Sentences with phrase «thing about our education system»

Mark Robinson says the best thing about our education system is the people involved in it.

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The things about our cities that make you want to move here are the same reasons many of us live here — we have great systems of higher education, museums, and infrastructure that helps move people and things from one place to another.
The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.
More education is required for democracy to flourish — education about the system, the impact of voting, the importance of changing things that are broken and an awareness of what is going on behind the smokescreen.
I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).
I think whether it's through our troubled families intitiative or through our help to young people, through the education system, whether it's about to get the universal benefit, it's about trying to bring the best out of people - making sure they understand there's another way, making sure they get the opportunity to do better, to experience wider things
«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 the words of Dwight Schrute [from TV's The Office], I can change one thing about education today, and I will work to change the historical inequities that are played out in our educational system.
We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.
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.
On Education and Racism: «When I got older and went to the University of California [Berkeley] I learnt about a more subtle racism and how it filters across our education system through tracking, hidden curriculums, social stratification, and things I had no idea oEducation and Racism: «When I got older and went to the University of California [Berkeley] I learnt about a more subtle racism and how it filters across our education system through tracking, hidden curriculums, social stratification, and things I had no idea oeducation system through tracking, hidden curriculums, social stratification, and things I had no idea of before.
We know two important things about early childhood education: 1) children who have access to quality programs generally outperform children who do not, and 2) the benefits of quality preschool can be further enhanced if quality of education is maintained in the K — 12 system.
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.
While the Trump administration hasn't spoken much about the direction it intends to take the nation's educational system, here are three things to know about the next Education Secretary.
«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
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.
One good thing about a customizable learning management system is that not only can it contain general education, it can be tailored per property to incorporate site - specific learning.
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