Sentences with phrase «traditional public education practices»

Why are school reformers succeeding in winning the policy battle for overhauling American public education while defenders of traditional public education practices failing?

Poor and middle - class urban families long ago recognized that education is critical to revitalizing communities and helping their kids be prepared for successful futures in an increasingly knowledge - based economic future — and have long - concluded that traditional public education practices such as zoned schooling and ability tracking no longer work (if they ever did in the first place).

Even worse is that these conditions are aided and abetted by defenders of traditional public education practices, who argue that the problems of American public education can not be solved until poverty is eradicated and parents and other reformers are kept out of schools.

Not exact matches

At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing charter schools to take over space in traditional public schools.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education - reform emphases in recent years.

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

After all, it is no different than defensive statements against criticism of traditional teacher compensation and other failed practices within American public education made over the past few years by Weingarten and her colleagues within both the AFT and the National Education Asseducation made over the past few years by Weingarten and her colleagues within both the AFT and the National Education AssEducation Association.

The group has garnered national attention for fostering innovative PZ practices in classrooms across traditional public schools, public charter schools, parochial schools and independent schools, as well as in museums and arts / education organizations.

Featuring a combination of exhibition, education, and public programming spaces on a 20,000 square foot campus, Art + Practice transcends the traditional expectations of the «community art space,» as it offers services to foster youth in a collective and practice space, as well as affordable housing initiatives for homeless people, and professional and educational counseling for partiPractice transcends the traditional expectations of the «community art space,» as it offers services to foster youth in a collective and practice space, as well as affordable housing initiatives for homeless people, and professional and educational counseling for partipractice space, as well as affordable housing initiatives for homeless people, and professional and educational counseling for participants.