Sentences with phrase «education academy reported»

An April 2013 report released by the U.K. Higher Education Academy reported lower rates of progression to Ph.D. studies for undergraduates coming from a state high school, or from a family with parents of low educational or professional attainment.

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The report details, for example, how registered dietitians can earn continuing education units from Coca - Cola, in which they learn that sugar is not a problem for children and how Nestlé, the world's largest food company can pay $ 50,000 to host a two - hour «nutrition symposium» at the Academy's annual meeting.

83,400 trampoline - related injuries occurred in 1996 in the United States... supports the American Academy of Pediatrics» reaffirmation of its recommendation that trampolines should never be used in the home environment, in routine physical education classes, or in outdoor playgrounds... Since 1990, the CPSC has received reports of six deaths involving trampolines.

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

While Miliband is reported to be considering moving Stephen Twigg from the shadow education brief, Burnham more readily regrets the last government's support for academy schools than makes peace with this government's «free schools».

Under the academies and free school programme, these schools report to the Department for Education and to central government directly.

As part of its ongoing inquiry into academies and free schools, the Education Select Committee recently published a report that it had commissioned from Jean Scott and me on conflicts of interest in academies...

The report by the House of Commons education select committee into Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in England.

Chu cited his role in key reports by National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the competitiveness of the U.S. scientific enterprise and the state of fundamental research, studies that «sounded alarms that the health of science, science education and integration of science into public decision - making in the U.S. was in peril and heading in the wrong direction,» he said in his candidacy statement.

[BOX 3] AAAS Academies Conference, 1983-1985 1983-1985 1985-1987 1987-1989 1989-1990 1992-1993 1993 - 1994 Proceedings and Directories of State Academies History - Academy Conference by C. L. Baker, 1926 - 1970 Academy Conference Survey, Final Report, December 1963 History of NAAS, Draft Arthur Livermore - National Academies of Science, Correspondence and Meeting, 1974 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Notebook, 1976 - 1979 Official Name Change Records, National Association of Academies of Science, 1991 Presentation on State Networks for Education in Science, 1990 Correspondence with State Academies of Science, 1988 - 1992 Essentia Workshop, 1984 - 1985 Science Encounters, 1984 - 1985 National Association of Academies of Science - Tax - exempt Status Tax - exmept Status 1984 1985 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992

The National Academies subsequently has affirmed Ph.D. s as a resource in science education with their reports, Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Education (2000) and Attracting Ph.D. s to K - 12 Educatioeducation with their reports, Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Education (2000) and Attracting Ph.D. s to K - 12 EducatioEducation (2000) and Attracting Ph.D. s to K - 12 EducationEducation (2003).

In that spirit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a report last June calling for the integration of military and civilian medical trauma education, training and research, with the goal of completely eliminating all preventable trauma deaths across the country.

Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand, released in October by the Urban Institute (UI), a policy - research organization in Washington, D.C., retains the U.S. National Academy of Sciences» report's meteorological metaphor but rejects its analysis and conclusions.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

High - quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high - quality services and does little to strengthen the ECE workforce, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

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Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all chAcademy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all chacademy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all chacademy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

As an Artist for Peace and Director of the ITI - Earthsavers Academy / Ensemble also honoured as UNESCO DREAM Center from the Philippines, we thank UNESCO and Madame Bokova for this unique global stage setting on the occasion of the launching of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report «Youth and Skills: Putting educationEducation for All Global Monitoring Report «Youth and Skills: Putting educationeducation to work.

In a new article for Education Next, Susan Payne Carter of the United States Military Academy, Major Kyle Greenberg of the Army's Human Resources Command, and Major Michael S. Walker of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense report that allowing computer use in the classroom, even with strict limitations, significantly reduces students» average final - exam performance.

Released last week by the National Academy of Education, the report represents the sharpest criticism to date of some of the newer methods being used to measure or interpret NAEP results.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new analysis of two recent reports, one by a committee of the National Academy of Science's National Research Council (NRC), the other by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, finds that both reports made factual and analytical errors in their examination of the record of Michelle Rhee as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia from 2007 - 2010.

Sir Nick Weller, chief executive of the Bradford - based Dixons Academies Trust, was commissioned to write the report by former chancellor George Osborne, and former education secretary Nicky Morgan.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

In addition to offering their SEF for free to all schools Bluewave Education is also offering a facility for academy chains, federations and Multi Academy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and repacademy chains, federations and Multi Academy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and repAcademy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and reporting.

Earlier this year, a National Academy of Sciences committee charged with evaluating education reforms in DC issued a report that included scathing comments on the difficulty of obtaining education data: «The lack of readily available data presented a significant challenge for our committee, and it is a source of frustration for some senior DCPS officials who would like to rely more heavily on data to support their decision making.

The report warns that in the absence of any significant extra government funding, academies may need to reduce teacher numbers, impacting on the quality of education and the scope of subjects being taught.

In a report issued here, the panel of the National Academy of Education said the assessment of 8th graders in mathematics conducted in 1990 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress demonstrated that such a test is «technically feasible» and generated useful information.

Chris Cook, education correspondent for the Financial Times, recently covered the issue, reporting that while conventional schools can call on their local authorities for help, academies do not have access to council funds and, in some cases, maybe denied access to advice and guidance.

In recent months this picture has been tainted somewhat by reports of several academies that needed financial assistance from the Department for Education (DfE).

The Education Select Committee report on Academies and Free Schools identified concerns that the voice of parents can be marginalised in some aAcademies and Free Schools identified concerns that the voice of parents can be marginalised in some academiesacademies.

The report also welcomes: the establishment of a National Academy of Educational Leadership; a «more systematic approach» to how pupils learn, apply and practise their literacy and numeracy across the curriculum; major changes in how professional learning is organised; improvements in attendance and behaviour; strengths in learner wellbeing, care, support and guidance, and learning environment; and strengthened links between higher and further education.

The 2015 report from the National Academies Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation essentially endorsed that trend, recommending that states and other organizations build a system that requires and enables all lead educators in early childhood settings to hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree with specialized knowledge and competencies in early childhood education.

An emerging body of evidence suggests that integrating STEMM fields with the humanities and arts in higher education is associated with positive learning outcomes that may help students enter the workforce, live enriched lives, and become active and informed citizens, says a new Academies report.

This report marks a milestone in MDRC's ten - year Career Academies Evaluation, which is being supported by the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor and by 17 private foundations and organizations.

In the words of a National Academy of Sciences report that jump - started the coalition's formation, the nation needs to «increase» its «talent pool by improving K — 12 science and mathematics education.»

New Orleans — Reading specialists meeting here last week said the new report on reading research by the National Academy of Education's Commission on Reading settles some pedagogical issues but fails to resolve important controversies surrounding early reading instruction.

On October 25, the National Academy of Education (NAEd) released Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Programs: Purposes, Methods, and Policy Options, a report that aims to provide clearer information and direction around evaluation measures and systems in educator preparation.

These concerns led the National Academy of Education's Commission on Reading to issue the report entitled Becoming a Nation of Readers (BNR)(Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985).

Here's what the National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council wrote in a 2009 report to Education Secretary Arne Duncan about value - added measures (VAM):

The Star - Ledger reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K - 5, is being shut down for failing to meet student academic and social needs: Kimberley Harrington, then commissioner of the Department of Education, in a Jan. 12 letter to IAT said the state was not renewing the charter because the academy «failed to provide a strong educational program and sustained organizational stability.Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K - 5, is being shut down for failing to meet student academic and social needs: Kimberley Harrington, then commissioner of the Department of Education, in a Jan. 12 letter to IAT said the state was not renewing the charter because the academy «failed to provide a strong educational program and sustained organizational stability.academy «failed to provide a strong educational program and sustained organizational stability.»

The disparity was raised by the education select committee's report into academies, which recommended a rule change so that good and outstanding schools could leave by choice.

Again, we need look no further than the recently reported comments by billionaire Daniel Loeb, Chairman of Success Academy Charter Schools, accusing New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery of being «smug and satisfied» with the current state of public education for «at - risk» black and brown children.

In 2014, the Skills Funding Agency and Education Funding Agency both published critical reports into the federation following the departure of former principal Sir Peter Birkett, knighted in 2012 for his services to the academy movement.

If one assumes that charter schools get their fair share of Title II funds as per the underlying ESSA statue, 39 with 5 percent of the nation's students, 40 they stand to lose $ 115 million per year under the Trump - Devos budget41 — close to one - third of the amount the federal government invested in the Charter Schools Grants program in FY 2017.42 Education Week reports that Eagle Academy Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., for example, receives roughly $ 82,000 in Title II funding annually.43 Joe Smith, the school's chief financial officer, states, «If this was taken away from us, that would hurt.

He recently served as a panel member on the National Academy of Science Report on the Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education, and also served as a member of the National Literacy Panel (SRI International and Center for Applied Linguistics) looking at issues in early reading with English language learners.

The Education Committee has today published a «dry run» of how the Department for Education plans to report finances in the academy sector.

This report showcases nine research studies conducted by two CfBT Education Trust Academies: St Marks Church of England Academy and Oxford Spires Academy