Sentences with phrase «education built on»

His latest book is Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems.

The Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, is committed to providing students of all ages, levels and backgrounds who have a desire to dance with a world - class education built on a foundation of classical ballet.

Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems by Marc S. Tucker and colleagues takes benchmarking one step further.

Atlantic commentary by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and editor of the book Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems

Atlantic commentary by MARC TUCKER, author of Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems.

Marc S. Tucker, Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems, Harvard Education Press, 2011, x.

Indeed, RttT competition proved so politically successful the Department of Education built on it by allowing all states to seek a waiver of most NCLB requirements by submitting RttT - like reform plans, including test - based teacher evaluations and the setting of standards similar to the Common Core State Standards.

His latest book is Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems.

Most recently, he served as editor of Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems (Harvard Education Press, November 2011).

Marc Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and editor of Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems (Harvard Education Press, November 2011).

The Rotman School of Management is redesigning business education for the 21st century through an innovative approach to management education built on Integrative ThinkingTM and Business DesignTM.

«Well, come and see,» he said with a gentle smile, and he told me to be at the religious education building on a Tuesday night a few weeks later, when RCIA classes would begin.

The state will soon start to offer tours of the historic Education Building on Washington Avenue.

Democratic candidate for New York Governor Zephyr Teachout makes a campaign stop at the State Education Building on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell / Times Union)

Social justice education builds on the understanding of diverse people but analyzing where social and organization power lies with a goal of redistributing power.

Pursuing the Living Building Challenge and inspired by the dreams of Bertschi School's elementary students, the pro-bono design team worked to create one of the most sustainable education buildings on our planet.

Not exact matches

Runner up on the Fast 50 is Prodigy Game, a Burlington, Ont. - based company that builds gamified math education programs.

Successful workplace education programs are built on good partnerships: they help to lower costs, facilitate knowledge - sharing and provide access to resources.

You may not be able to avoid debt entirely, so borrowing should be focused on paying for things that help build your net worth, such as a home or education.

Having co-founded education startup Coursera and built artificial intelligence units for Google and then Baidu, Ng now has his sights on factories.

The success of legendary dropouts cited (satirically) on Silicon Valley — and of other self - made titans, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Richard Branson — suggests that formal education may, in fact, be a waste of time for those naturally predisposed to empire building.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Most people do not receive formal education on these strategies, but those who actively seek to learn about have great potential to cash in and build their own safety nets.

At the beginning of Jim Koch's new book about his adventures building the Boston Beer Company, our hero bails on a Harvard MBA to spend three years leading grueling, off - the - grid excursions for the famous outdoor education program.

Having co-founded education startup Coursera and built artificial intelligence units for Google (googl) and then Baidu, Ng now has his sights on factories.

In addition, every staffer builds an online profile on the company intranet, complete with pictures, detailed education and job histories, and up - to - date skills.

Be Great Fest plans on offering support to Pencils of Promise, a local nonprofit that builds schools and education programs abroad, by donating $ 25,000 of the proceeds to the organization.

On the topic of business education, the Gallup study showed that African American, Asian, and Hispanic business owners were more likely than business owners in the general population to be extremely or very interested in learning how to build a strong business credit application, choose a credit product, and develop a business plan.

I promise you if you spend a couple hours one day reading posts on this site, or if you want to support financial education and read my Best of Financial Samurai book, you will get super motivated to build your wealth and actually gain more wealth over time.

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On the education side, economist Harry Markowitz introduced «Modern Portfolio Theory» in 1952, and it has served as the prevailing model for how individual investors should build their portfolios ever since.

For Behlendorf, the general challenges in blockchain include education on building applications in the blockchain space, as well as setting up projects.

At a meeting of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, held at the Treasury building in Washington, Perez noted that while «lawsuits have been filed» against the conflict of interest rule, «we will continue to fight those vigorously,» adding that he believes DOL is «on the right side of the law and history.»

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

building a second story on the house to accommodate that family, postgraduate education and one day, a world trip to visit relatives around the globe.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

LearnLaunchX is a startup accelerator focused on enabling education technology entrepreneurs to build and grow their startups into thriving companies.

By: Donald Makhafola 4th May 2018 Minerals processing specialist Multotec spent more than R10 - million on education and training development in 2017, while an additional R2 - million was spent on the newly built, state - of - the - art training centre in Spartan, Kempton Park, says COO Jannie de Jonge.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

The slow implementation of Putonghua (Mandarin) instead of Cantonese in Hong Kong schools, the controversial proposal for a «Moral and National Education'that focuses on building Chinese patriotism, and the perception that Hong Kong housing and other resources are being unequally allocated to Chinese visitors, are some of the sources of discontent expressed by certain segments of society.

To date, TSS journalism has shed light on important public - interest topics from green building to Aboriginal education to sustainable local food economies.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

The United States is about plurality, tolerance, freedom, respect, honor, and responsibility, built on a solid foundation of education about other cultures and our own.

When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints builds a Seminary building for education of Mormons in grades 9 - 12, it builds on its own land, NOT on land belonging to the school district.

The experience of the last five years and a decade of experimenting with small groups before that have convinced me that growth groups are on the cutting edge in counseling, education, and community - building.

Jaime went on to rescue hundreds of young people and used his money to build a home where they receive an education and live in a loving Christian community.

Two decades after «Dover Beach,» the Fabian Socialists in England were busily, busily building on the ruins with education, sociological research and reform.

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

Through their associated non-profit, Sudara Freedom Fund, they have an even greater impact on the lives of women and children in India by equipping even more women and their children with education and housing and micro-loans — tools needed to build and sustain a new life such as the Sunetha Home, supporting long - term, systemic change by directly addressing issues that lead to generational sex work.

Especially when there are people acting on religious dogma to withhold medical treatment from their children, kill doctors, sabotage the education system, fill kid's minds with imagery of gratuitous torture, fly planes into buildings, stone women to death for driving alone... etc...