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ASCD and other members of the Learning First Alliance (LFA)-- a permanent partnership of 12 leading U.S. - based education associations — have developed A Practical Guide to Promoting America's Public Schools, a new communications tool to help educators promote the value of public education in the United States.

Their hope is that students, parents, citizens and public school advocacy groups will use the film to help start an important conversation about the role and value of public education in America.

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Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

Her impact on the vision, direction and culture of the college has resulted in significant growth and has activated a critical public discussion on the value of college education in Ontario's economic development.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

While he was active in local parliamentary politics before coming to America, and while he did indeed stress the value of open public education in numerous of his public lectures and writings in this country, nevertheless Whitehead was, by every account, an intensely private and solitary individual.

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality — even in a Hindu context — just as it was the encounter with Christianity that prompted Gandhi (and many of his generation) to revise the dominant understanding of Hinduism.

The word went out in education, mass communications, public philosophy and political life: «Be the first kid on your block to reappropriate the values of the Judeo - Christian tradition.»

Editor's note: Robert P. Jones is the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and publicPublic Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and publicpublic life.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

We may, of course, speak for these values in the public forum, and if we are able to persuade most people, then these values can also influence what goes on in public education.

It is for these reasons, and in accordance with our Core Values in which we pledge to «support and encourage collaboration with professionals in related fields within medicine, health and education to promote sleep health and sleep safety from birth to adulthood among families and the general public», that we endorse the initiative and efforts of Start School Later.

We are delighted at the outpouring of support from the public, media and celebrities for the value of books and education in prison.

Of the proposal to create special tax districts on developments near transit expansions, an idea known as value capture, Mr. de Blasio said such a move would «blow a hole in the city's budget» and allow the state to raid the city's property tax revenue, forcing him to cut back on vital services such as education or public safety.

Public opinion surveys reveal that over 75 % of parents want their religious values reflected in school - based sex education curricula.

A voice for science and scientists everywhere, AAAS fulfills its mission to «advance science and serve society» by communicating the value of science to the public, helping governments formulate science policy, promoting advancements in science education and diversity, and helping scientists develop their careers.

Value seeking in the process of voluntary exchange has driven human material progress, but until now it has been all but absent in public education.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographIn a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographin an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige reaffirmed his support for public schools and the traditional separation of church and state last week, attempting to quell a furor over earlier, published remarks in which he praised the «strong value system» at Christian schools.

VH1 Save the Music Foundation, the philanthropic affiliate of the VH1 channel based in New York City, works to raise public awareness of the value of music education and to restore music education for elementary...

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

In CECIP's perspective, Brazil needs to foster Global Citizenship Education — with whatever denomination it takes -, since its methodologies and strategies for active learning, racism / sexism deconstruction, democracy reinforcement and glocal citizens formation make us more and more able to value and to use our great assets of joy, art, movement, ancestral sustainable values, attitudes and skills to increase our capacity to develop creative alternatives to unsustainable public policies.

A Department of Education spokesperson said: «We recognise and value the hard work of teachers which is why we have accepted the pay deal proposed by the independent School Teachers» Review Body, in line with the 1 per cent public sector pay policy.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

When adults heatedly disagree about the value of such activities, how can a democracy's public schools decide on their proper role in the lives and education of the young?

I believe deeply that arts education is of great value in and of itself, not only instrumentally; I believe just as emphatically that education in the arts is the business of all of us, from the home and the family to the neighborhood and the village, from the P - 12 school system to higher education to lifelong learning, culminating in the great and defining legacy of our public culture.

This package of turn key materials will help you effectively communicate the appropriate messaging of critical value public education has in our society with your key stakeholders — board members, business and community leaders, staff, parents, students and the media.

But the value of standardized testing in terms of better understanding and improving a public education system as vast and fragmented as ours is undeniable, right?

The nearly 200 participants at the Sept. 11 - 13 National Congress for Public Education in suburban Washington were urged to undertake their own campaigns to promote the value of public education and offset any misinformation about the achievements of scPublic Education in suburban Washington were urged to undertake their own campaigns to promote the value of public education and offset any misinformation about the achievements ofEducation in suburban Washington were urged to undertake their own campaigns to promote the value of public education and offset any misinformation about the achievements of scpublic education and offset any misinformation about the achievements ofeducation and offset any misinformation about the achievements of schools.

But when it came to the substance of her remarks and answers, DeVos displayed no interest in any public, civic value for education.

Every budget is a statement of values and this one could not be more clear in the vision it presents: starve the public school system and privatize education.

There no longer will be an achievement gap in public education since by using the scientifically proved method of value added analysis school will be able to determine all of the students that are ineffective and there no longer will be a need to waste resources in a totally futile effort to educate these students.

Magnet Schools of America (MSA) Executive Director Todd Mann stated, «We are very pleased that Congress has acknowledged the value and need to expand magnet schools in our public education system.

It's still early, but it appears that parents and those of us in the education world are beginning to awaken from the fog of test - based accountability and the often implicit assumption that test scores alone capture the total value and worth of public education.

I testified that this, in and of itself, was problematic, given much of what should have been accessible and retrievable, for example, via the website of New Mexico's Public Education Department (PED), via the internet in general (e.g., about developer Pete Goldschmidt's value - added model), and via my attempts through contacts throughout New Mexico to gather the particular information for which I was looking, was not available to the public via any of these Public Education Department (PED), via the internet in general (e.g., about developer Pete Goldschmidt's value - added model), and via my attempts through contacts throughout New Mexico to gather the particular information for which I was looking, was not available to the public via any of these public via any of these means.

It is that awards assembly time of year again, and many schools with an interest in character education, such as the public elementary school my own children attend, are giving out awards to students for exemplifying core values such as honesty, respect, and responsibility.

After 13 years in secondary public education, I entered the teacher preparation arena and found the value of Twitter and social networking for professional development purposes.

The toolkit provides an array of factsheets, articles, graphics and other messaging to help school boards and districts explain the value of public education and local governance in consistent, citizen - friendly language.

Americans recognize the value of choice in education — whether that choice means traditional public schooling, homeschooling, or anything in between.»

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

So we must also transform the means by which we manage the human resources of our public education system, and this will require that we examine every aspect of the way in which we prepare, certify, mentor, retain, evaluate, and compensate educators, so that this entire chain and all of its links will be assessed based on their value added to Texas student achievement.

, Carnegie Panelist Doug Harris, Associate Professor of Economics and University Endowed Chair in Public Education at Tulane University, addresses the question, how do differences between elementary and secondary schools affect the validity and reliability of value - added for teacher evaluation?

Dr. Rivers Murphy views strong community engagement, along with valuing the voices of all stakeholders in education as key to developing a high - performing public school solution for high - needs districts.

Indeed, one of public education's great goals is to help learners possess, and act from, a positive set of values (i.e., standards used in making judgments) and to become active, responsible citizens.

DeVos called public education a «dead end» before becoming education secretary and has continued to talk about it in less - than - flattering terms, refusing to acknowledge the value of what has been America's most important civic institution.

In an Aug. 1 letter, California State Board of Education President Michael Kirst and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson urged the U.S. Department of Education not to adopt a single summative rating saying it «undercuts the value of a multiple measures system.»

A study released yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teacValue Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teacvalue - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teachers.

In the same way, DeVos's denunciations of the federal government and her refusal to make even a tepid call - out to the value of the public education system, can't help but have an effect on the way some Americans feel about their neighborhood public schools, which educate the vast majority of the country's schoolchildren.

Public education, in its simplest form, is about helping young people develop the skills, knowledge, and values to become the best versions of themselves.