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Gaze into the StateImpact crystal ball — what education stories do you think will make headlines in 2014?

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In fact, if nothing else, you could say that the story of Andy Grove — a busboy who fled a life lived under Fascists, Nazis, and Communists to get an education at an institution free to all, including refugees, then taking that knowledge and using it to help invent an entire industry — illustrates exactly what makes America great.

Besides showing what a private person Powell Jobs is, the story illustrates what makes her such a powerful advocate for education and immigration reforms.

What difference does this story make for theological education?

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

All of this — his deeply felt ideas, his biblical knowledge, his autodidactical education, and his convoluting development of a theme — shows to clear effect in what most critics think his greatest story, «Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.&rstory, «Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.&rStory of Wall Street.»

@ GodFreeNow — Your story is a bit hard to believe based on what you demonstrate in your various posts here (sure, you quote some verses, but you don't seem to have the hermeneutical skills to understand them... much like Rachel)... unless the education programs were pretty horrible at that church.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It is, however, a story that has much to tell us about what it is that theological education should be helping the churches to do.

«Our scholarship stories highlight how important it is for us to provide education for our members, because whether they are pursuing an associate's, a bachelor's, or an advanced degree, each and every one of them has a passion for what they do — for feeding kids,» explained Janet, who believes when it comes to school nutrition gaining respect as a true profession for passionate individuals — «the time has come».

You would be amazed at what service projects and groups are out there doing things that you never knew about — dolls and bears made up to be the the weight of your baby (Molly Bears), stuffed animals made out of your baby's clothing and blankets, peer support and parent advocates waiting to help the newly bereaved, personalized jewelry makers (like My Forever Child), stone painters, heart sewers, pillow - making people (Heaven Born for miscarriage), memory - box makers, authors (there are books for almost every subject on this topic waiting to be discovered), research and education groups, story - sharing sites, support groups, chat groups, blogs, Facebook groups, foot / hand print kits, music and funeral planning resources... Consider starting here before starting something new.

In December, the Education Writers Association's Educated Reporter blog gave its «Water Cooler Award (for one of the most talked - about stories of the year)» to my article in the New York Times Magazine about character, «What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?»

«What's really interesting is how fast the Obama - era reforms have been buried in the basement,» said Rick Hess, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who described Nixon's education platform as «part of a larger story about the shift to the left in the party.»

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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story A young boy who grows up to become a brain surgeon realizes he owes his success to his single mother, who had a vision of what he could do if he acquired a good education.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

A feature story in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, «The Softer Side of «No Excuses»: A View of KIPP Schools in Action,» takes readers inside KIPP schools to see what they are really like.

When Usable Knowledge launched in September — with a handful of stories focused on the Common Core, how teachers can make caring more common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response might be.

The authors are Education Week reporters who seem to have been given a fairly free hand to frame a state's story according to what they found interesting there and with whom they talked.

What they evaluated was my lack of access to education, and yet I knew their conclusions would be used to define their story of me as a student.

«What drives a lot of people at GSE is knowing that same story and knowing that education gets you to the other side,» she says.

Statistics tell only part of the story about what states are doing to improve public education and raise student achievement.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Russakoff looks at the troubled education reform story of Newark and reflects on what can be learned from its failure to provide system - wide reform.

As readers may recall, Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, introduced his notion of «grit» as a missing component in education in a 2011 New York Times magazine cover story called, «What if the Secret to Success is Failure?»

Janine de Novais, lecturer on education: Black Panther, at heart, is a story about what would have happened if Africa (symbolized by «Wakanda») had been allowed to retain its resources and develop on its own terms, free of slavery and colonialism.

Through the stories of these two schools he addresses the meaning of community in multicultural America, the pros and cons of school choice, and what this all means for today's big education policy debates.

What I've found is a story that confounds the traditional battle lines in public education, and gives each side in the school reform war reason both to cheer and to rethink its assumptions.

I realize this is an absurd story to surface when thinking about what brought me to education, a field known for its sincerity of purpose and professional approach to adulthood.

Winerip's first «On Education» tour began on January 8, 2003, with «How New York Exams Rewrite Literature (A Sequel), a followup to what has to be one of the more bizarre education testing stories of the last decade, «The Elderly Man andEducation» tour began on January 8, 2003, with «How New York Exams Rewrite Literature (A Sequel), a followup to what has to be one of the more bizarre education testing stories of the last decade, «The Elderly Man andeducation testing stories of the last decade, «The Elderly Man and the Sea?

Shaw asked Groban what stories he would tell to Congress and policymakers to help them see the benefits of music and music education as its own entity.

Called «The Mimetic Classroom,» he took out after George Lucas» odd Edutopia project (see the story by Robert Pondiscio) and its «What Works in Education» mantra.

By Friday, the big story was not the contest but New Jersey Governor Christie's decision to fire his commissioner of education for misrepresenting what efforts had been made to inform the RTT reviewers about a paperwork error in the application.

Usable Knowledge is a trusted source of insight into what works in education — translating new research into easy - to - use stories and strategies for teachers, parents, K - 12 leaders, higher ed professionals, and policymakers.

The federal government is most certainly guilty as well for creating an alphabet soup of acronyms that bogs down stories about national education policy with explanations and parentheticals about what all the abbreviations mean before readers ever get to the point of whether the policies are actually working.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.

What So Proudly We Hail With this high school - level curriculum, educators Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass demonstrate how story, speech, and song enhance civic education.

The Ashtons» story is far from an isolated one in states that have ESA programs, and demonstrates what is possible when parents are able to direct their children's share of education funding.

As a guest speaker in Merseth's course — one of the first education classes offered by Harvard College — he candidly shared stories with undergraduates about the challenge of educating students in urban communities, and about what is needed for one to succeed at working in education.

This week, Mike Petrilli talks with Jay about his book, Work Hard, Be Nice, about what KIPP means for the larger education reform debate, and whether Hollywood has bought the rights to his story.

Stories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of eduStories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of edustories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of education.

We each have our own story about what makes us get up every morning and continue fighting so that every child has the opportunity to receive a great education.

This story is part of The Hechinger Report's ongoing series on what the U.S. can learn from higher education in other countries.

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The stories of what's right in American education must be told.

The City Pages story ends with a quote from a Pearson Education spokesman, in which the company man notes the complaining scorers were «people who have a very limited exposure and narrow point of view on what is truly a science.»