Sentences with phrase «schools over the past century»

What stopped investors, entrepreneurs, and educators from taking advantage of the profitable opportunities in running schools over the past century?

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Our schools have proven, over the past century, quite adept at resisting change.

She is one of many over the past century and a half who have been so well served by these and other Catholic schools throughout the country.

Democratic leaders have enriched the unions over the past half century, creating millions of jobs for dues - paying teachers, feeding the building trades via school construction, and granting bargaining rights to teachers in the 1970s.

The first sentence reads, «Over the past few years, Governors and Chief State School Officers have developed and adopted rigorous academic content standards to prepare all students for success in college and careers in the 21st Century.

School choice has had a remarkable run over the past quarter century.

Over the past quarter century, charter schools have taken firm root in the American education landscape.

This pattern reflects the influence of enrollment pressures and pedagogical theories that, over the past half century, all but eliminated the K — 8 school from the American education landscape.

Burke blames the national trend of lower scores on «increasing federal intervention over the past half - century... the resulting burden of complying with federal programs, rules, and regulations, have created a parasitic relationship with federal education programs and states, and is straining the time and resources of local schools.

Improving school organization, management, and leadership can support improved retention of minority teachers, according to this report, which examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority teachers over the past quarter century.

Across our nation, school design and construction has changed little during the past three - quarters of a century; some might argue over an...

Over the past half - century, nearly every state has had a similar case about how to finance its schools, some more tortured than others.

Over the past decade, educators, policymakers, and the public have begun to forge a consensus that our public schools must focus on better preparing all children for the demands of citizenship in the 21st century.

Over the past decade, strengthening teaching quality has been a priority for state legislators because they understand that great teachers and school leaders must be the centerpiece of a successful 21st century education system.

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

Although the overall high school completion rates have increased over the past century, schools still face the challenge of how to prevent students...

The Common Core's call for coherent, content - based math and literacy standards threatens to undo the watered - down version of progressive education thinking that has dominated the public schools over the past half - century.

Sonnenborn described the refurbishment of the institution's historic campus over the past five years as «not terribly sexy,» since it focused mainly on maintenance work, but she stressed that it was essential in order to allow the school to make sure its facilities fit the needs of artists working in the twenty - first century.

The real thrust of the project is to act as a catalyst for integrating the School's history, library collections and archival resources into the life and work of the Osgoode community by involving the students in developing and curating exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that illustrate the dramatic changes in legal education and the profession over the course of the past century and document Osgoode's role in them.

However, the profession has over the past century played a significant role in affecting law school curriculum.