Sentences with phrase «which education stories»

Don't worry — we'll tell you which education stories we plan to watch in 2014.

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My favorite among Goodrich's stories, however, is that of Maryland's Thomas Stone, who practiced law until he was able to «discharge the obligations under which he had laid himself for his education,» and then go into farming.

Except that in his Tuesday budget speech, Morneau told the story of Joan, from Algonquin College, and thus another tip to federal attention — higher education, which also happens to be a provincial and constitutional responsibility.

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.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

(The story which begins this essay is found in Robert Ornstein's essay on The Psychology of Consciousness in a book by Thomas Roberts and Frances Clark called Transpersonal Psychology in Education (Bloomington, IN: The Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1975, 33).

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.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

Reading a bedtime story with dad — a magical, powerful ritual, which also brings huge benefits to children's education and wellbeing: their language and literacy, their behaviour, their self - confidence, and their relationships with their dads.

Free the Horses: A Character Education Adventure Free the Horses is a program which uses an action - packed video story to capture attention while teaching children in grades 1 to 4 to believe in themselves, their talents and their dreams.

The new, 3,700 square foot single - story building will be the hub from which all of Drumlin Farm's environmental education programming will flow.

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

Members of the Alliance for Quality Education, which is partially backed by unions, held a large poster board of the Times story outside Moskowitz's press conference Thursday.

I like to tell a story about a harrowing week I had during my sixth year of grad school, a story which, for me, typifies all that is wrong with postbaccalaureate education.

(The rest of this story is based on the first few hours of today's markup of the bill, which covers NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the science programs at the Department of Energy, and federal science education policy.

From there, it was up a few stories to the Henry Jordan M ’62 Medical Education Center, which officially opened last year.

About Blog Campus Magazine is a bi-monthly publication for tertiary students — distributed free across all of Singapore's major universities, polytechnics, private & art schools, and even junior colleges too.We are rich in student - oriented content, which means we have dozens of contributors submitting articles on an array of topics from international education & travelogues, to feature stories on a hot topic Frequency about 4 posts per week Since Sep 2003 Website campus.sg + Follow Facebook fans - 11,969.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

In India, I talked to Shaheen Mistri, CEO of Teach for India (co-author of the book Redrawing India — The Teach for India Story), which works to make sure that absolutely every child in India gets an education.

Nobel Journeys, which tells the stories of 10 laureates from diverse disciplines and cultures, is a joint production of the Nobel Museum and EF Education First.

Mirroring the flexibility in a competency - based system, in which students carve their own paths and pace, these state stories highlight the ways in which each state's unique needs shaped its individual path and pace toward competency - based education.

In «In the Wake of the Storm,» which is now available at www.EducationNext.org and will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Education Next, Harvard researcher Michael Henderson tells the story behind the passage of voucher legislation in Louisiana and identifies the election of Bobby Jindal, a popular governor committed to school choice, as the most critical factor.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

But education outlets ran lots of anguished stories (such as here and here) in which advocates were given free rein to predict the dire consequences of a given cut.

To read the full story of the schools, please see «Catholic Ethos, Public Education,» by Peter Meyer, which appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next.

My blog silence these past few months has been due to my work on an education reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, andeducation reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, andEducation Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, and testing.

This is the core advantage to «educational» videos made by the news reporters and producers at NBC Learn, which is the education arm of NBC News: relevance and significance are part of the DNA of every news story — if a story isn't relevant to people's lives, it doesn't make it into the newscast.

The author of four books on education reform, he's out now with a new memoir, This African - American Life, in which he tells his own remarkable story.

Just how the two candidates» early schooling informs their assumptions and beliefs about education reform is hard to know, but their stories provide an interesting window through which to view their policy beliefs (see sidebar).

The story he found, which appears in the Washington Monthly magazine, confounds the traditional battle lines in public education and points to the D.C. reforms as a model for the nation.

That is the question that author and educator Bill Nave aims to answer in his new book from Harvard Education Press, Student - Centered Learning: Nine Classrooms in Action, in which nine teachers tell the stories of their own classrooms and how they altered their own methods to achieve greater student success.

The discussion, which was moderated by Keppel Professor Robert Peterkin, included four panelists — Sandy Grande, associate professor of education at Connecticut College; Peter Kiang, professor of education at the University of Massachusetts at Boston; Ceasar McDowell, director of the Center for Reflective Community at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Thomas Hehir, HGSE professor of practice — who shared stories of catastrophe that they've witnessed in their lives ranging from the genocide of Native American Indians to the plight of disabled students.

The headlines show the Education Week stories in which the references appear.

Through a free downloadable iTeach education resource pack, Inanimate Alice is supported by lessons, which include making connections with the story and the medium.

It was this feeling I had while mulling how to react to Sabrina Tavernise's front - page New York Timesstory from last week, «Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor,» a story which generated a great deal of attention.

Russo, an experienced education journalist, received a Spencer Foundation Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia to write this book, which covers the story of Green Dot, of its efforts to take over an inner - city high school, and of its first year managing Locke, with briefer coverage of its seceducation journalist, received a Spencer Foundation Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia to write this book, which covers the story of Green Dot, of its efforts to take over an inner - city high school, and of its first year managing Locke, with briefer coverage of its secEducation Journalism Fellowship at Columbia to write this book, which covers the story of Green Dot, of its efforts to take over an inner - city high school, and of its first year managing Locke, with briefer coverage of its second year.

But education outlets ran lots of anguished stories... in which advocates were given free rein to predict the dire consequences of a given cut.

Every time I see a «poverty and education» story I think of the famous line from the New Testament in which Jesus says, «The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want.»

But also for teachers in art education they are useful; they get information directly from the artists themselves, in their quotes and stories which portray the Pop Art life in the 1960's.

Stories of education politics always have their punch lines centered on which of the named combatants wins.

A highly structured bureaucracy controls teacher certification and training, says C. Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Education Information (NCEI) in Washington D.C. «Anyone who wants to make more new teachers available can begin by dismantling this elaborate system, which locks out potentially highly qualified teachers while accrediting many who don't belong in the classroom,» Feistritzer says in a story, («The Truth Behind the «Teacher Shortage»»), originally published by the Wall Street Journal in January.

Tomie dePaola's Adelita: A Bio Poem Christopher Lucero, an education student at Long Beach State in Long Beach, California, submitted this week's lesson in which students write a bio poem about the main character in Tomie dePaola's Mexican Cinderella story, Adelita.

In this video, Nilambari Solanki explains the story behind her concept, the BookMan library, which is part of an evolved knowledge and education services offering.

Press coverage of the teachers unions is usually assigned to an education reporter, which ensures the story will be framed around education issues.

Unfortunately, the narrative associated with education reflects the stories of hardship, exhaustion, and the pressure of test scores, which can be unappealing to possible candidates who may be the best and brightest.

Discovery Education Secondary's Trending Topics resources provide daily and weekly updating news stories for schools, produced specifically for a KS3 - KS4 audience, which will help you to embed British values into your daily teaching.

The feature stories on WKCD.org, which give an close look at students and teachers wrestling to improve their schools, draw thousands of visitors.The small publication, The Schools We Need: Creating Small High School that Work for Us (2003), which WKCD wrote with students who attended small high schools in the Bronx, made it on to the Commissioner of Education's short list of summer reads.

A feature story by June Kronholz, «Teacher Home Visits,» which appears in the Summer 2016 issue of Education Next, explains the origins of the program and examines how it is working in Washington, D.C.

So the story of a group of very successful Jewish lawyers in New York not only points to the period when they were born, a time of low birth rates, which meant that the New York City public schools they attended were uncrowded and gave a good education, but also to a Jewish propensity to seek out and seize opportunity.