Sentences with phrase «schools over the last few decades»

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

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Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

Larry Cuban is a prolific and insightful chronicler and analyst of our efforts at urban school reform and improvement over the last few decades.

However, while the presence of technology has remained constant, the ways that schools are using it has changed considerably over the last few decades.

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Brian Caldwell: Over the last few decades schools, especially public schools, have been given more authority to make their own decisions on a range of matters.

Over the last few decades, in the wake of an alarming 1983 report about the state of American education known as «A Nation At Risk,» policymakers sought to increase the accountability of schools and teachers to keep the U.S. competitive with international peers.

When I and others (friend and collaborator Alan Gottlieb) have raised these issues over the last decade, many district leaders and school board members told us that these issues were too intractable to tackle.Housing patterns are hard to overcome, transportation too expensive, or that there were too few white kids in Denver to make it work.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

Over the last few decades most of the schools and colleges are paying extra attention on homework of students, and this attention is necessary to improve the knowledge, Writing Skills and especially for overall development of stud

>> OLD - SCHOOL PENSIONS STILL ON DECLINE Consulting firm Towers Watson says the number of providing defined - benefit pensions continues to fall, although fewer companies moved away from such plans last year than in any other year over the past decade.