Mark Robinson says the best
thing about our education system is the people involved in it.
Not exact matches
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 o
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 o
education 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 Syste
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 Syste
Education 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.