Sentences with phrase «open access school»

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Targeting low - income high school / college students who are interested in coding, open government, and civic technology, the program offers mentoring, programming courses, resource access and an internship.

And yet the priorities Bertone is expected to focus on are largely geared more toward opening church access to state television and the administering of religious schools.

Lady Gaga signed an open letter from the advocacy organization ONE to fight for the right of girls living in poverty to have access to schooling.

But it didn't apply as far as the school that wanted to deny access to women was concerned either because their school wasn't open to persons, it was open to men (or boys).

Find out from your child's school if they have an «open grade system portal» and how you can access it.

The signatories, whose firms have a combined turnover of over # 500 billion, have agreed to seek to raise aspirations in communities and schools, advertising their work experience places as widely as possible and making access to internships open and transparent.

While we are disappointed in the vote, ensuring every child has access to a great school is critical — and we are confident we'll move forward and site the third school in time for its planned opening in September of 2016.»

The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.

Hammond, who says he battled TAMU for months to gain access to documents under a state open records law, agrees on one point with Davis: «I think that there are many other schools that have issues like Texas A&M.»

But in a new paper published in the open - access journal eLife, scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and colleagues have captured the action like battlefield reporters.

Little penguins were more likely to work together to hunt schooling prey than solitary prey, according to observations made using animal - borne cameras published Dec. 2, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Grace Sutton from the Deakin University, Australia, and colleagues.

Our organization has a long history in supporting science education — be that through the enrichment of the curriculum of schools, the employment of students through co-op programs and summer jobs, by enabling post-doctoral research, or through opening access to our unique facilities and expertise.

The plans, first outlined by Prime Minister Theresa May, form a core part of her education reforms, including plans to open new grammar schools, which she claims will raise education standards, give more pupils access to a high quality education and improve social mobility.

Hiding behind an «open - access mission» is no excuse for accepting young peoplewho are reading and doing math at a middle school level and have little or no chance of getting beyond remedial education, much less completing a bona fide postsecondary credential.

«Being a School of Tennis opens so many doors to pupils who may otherwise not have experienced or have had access to the sport.

California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier to access and update.

Peltz is passionate about teaching with technology and opening Web access because he believes it's (a) a powerful way to engage students, and (b) the only way to teach kids how to safely and productively use technologies that they will use — and misuse — whether the school restricts them or not.

In addition, communities need to ensure that libraries stay open, schools can provide access to their labs after school, and organizations need to plan their communication strategies around the connection style of the populations they serve.

Allowing charter schools to access the zoning exemptions that districts use to turn commercial facilities into schools would also open up more options.

I was hopeful that this statement would carve out space between the two sides, offering a compromise position reflecting the principles of both and opening a path for more disadvantaged students to access great schools.

Mandating open admissions, like the prohibition against «topping off,» is intended to ensure all children have access to quality schools.

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

We may need to keep schools open late in the evening so children have a safe environment in which to do homework or access computers.

Detailed organisation and management goes into opening school facilities out of hours, so Sport England felt it would be useful to put together an online toolkit to allow schools to access all the information and advice they may need in one place.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

This public «edu - trip of open learning» is just a taste of what primary, secondary and post-secondary schools are able to offer if they elect to become «connected and transparent learning environments,» granting students, teachers and leaders access to today's social media tools.

It's a legitimate concern, and one I share... the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

We are continuing to appoint and add CREATE Education Hubs to our network along with the Fab Labs and Makerspaces who provide physical access supporting our open source ethos with opportunities for local communities and schools to get involved.

By centralising all data required in an open system that is password protected, and can be accessed by numerous individuals at a time, the responsibilities that are part and parcel of the school office do not rest solely on one person's shoulders.

In an article for Open Access Government, Wyn Griffiths, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, explains that 3D printing «holds enormous potential not just in the STEM industries, but in schools as well... In short, it's a game - changer of massive proportions that can give excellent benefits to both teaching and learning».

Catholic schools have been fighting for access to public money — and in many cases for the right to exist at all — since the first school opened more than 160 years ago.

New York City's open choice system provided them with access to schools throughout the city, which often included one or more new small, themed high schools, including those that opened in the same building as the larger school that had been closed.

This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.

Your school's tech team will be pleased to know the Glogster app no longer requires extensive port opening and other workarounds to enable camera and video access.

They are also open to a host of school reforms ranging from high - stakes student accountability to merit pay for teachers to school vouchers and tax credits that would give low - income families greater access to private schools.

The secure perimeter will include one or more access routes which are in use throughout the times the school is open, normally the main entrance and possibly a separate route for deliveries, and possibly some access routes used only at certain times of day, e.g. the time immediately before and after the normal school day.

The very nature of school, college and university premises often leaves them vulnerable to crime, with open access often facilitating vandalism and the theft of expensive equipment.

Finally, there is already some evidence that employers are discounting the value of a college degree from an open - access school.

The implication is that with no government requirement for open admissions or standard measurement, historically higher - performing private schools would expand access to students eligible for vouchers.

Access control points can also be used at the perimeter of a site, at the gates or fences, being open during the day but restricted to authorised personnel when the school is closed.

Party leader, Theresa May, also has plans to open grammar schools by 2020 in order to ensure that every child has access to a good education.

The Agrippa door closer is being successfully specified in key sectors that include schools, colleges and a range of educational establishments, where it is essential to have doors in an open position at certain times of the day to aid access, but equally as important to ensure the doors are closed in the event of a fire.

«To complement this work we are also opening new special free schools across the country that will provide tailored support for over a thousand children to ensure they have access to the excellent education that every child deserves.»

The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

In that time, he won praise for uniting education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening more than 100 new schools, expanding after - school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public - private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

Free, Open - Source Access to «THINK Literacy,» Success Academy's Highly Effective Curriculum for Elementary Schools

Building positive relationships with regional educational service agencies opens doors for K - 12 companies to get greater access to school districts in «one fell swoop.»

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

«There are 1.8 million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, and we are delivering 3 million apprenticeship places, opening up access to our higher education system and investing # 500m a year into technical education.

While open access supposedly equalizes students» access to education, according to a study by MIT education researcher Justin Reich and Harvard Graduate School of Education's John Hansen, even for online learning, the same socioeconomic hurdles exist.