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In the same vein, we welcome you to contribute to our Readers Respond section, which begins with this, the second issue of Education Matters, available in print and at www.educationnext.org and (for some essays) in unabridged form at www.educationnext.org/unabridged/.

Welcome to the second issue of Education Matters» inaugural year.

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By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The second issue will deal with schooling: what is an authentic pedagogy, the revival of classical education, home - schooling and new types of schools and colleges.

The second issue is a naïve conception of personhood, which fails to appreciate the all - encompassing influence of environment, including education, in the development of a human being.

Republicans in the Senate, however, have been deeply skeptical of de Blasio's handling of education and criticized his decision to not attend a second public hearing on the issue in New York City last month (de Blasio traveled to Albany earlier to personally pitch a mayoral control extension.

The Guardian today claims Tory education secretary Michael Gove had hoped to allow free schools to make profits in the government's second term and quotes a supporter of Gove as saying «Gove has never had an ideological issue with profit in schools, whereas Clegg is ruling it out for ideological reasons.»

A circular signed and issued by the Director - General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob A.M. Kor, said: «This is to ensure increased equitable access to high quality second cycle educatioEducation Service (GES), Mr Jacob A.M. Kor, said: «This is to ensure increased equitable access to high quality second cycle educationeducation.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

Just one day after Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at City Hall with a bevy of business leaders to push for extending mayoral control of New York City schools, the state Senate education committee held its second hearing on the issue right across the street.

He accused government of downplaying NAGRAT's outstanding issues of non - payment of the 2011 - 2012 increment credit arrears, three months arrears payment policy, poor handling of the second Tier pension issues of Ghana Education Service (GES) workers, staff rationalization and non-payment of transfer grants among other issues.

ROCKVILLE, MD — Over the past few weeks, the Colorado Department of Education released a study on student performance in geography, an international research organization put out a 32 - nation study of reading literacy, and the National Education Goals Panel issued its second annual progress report.

Second, Mathews notes the gloomy appraisal of State ESSA plans that was issued last month by Bellwether and the Collaborative for Student Success, which declares that «States largely have squandered the opportunity... to create stronger, more innovative education plans» and that many «proposed graduation rate goals that far exceeded proficiency rates by 20 percentage points or more, creating the potential for states to graduate students that are not adequately prepared for their futures.»

«When the issue came to light, our first priority was safety of pupils and staff, the second was getting pupils back into education, the third is getting the schools reopened, and it is not until this has happened that the inquiry will begin.

The key bulwarks against this kind of mission creep are, first, a definitive, public statement from the President - elect on the administration's position on Uncle Sam's role in schools; and, second, absent that, education officials» deep familiarity with today's policy issues and ability to apply conservative principles to them.

This paper is currently in press at Phi Delta Kappan.Higgins and her research team are also working on a second paper called Implementation Teams in Education, for submission to a special issue on teams in Journal of Organizational Behavior in January of 2010.

Second, McCartney said, it solves «a human - capital issue» by opening a path for students who seek education careers but shy away from the six - year research doctorate and can not envision how to navigate from an M.B.A. or J.D. into their preferred field of practice.

Rep. Michael N. Castle, R - Del., faces two important elections this year: the first, to retain his seat as Delaware's sole House representative, and the second, possibly, to capture the helm of the House subcommittee that addresses K - 12 education issues.

«On one hand, the federal government is saying, «Be bold,» which implies significant challenge to the status quo, which then tends to be disruptive and generate resistance,» said S. Paul Reville, the education secretary in Massachusetts, where the American Federation of Teachers affiliate has revoked its support of the state's second - round application over teacher issues.

Alexandria, Va. (July 13, 2015)-- As Senate floor proceedings to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act continue into a second week, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is paying close attention to several issues of keen interest to America's school boards.

NCLB is the 8th reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Second Education Act (ESEA) which signaled the feds» intrusion into what had always been a state issue.

CEA Executive Director John Yrchik told the committee that having all stakeholders sitting at the table to discuss education issues is not only important to the future of children and public education, but it is also «a fundamental factor» in the success of Connecticut's second RTTT application.

The proposal comes as Duncan and the Obama administration embark on a second term, where criticism over much of the education spending and program goals during the president's first four years in office remains an issue among many Congressional leaders.

This is the second part of Research - Based Options for Education Policymaking, a multipart brief that takes up a number of important policy issues and identifies policies supported by research.

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * California Charter Schools Conference * Federal Charter Schools Program Action Alert * State Board of Education (SBE) Considers Testing and Accountability Issues * State Board of Education Renews Two Charter Schools * Legislative Committees Picking Up Steam * Energy Commission Announces Second Webinar for Proposition 39 (Energy Efficiency) Program Training * Happenings: Updates and Deadlines

The stage was set with the two public education luminaries, ready to square off on such lightning rod issues as tenure and teacher dismissal laws in the wake of last month's Vergara trial: Randi Weingarten, leader of the nation's second largest teachers organization, AFT, and Superintendent John Deasy, leader of the second largest school district in the...

After the second year of PARCC, the State Board of Education should issue a report on its effectiveness in meeting the goal of assessing achievement of Common Core State Standards.

in Diversity and Equity Issues in Education is sure to go a long way toward securing higher level employment as one of Illinois's high - demand second - language educators for underserved communities.

It's significant that PEAC's recommendation is unanimous, for 2 reasons: First, it appears that the leadership shown by CEA last year in striving to work with PEAC members to have deeper discussions about the issues has been successful, which, in turn has brought a more clear understanding of the negative impact brought about by including mastery test scores in teacher evaluation; and second, a unanimous decision will, hopefully, have a greater impact on the way the State Board of Education discusses and reviews the recommendation.

In Essex, the second largest education authority area in the country (after Kent), parents saw the number of penalties issued treble (from 909 in 2014 - 15 to 3,165 in 2016 - 17) for unauthorised term time holidays.

This brief, the second in a series from the California Collaborative exploring LCFF implementation issues, highlights some capacity needs for leaders at all levels of the K - 12 education system.

Second, it enables all members to participate (either actively or as a «listener») in lively statewide discussions of gifted education issues.

This has happened on other issues; for example, H.H. Sheikha Moza, the second wife of the Emir of Qatar, has been a champion of education at home and abroad.

Discrimination in the first category will only rarely be justifiable «merely on utilitarian» grounds; whereas issues as to discrimination in the second category — which might include marital status, for example, or education, ability, occupation — «usually depend upon considerations of public interest» (Lord Hoffmann in Carson at [16]-RRB-.

As the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, university graduates are finding that youthful indiscretions documented in the college newspaper and forgotten thereafter are now finding a second life online as colleges digitize their back issues.

Second, by frontloading legal ethics in the 1L curriculum, we hope to address the issue, flagged by both the recent Carnegie Report and the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), that legal education tends to marginalize ethics, morality, and personal and professional values.

On January 17, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its long - anticipated opinion in Marblegate Asset Management, LLC v. Education Management Finance Corp., ruling that Section 316 (b) of the Trust Indenture...

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She achieved her Masters of Science degree in 1986, and received a second degree in K - 12 education in 1996 adding to her knowledge of educational issues such as the use of IEPs, 504 statuses, ADD / ADHD, etc as it plays out in the school arena.

The author of numerous publications on faculty development, second language pedagogy, speech technology and the integration of sound pedagogy in e-learning practices, Dr. Germain - Rutherford has headed several national and international research projects, specifically on faculty development and multicultural issues in post-secondary education and online environments.

The second is on a thorough understanding of addictive disorders across the lifespan, including system and community issues, such as how to address cross-social service system treatment barriers, and community education and mobilization.

The first, a joint policy statement issued by the U.S. departments of Education and Health and Human Services, focused on reducing suspensions and expulsions in early childhood settings.13 The second, a guidance package released by the departments of Education and Justice, addressed discrimination in school disciplinary practices.14 Unlike laws or regulations, these guidance documents are not legally binding.