Sentences with phrase «school educators believe»

Rather it is, and should be, simply a question of what public school educators believe is the best strategy to improve achievement in their districts.

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(PISA's willingness to accept only this limited sample is typical of the gullibility and compliance of many foreign NGOs, especially in education, when dealing with China; I have seen numerous foreign educators fall victim to obvious Potemkinism, including believing that Beijing No. 4 High School — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.&rSchool — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.&rschool.»)

Indeed, nearly half of the nation's public school educators are practicing Christians and 95 percent of Protestant pastors believe Christians should get involved in helping public schools (Barna).

Educators who believe deeply in the mission of faith - based schooling should become consistent in translating it into every detail of school life, and doing so without apology.

But he does believe that the default homework policy in schools should be a no homework policy, and that the burden of proof should rest with educators who want to assign homework to show that their assignments are beneficial.

At The Fatherhood Project at Massachusetts General Hospital, we believe that educators working with families in schools have an unprecedented opportunity to utilize these important findings and dispel the myth that fathers are somehow unimportant or unnecessary to raising healthy children.

«I believe in the New York City school system and the thousands of dedicated, hardworking administrators, educators and support staff that commit themselves to providing our city's youth with a quality education,» said Treyger.

BRONX — A small but growing number of educators believe they have found the key to helping struggling schools in low - income neighborhoods.

We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.

«Many educators believe engagement leads to better school performance and is necessary for developing student motivation and interest,» said Ze Wang, associate professor of educational, school and counseling psychology in the College of Education at MU.

At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futures.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: The Bad Kids / (Directors: Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe)-- At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futures.

We believe that one of the greatest school - based factors for improving education today is empowering educators with opportunities to develop a growth mindset by working together to build skills and strategies to increase the impact of their instruction in the classroom.

But Dr. Shannon Vincent, principal of Trent Lott Middle School in Pascagoula, Mississippi, believes she is falling short as an educator if she does not engage young people in community service.

I realize that's a fairly harsh and rigid position, but I strongly believe that teaching and leading in schools without a sense of humor is detrimental for both the educators and the students.

According to the ASG Parents Report Card 2017, 69 per cent believe schools should do more to teach students social skills and around half would like educators to do more in teaching their child how to behave in public.

Studying Teacher Education explains the disconnect between what teacher educators believe is the right way to prepare a new teacher and the unhappy K — 12 schools on the receiving end of that effort.

These students are in classrooms in most school systems — and face some of the steepest odds for graduating from high school — yet only one - third of district - level leaders believe educators in their schools are prepared to effectively teach English - learners, according to an Education Week Research Center survey from late last year.

Over the weeks topics have ranged from why educators become school leaders to how you get others to believe in you as an administrator.

With the new open - enrollment system, educators believed they could capitalize on the Small Schools of Choice reform.

El - Mekki was also a Principal Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan, and he is the founder of Black Male Educators for Social Justice, a fellowship dedicated to supporting and recruiting more African American men into the teaching profession — a critical component, El - Mekki believes, in creating more equitable schools.

Staff - development programs at the school level, many educators believe, would be easier to manage and could be more easily combined with long - range...

On one side, Edison and other privatization enthusiasts believe that running schools for profit will give educators greater incentives to raise achievement.

If we, you and I together, take this challenge and indeed build that community of collaborative and diverse learners and give to the world what Harvard's Graduate School of Education has already given to us, I believe that the prophesy of the Jesuit French educator Tielhard de Chardin will come true about the HGSE graduating class of 2008 - that women and men will decree, long after we have walked across this stage, that for the second time in history, humankind discovered fire.

Vermont educators who have had their licenses revoked or suspended for any reason are now listed on a public Web site, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the nation, that aims to make such information more easily available to families and hiring school districts.

Voucher supporters, charter advocates, standards nuts, teacher - effectiveness fanatics — we all fundamentally believe that fantastic schools staffed by dedicated educators can help poor kids climb out of poverty and compete with their affluent peers.

Given these profound disagreements, I have come to believe that educators would derive more satisfaction from an education system that gave them greater freedom to create schools according to their pedagogical principles, in recognition of the powerful influence that philosophical, ideological, and sometimes spiritual worldviews have over those principles.

Her stormy tenure is being closely watched by school reformers, the teacher unions, urban educators and Congressional Democrats, who variously believe that the chancellor is either the troubled district's last hope — or worst nightmare.)

I continue to believe, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, that poverty, though a real challenge, has been used as a convenient excuse by too many educators; an excuse not to improve, not to seek changes in school organization and instructional techniques, not to raise expectations.

Dr. Starr is a strong advocate for educators and school staff and believes the best way to improve education is to improve teaching and learning for every student.

Educators — and others — believe that dropping out of school is a high school problem.

I believe that as educators, we must understand and help address the issues that negatively affect our students well before they ever arrive at school.

In our work with public school educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the quality of execution.

Most everyone, from those who believe that teachers should earn more, so that the profession attracts the best and the brightest, to those who believe that union contracts are bankrupting American schools, while also leading to poorer educational outcomes, agrees that there is something wrong with the way our educators are paid.

It believes that educators know best, that elected school boards are the embodiment of democracy in action, that colleges of education are the path to true professionalism, that collective bargaining is necessary to protect teacher rights, and that any failings visible in today's schools, teachers, and students are either the fault of heedless parents or the consequence of incompetent administrators and stingy taxpayers.

A leader and active member in many student groups while at the Ed School, including FIERCE (Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education) and the HGSE Rural Educators Alliance, Barraza, as noted by a peer who nominated her for the Intellectual Contribution Award, «never shied away from difficult conversations with peers and professors and she modeled what it means to stand up for what one believes in.»

A grand jury charged Kenneth Doty, superintendent of schools in West Concord, and Raymond Six, principal of West Concord High School, under a 1983 state law that requires educators to contact law - enforcement authorities when they «know or have reason to believe» that child abuse has occurred.

Parents, educators, and taxpayers surveyed by the Public Policy Forum in Milwaukee cited a range of guidelines, from reporting test scores and teacher qualifications to oversight by an independent board, they believe are necessary to oversee choice programs involving private schools.

Most principals and teachers say they believe creating school environments that allow educators to work together more would have a «major impact» on improving the chances for student success, according to a new national survey by MetLife Inc..

As both a former schoolteacher and a parent of two children who went through public schools, I am convinced that we need more effective ways to hold educators accountable, and I believe that testing has to be a part of an effective accountability program.

The expectation is that this collaboration will lead to the kind of systemic blend DesignShare lauds as «a seamless grade 9 - 16 curriculum» and that blur physical and program boundaries in a way some educators believe can lead to a paradigm shift for learning in all inner - city high schools.

A Sampling of College Harvard Gazette, 3/24/14 «Educators from Cambridge's public schools voiced their approval as Suzanne Bouffard, a researcher and writer with the Harvard Graduate School of Education HGSE, spoke about the galvanizing power of helping students believe that college is a goal they can not only pursue, but can master and achieve.»

There were several reasons for this, but Santos believes that the lack of preparation of educators was a major factor for the failure of music education in schools in Brazil (Santos, 2005).

There have been recent newspaper articles calling for improved sex education in schools across the world.1, 2 Sometimes the focus is on sexuality and relationships education in a general context, other times it's concerned with specific areas of education that principals and educators believe should be implemented in as many schools as possible using a whole - school approach.

The documentary questions the virtues of the education system in place for decades and brings the «groundbreaking» vision of teachers, educators and pediatricians who believe in challenging postures models like the Montessori, home schooling, free schools, education for projects, active schools or Waldorf pedagogy.

We believe this model holds the potential to enhance teacher preparation programs; strengthen school - university partnerships; and connect teacher educators, teacher candidates, and school - based practitioners via collaboration on intervention - based instructional research projects.

And, in fact, many educators believe that today's schools have abandoned the concept of creativity.

Many educators believe it's the missing linchpin of school reform.

As school budgets seem to buy less and less of what educators and parents believe students need, some school districts are discovering — or creating — new ways to raise money.

Educators at a Los Angeles - area high school believe teaching students to «fail productively» will equip them for success in the long run.