Sentences with phrase «version of education school»

Recruits with no experience are given a quick and dirty version of education school — a few weeks of classroom management, learning theory, literacy (the teaching of reading and writing), diversity training — then placed in the classroom, with coaching from mentors.

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At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

Schools have continued to offer as an option a version of the liberal arts education they traditionally provided; but such concerns and the faculties supporting them have played steadily decreasing roles among the financial forces that drive the institutions.

Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of how the school as community is related to church communities: Is the school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of practicing clergy?

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

The education tax credit, a version of which was approved by the Republican - led Senate earlier today, is aimed at encouraging donations that help public and private schools.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

Every city that has mayoral control has different versions of it but the idea of mayoral control, yes, we do not want to go back to the school boards and the Board of Education.»

Do school board members need to peruse Education Next's reader - friendly version of this econometric study, then take appropriate steps to replace weak teachers with high performers?

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school tureducation - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

About the Article A version of this article originally appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Ed., the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

About the Article A version of this article originally appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Ed., the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Adequate yearly progress (AYP) is the measure by which schools, districts, and states are held accountable for student performance under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

Keeping Schools Safe Perhaps the most useful offering of this Department of Education Web site is its Publications section, where educators can either download PDF files or access html versions of six publications related to school safety: Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crime; Early Warning, Timely Response; Preventing Youth Hate Crime; Creating Safe and Drug - Free Schools; Conflict Resolution Education; and School Uniform Mschool safety: Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crime; Early Warning, Timely Response; Preventing Youth Hate Crime; Creating Safe and Drug - Free Schools; Conflict Resolution Education; and School Uniform MSchool Uniform Manual.

In a May 20 letter, Secretary of Education Rod Paige said the action was driven by Georgia's decision to delay starting high school end - of - course testing under the 1994 version of the ESEA.

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

About the Article A version of this article originally appeared in the Winter 2004 - 2005 issue of Ed., the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A version of this article originally appeared in the Summer 2005 issue of Ed., the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Keep in mind, too, that the kinds of outside interference and manipulation that must be anticipated in the holistic version may consume innumerable hours of administrator time that might better be spent ensuring that the school's actual students get a tip - top education.

About the Article A version of this article originally appeared in the Summer 2005 issue of Ed., the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Veronica Boix Mansilla, principal investigator with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education, collaborated with The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a team of experts charged with developing the framework for the new version for the upcoming 2018 PISA test.

Keeping young people safe is at the heart of what we do and this latest version of Impero Education Pro allows schools to do just that, in a more efficient and effective way.

Proposed federal rules about how to test students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and include those results in ratings of schools are still not final, eight months after the Department of Education released a draft version.

The SECURe team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, led by Stephanie Jones in conjunction with Robin Jacob of the University of Michigan continues to develop and support a customized version of the SECURe program specifically for use by The Children's Aid Society.

If you'd like to see a virtual version of my YouTube session, check out the Hangout On - Air that I did last school year for Google for Education.

The proposal would expand rural education programs and after - school programs and create a new version of the Investing in Innovation program.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

Yet Jay's version of education reform would clearly incentivize schools to not enroll students with behavioral issues or children from very low incomes.

This week, the Institute of Education Sciences launched a new version of its What Works Clearinghouse, Sarah Sparks reports on Inside School Research.

The measure represented a scaled - down version of an earlier proposal that Superintendent of Education Robert Leininger had said would «kick the legs from underneath local school districts which are trying to recover from the state's past neglect in education fundinEducation Robert Leininger had said would «kick the legs from underneath local school districts which are trying to recover from the state's past neglect in education fundineducation funding.»

Over the last 20 years, England didn't abolish its «local education authorities» — Blighty's version of school districts — but it conferred so much autonomy on individual schools and their boards of governors that it essentially marginalized those authorities.

The first is a database on the extent and characteristics of school choice in the nation's 100 + largest school districts, as reported in the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), the most recent version of which is found here.

On a day when party labels had the other chamber in turmoil, a surprisingly unified House overwhelmingly passed a version of President Bush's education reform plan last week that would for the first time tie federal aid to school performance on annual math and reading tests.

«We applaud Congress for its clear resolve to rewrite No Child Left Behind and achieve a modernized version of the education law,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

Correction: An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly attributed an analysis of schools» racial composition to University of Arkansas professor of education reform Jay P. Greene.

It was back in 2008 that the then shadow education secretary Michael Gove, backed a UK version of an American programme to get ex-servicemen teaching in England's schools.

This version of The C3S Model for Independent, Community - based Charter Schools is a draft for review by educators and education advocates.

He worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to design and develop the free, Web - based Data - Based Decision Making Tool: A Resource for Teachers (www.edvantia.org/dbdm), a comprehensive guide for developing and implementing school improvement efforts; and also developed the Web - based version of the K - 12 Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO, Calculator (www.edvantia.org/tco), which is based on the work of the Integrated Technology in Education School Officers (CCSSO) to design and develop the free, Web - based Data - Based Decision Making Tool: A Resource for Teachers (www.edvantia.org/dbdm), a comprehensive guide for developing and implementing school improvement efforts; and also developed the Web - based version of the K - 12 Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO, Calculator (www.edvantia.org/tco), which is based on the work of the Integrated Technology in Education school improvement efforts; and also developed the Web - based version of the K - 12 Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO, Calculator (www.edvantia.org/tco), which is based on the work of the Integrated Technology in Education Group.

As part of this new relationship, Discovery Education will offer Swedish primary schools Discovery Education Espresso, a Swedish - translated version of the award - winning, cross-curricular UK primary service of the same name.

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouSchools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouschools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

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.

This might be perplexing to education reform enthusiasts; the PROSE program is a similar version of the charter school model, transposed onto the framework of a traditional public school.

We at Magnet Schools of America hope that when the Trump administration release a more detailed version of this budget, it will include critical $ 200 million in funding for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program — the only federal education grant designed specifically to promote innovation, choice and diversity in the classroom.

By continually uplifting the education reform agendas of adults and couching them in «student voice» and «student engagement», many people literally maintain or develop funding for their schools, or their versions of school reform.

The applications for federal flexibility under the NCLB law, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, show 11 states aiming for vastly different student - achievement goals, with a jumble of strategies to improve low - performing schools.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

The 2004 version of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) allows schools to use up to 15 % of IDEA money on instruction for students without disabilities who need intensive support.