Sentences with phrase «thinking on school choice»

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Samuel Barrows Winter 2017

11 - Year Trends in Public Opinion Winter 2018 • Accompanies The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson and Samuel Barrows

What accounts for the change in the court's thinking on school choice?

Results from the 2017 Education Next poll Winter 2018 • Accompanies The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson and Samuel Barrows

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Samuel Barrows

We would love to hear your thoughts on school choice and continue the conversation on issues that affect you in the classroom.

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There is a school of thought on choice, which looks at the relationship to either consequences or payoffs to choices.

Although his own choice was clearly on the side of the historical approach, there were elements in his thought which paved the way for a marked shift in focus of the Chicago School.

Those famous soft thick bakery sugar cookies with frosting (seem more like discs of cake though), the soft chewy ones you make at home to decorate for various holidays, or those not soft, sad, no flavor, gross kind of sugar cookies that kids would bring in on there birthdays in elementary school since their mom thought it was a «healthier» choice than cupcakes.

Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

We thought hearing from high school counselor and CS board member Lisa Spengler on how she helps her students choose a high school would help provide some perspective on an alternative way to think about high school choice.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

just thought I'd say that there are many schools of thought on what is the best way to handle an infant, and I think we ought to be respectful of one anothers choices.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

There are two schools of thought on Paterson's choices.

But, with so many breakfast options, not to mention the myriad of schools of thought on what's really healthful and what's just plain garbage, many of us still struggle with our breakfast choices.

We moved on to reliving the past by proxy, the worst kind of evil, the kind that thinks its doing the right thing, and an unconventional choice for a book report Taylor made in high school that is reflected, albeit briefly, in the film.

Howard Fuller talks with EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

EdNext's Marty West asks Howard Fuller about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

Technology in particular is something that I think school leavers are not focusing on enough when thinking about their top university choices.

Reduce staff overheads - The highest spend in most schools is on staff salaries, and when pressures are put on budgets, the thought of having to make teaching staff redundant to save money is a choice that no school wants to make.

The highest spend in most schools is on staff salaries, and when pressures are put on budgets, the thought of having to make teaching staff redundant to save money is a choice that no school wants to make.

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform What does the public think about school choice, Common Core, and other key iSchool Reform What does the public think about school choice, Common Core, and other key ischool choice, Common Core, and other key issues?

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While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

If we think we can know which schools of choice are good and ought to be expanded and which are bad and ought to be closed based primarily on annual test score gains, we are sadly mistaken.

EN: Do you think the administration's actions thus far on school choice and charter schooling have been too aggressive or not aggressive enough?

Writing in Education Week, school reform champion Robert Pondiscio recently offered a thoughtful and thought - provoking critique of the open letter on educational choice and accountability issued by scholars at the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Heartland Institute, and the Center for Education Rchoice and accountability issued by scholars at the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Heartland Institute, and the Center for Education RChoice, the Heartland Institute, and the Center for Education Reform.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

Whatever anyone thinks about charter schools or district schools, education reformers or teachers unions, Democrats or Republicans, or any other false choice that has divided our politics and our district, let's stipulate that everyone on all sides of this debate are good people who care about kids.

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in U.S. education.

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in pre — K to grade 12 education.

«Our goal was to elect as many school choice supporters as possible, so we focused on races we thought would be close, where our efforts would make a difference,» he says.

Centrist and progressive Democrat reformers have already spent the past two decades dealing with challenges to their thinking and efforts from both traditionalists within their ideological circles and from conservative reform allies, especially on matters such as school choice.

At this time, Success Academy Charter Schools founder and CEO, Eva Moskowitz, Tony Bennett, who is the former Education Commissioner of Florida and Indiana; former DC School Chancellor, Michelle Rhee; the Chairman of the Congressional School Choice Caucus, Rep. Luke Messer from Indiana; Betsy DeVos and Kevin Chavous from the American Federation for Children; and Ben Carson are all thought to be on the short list for this position.

For more on what Delaware voters think about various education - related topics, download the Delaware K - 12 and School Choice Survey.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

Whatever you think about the current White House administration, the President, the Department of Education and the Republican and Democratic national party platforms are all on board with school choice.

«I think school - choice advocates are going to be a very important player in this race — whether they do that in the (February) primary or later on in the election, I'm not sure.»

You've been an advocate for school choice going back, now, decades, and I think a lot of people would expect that you would be in a place like New Orleans cheering it on, and in fact, something very interesting is happening, You're actually leading what might be described as a little bit of an uprising.

«I am very concerned, and I think all of us have to be concerned, that there are situations where choice could result, let's say, in the top 25 percent of the students in a major city being offered nice spots in suburban schools, and leaving the schools in that city that might very well be on their way to coming back, leaving them without any role models at all for those other students.»

After learning of Trump's plan, he said, «While I do not support Donald Trump, his speech on school choice demonstrates that he is giving serious thought to education issues and I strongly challenge Hillary Clinton to do the same... I urge Hillary Clinton to show more openness and creativity when it comes to embracing school reform, choice and charter schools.

«Hopefully this will start to have our policymakers and our public start to think about how we redefine education to stop talking about school type and start focusing on how we fund kids and how we get quality,» says Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice President Robert Enlow.

In 2006, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy published the results of a survey of organizations working on school choice that I conducted; it found that 67 % of respondents think vouchers are more likely to be challenged in court, compared to just three percent who chose tax credits - and, by a margin of 53 points, respondents also thought that tax credits were more likely to survive a court challenge.

In this video, DeVos outlines her thoughts on school vouchers - and how she financially supports candidates across the U.S. who are supportive of the school choice movement:

Given that schools in choice systems focus marketing efforts on affluent parents because of the social capital that they can offer (Cucchiara, 2008), we're led to the question: Are schools aware of how these parents think about theme?

Enter stage right — on the same day — Think Tank Policy Exchange published a report claiming that free schools are driving up standards of others schools in the areas they've opened in — so vindicating the policy's twin rationales of greater choice and competition.

What they don't realise is that they chose to work on cars, not that they didn't do well at school and were limited for choice like everyone seems to think.