Sentences with phrase «teachers in the nation»

No obscure figure, Kilpatrick was «the most influential teacher in the nation's leading college of education,» spending nearly 30 years on the faculty of Columbia University's Teachers College, notes education historian Diane Ravitch.

He was the first teacher in the nation to take advantage of Teacher Next Door, a new Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiative that makes homes available to teachers for 50 percent off the list price.

«I have always loved to teach,» said Dale Kephart after being named best high school physical education teacher in the nation for the year 2000.

As the leader of the largest group of teachers in the nation, Weingarten is well - positioned to effect change in the education space, and she consistently ensures that key issues remain at the forefront of American public discourse.

Federal programs currently allocate about $ 2.5 billion on professional development for teachers in the nation's public schools.

Parents and teachers in the nation's largest school system would have broad new authority over their schools under a plan the New York City school board is expected to take up next week.

An intelligent use of value aided analysis would allow easily for a 50 percent reduction in the number of teachers in the nation.

Last week, Nathan Saunders, president of the Washington Teachers Union, announced his intention to push for legislation that would force charter school teachers in the nation's capital to become unionized.

This is a problem given that White women and men account for 82 percent of teachers in the nation's classrooms.

As seen in this graph, there are dramatically more beginning teachers in our nation's classrooms.

WASHINGTON — Roxanne Brummell has thrived in what many consider the toughest new testing ground for teachers in the nation.

And nationally, no more than 2 percent of teachers in the nation's public schools are Black men.

In other words, last month's NAEP scores might have gone down even if every teacher in the nation had taught the new Common Core content perfectly.

Reporting from Washington — Roxanne Brummell has thrived in what many consider the toughest new testing ground for teachers in the nation.

«Most teachers in the nation now belong to unions or associations that bargain over salaries, working conditions, and the like.

Moreover, many of these same policy makers justify increasing instructional time as part of the international education arms race while ignoring the fact that teachers in nations such as South Korea and Singapore only actually teach about 35 % of their work day compared to 80 % in the U.S. (Wei et al., 2009).

The Every Student Succeeds Act, which received strong bipartisan support from both houses of Congress, will directly affect nearly 50 million students and their 3.4 million teachers in the nation's 100,000 public schools.

We are blessed to have some of the finest schools and teachers in the nation.

Wisconsin classrooms have one of the highest rates of new teachers in the nation, according an analysis from Education Week.

I continued on to DC and spent 3 years teaching, designing curriculum, and coaching teachers in our nation's capitol.

Students seeking teaching jobs in the Empire State might be interested to know that, according to the National Education Agency, New York offers the sixth best salary to beginning teachers in the nation ($ 41,079) and the overall best average teacher salary ($ 69,118).

The lawsuit is part of a growing effort to use litigation to overcome union opposition to changes in the way teachers in the nation's second - largest school district are assigned, retained, evaluated and granted tenure.

One of the biggest challenges facing educational leaders today is finding strategies to keep our best and brightest teachers in our nation's classrooms.

The organization plans to send the materials to another 25,000 teachers every two weeks until every public - school science teacher in the nation has a copy, Heartland president and CEO Joseph Bast said.

The strengths of the school in our experience has been Sarah s teacher (I d put her against any kindergarten teacher in the nation) the great community of parents who wait outside for their kids each day a responsive Principal and a warm energy.

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He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

You may have heard of Fortnite, the new, free game that's sweeping the nation and irking teachers everywhere, but parents and school administrators may have to re-think their disciplinary plan: Fortnite could actually help kids stay in school.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?

Such Christian hypocrisy was taught in the South before the Civil War and Mohler is a direct line descendent of the self - serving «teachers» who led the Nation into Civil War then.

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

I'm convinced that the Teacher awaited by many faiths is here to educate humanity on how to achieve peace, end starvation in the midst of plenty through nation sharing with each other, and to remind us of our true nature as spiritual beings all on a path together.

, a Christian Nation proponent who won by large numbers, declares during campaigning that gay people and single mothers shouldn't be school teachers, we are in danger.

We must be able to explain creation, revelation and the Incarnation and Redemption in one coherent sweep of meaning, in which the Church, despite the many sins and failings of its members, is the continuing teacher of the truth for all the nations.

«After all, Jimmy Carter was a great Sunday school teacher, but look at what happened to our nation with him in the presidency.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

The RSS has started village - level educational units that enable teachers well - versed in the ideology of Hindutva to live with and instruct minority communities about their nation, heritage, and civilization.

The Christian community of our time, whether or not formally united, is one of the great organizations and movements in civilization; it is one of the oldest human societies; it has been the teacher of most of the nations now in existence.

Here's one teacher's view on fear in schools and how her commitment to our nation's growing students has changed.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

This week you will have the opportunity to read interviews from the teachers, principals, administrators, and food service directors who work tirelessly and understand the need for increasing participation, decreasing barriers, and raising awareness of school breakfast programs in our nation's schools.

I have family and close friends who are teachers, and do not discount what they do to serve our nation's children in the public schools.

So here's some unsolicited advice for CEO Easterbrook: When parents, teachers and the media are all telling you loudly they don't like McDonald's branded marketing in our nation's schools, maybe you ought to reconsider the idea?

«Having the shortest school day in the nation puts teachers and students at a disadvantage and it's time that we provided both with the tools they need to drive student success in the classroom,» said CPS CEO Jean - Claude Brizard.

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

West Virginia's teachers are refusing to go to school for a fourth day today in protest of pay that is among the lowest in the nation.

The NEA Advocacy Fund is a super PAC that was launched by the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers union, in 2010.

Thornberry was born in north Surrey to Cedric Thornberry, an international lawyer who was a United Nations Assistant Secretary - General and worked as a consultant for NATO, [6] and Sallie Thornberry, a teacher.

President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his Vice President last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that «you should have no doubt about my affection for you and the President's commitment to you.»

Could it be that the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union and one of the most politically powerful special interests in history, isn't really about educational effectiveness after all, and that the Democrat Congress is in the pockets of the NEA?