Sentences with phrase «structural changes in the education»

Raising the high school graduation rate will require a set of complementary investments and structural changes in the education system.

Murnane and Hoffman conclude that raising high school graduation rates further «will require a set of complementary investments and structural changes in the education system,» and that «investments aimed at improving the school readiness of economically disadvantaged children are critical.»

Not exact matches

«Imaging is essential for identifying the presence and the severity of the structural changes induced by the infection, especially in the central nervous system,» said the report's lead author, Fernanda Tovar - Moll, M.D., Ph.D., vice president of the D'Or Institute for Research and Education and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The article by Jane Hannaway and Shannon McKay of the Urban Institute showed how mandatory testing can serve as a lever to create structural change in an otherwise entrenched education bureaucracy.

Ethnic Studies and Education revealed a history of exploitation in the United States that I never knew existed and forever shifted the way I perceive race, ethnicity, structural inequalities, social change, and the history that surrounds us.

Observers like Bracey, Kohn, and others, dead set against any fundamental changes in the nation's schools, usually work hard to dismiss the TIMSS results as evidence of any structural weakness in the U.S. education system.

Vocational education has been promoted largely as a way of improving the transition from schooling to work, but it also appears to reduce the adaptability of workers to technological and structural change in the economy.

Marc never quite resolves the extent to which Ontario sticks out like a structural sore thumb, nor does he quite draw the lesson that might be most applicable here: American education surely needs a major overhaul of its education governance before it can successfully put into place the other changes in policy and practice that Marc urges (and that these other countries do).

«Through Richard Elmore's Politics in Education course, I gained a deeper understanding of the political complexity of systemic change, how to think about addressing structural impediments to change, and how to be politically strategic, in addition to instructionally focused, to better achieve excellence through equity for all learners,» said Jewell - Sherman.

«With 86 per cent of council - maintained schools in England rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, the government needs to recognise councils» role in education improvement and that imposing structural changes on schools is not the best way to improve education.»

«This is especially an issue with complex structural changes to education systems, such as the move to a school - led system, be it in the form of the academies programme, teaching schools or free schools.

This is not to say that their jobs are not difficult, but they come to this work with the mindset and tenacity needed to change individual lives of struggling students and larger structural inequities in their schools and in American education more generally.

Our goal is not to merely produce structural change in the leaders» work, but rather to transform the culture of the entire organization to eliminate inequities within the education system and to get the best results for all students.

Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide places for children - but they are also facing major structural changes in planning local education services.

If we can not deliver on this commitment, we are failing in our public education responsibility, and no historical attachment to a particular delivery system should prevent our making the necessary structural changes.

First, this stance reduces attention to the fundamental structural changes needed in schools if they are to meet the twin goals of equity and excellence in education.

These same spheres of influence have also had a significant role in legislative initiatives directed at the «reform» of public education, resulting in a number of innovative structural changes, the charter and contract school movements being prominent examples.

The Center for Education Reform (CER) is the pioneer and leading voice for lasting substantive and structural change in the United States.

The Center for Education Reform, the nation's leading voice for structural and substantive change in education, congratulates President Obama on his reEducation Reform, the nation's leading voice for structural and substantive change in education, congratulates President Obama on his reeducation, congratulates President Obama on his reelection.

Student empowerment is any attitudinal, structural, and cultural activity, process or outcome where students of any age gain the ability, authority and agency to make decisions and implement changes in their own schools, learning and education, and in the education of other people, including fellow students of any age and adults throughout education.

The doctoral program in special education is designed to prepare students for creative leadership in a rapidly changing world that is experiencing increasing cultural diversity, curriculum and structural reforms in schools, and pedagogical innovations across the educational spectrum.

It's hard to discuss overall structural change to the higher education system in the United States because there will always be winners and losers.

Their demands were the same as the eleven students who had locked themselves on the top floor for a week five months earlier, in anticipation of the tuition announcement: that the administration publicly affirm the college's commitment to free education; that the Board of Trustees implement structural changes with the goal of creating open flows of information and democratic decision - making structures; and that President Bharucha step down.

Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans.

There are several reasons why families experience fluctuations in income, such as changes in parental work affiliation or education levels, and structural changes in the family like divorce or reconstitution.5 Due to lack of historic information about such events, factors causally associated with different trajectories were not explicitly investigated in the current study.