«We're inviting every Victorian to have
their say about their education system and their future,» he said.
Not exact matches
«My role here is to take a lot of those learnings that I had at Airbnb where it was
about transforming an archaic
system that really needed a revamp — for there it was travel and here it's
education,»
said Modi, now AltSchool's vice president of operations and services.
Much has been
said recently
about the quality of Canada's
education system.
Changing entrenched views
about girls and
education is a long - term process, she
says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school
system.
Janaina, who bought her food from an organic street market,
says cooking with so many vegetables was an
education in itself, in terms of learning
about food
systems and how the world could be eating.
«I
say this with some caution — I didn't know Ann Maguire, of course — but I suspect from what little I have read
about or know
about her, a dedicated teacher like that wouldn't want to see the
education system — I think her headmaster has
said that she herself wouldn't want see the school
system turn into a high - security environment.
«We also have to remember the public
education system is
about the students and we want to get the best teachers in the classroom that we can,» Cuomo
said in earlier in the year.
Cuomo's Commission on
education reform got an earful at a public hearing in Albany yesterday, as speaker after speaker complained
about a statewide school
system that they
say is in disarray.
Governor Cuomo's Commission on
education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained
about a statewide school
system that they
say is in disarray.
Think
about how we could transform that public
education system and really make it a model of pride and be able to
say to every child in this city and in this state, «you are going to get every shot you deserve,» because we have a public
education system that is second to none.
The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide,
says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing
Education Commissioner John King what to do
about an evaluation
system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.
About a month later, on the same program, Cuomo
said: «This is a moment to bring change to the
system, and remember how hard change is, especially for a large
system like the
education system.
Baroness Warsi has
said that she backed Michael Gove's complaints
about the number of Old Etonians in David Cameron's inner circle because she believes the
Education Secretary wants a «world class state
system».
«Our members are very knowledgable
about education issues, and while there is great concern
about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he
said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation
system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.
If New York State is serious
about improving
education, it must move forward with a better teacher evaluation
system,»
said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.
«Somewhere along the way, we forgot that the
education system and the
education program are
about the students, not the bureaucracy,» the governor
said, echoing a sentiment he has expressed many times before.
Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chair of the Committee on Higher
Education,
said that funds would have been better allocated to operating aid for CUNY, but did not think there was anything inappropriate
about the governor requesting support from members of the
system.
Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for
Education setting out proposals to reform the
system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union,
said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed
about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.
«We feel as though we have an obligation to support the
education system,» Gerald Patterson
said, adding
about the tough budget, «I think it's a bad year.»
«For a body that talks so much
about education, to leave without an agreement where in a matter of days you could revert back to the board of
education system, is just the height of irresponsibility,» Cuomo
said.
«Teachers need to be honest
about faults in the exam
system if they are to gain more respect and esteem for the profession, the shadow
Education Secretary
says today.
The American Federation of Teachers
says the New York results should serve as a «national wake - up call»
about the dangers of a test - focused
education system.
He also spoke
about the public
education system,
saying young people are graduating from high school without having the reading, writing or math skills needed to excel in a college environment.
«We have grave concerns
about a budget that allows for teacher layoffs, which would be immensely damaging to our
education system and children's opportunities for a quality
education,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Finance Chair Domenic Recchia, Jr.
said in a statement.
«I'm sure that he's intending it to cloak his other positions, like less funding in an already underfunded
system of
education in New York state, and his other positions
about getting rid of due process and his very Wisconsin Walker - like positions
about collective bargaining,» Weingarten
said.
«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk
about education, when we talk
about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the
education system,» Heastie
said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.
«Since her first child entered the City's public school
system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning
about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the
education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz
said.
«It's really important that we are making sure that not only our students are benefiting from their
education system, it's really
about ensuring that my parents feel confident
about bringing their kids to our local public schools,» she
said.
Digital literacy and understanding how
systems (computer and otherwise) work will become increasingly important in a world where many of today's students will pursue jobs that do not currently exist,
says Gershenfeld, who wrote
about video games» potential to transform
education in the February Scientific American.
«He's one of a dying breed,»
says physiologist Arlan Richardson, director of the Aging Research and
Education Center at UTHSCSA, «one of the [few] people who has really thought
about whole - animal
systems.»
«We have to move beyond dietary guidelines and
education and food labeling and really think
about strong government policies to make the food
system healthier for everybody,» Mozaffarian
says.
A news story in the Jan. 4, 2006, issue of
Education Week
about recommendations for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school
system («Major Change Eyed for Charlotte, N.C., Schools») should have
said that the study containing the proposals was conducted jointly by the American Institutes for Research and the consulting firm Cross & Joftus LLC.
Theresa May has spoken out
about possible plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools in England,
saying she want to bring «an element of selection» back into the
education system.
The Harvard report reignited discussions
about options for students, experts
say, posing confounding questions
about how
education systems can respond to varying student needs and desires without lowering standards, translating later into closed doors.
«Parents Want a
Say will continue to campaign to reverse term time holiday rules - this is a debate
about family rights and the
education system.»
They don't care any less
about their children or value
education less than English speaking parents, but understanding how the
system works, let alone finding a role for themselves in it, is not as straightforward as marching up to the principal and
saying, «Sign me up.»
She was also, she
says, «interested in learning
about the micro-level changes that ought to take place within
education systems, both at the school level and beyond it, to guarantee that all children have access to quality learning opportunities.»
Speaking on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show, May
said that the plans were
about «ensuring we have good school places for every child» and not
about «going back to the
system of binary
education from the 1950s».
Mark Robinson
says the best thing
about our
education system is the people involved in it.
The Department for
Education said it had received positive feedback
about the changes from many families, as many have found the new
system more straightforward.
Sahlberg
said that it wasn't necessarily
about moving the Finnish
education system like a box and bringing it to America, but perhaps taking pieces of it and applying it.
«I want to gain more knowledge
about working within the
education system and how to create curriculum,» she
says.
Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz) based in Singapore (which has a world - renowned
education system, ranking 2nd on the PISA 2012 Reading, Math and Science tests)
says about testing that he has seen «the negative result of this pressure on students every day.»
«It's not just
about wealth, but [
about] the effort a state makes,»
said Bruce Baker, professor at the Rutgers University Graduate School of
Education, who outlined the ways in which the U.S. funding
system is suffering.
Much has been written recently
about the differences between
education systems around the world, but much less has been
said about what excellent schools around the world have in common.
Finally, when asked
about the impact of a stable economy on the UK's
education system, 75 % of teachers
say a stable economy has an impact, with 38 % of teachers
saying «a lot of impact».
Speaking at the Teach First Impact Conference, Milburn voiced concerns
about the educational attainment gap in schools and
said the government should» no longer tolerate an
education system that produces a cohort of youngsters who simply lack the skills to compete in the modern labour market».
Four administrators who talked with
Education World
about their winter weather decision - making processes
said that besides always considering safety first, having a
system for deciding when to close — and communicating that
system to everyone in the district — can mean making the right call most of the time.
«Current accreditation
systems are set up to be honest brokers
about school quality and set a low bar for what that looks like,»
said Chad Aldeman, a principal at Bellwether
Education Partners.
As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush
said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability
system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information
about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»