Sentences with phrase «education on a human scale»

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In the present day human education is spreading its net over the earth on an unprecedented scale and by means of unprecedented methods of expression and diffusion.

EBWS prepares children for the future with its uniquely vibrant and well - rounded education that blends the unconventional and the traditional, reconnects children with the world, and educates on a human scale.

East Bay Waldorf School prepares children for the future with its uniquely vibrant and well - rounded education that blends the unconventional and the traditional, reconnects children with the world, and educates on a human scale.

Future pandemic flu outbreaks would be ranked, like hurricanes, on a scale of 1 to 5, and school closures of up to three months would be recommended for more severe outbreaks, according to a planning guide released jointly last week by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Interagency Education Research Initiative — funded jointly by the National Science Foundation, OERI, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development — is sponsoring efforts that bring early research to scale with some emphasis on the use of technology.

These scale - up initiatives — including the White House's Social Innovation Fund, or SIF, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» efforts on teen - pregnancy prevention and home visitation, and the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund, or i3, — present a real opportunity for us to learn to do...

American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) California Community College Chancellor's Office Center for Innovation in Education (CIE) College Board College Transition Collaborative Colorado Department of Education ConnectEd Del Lago Academy Digital Promise EdImagine EdInsights Education First EducationCounsel Envision Learning Partners Farmington Public Schools Great Schools Partnership Harvard Innovation Lab Hillsdale High School Internationals Network for Public Schools Irvine Foundation Ithaca College James Graham Brown Foundation Jobs for the Future June Jordan School for Equity Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Learning Policy Institute Los Angeles Unified School District Lumina Foundation Maker Ed Making Caring Common Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mastery Transcript Consortium Microsoft Montpelier School District NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National Urban League New Haven Academy New York Performance Standards Consortium Oakland Unified School District Pomona College Raikes Foundation Riverdale Country School San Francisco International High School Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smith College Southern New Hampshire University Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) Stuart Foundation Summit Public Schools The City University of New York The Education Trust The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Trovvit UC Riverside UNCF University of California, Office of the President University of Florida University of Michigan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Southern California University of Texas, Austin University of Washington Virginia Beach City Public Schools

This online portfolio complements a book by education journalist Thomas Toch called High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Eeducation journalist Thomas Toch called High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American EducationEducation.

The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)