Sentences with phrase «recent education piece»

Unlike The Upshot's 2016 school data story, hailed by academics and readers alike, a recent education piece raised several concerns.

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Yesterday, Education News published a critical opinion piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow regarding Jamie Oliver's recent foray into educatioEducation News published a critical opinion piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow regarding Jamie Oliver's recent foray into educationeducation reform.

In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education «Career Network» piece (Woolston, 2001), a freelance science and medical writer wrote that the Ph.D. pipeline in the sciences is «equipped with a powerful female filtration system.»

In fact, one recent piece of research — a 2015 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University — suggests that students in online charter schools aren't doing as well as their peers.

The piece I wrote illustrated the power of personalized learning powered by blended learning, which addresses the call by a group of business and academic leaders in their recent «Open Letter on the Digital Economy» and a corresponding piece that contained a set of public policy recommendations to «redesign how we deliver education at all levels using the power of digital technologies.»

In the piece, I touch upon some of the takeaways from my recent book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, and what they mean for teachers.

In Larry Cuban's recent piece in the Washington Post, ``,» he in essence says that our research showing that online learning is a disruptive innovation that has the potential to transform K — 12 education into a student - centric learning design that can allow each student to realize his or her fullest potential is unfortunate hype from academic gurus.

A recent editorial piece in The Gulf News discussed Australia as a great place to study and live — it's officially the fourth happiest country in the world — but do you know Australia also offers a world - class international education?

However, special education seems to be experiencing somewhat of a renaissance in Australia and a recent piece in The Conversation argued that this might be positive.

In architect Larry Kearns» recent Education Next piece, «New Blueprint for K - 12 Schools,» their team had the opportunity to design two new school buildings that were created specifically to support blended learning.

Recent publications most notably include a book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press: March 2015), opinion pieces for the Huffington Post, and other articles.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Matter?

Two recent pieces published on The Conversation (by Barbara Preston and Jennifer Chesters) argue that parents might be wasting their money paying for a non-government school education.

The group's advocacy draws from recent think tank pieces and other sources to argue for «a new definition of public education, which is publicly funded and publicly accountable — and encompasses private schools.»

Dear Editor: Thank you for featuring the recent opinion piece by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten («Right - wing agenda drives movie on education»).

All told, the DeVoses have contributed at least $ 7 million to lawmakers and the state Republican Party in recent years, and their influence can be seen in just about every major piece of education - related legislation in Michigan since the 1990s.

and I recommend a review of Wendy's recent columns for the «Orwellian» (her description in several pieces) picture of what is happening in Connecticut education.

Public education advocate and fellow commentator Wendy Lecker has an outstanding piece in this weekend's Stamford Advocate and other Hearst Media outlets about Hartford's recent «school choice» debacle.

Declares Jacob Waters in a recent tweet, Ravitch's piece counters: «any doubt that [Ravitch] is the [Rush Limbaugh] of education policy.»

In a recent piece by Valerie Strauss, «Gates Foundation Puts Millions of Dollars into New Education Focus: Teacher Preparation,» she sketches how Gates is awarding $ 35 million to a three - year project called Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers funneled through five different projects, one of which is the Texas Tech based University - School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation (U.S. Prep) National Center.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

In this piece, Apperson responds to a recent column by school choice advocate Glenn Delk in support of education savings accounts.

That reference resonated with the other piece I read this weekend — the wonderful report by my heroes at the National Education Policy Center, «Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Action.»

Sarah Darer Littman, an education advocate and CT Newsjunkie columnist, examined the issue in a recent piece entitled, Second Chance» Malloy Should Revisit First Term Malloy's Policies.

In total, according to a recent piece in the Star - Ledger, the Lakewood Board spent $ 33,837,924 for special education for 1,254 students classified as «special needs» during this last school year.

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

In a recent commentary piece, Jeffrey Villar, Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, praises the Connecticut State Board of Education's support for using student SBAC results in teacher evaluations.

Here are some of the commentary pieces education bloggers have posted over the last few days about Arne Duncan's recent claim that suburban white moms are the problem behind the Obama Administration's problems with the Common Core roll - out.

In a recent Hartford Courant commentary piece entitled, «Smarter Balanced» Test Wrong Answer For Students, Teachers, Connecticut Education Association President Sheila Cohen correctly explains that,

Education advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker returns to the recent CCJEF v. Rell legal decision in her weekend piece in the Stamford Advocate.

In a recent commentary piece first published in the Stamford Advocate, education funding expert Wendy Lecker laid out the problems with Governor Dannel Malloy's recently proposed school funding system.

Peter's commentary piece focused on the recent pronouncements of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo who has pledged to use his second term to destroy public education in New York.

The group's other recent endeavors include collaborations with A Far Cry and Nick Zammuto of The Books; Tigran Hamasyan on a new piece commissioned by Carnegie Hall; appearances at new music festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Sweden; and partnerships with nearly two dozen higher education institutions across the country.

There's a lot more on innovation and science here, including my conversations on the «ecology» of innovation with Andrew Hargadon, my piece on Fostering Education for Innovation (and Vice Versa) and my summary of the recent Energy Innovation 2010 conference.

Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me for this discussion are Anthony J. Sebok, professor at Brooklyn Law School and author of a recent article exploring Virginia Tech's liability, and Robert B. Smith, partner with the Boston firm Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley and author of a recent opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education about student suicide and colleges» liability.

While attempting to present a balanced viewpoint about America's emerging class divide regarding marriage, the work of the First Things First organization in Chattanooga, as well as the state of research in the field of Relationship and Marriage Education, their ambitious recent piece ended on the simplistic note of «one marriage saved» [1].