Info
on Outdoor Ed - Science Programs National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Environments for the Able and Disabled Nature Study - A Journal of
Education and Interpretation OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts Original Newspaper Article, 1980 - 1981 OOPS Out of School Science Proposal and Drafts II, 1980 - 1981
Science and Engineering Indicators is the most comprehensive source of high -
quality federal data
on a wide range of topics that include trends in global R&D investments and knowledge - intensive production, K - 12 and postsecondary STEM
education, workforce trends and composition, state level comparisons, and
public attitudes and understanding of science and related issues.
The funding has allowed NRC to assemble a panel that will hold a
public workshop
on 11 - 12 May to explore the causal factors that produce high -
quality STEM
education.
The SAGE III
on ISS
Education and
Public Outreach program shares the excitement of the SAGE III
on ISS mission (planned launch 2014) highlighting its pathfinder
qualities, its legacy and role in climate study continuity, and its partnerships with the ISS, other NASA centers, and international collaborators.
In addition, he is looking to work with partners for creative solutions
on delivering
quality early literacy
education, which he sees as a vital initiative for stemming the low - performance culture of Holyoke
public schools.
«I credit my own Montana
public school
education for affording me the opportunity to go on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're fro
education for affording me the opportunity to go
on to the Harvard Graduate School of
Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're fro
Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a
quality education, no matter where they're fro
education, no matter where they're from.»
«While much
public discussion has been solely focussed
on funding, we've been getting
on with the job of delivering a
quality reform agenda in teaching
education.»
Assessment is at the heart of
education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely
on these scores to judge the
quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether
public schools are up to scratch.
After an emotional and confusing debate during the nea's annual convention here in July, delegates voted overwhelmingly to oppose mandatory choice measures
on the grounds that they would compromise the union's commitment to «free, equitable, universal, and
quality public education for every student.»
Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of
quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in
public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed
on the altar of the nation's ossified urban
education systems.
Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert
on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in
education policy is shifting, as issues of school
quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»
This
education reform documentary, produced and directed by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona
public school who set out
on a journey toward improving the
quality of their teaching by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.
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 e
Education Next's annual survey of
public opinion
on educationeducation.
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.»
Charter schools have the potential to have broader effects
on student achievement if traditional
public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter schools by improving the
quality of their own
education programs.
Since my focus is
on life and learning at the intersections of the arts and
education, there seems to always be considerable work ahead to ensure that high -
quality arts learning experiences are available to all through our
public schools and out - of - school settings.
Quality Counts 2010 is the 14th edition of
Education Week's annual report card on American public education as viewed through the lens of the states» education policies and
Education Week's annual report card
on American
public education as viewed through the lens of the states» education policies and
education as viewed through the lens of the states»
education policies and
education policies and outcomes.
The Project
on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
He has built a number of educational organizations focused
on advancing global
education and in improving the
quality of
education in
public schools in Colombia.
Despite the frequency with which
public programs rely
on beneficiaries to hold the
quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an
Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the
public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»
Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents
on local
education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the
quality of Boston
public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).
Rockoff and Lockwood also examined survey data
on New York City parents whose children attended both types of schools and found that parents whose children attend K - 8
public schools rated their schools higher
on education quality, academic rigor and school safety compared to parents whose children attend stand - alone middle schools.
If Republicans and Democrats disagree strongly
on the options for school reform, changes are unlikely — despite clear signs that the
public is concerned about the
quality of
public education.
The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused
on education,
public health,
public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving
education, and increasing the
quality of life for us all.
It was thought early
on that
public charter schools would serve as «laboratories of
education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high -
quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.
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.