Sentences with phrase «what traditional education»

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«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees as a giant hole in much of traditional education — a focus on «academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in life.

What the Girl Scouts decided was that if the girl in question believed in something that allowed for the same traditional Scouting function of religious education — religious and spiritual self - cultivation based on the principle of a moral order of which the Scout can be a part — she could substitute her preferred name for that instead of using the word «God.»

Thus, the traditional institutions of education may help to determine the character and the purposes of what is done via the newer agencies.

The purpose of traditional spiritual formation — the language used to describe faith formation before the time of Christian education — is to deepen awareness of what it means to claim and live through faith that is «the gift of God.»

Raised in a traditional family and in a fundamentalist church, McKnight held what might be called a soft patriarchal view until he entered the world of Christian education.

His «vision of a traditional service infused with English, decorum, and modern education,» writes Michael R. Cohen in his recent book, The Birth of Conservative Judaism, was perfectly compatible with what later became known as «Modern Orthodoxy.»

What I learned from working with the Newcastle team, and with youth football programs across the country over the years is that traditional concussion education in which athletes, coaches, and parents are taught the signs and symptoms of concussion, and the health risks of concussion and repetitive head trauma, isn't working to change the concussion reporting behavior of athletes.

Waldorf education is being discovered by an ever - broadening group of parents, who value the many traditional aspects of the education that remind them of what school was like when they grew up — music, art, recess, movement and games.

But I do think that no matter what side of the traditional education debate you're on, we can envision that things can be different, that we can take different approaches and things can change.

The «monochrome» of traditional state education must be reformed to a new system where young people have the choice to study what is best for them, Tony Blair has said.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

The President commended the traditional ruler for what he described as his simple, disciplined and modern leadership style, which he has translated into remarkable developmental strides by promoting the values of good education, harmonious living, tolerance for divergence and the power of collective, progressive investments.

«This year, in recognition of the culmination of the four year Scholarship and Discovery Program, the range and breadth of what is presented at the annual Senior Scientific Session has been expanded to reflect the diversity of the research that students engage in, ranging from traditional scientific investigation to applied projects in medical education, quality and safety, and global and community health,» said Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, assistant professor of medicine, leader of this year's event.

«The promise of this kind of interactive VR education, according to advocates such as [Immersive VR Education's founder, Dave] Whelan, is that students remember far more of what they do in such lessons, compared with what they read, hear or see in a traditional lectureeducation, according to advocates such as [Immersive VR Education's founder, Dave] Whelan, is that students remember far more of what they do in such lessons, compared with what they read, hear or see in a traditional lectureEducation's founder, Dave] Whelan, is that students remember far more of what they do in such lessons, compared with what they read, hear or see in a traditional lecture theatre.

What happened in Douglas County is an illuminating case study in the failure of the traditional education reform agenda.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.

Which is exactly how we tend not to think about education reform — and is exactly what engenders fear and loathing in traditional educators, whether because major surgery is just plain scary or because they're worried about their jobs or just because they're not too comfortable with technology themselves.

We are filmmakers and not educators, but what we've learned over the course of making this film is that in this country, a traditional education does not encourage thinking, instead it encourages conforming to a system that doesn't value the individual child and completely misses the point when it comes to learning.

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.

Again, such classrooms exist in abundance, but they are not what thoughtful promoters of traditional forms of education have in mind.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

The organization claims that what charter schools receive, typically 60 to 75 percent of what traditional public schools receive per pupil and no funding for facilities, deprives the children of their right to a «sound basic education» under the state constitution.

What makes these programs particularly interesting is that their founders were leaders from the charter school sector who created their own teacher certification and master's degree programs after concluding that the teachers who graduate from most traditional teacher education programs lack the skills needed to teach successfully.

At the end of last week and again yesterday, I wrote about grim news from a new study regarding what teachers think students are learning when it comes to citizenship, and how distant our focus on education as the «new civil right» is from traditional concerns about preparing students for the rigors of citizenship.

What that means is that existing traditional institutions of higher education are unlikely to get a whole lot less costly anytime soon.

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

For Western Governors, its officials say, this largely means checking in on graduates and what they got from their education, to provide proof that — as the paper described it — a CBE credential «stands for a level of rigor and preparation equivalent to a traditional postsecondary degree.»

But if there is no solid research on which approach to early education is best for children, how can Elkind conclude that we know what is best and that we are «miseducating» children if we stray from the traditional model?

Outcomes Based Education (OBE), as promoted by Spady (1994), is focused on specifying what students should be able to do at the end of a given period of instruction — for example, an educational course or a traditional year - level curriculum.

In my interview with Zinny in The Global Search for Education, he discusses the challenges faced in Latin America, how blended learning companies like Kuepa will help, and what the future holds for traditional vs. the newer models of higher eEducation, he discusses the challenges faced in Latin America, how blended learning companies like Kuepa will help, and what the future holds for traditional vs. the newer models of higher educationeducation.

Perhaps more importantly, by streamlining the «information absorption» aspect of education, online learning can free up traditional schools to do more of what they do best - that is, the more complex processes of discussing, reflecting on, and synthesizing information into new ideas, which is best done in person, through conversation and collaboration.

RGSE is anything but traditional in its approach to teacher education, which is part of what really attracted Maddin, a former Teach For America (TFA) science teacher, to the school.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

For those of us who cover the nation's education crisis, it is easy to joke about the ranting and raving of some defenders of traditional public education, who have what they consider to be clever names for charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aims).

Eric is also the author of The Opportunity Equation, published by Beacon Press in 2014 — a book that Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, praised as offering a «new perspective on what it will truly take, inside and outside the traditional classroom, to provide an excellent education for all of America's children.»

All of this has eroded traditional notions of what constitutes a complete education.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

The Fusion approach builds on what education experts see as a trend toward highly personalized education, often aided by new technology, that is increasingly taking root in public schools or other traditional classrooms.

Since the contributors to this collection are so uniformly hostile to current reform initiatives, from testing and accountability to charters and vouchers and more traditional curricular emphases, it is fair to ask, what education model are they for?

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

What» s really happening here are big structural changes across the industry as the traditional model of private education — at both levels — becomes unaffordable, unnecessary, or both, and as more viable options for students and families present themselves.

Intensive reading instruction and remediation is an afterthought in traditional public education even though it is known that 40 percent of kids will need such help no matter what their parents do at home.

Simple practices that enhance student thinking, however, are exactly what will disrupt traditional education in the next decade.

Give your peripatetically solicited donations to either of these three organizations and what you will receive in response is PR, unquestioning portrayals of the «truths» provided by those in power, either in the traditional education establishment or the education reform establishment.

One of the most glaring omissions in the article is a failure to set in context what is happening in our nation's charter schools in comparison to what has persisted for decades throughout the traditional public education establishment.

This book comprehensively assesses the strengths and weaknesses of what remains of the old in education governance, scrutinizes how traditional governance forms are changing, and suggests how governing arrangements might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

And then consider what Yong Zhao said in Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, «The traditional strengths of American education — respect for individual talents and differences, a broad curriculum oriented to educating the whole child, and a decentralized system that embraces diversity — should be further expanded, not abandoneEducation in the Age of Globalization, «The traditional strengths of American education — respect for individual talents and differences, a broad curriculum oriented to educating the whole child, and a decentralized system that embraces diversity — should be further expanded, not abandoneeducation — respect for individual talents and differences, a broad curriculum oriented to educating the whole child, and a decentralized system that embraces diversity — should be further expanded, not abandoned.»

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

We have to vacate the notion that the opening of these schools is really a political agenda designed to eradicate traditional public education and focus on what's working for our kids — regardless of the category the school falls under.

In this Voices of the Dropout Nation, Andrew Miller of the Buck Institute for Education offers his own perspective on what online learning can be — and why it shouldn't resemble traditional public eEducation offers his own perspective on what online learning can be — and why it shouldn't resemble traditional public educationeducation.