The other important thing to note about central planning is that a lot of school reformers like Rhee or Klein use the language of choice but then push their reforms from above with little input from teachers or parents.
So just because of that one little change, having teachers eating with you, that changes how you eat.
They learned it at home, at school and watching shows like Sesame Street, where everyone from teachers to adorable little puppets advanced the idea of safety in the car.
The children get little guidance at home and the teachers have to treat them with kid gloves at school, so they flounder.
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The visit to Germany marks the latest stage in the Conservatives' policy review, after a general election campaign in which the party's education policies appeared to have little impact with either parents or teachers.
The study, of 1, 972 children in the north-west of England, also discovered there was little risk of bullies being caught by teachers.
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Ms. VANESSA SAVALOS (Student): I know that there's nothing bad on mine, but it's a little creepy when you know that your teachers are looking at your MySpace.
The teachers were there, and these little kids would come up and grab my leg, you know hug my leg to say thank you.
That last figure was supplied by the American Federation of Teachers, and it may be a little low, but it is undeniable that more than half the teaching in American colleges is done by contingent faculty (that is, adjuncts) like Professor X.
There had been a rush to banding which resulted in undermining the hard work of teachers, pupils and parents but "very little actual support", he added.
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The introduction of tutoring networks provoked reservations on the part of some teachers as they consider themselves to have had little experience of the workings and benefits of the model.
The MOE has had to resort to using volunteer teachers who have some level of education or little teaching experience and training, or students who dropped out of the general education system or those who did not have the opportunity to further their education.
So at the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center that I visited earlier today, nearly 200 little kids are spending full days learning in classrooms with highly qualified teachers. (Applause.) And so I was working with them to build towers and replicate sculptures and sing songs.
His education plans have met with little resistance from those traditional nemeses of Republican politicians, public-school teachers and bureaucrats, largely because he has avoided blaming school officials for all the ills of the public schools.
But teachers' unions have offered the proposals a mixed welcome, with little support for breaking up the current pattern of holidays.
It's hard to find enough teachers who are qualified to instruct them, and there's little consistency in the programs used to educate them.
Eight years of rowing with teachers' unions and falling out with his various school chancellors has had little impact.
Changes in teaching methods or technology "have had very little influence, " says Henry Levin, an economist and expert on learning at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Groups of teachers and administrators who wanted to innovate and try new things would band together and little laboratories of education would emerge.
Students who are bored or inattentive or who put little effort to schoolwork are unlikely to benefit from better standards, curriculum, and instruction unless schools, teachers, and parents take steps to address their lack of motivation, the CEP papers conclude.
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There is a little evidence that this could improve pupils' progress, but what may happen, given the current problems in recruiting teachers, is that a large class with an experienced and capable teacher is split into two, with half of the pupils being taken by a less experienced and perhaps less capable teacher.
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