Sentences with phrase «thinking around education»

So, I think that this is just a good window of opportunity for folks on the hill and in congress to consider some new measures, some new thinking around education policies for military households.

Robert Farrington also contributes his thoughts around education, student loan debt, millennial money and investing, and more at various media outlets.

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And these are questions I ask many of the academics I'm talking with, and I think we'll see universities, colleges and education very positively affected by these technologies, because I think we can educate students around the world.

When free education was mandated around 70BCE by the Jewish royalty, (Can't think of the Queens name offhand), it was the Pharisees that handled literacy in the synagogues of each town.

I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and pregnancy prevention rather than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.

It's more PC to say you don't want to donate to a young black mans education because you read some Ayn Rand than it is to admit you don't want to support scholarships because you don't want anymore «uppity blacks» running around thinking they can be President.

There's been a shock awareness and education around it, and a revisiting of what it means to be a Christian, and since it's happening globally I think it must be high on God's agenda.

I have as much scientific education as him, and I think he has more faith than I do, to believe that the highly complex designs around us randomly evolved, in any time period at all.

@ GodFreeNow — Based on the comments I've seen from you around this forum, I don't think that if you have done what you claim, you got a very good education within that system.

He, and some of the other youngsters are our future and need the best education around them, I do nt think Flamini or Arteta are the players he needs to teach him that role.

So yesterday we celebrated Earth Day in a way that is similar to many days around here, I think - part action, part education, and a whole lot of living, loving and growing in the woods.

«A lot of kids in middle school are struggling around that time thinking, oh, math and science aren't for me, especially girls,» says Kristen Vogt, museum manager of education and events.

This plan is responsible and well thought out, emphasizing public education to prevent mosquito bites and remove artificial sources of standing water around homes and neighborhoods.

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.

Now I want to make you clear, first of all, that this is really directed at [a] British audience in terms of the medical education there, but I think some of it is probably applicable to the situation in the U.S. and perhaps around the rest of the world as well.

However, despite the gains in life expectancy seen across China, thought to be linked to increasing GDP and improved maternal education, large inequalities between provinces remain, with life expectancy around 10 years lower for both men and women in some provinces in the west part of China, comparable to less developed countries like Bangladesh.

I think these hands - on case studies from around the world are one of the most revealing and important aspects of education reform.

The weekly series, which will be available on the Harvard University iTunes U page, features a 15 - 20 minute conversation with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world.

The question is whether we should be orienting our pedagogical practices primarily around these differences, as I think most personalized - learning supporters would urge, or instead take note of the many ways in which students are cognitively similar, and make these shared characteristics the focus of our education policies and practices.

Download the mp3: O Canada About the Harvard EdCast The Harvard EdCast is a weekly series of podcasts, available on the Harvard University iTunes U page, that features a 15 - 20 minute conversation with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world.

14, are developing Girls Thinking Global, a network connecting organizations around the world that focus on the education, health, life - skills training, and civic engagement of adolescent girls.

Realistically, most of my time these days goes enthusiastically into research and writing and teaching around education, learning, understanding, and critical and creative thinking.

Georgieva, the co-founder of Digital Bodies — a group that researches and consults on VR for education — says that while virtual reality is still seen as supplemental in K — 12 classrooms, that thinking is shifting as the volume of content increases and teachers and students feel the excitement around it.

If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

With the due date for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) right around the corner, Education Next thought it apt to probe the lessons learned in the five years since the act's passage.

«There are serious and important education challenges, in the U.S. and around the world, which call for innovative thinking,» Reimers says.

The Harvard EdCast is Harvard's flagship education podcast, acting as a space for education - related discourse with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world.

In Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would want.

C. M. Rubin's global education report In April, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world...

This week 150 prominent experts, activists, advocates, and thinkers from around the world will visit Harvard to participate in the Global Education Think Tank.

unes U page, that features a 15 - 20 minute conversation with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world.

A lot of the interviews were done in rural Queensland in Catholic education schools, where the majority of the teachers have not been in service that long — many of them are new graduates who are in rural communities — I would think that probably the median experience age / years of service for teachers might have been around four years.

The Harvard EdCast is a weekly series of podcasts, which will be available on the Harvard University iTunes U page, features a 15 - 20 minute conversation with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world.

I think it is a mistake to just let the PFADs wander around the building and handle principal stuff» as it arises,» Dovenic told Education World.

In this webinar Richard Culatta will share his unique thoughts and ideas around today's learning process along with the Department of Education's insight into various educational areas.

The Harvard EdCast is a weekly series of podcasts, available on the Harvard University iTunes U page, that features a 15 - 20 minute conversation with thought leaders in the field of education from across the country and around the world.

Aren't interested in «nibbling around the edges;» want help boldly thinking outside the box in order to provide high - quality, innovative education for all students.

«Sometimes people think education is an intractable problem,» McCartney said, citing the scale of the issues, the flood of unanalyzed data about students» performance, and the apparently inadequate American level of learning revealed on tests administered around the world — not to mention the daunting gaps in performance between and within U.S. districts.

I think they are very likely to fail in that effort (because teachers are powerful and don't like being bossed around), but they may at least partially succeed and in so doing restrict the range of differing visions of a good education much more than is desirable in a free society.

I do think it's unfortunate that some of the rhetoric around education reform has gotten to that point...

SPACE: Thoughts, Ideas, Hacks on Learning Space Design by Rebecca Louise Hare and Robert Dillon supports the conversation around this necessary revolution happening in education concerning reshaping school spaces to better support learning.

If people in the education world think Mr. Broad likes to throw his weight around, they should talk to people in the art business.

SEL The Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a thought leader in K - 12 education and has brought about much consensus around what SEL means and how to define the competencies included under this umbrella term.

If we give students more opportunity (time) to be creative and connect with what they are learning, then I am sure legislatures around North America and the world will have to adjust their thinking and education policy.

I think that there's opportunity to support parents whose kids are using an [individualized education program], or have an IEP to allow them more flexibility in making decisions around their child's education, and I think that certainly is an area that should be reviewed regularly by Congress.

If you're interested in thinking about ways to challenge your state education department around the use or terms of these grants, contact Leigh Dingerson at AROS ([email protected]).

Posing students around adults at speaker's daises, having student panels at education conferences, and putting students in suits to share their thoughts in front of school boards are some of the ways that adults use students as decorations.

People are talking about many things concerning all this swirling around public education but I think we should be focusing on political power and control.

I believe, and I think you might too, that the debate around the CC standards should not be whether or not they are good or bad, but on how we can implement them to provide the best education possible for our students.

«I don't think that solves the problem because you're still using taxpayer dollars for private education and I don't think there's a way to get around that,» said McColl.