Sentences with phrase «early achievements included»

Early achievements included the establishment of the Feminist Art Program by Judy Chicago, first at Fresno, California, in 1970, and then, with the collaboration of Miriam Schapiro, at Cal Arts in Valencia, California, in 1971.

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Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

But if your child's obsession with a certain color is accompanied by behavior that includes avoiding eye contact, not sharing interests or achievements with you or others, or difficulty understanding facial expressions, body postures, and gestures, these might be signs of autism and early intervention can make a difference.

«Personal success for the child, including his later achievement and adjustment in school, depends to a large degree upon a stable, predictable, consistent early environment.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

To determine whether these trends have continued in more recent cohorts, we examine trends in several dimensions of school readiness, including academic achievement, self - control, externalizing behavior, and a measure of students» «approaches to learning,» for cohorts born from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.

Estimates of the cost of reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap, such as including early childhood, after - school, and summer programs into a broader definition of schooling.

Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee earlier this month called on his legislature to hold a special session in January to consider a package of education measures, including a requirement that student - achievement data be used in teacher evaluations, and a proposal he said would strengthen provisions allowing the state to intervene in chronically low - performing schools.

New additions include sections on «raising achievement in persistently underperforming schools» and «early education achievement targets.»

What would be your strategy to address the domestic and international achievement gaps, including your position on early childhood education, standardized testing, on - line modular education, and teacher / principal accountability?

Early intervention effects include lower rates of retention, higher levels of academic achievement, fewer special education services, and a stronger commitment to graduating from high school (Stegelin, 2004).

Some of the hallmarks of the plan include a focus on ensuring Ready Graduates by supporting more early college coursework and industry certification attainment, a renewed accountability and support focus on improving achievement and growth for all students, and elevating a continuum of interventions for the state's lowest performing schools.

A great deal of focus, both at the federal and state level, has been placed on expanding access to early education programs — including preschool and kindergarten — as a way to close achievement gaps between student subgroups.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

In the video and a post for the website Medium, Bush said his plan is based on school choice (including charter schools), accountability for student achievement, an emphasis on early childhood education, and moving authority from the federal government to local officials, teachers, and parents.

Compiled annually by the research team at E3 Alliance, The Central Texas Education profile is the most comprehensive regional view of education trends and outcomes in the state, and includes the region's demographic changes, early childhood education, K - 12 student achievement, achievement gaps, absenteeism, college and career readiness, and college enrollment and student and economic outcomes and implications.

Oakland Unified has some of the top charters in California, including Aspire Golden State College Prep, whose entire 2012 graduation class is college - bound, and Lighthouse Community Charter High School, which received the Title I Academic Achievement Award earlier this year.

Measures include six tasks from Clay's An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

Earlier investments of nearly $ 3 million in this personalized learning portfolio include Rocketship, a national network of blended learning schools seeking to eliminate the achievement gap in low - income neighborhoods, New York City's School of One blending learning model upon which New Classrooms is based, and CFY, a national nonprofit organization that runs the acclaimed online learning platform, PowerMyLearning.com, which provides students, teachers, parents and school leaders with free online access to pre-screened digital learning activities produced by third parties, as well as consumer ratings.

Complete a year long accredited Reading Recovery course taught by a certified Tutor / Teacher Leader that includes assessment training (An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement).

Zora's custom Duntov cam helped early Corvettes achieve speed records and from there you can tick off a long list of achievements including the introduction of the Rochester fuel injection system, independent rear suspension as well as preparing factory Corvettes for the race track.

He earlier co-founded Bessemer Vogel & Treichl, and his achievements include co-leading the acquisition and restructuring of Head - Tyrolia - Mares to prevent it going into bankruptcy.

In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.

Earlier this week Capcom announced that it would be releasing an updated HD version of Resident Evil 4 on Steam, which includes updated visuals and Steam features such as trading cards and achievements when it launches on 28th February.

With an anticipated launch in early September, Plants vs. Zombies on XBLA will deliver more game content than any previous iteration of the franchise, boasting seven game modes, including two all - new multiplayer modes, 12 unique achievements and 21 mini-games.

The press release says the exhibition presents the full scope of Freud's achievements in etching, including seventy - five examples ranging from rare, early experiments in the 1940s to the large and complex compositions created since... read more... «Fetching Freud's etchings»

One of her earlier achievements in academia also include the Amy Steyl Award for excellence in Design and Visual Art (2011).

The exhibition will survey Hopper's significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940) and Nighthawks (1942), with their preparatory drawings and related works.

If you are a college student, then the best resume format for you will almost certainly include an education section at the top, as academic achievements are likely the best thing you can emphasize about yourself at this early stage in your professional life.

In addition to restricting the details of your resume to the past 15 years and including a career note about your early career history, you may want to add a «Career Highlights» or «Selected Achievements» section below your professional summary to call attention to your most noteworthy career aAchievements» section below your professional summary to call attention to your most noteworthy career achievementsachievements.

A professional profile is the most effective way at engaging a reader early on; this section should include a summary of your professional qualities and achievements, along with your future goals and objective.

Example resumes of Database Testers list such duties as regularly reporting overall project statuses, including test case execution statistics, defect status, milestone achievement, and satisfaction of quality metrics; and performing early morning or late night validation when new releases are being deployed into production.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

Excessive media exposure in early childhood poses many developmental and behavioral health risks.1 Exposure to television (TV) and videos before 3 years of age is associated with later problems with language development, 2 — 4 cognition, 5 attention, 6,7 executive functioning, 8 and school achievement.9 These effects may be more pronounced in low - income populations, where high media exposure is more prevalent.2 Proposed mechanisms for these detrimental effects include replacement of enriching activities with caregivers, 10 reduced language - based and play interactions with parents, 11 — 13 and less creative child play14 while the TV is on.

Additional research has further substantiated the tie between childhood adversity and negative outcomes, including poor academic achievement, incarceration, unemployment, poverty, disability, and early death.1, 3,4,13 — 24

Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and she has received several research awards, including an award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.

This might include upstream policies targeting levels of socioeconomic inequality in society and a range of comprehensive early childhood interventions, potentially including a mix of early health and home visiting services, universal early education opportunities, and programs and policies to promote the family relationship context of the achievement gaps.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

Barriers detrimental to that brain's educational achievement can start early, including those caused by poverty, caregiver mental illness, child maltreatment, and low maternal education.

She served as the elected President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and is the recipient of many awards including the Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College, Seven Wonders of the Work Life World from Working Mother magazine and the Friend of Children Award from the Southern Early Childhood Association.

These strategies and activities support healthy development and achievement of learning goals in all types of early care and education settings, including family child care homes, preschools, child care centers, Head Start / Early Head Start and programs in K - 12 school distrearly care and education settings, including family child care homes, preschools, child care centers, Head Start / Early Head Start and programs in K - 12 school distrEarly Head Start and programs in K - 12 school districts.

Texas Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Texas Comprehensive Center worked with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the state's 20 education service centers to build staff capacity to improve student academic achievement, including school readiness and early childhood education.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): The TXCC provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools in meeting student achievement goals, including school readiness and early childhood education.