Sentences with phrase «education at achievement»

Kate started her career in education teaching special education at Achievement First Apollo Elementary Charter School in Brooklyn, New York, where she also served as the first grade team leader.

She spent last year teaching 3rd grade reading classes and Special Education at Achievement First Charter School in New Haven, CT..

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Don's achievements at IPT include: sponsorship of the «Personal Finance Guide for Military Families;» the national Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation (EIFFE) Prevention Program, in partnership with North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA); the Investor Education in Your Community ® program; the national MoneyTrack public television series; The Campaign for Wise and Safe Investing ® in partnership with the AARP Foundation, and «The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020.»

Don's achievements at IPI over the past five years include: the national Investor Education in Your WorkPlace ® program; the DASH for the STASH program, The 2015 Millennials: Debt and Retirement Saving / Investing Survey, and the 2015 When I'm 65 public television documentary and national engagement program.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

At the upcoming World Tea Awards (#TeaAwards), World Tea Expo will celebrate the tea community, recognize some of the best from the industry, and present The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an individual who has made considerable contributions to the growth, innovation and education of the specialty tea industry throughout his or her lifetime.

In 2000 the school won the U.S. Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools Award for providing a balanced education for students at all achievement levels and with diverEducation's Blue Ribbon Schools Award for providing a balanced education for students at all achievement levels and with divereducation for students at all achievement levels and with diverse needs.

«For elementary - school kids, there is really no correlation between homework and achievement,» says Denise Pope, Ph.D., a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a coauthor of Overloaded and Underprepared.

About the Author Paul Tough is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and one of America's foremost writers on poverty, education, and the achievement gap.

Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine editor, will address the issues of poverty, education and the achievement gap, during a special presentation, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Springfield High School.

In their view, the headmistress» lamentation about the school's plight seeks to portray the government in a negative light especially when it comes barely after the President touted several achievements in the education sector at last Thursday's state of the nation address.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

State senators questioned New York's top educator and other education professionals Tuesday at a hearing in Syracuse looking at new Common Core assessments and student achievement.

At the Batavia City School District Board of Education meeting on Feb. 6, several students and staff members were presented with achievement awards for their exemplary work and contributions.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

At 8:30 a.m., Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Regent Judith Chin will participate in a panel discussion on a new study by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center showing that well - implemented community schools can lift achievement in high - poverty communities, Teachers College, Columbia University, Joyce Berger Cowin Auditorium, Broadway, Manhattan.

My senior colleagues and officers at the Public Relations Unit, Reverend Jonathan Bettey and Mr. Issah Baffoe, who have worked closely with Mr. Kor for years, also have fat tally sheets of fine achievements and deeds of our new education boss.

At 6 p.m., Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia will deliver remarks at the event to present Matilda Raffa Cuomo with the first - ever Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) Lifetime Achievement AwarAt 6 p.m., Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia will deliver remarks at the event to present Matilda Raffa Cuomo with the first - ever Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) Lifetime Achievement Awarat the event to present Matilda Raffa Cuomo with the first - ever Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) Lifetime Achievement Award.

The borough president also threw a dart at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education policies, which the mayor has long insisted have dramatically raised student achievement.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

In order to close the education achievement gaps at the local and global levels, we must find a way to factor in these non-cognitive skills and re-formulate how we measure and advance our students.

Mrs. Henrietta Fore made this known, on Friday, 27th April, 2018, at high level event to mark the achievement the Education Above All Foundation to enrol ten million children to receive quality primary school education across tEducation Above All Foundation to enrol ten million children to receive quality primary school education across teducation across the world.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the neducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the nEducation and an author of the new study.

Successful implementation of preschool to 3rd grade programs yields benefits in increasing school readiness, improving attendance, and strengthening parental involvement in school education — strategies that can close the achievement gap for children at risk, according to a new University of Minnesota study.

Offering high - quality child care beginning at age one is reducing early achievement gaps in Norwegian communities, the team reported in a recent edition of the education research journal AERA Open.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

Together, we need to continue to make a compelling case that education is at the heart of the post-2015 agenda, facilitating achievement of all other SDGs.

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

A new, in - depth report takes a look at how states spend education money and finds that the most cost - effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing pupil - teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing teachers with discretionary classroom resources — not by raising teacher pay.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority students.

-- Identify the priorities for further strengthening of global education given the existing needs and the achievements at the country level.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

In this direction lie proposals for building schools around learners, gearing instruction to individual goals and learning styles, pointing education toward developing an ever - broader range of human capacities, and phasing in assessment tools that get at ever - subtler nuances of achievement.

«The fact that progress in minority achievement has stopped at a time when minorities comprise a growing portion of the student population should sound a wake - up call to the whole country,» the report by the Education Trust says.

«Our results indicate the achievement gains that are possible with remedial education,» said Jacob in a press release issued at the time, seeming to buttress Roderick's hedge about the need for «substantial supports.»

At the World Education Forum in 2000, the international community recognized the central role of civil society in the achievement of the EFA goals.

In its report, Incentives and Test - Based Accountability in Education, the committee says that NCLB and state accountability systems have been so ineffective at lifting student achievement that accountability as we know it should probably be dropped by federal and state governments alike.

Indeed, as Dr. Comer takes us through his interesting and varied experiences in trying to improve schooling and education for children who are generally at the bottom in school achievement, we discover that, in contrast to some other models, his does not aim at or expect any rapid improvement in achievement.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievemEducation to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievemeducation, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievementachievement gaps.

Janine Bempechat studies and teaches about achievement motivation and social and moral development in children and young adults at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ms Rodgers, who most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider sociaEducation, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider sociaeducation and the wider social sector.

RESULTS Dr Suzanne Rice, Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Leadership at the University of Melbourne found in her analysis of the national 2016 report that overall Australian achievement had stagnated.

Nancy Hill, a leading scholar on the role culture plays in parenting and adolescent achievement, has been named a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective Julyeducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective JulyEducation effective July 1, 2009.

So there is an issue: traditional ways of organising and delivering school education are sometimes failing students at both ends of the achievement spectrum.

She has been a Distinguished Lecturer at ASCD national conferences, was honored as a Finalist for Distinguished Achievement Award for her educational writing by the Association for Educational Publishers, and writes extensively for professional educational journals as well as consulting for the media including Wall Street Journal, Education Week, USA Today, NBC News Education Nation, among others.

Landing a promotion that empowers you to support sector - wide improvements in Australia's education system, is sure to create a sense of achievement at the end of the work day.

Dr Rice told Education Matters that the NAPLAN report can't identify what is happening at a school level, or the reasons behind the general lack of improvement in achievement.

Join your fellow district leaders this fall at the Education Week Leadership Forum Ed Tech 2013: Powering Up Success — an interactive day focused on how to use digital tools to raise student achievement.