Sentences with phrase «think about our education systems»

«We're seeing a shift in the way we think about our education systems, based on intuitive nature with which the youth interacts with technology and the dramatic evolution we're seeing in the 21st century workplace.

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Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

If you're the kind of person whose only financial education has come from the limited curriculum of our public education system, this book can really change the way you think about finances.

Every religion has a education system about that religion, if it was innately true, you would think that you wouldn't need to spend so much time to make someone believe it is true.

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.

Whatever your thoughts about ghana's education are we are based on the much better British system rather than your hollow American one hence with only a tiny proportion graduating your government seeks to employ them in your public services.

«I say this with some caution — I didn't know Ann Maguire, of course — but I suspect from what little I have read about or know about her, a dedicated teacher like that wouldn't want to see the education system — I think her headmaster has said that she herself wouldn't want see the school system turn into a high - security environment.

Think about how we could transform that public education system and really make it a model of pride and be able to say to every child in this city and in this state, «you are going to get every shot you deserve,» because we have a public education system that is second to none.

I think there are some areas where clearly there is value and rationale in there being closer decision - making between Wales, Scotland and England, whether that's around higher education funding or about how we're going to fund social care in future [or] the nature of our education systems.

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.»

Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chair of the Committee on Higher Education, said that funds would have been better allocated to operating aid for CUNY, but did not think there was anything inappropriate about the governor requesting support from members of the system.

«We feel as though we have an obligation to support the education system,» Gerald Patterson said, adding about the tough budget, «I think it's a bad year.»

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

«He's one of a dying breed,» says physiologist Arlan Richardson, director of the Aging Research and Education Center at UTHSCSA, «one of the [few] people who has really thought about whole - animal systems.»

«We have to move beyond dietary guidelines and education and food labeling and really think about strong government policies to make the food system healthier for everybody,» Mozaffarian says.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

We have to think about the whole child because one will succeed in many different ways in life and if the education system puts academic measurement as the main way of measuring, then we place children and institutions under enormous strain.»

• The big issues the Department of Education will face when issuing regulations • How states might think fresh about their accountability systems, teacher evaluations, and interventions in low - performing schools • The timeline for the coming two years

For those adults working on, writing about, or generally pondering the fate of our education system, «teachers» are thought of as a stakeholder group, a fulcrum for change.

The Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education, is structured to highlight the best of what we currently know about healthy child development and high - quality systems, schools and classrooms of early learning, while also bringing in new thinking from other fields to provide insights that bear on the design of preK improvement and expansion.

His work has influenced how we think about a range of education policies: test score volatility and the design of school accountability systems, teacher recruitment and retention, financial aid for college, race - conscious college admissions and the economic payoff of a community college education.

Not only do computers send structural ripples throughout a school system, but they also subtly alter the way we think about education.

In higher education especially, I've learned to think about academe as a «loosely coupled system» - something that I hadn't conceptualized before but now makes a great deal of sense.

I was reminded of this lesson recently when thinking about the fights over trying to make the nation's higher education system more affordable.

We have to think about how to build a smart education system that integrates the assets of municipal agencies, such as housing departments, parks and recreation departments, or cultural - affairs departments so that, particularly in disadvantaged communities, students and their families begin to get the supports they need to hone higher - level skills.

Sir Ken believes education is about people and not process, he thinks our education system is currently about conformity which is the opposite of where it should be.

Because there, you have to think about how you build the education, transportation, and housing systems simultaneously.

With our testing and assessing models so much embedded in our education system's culture, what is a good way to start teaching teachers about more creative thinking and teaching students to be more risk averse?

-LSB-...] written, I think the piece that might have had the greatest impact is an open letter I wrote on my personal blog about the design of accountability systems under the new federal education law.

These are facts I thought a task force charged with exploring the inequities of America's education system would be encouraged by, serving as an indication that the students the NAACP cares about most are being well - educated by the kind of schools the organization is so opposed to — they called for a moratorium on new charters last summer.I waited to speak for three hours before I had to leave.

Although I have some doubts about the wisdom of the Race to the Top competition, and there are other steps that I think the federal government could take that would support a more systematic transformation of our education system, this Race to the Top competition does have the potential to reset American schools» relationship with technology by encouraging a transformation from a one - size - fits all schooling model to one that can customize affordably for each student's unique learning needs.

I decided to ask Finnish educator and author Pasi Sahlberg for his thoughts on the previously - noted, supposed «truth» about Finland and its education system.

iNACOL: Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education The purpose of this report is to spark conversation and provoke thought about core concepts that policy will need to address to achieve sustainable systems transformation to personalized, competency - based eduSystems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education The purpose of this report is to spark conversation and provoke thought about core concepts that policy will need to address to achieve sustainable systems transformation to personalized, competency - based eEducation The purpose of this report is to spark conversation and provoke thought about core concepts that policy will need to address to achieve sustainable systems transformation to personalized, competency - based edusystems transformation to personalized, competency - based educationeducation.

«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.

It was a challenging, thought provoking and inspiring lecture, but one which left me even more deeply troubled about the direction and pace of travel taken by the English education system — a direction and pace which is clearly unpopular with the majority of teachers and may contribute to their current exodus from the classroom.

I feel confident in saying that I will look back at 2011 as a year when many learning mini-revolutions began, when education systems around the world started thinking about moving on from the lecture - style model of learning they have used for the last 120 years.

Now I know you are going to jump on that last comment and get all worked up over it and say I am probably corporate education reform person, but what you should do is think about what you would do differently, if contracts, and funding were not a factor what education system would you create, what would it look like?

One has to wonder what Secretary Duncan recalls about being a child if he thinks this system is «just part of most kids» education» and not a rather extraordinary set of circumstances that is reaping some very sour fruit.

Whether you're thinking about the next phase of your education, launching a new career, or making a transition in your current job, the ACT ® WorkKeys ® assessment system can help.

Just recently on National Public Radio (NPR), current Stanford Professor and former runner - up to being appointed by President Obama as the US Secretary of Education (Obama appointed current secretary Arne Duncan instead) Linda Darling - Hammond was interviewed about why she thought «School Testing Systems Should Be Examined In 2014.»

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.

Our goal is to create a one - stop resource for information for policymakers, thought leaders, practitioners, the media, and others who care deeply about the state of public education and the impact of that system on students, families, and communities.

Given the competing imperatives assigned to education systems and teachers across the world, it is crucial to develop new ways of thinking about policy that acknowledge the complexity of what it means to be a teacher.

Before we think about the functions of the system though, we have to name exactly what the education system is and does.

If your reproductive system has provided you with children, you're probably thinking about how to provide those children with an education.

About the school system: I think it's time to campaign to get the basics back into education.

Reducing the argument to radiation as if it's «all the same energy» by stripping it of its individual properties and processes, has enabled the swapsies of properties and out of context use of laws to be made in the descriptions of energies, gases and processes, and, so ground into thinking through repetition in the education system that even the absence of the Water Cycle goes unacknowledged as you all busy yourselves arguing about the nuances of your fictional fisics with real world applied scientists who know better.