Sentences with phrase «schools and the education debate»

Finally, the story also may highlight the gap between how differently journalists, readers, and educators view stories about schools and the education debate.

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Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

Tomorrow, the House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a markup of its school food bill, the process through which committee members debate and amend draft legislation.

Several legal initiatives have been rushed through Parliament without due debate, ranging from the extension of religious education classes and the conversion of secular state schools into Islamic institutions, to harsh limitations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

As an education advocate, the UFT is involved in many of the most important debates and discussions affecting our schools and our city.

Moderated by WNYC economic development journalist Janet Babin, candidates Rubain Dorancy and Jesse Hamilton answered questions submitted by the community and debated topics ranging from education to public schools to affordable housing.

The Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham schools last year has left an indelible mark on the education system and the ensuing debate on the need for schools to uphold «British values» has infused parties...

, particularly members of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG), on legislation related to faith schools and education in Parliament, and organising debates in the House of Commons and House of Lords on relevant issues.

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During last night's debate, education secretary Alan Johnson rejected the ballot proposals as «unnecessarily bureaucratic» and insisted the obligation on schools to consult parents was enough to ensure their views were taken into account.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democratic NYC mayoral contenders Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Sal Albanese (but not Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who dropped out of this event) participate in the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools education debate.

Education was a sticking point for the Legislature, which spent hours debating funding for statewide full - day pre-kindergarten, charter schools and the flawed rollout of the Common Core, a new testing standard.

Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over education reform.

Cuomo says he's tired of hearing the same «debate» over education that's occurred for the last twenty years, which he says focuses too much on what he calls «high priced» professional education lobbyists and the amount of money to be spent on schools.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

«This debate has always been about ensuring that school children in New York City receive a first - class education that prepares them for the rest of their lives, and this agreement moves us closer to that goal.»

Before the 2010 general election, most of Gove's questions in Commons debates concerned children, schools and families, education, local government, council tax, foreign affairs, and the environment.

Diane Ravitch has brought the real facts and a commitment to quality public schools for all back into the debate about education reform.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

Moreover, local school politics has sometimes been more pragmatic and open to negotiated compromise than national education debates.

«Our research from Natsal is timely with the current debate on sex and relationships education in schools, but it's also important to remember that introducing statutory SRE in schools won't solve everything.

Another reason to be positive about virtual schooling is that it opens up debates about education that go beyond narrow questions of who funds and governs it.

110 European science teachers and science centre / museum professionals had the chance to participate in workshops and debates on how schools and science centres can come together at the forefront of science education.

Two weeks after the New York City Board of Education adopted a controversial plan to distribute condoms in all of the district's high schools, local and national debate about the plan's merits, and its possible influence on other districts, continues unabated.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

The online privacy debate has started to gain momentum in the education community and protecting students is an important and necessary conversation to be had by schools and districts.

They are also expected to debate other education issues, including charter schools and distance education on July 5 and 6.

In the following debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement around this issue of school choice and school quality.

At the dynamic Education Fast Forward 12 Debate on January 19, I spoke with Stefan Dercon (Chief Economist Department for International Development in London) and Andreas Schleicher (Special Advisor on Education Policy OECD in Paris) about their opinions on the issues raised in the «Turning School Performance to Economic Success» discussion.

Sobered and a bit battered, Fordham continues as an authorizer of Ohio charter schools — six of them today, with a seventh in the offing — and a vigorous participant in the state's larger education - policy debates.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in theducation experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in thEducation Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

«Dean Murphy has been at the center of the national debate on school reform, and he has encouraged active engagement by faculty and students with critical issues in the field of education.

«Education is a pressing issue of national and international concern, and Harvard University, led by the Graduate School of Education, has a critically important role to play in shaping the debate, advancing the research...

These are some of the questions I put to Stefan Dercon, Chief Economist at the Department for International Development in London, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary General at the OECD in Paris, during the EFF12 debate: «Turning School Performance to Economic Success.»

This year has brought its share of ups and downs in education, many of which have provoked much thoughtful conversation and friendly debate on the Harvard Graduate School of Education campus aneducation, many of which have provoked much thoughtful conversation and friendly debate on the Harvard Graduate School of Education campus anEducation campus and beyond.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

-LSB-...] discipline has become the subject of one of the most polarizing and entrenched debates in education: Opponents of the Obama guidance argue that it has handicapped schools from ensuring schools are safe and productive learning environments; proponents assert the rules promote equity and prevent educators from resorting to punitive discipline practices that are ineffective at best and pernicious at worst.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

On January 25, 2017 AEI hosted a discussion of race, social justice, and school reform that was inspired by a forum in Education Next titled «Education reform's race debate.»

Hill Fight on No Child Left Behind Looms Politico, 1/21/15» «It's not a debate about what education policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Eeducation policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.

With a new administration taking office, ESSA implementation underway, and the debate over school choice heating up, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of the most important developments in the education field.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

Martin West, associate professor of education at HGSE and deputy director of Educational Policy and Governance Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate the debate.

Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York City, where the board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

One of the most passionately debated topics of 21st Century education surrounds the primary tenet of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: All students, and that means 100 percent of enrolled students, will test at or above proficiency levels by the 2013 - 2014 school year.