Sentences with phrase «shifting much education»

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It sucks that the NCAA shifted the balance of power so much this year because a kid had too much education

While in one sense I admire my generation's persistence and diligence, the intense competition has become ludicrous — so much so that it has caused a shift in the education system.

Advocates say the cost shifts would devastate CUNY and make it much harder to provide higher education, especially to those who can't afford private school tuition.

It's simply asking too much for even the most seasoned education reporters to develop a discerning eye for curriculum; it's not their job, and it makes their job covering the instructional shifts taking place under Common Core uphill work.

Like so much in British education, with its many policy layers, shifts, and special situations, the secondary - school picture is messy and complicated.

«Experts disagree on how much of what is happening reflects a long - term shift toward greater Federal involvement or is a result of a historical moment: a politically adroit President intensely focused on education, aging baby boomers who have made education a leading national issue, and an absence of competing issues,» the article states.

Dr. Middleton is thoughtful about shifts in P - 16 education and provides much - needed insights, connections to research, and a pragmatic perspective.»

There are a number of good ideas being floated, recently and prominently in a January 2013 address to The Pope Center in North Carolina by Dr. Sandra Stotsky, who believes that the weighting of education reform focus should be shifted from student standards to a priority on educator standards, beginning with much higher standards for admission to preparation programs and limiting schools of education to the graduate level.

«Over time, we've seen a real shift in thinking from a lot of skepticism about early childhood to a much broader public and parent awareness about the importance of early learning and development,» says Sara Mead, an analyst with Bellwether Education Partners who studies early childhood issues.

The Senate sent a bill to the president's desk Wednesday that replaces much of the widely disliked No Child Left Behind Act and shifts more power over education to states and school districts.

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

Much has changed since the heyday of vocational education; today, the national discourse on high school reform has shifted to embrace the role of high - quality career - technical education in preparing all students for both college and career.

The shift in the education debate from «how much» to «how best» is a welcome change, but for students to feel the full benefit the federal government must resist intervening.

and that women's access to secondary education and contraception are the key to shifted trajectories on family size — and so much else, of course.

Much has been written about the shifting focus in early childhood education over the past several decades.