Sentences with phrase «education nation summit»

At the Education Nation summit yesterday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan repeated that support.

The third annual Education Nation summit, hosted by NBC, got underway on Sunday, highlighted by the Teacher Town Hall...

NBC's third annual Education Nation summit kicked off Sunday with a focus on solutions: ideas with a track record of success and potential for replication.

Day two of NBC's Education Nation summit highlighted the potential for video...

I asked his spokeswoman, Rachel Noerdlinger, who told me that Sharpton was taking part in the Education Nation summit and that given his involvement in education issues, it posed a conflict.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Newark Mayor Cory Booker visit EDUCATION NATION, an educational summit on Rockefeller Plaza.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

School reform, as formulated by the summit, moved so forcefully onto the nation's political agenda that, in the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton had to promise to outtough Bush on education.

When the nation's governors and top business leaders convene in Palisades, N.Y., later this month for an education summit, they plan to champion academic standards as the key to improving student achievement.

The National Standards Review Team accomplished, at least in large part, what the nation's governors and many business leaders called for at an education summit last...

The education summit convened by President Bush reinforced the status of the nation's governors as being at the forefront of efforts to improve the schools.

At the summit, 41 governors and 48 business leaders from across the country agreed to speed improvement and accountability in the nation's education system.

A two - day education summit in San Francisco last week has given California lawmakers a host of options but no consensus on how to cure the woes of the nation's largest state school system.

In interviews last week, educators for the most part gave the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» high marks for continuing the focus on national standards begun at the 1989 education summit between President Bush and the nation's governors.

NBC's Education Nation 2012 begins next month and will culminate with the event's national summit in New York City in September, according to details released by the network.

The nation's governors and top corporate executives will trumpet standards and technology as medicine for what ails the nation's schools when they gather next month in New York state for an education summit.

The math proficiency of 8th graders from the nation's top - ranked states — Iowa, North Dakota, and Minnesota — is comparable to that of students from the best - performing nations, such as Taiwan and South Korea, reports a federal study to be released this week at the national education summit.

Then, in 1989, the governors and President George H.W. Bush held the nation's first education summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, and formulated national education goals for America.

In addition to the Buffett interview, other summit sessions that NBC recently confirmed include: The Changing Face of Education — More than one in five students in the nation's public schools are Latino — constituting the largest, and fastest growing, minority group in our educatioEducation — More than one in five students in the nation's public schools are Latino — constituting the largest, and fastest growing, minority group in our educationeducation system.

Standards - based education reform is in deeper trouble than we knew, both the Washington - driven, No Child Left Behind version and the older versions that most states undertook for themselves in the years since A Nation at Risk (1983) and the Charlottesville education summit (1989).

By 1989, when President George H. W. Bush and the nation's governors met in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the heralded education summit, that worm was beginning to turn.

But in the years since A Nation at Risk, the rhetoric of high expectations, accountability, and ensuring that all students - especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds - have an equal opportunity to receive quality education has been accompanied by a series of federal initiatives including Clinton's 1994 re-authorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary School Act, subsequent education «policy summits,» and George H. W. Bush's Goals 2000.

In 1989, President George H.W. Bush convened the nation's governors for an education summit.

Following an «education summit» in 1989, President George H. W. Bush and all 50 governors sought to move the nation forward with «America 2000,» which articulated six national education goals.

That year, when President George H.W. Bush convened an education summit of the nation's governors, it was a little - known Arkansas Democrat named Bill Clinton who drafted a bipartisan set of national goals for the year 2000 («first in the world» in mathematics, for starters).

The summit, one of many across the nation, is sponsored by the US Department of Education and the Alliance for Excellent Education to help ensure that we, as leaders in public education, are proactively planning for the future of eEducation and the Alliance for Excellent Education to help ensure that we, as leaders in public education, are proactively planning for the future of eEducation to help ensure that we, as leaders in public education, are proactively planning for the future of eeducation, are proactively planning for the future of educationeducation.