Sentences with phrase «traditional public education system»

The former view her appointment as an attack on traditional public education systems and the latter as giving aid and comfort to Common Core standards.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

While it is slowing breaking up, the monopoly created by our traditional public education system has led to largely mediocre — and sometimes horrendous — academic outcomes.

But is it enough to justify the traumatic disruption to the traditional public education system that charter schools have caused?

If vouchers eventually receive court approval, their impact will depend on how many parents choose to exercise choice and how the traditional public education system responds to the competition.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has made clear her disdain for the traditional public education system, uses that term now to describe her critics, along with «sycophants of the system.»

As education journalist Valerie Strauss reported on her blog at the Washington Post, DeVos «made some controversial statements» about public schools, «calling the traditional public education system a «dead end.

That this was a conversation about a traditional public education system that we fight all the time.

If Betsy DeVos becomes Secretary of Education, the department will be run by someone who not only lacks any meaningful experience with public schools, but is fundamentally opposed to the mission and scope of the nation's traditional public education system.

Liberals are correct: She represents a radical counter to traditional public education systems.

''... leadership at Venture High see [the embedded internship model] as a distinguishing factor that will give its students — those who are vastly underserved by the traditional public education system — not only a sense of agency, but also a realistic shot at making a living wage doing something they find fulfilling.»

It is then incumbent upon the charter school community to redouble our efforts to make sure that proper accountability systems are in place which will ensure that charter schools generate significantly higher levels of student learning than has historically been available within the traditional public education system.