Sentences with phrase «talk about an education system»

They talk about an education system where every parent has a choice about where to send their child.

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And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

And because sex education is no longer taught in as many states as it had been before, I strongly urge parents to begin talking to their children early about the facts of life and their personal value systems.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.

You'll hear them talking about fixing the education system, holding the line on taxes.

«For a body that talks so much about education, to leave without an agreement where in a matter of days you could revert back to the board of education system, is just the height of irresponsibility,» Cuomo said.

They'll talk about the dramatic changes to New York's higher education system recommended by the Commission on Higher Eeducation system recommended by the Commission on Higher EducationEducation.

Easton talks about the impact of the governor's proposed education budget, accountability in the education system, charter schools and much more.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

In response to the mayor's most recent attempt to point the finger at the union for the breakdown of evaluation talks, UFT President Michael Mulgrew observed, «Most people would be embarrassed that the state's highest education official has directly contradicted their statements about a new teacher evaluation system, but not the mayor.»

In Finland, world renowned for its successful public school system, I talked to leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling schools turnaround and become more successful.

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, was at AEI on Tuesday, October 3 to talk with Rick Hess about her battles to reform America's education system, the topic of her new book.

McKinsey & Company did a great report a few years ago talking about the stages in which education systems develop from poor to fair, to good to great to excellent.

In this episode of the podcast, she talks with Marty West about what she learned about the Chinese education system, which is also the topic of her new book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve.

Now on leave from teaching, Kamras recently talked with Education World about how he hopes to spend the next year talking about the need to remedy the disparities among public education systems and honoring his fellow eEducation World about how he hopes to spend the next year talking about the need to remedy the disparities among public education systems and honoring his fellow eeducation systems and honoring his fellow educators.

Podcast: Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C.

In a recent Education Next article, «Golden Handcuffs,» we talked about winners and losers in teacher pension systems, and about the huge costs these systems impose on mobile teachers due to the back - loading of benefits.

Future energy professionals The energy companies that Global Action Plan talks to on a regular basis are already highly concerned about the forthcoming skills gap and question whether our education system is alert to the need to provide young people with the skills that will be required in a de-carbonised economy.

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, was at at AEI on October 3, 2017 to talk with Rick Hess about her battles to reform America's education system, the topic of her new book.

Podcast: Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky talk with Education Next about ways to eliminate the peculiar incentives built into current teacher pension systems.

But we've found that amidst the enthusiasm for personalized learning models, there's a less talked - about aspect of the education system that will need to shift to make these models viable: education research.

Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky talk with Education Next about ways to eliminate the peculiar incentives built into current teacher pension systems.

Cevin Soling, director and producer of The War on Kids, talked with Education World about his motivation for making the film and how he came to his perception of the public school system.

When I am visiting education systems in East Asia and South Asia, I am often struck by the emphasis on values as the people in those countries talk about what is most important to them in their systems.

I started things off by talking with Mel Ainscow (Professor of Education at the UK's University of Manchester) about his new book, Towards Self - improving School Systems: Lessons from a City Challenge, which documents how ten years of research and work was used to shape a highly acclaimed city - wide improvement initiative involving over 1,100 schools.

Four administrators who talked with Education World about their winter weather decision - making processes said that besides always considering safety first, having a system for deciding when to close — and communicating that system to everyone in the district — can mean making the right call most of the time.

Two teachers talk with Education World about the systems they developed and the benefits to students and parents of their improved grade - reporting systems.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

«When we talk about whether or not education is the great equalizer, I don't even think we can ever get there, if the funding system is so unequal and inequitable,» Hinojosa said.

«Education leaders often talk about standards as if they are a system of weights and measures — the word «benchmarks» is used promiscuously as a synonym for standards.

We're talking about ensuring that Chicago children get the best education possible, that families are drawn to Chicago, that parents are willing to invest their most precious assets, their children, in the school system.

So, given the inherent issues in a test - based system without a clear sense of what's being measured, if we go ahead and provide the benefit of the doubt and assume that there is some informed grand plan behind our current system of education, let's talk about mixed messages.

And how many decades have we listened to talk about fixing the education system?

First, I will say that as a former person in charge of teacher preparation in the state of New York that the portions of this report that talk about the importance of alignment, of the higher education system and the P12 system, and really understanding the ways in which we're providing opportunities for teacher candidates to have longer residencies and we're thinking about ways in which teacher candidates are participating in coursework and practice, experiences that allow them to really apply what they're learning in ways that they're getting more at bats and they're becoming more confident and they're entering the system with a set of skills that are gonna help close those gaps and help those secondary students be successful is important.

Moreover, more than half of the respondents indicated that they use social networking tools to talk about education and collaborate on school projects; yet, associated interviews with district leaders revealed that most K - 12 school systems have strict rules against nearly all forms of online social networking at school.

Kristin talks about navigating the complexities of the education systems serving Native American students.

If you want to understand where public education reform is heading, look south and east to Florida, where the governor - elect, Rick Scott, is talking about a new funding student formula that is more likely to destroy the public school system than accomplish anything else.

When we talk about data, we are referring to the different types of information educators collect to support student progress and strengthen our education system.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

She talked about what she called «These Kids Syndrome» - the tendency to explain away the shortcomings and failures of our education system by saying «these kids can't learn» or «these kids don't want to learn» or «these kids are just too far behind.»

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

«This should be the biggest thing we talk about,» says Michelle Richard, senior education consultant at Public Sector Consultants, a Lansing - based public policy firm that recently released the report «Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations for How to Improve Michigan's Education Systeeducation consultant at Public Sector Consultants, a Lansing - based public policy firm that recently released the report «Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations for How to Improve Michigan's Education SysteEducation System.»

And yet just the other day, Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and the Connecticut State Board of Education were talking about changes and flexibility associated with Connecticut's absurd teacher evaluation system, but there was virtually no mention that the federal waiver Malloy, Pryor and the state requested and received puts severe limitations on just how much «flexibility» Connecticut has in some of these areas.

I promised at the beginning of this podcast that I want to talk about our member benefit initiative, just as voting and veterans and education are very basic, that's how we feel about member benefits, and we are going to be looking back to basics that the ABA does incredible things for access to justice for the legal community, for the court system, but we are going to also do incredible things for our members and potential members.

The millions of dollars we spend on public legal education produces correspondingly valuable resources, without a doubt, but those resources can not equip litigants to comfortably and competently manage the system — especially those unable to devote themselves to the full - time study of legal processes, those whose first language is not English or French, or those with cognitive or functional impairments — and, as a result, whenever we talk about litigants without counsel, the conversation inevitably veers toward the delays, costs and other inconveniences such litigants impose on court and counsel.

There has been a lot of talk lately about ways to reform our legal education system in Canada.