Yet they note that in the 1990s, when universities complained that reduced government grants were eroding education, "not one of them responded by increasing the teaching obligations of their permanent instructors.
Anyone with a Grade 10 education is eligible to take the exam to become a teacher, but in Huíla Province, some teachers have completed school only through Grade 4. Classroom overcrowding and outdated curricula further erode education quality.
Critics fear DeVos, whose husband suggested while running for governor of Michigan that schools teach intelligent design, will use her position as education secretary to push her religious beliefs into the classroom and erode science education.
Some Texans worry that ideologically driven review panel members and state school board members are slowly eroding science education in the state.
It's an old, old story, of course, and all the pious talk about opportunities for women, young people and other "minorities" (meaning those with little power) does not conceal the basic policies and attitudes that erode the education of our youth and the trust, confidence and development of all of us in those categories.
A report to the UN last year warned that rapid increases in private schools could erode national education systems.
But I fear that this policy would not only further erode language education in our schools, while having a scant effect on the future high-tech workforce.
A survey last year by the Hispanic Federation found that support for bilingual education had eroded among Latinos, to 47percentt of respondents from 53percentthehe previous year, and that the higher the education and income of respondents the more supportive they were of an English-only education.
No public service remained untouched in this giant governance experiment while, at the same time, the quality of education was eroded by endless innovations and cuts.
American pre-eminence in mass education has eroded since the 1970s, and now a number of countries have leapfrogged us in high school graduation rates, in student performance, in college attendance.
