Sentences with phrase «president challenged the education»

Clinton Challenges Nation to Improve Math and Science Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

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Haruna Iddrisu says even though there are challenges facing the economy, youth unemployment and problems with the education system, the President has put in place the requisite measures to address them hence he must be supported.

Yehuda Weissmandl, President of the East Ramapo School Board, says in a statement he welcomes the designation of Szuberla and Sipple as monitors for the district and that over the last 18 months, state education department monitors have been invaluable in helping the district meet difficult challenges and make significant improvements.

Mr. Murray - Bruce who's the founder and co-owner of Silverbird Group in a video posted on his Facebook page on Monday titled: «Common Sense SeNigerian lawmaker and business magnate, Ben Murray - Bruce, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to follow the footsteps of Ghana in prioritizing education and banning the importation of rice.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo couldn't help but crack himself up when asked on Wednesday morning about the potential challenge he could face from actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon, jokingly suggesting Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the push.

Nigerian lawmaker and business magnate, Ben Murray - Bruce, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to follow the footsteps of Ghana in prioritizing education and banning the importation of rice.

I see the action of the British Government as a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan's administration to provide Nigerians quality education, health and other basic necessities of life to Nigerians.

I see the action of the British Government as a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan's administration to provide Nigerians quality education, health and other basic necessities of life.

The President said health and education remained priority areas for government and called for support of all to fix the challenges in those sectors.

Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was one of the participants at this roundtable, and his contributions to the discussion were very insightful and revealing of the challenges and opportunities facing Nigeria, the world's most populous black nation, when considering policy options in the education space.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew offered lawmakers a solid and sensible plan for facing the state's economic challenges without hurting students during a joint legislative hearing on the governor's proposed education budget on Feb. 15 in Albany.

Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growtEducation and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growteducation of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth.»

Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, said she had often had dealings with Mr. Klein and that his experience at the Education Department «established his ability to take on a difficult challenge in a straightforward, honest way, and enhanced the credibility that he established during his years in Washington as a defender of the public interest.

Murphy already has challenged the proceeding by submitting a petition to the state education commissioner arguing the board president should not be allowed to both bring the charges and then deliberate on them.

Following a visit to classrooms at PS 209 in Whitestone, Queens, UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with new District 25 chapter leaders on Sept. 20 in a discussion of their responsibilities in a time of challenges to public education.

Furthermore, the President will make it a national imperative to dramatically improve student achievement in math and science, and move US students from the middle of the pack to the top on international benchmarks over the next decade by challenging all Americans to dramatically increase support for math and science education.

But education leaders caution that those recommendations, by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), are deceptively challenging and will require overcoming steep obstacles at the thousands of U.S. colleges and universities that educate the next generation of workers.

When farmers get access to price information, it can break the monopoly of the local traders; distance learning makes good - quality education accessible; and people can use it to mobilize politically as they did in the people - power movement that challenged former President Estrada in the Philippines.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

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He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

«The University of Michigan takes great pride in our commitment to research and education focused on solving humanity's greatest challenges,» says University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, M.D., Ph.D..

And in 1996 the president gave the movement the ultimate blessing when he said, in his State of the Union address, «I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship.»

«Arts education enables those children from a financially challenged background to have a more level playing field with children who have had those enrichment experiences,» says Eric Cooper, president and founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Eeducation enables those children from a financially challenged background to have a more level playing field with children who have had those enrichment experiences,» says Eric Cooper, president and founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective EducationEducation.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Travel and exposure to new cultures challenged many of the laureates «to step outside their comfort zones, which gave them a new perspective on the world and their place in it,» adds Kate Berseth, executive vice president of EF Education First.

Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, in thanking President Neil Rudenstine and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education chEducation, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education cheducation challenges.

Both MLE and IEM are focused on building strong leaders and developing management skills of higher education administrators; MLE curriculum addresses leadership challenges confronting deans, while IEM focuses on issues of relevance to presidents, provosts, and vice presidents.

The President called on the nation to move forward on his plan to improve American education and issued new challenges to boost student achievement in math and science.

This poses a challenge for Trump, an unpopular president pushing a popular but controversial education agenda.

Canada knows firsthand both the challenge and love of education, having spent the past 30 years as the founder and president of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a full - service community organization comprising charter schools, preschools, afterschool programs,...

This includes developing courses that challenge students with real higher education leadership cases derived from sitting presidents, provosts, and deans; creating opportunities for students to interact with the most noted senior leaders in higher education; developing course structures that allow HGSE students to interact with higher education students at other universities around the nation, in order to compare ideas; and developing opportunities for our students to visit different colleges and universities, exposing them to places and viewpoints otherwise not accessible by simply sitting in the classroom.

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

«Like many of our members who work in urban classrooms every day, Rod Paige has seen firsthand the challenges they face,» Bob Chase, president of the National Education Association said in a prepared statement.

That year the Department of Education established the «Partnerships in Character Education» program to support the president's challenge.

The 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge is launched in partnership with Digital Promise, a new initiative created by the President and Congress, supported through the Department of Education.

By 1996, however, in his State of the Union address, President Clinton proclaimed, «I challenge all our schools to teach character education.»

The program will convene presidents from all sectors of higher education in an interactive, retreat - like environment where they will learn from Harvard higher education faculty experts, accomplished institutional advancement practitioners, and fellow presidents facing similar leadership challenges.

- Marc Tucker is president and founder of the National Center on Education and the Economy and coeditor, with Judy Codding, of The Principal Challenge: Leading and Managing Schools in an Era of Accountability.

The century was young when the activist Margaret Haley dared to speak from the floor of the National Education Association's convention in Detroit, challenging the assertions made by its president.

We talked to Harvard Graduate School of Education senior lecturer and chair of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, Judith Block McLaughlin, who has known Bacow since he was chancellor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), about his appointment, his time as president - in - residence at HGSE, and the challenges facing university presidePresidents, Judith Block McLaughlin, who has known Bacow since he was chancellor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), about his appointment, his time as president - in - residence at HGSE, and the challenges facing university presidentspresidents today.

But that task paled in comparison to the challenge of anticipating what's next under President Trump, who promises big changes to education but faces uncertain legislative backing for his top priority: expanding school choice.

Among the notable authorities on both sides are the following: C. Jencks, Inequality (1972); C. Silberman, Crisis in the Classroom (1970); U.S. Office of Education, Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966)(the Coleman Report); On Equality of Educational Opportunity (F. Mosteller 8 D. Moynihan eds.1972); J. Guthrie, G. Kleindorfer, H. Levin R. Stout, Schools and Inequality (1971); President's Commission on School Finance, supra, n. 85; Swanson, The Cost - Quality Relationship, in The Challenge of Change in School Finance, 10th Nat.

While Salovey's position is preferable to the problematic situation Levin had, it poses a different challenge for the new president, said Judith McLaughlin, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who specializes in University leadership and chairs the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents.

In his 2009 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama challenged Americans to «commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training....

Canada knows firsthand both the challenge and love of education, having spent the past 30 years as the founder and president of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a full - service community organization comprising charter schools, preschools, afterschool programs, parenting education, and employment and technology centers that currently serves more than 13,000 children and adults.

In this forum, president of Democrats for Education Reform Joe Williams speaks for the Education Equality Project and Pedro Noguera offers the Broader, Bolder perspective on improving K — 12 schooling, the early record of the Obama administration, and the challenges that lie ahead.

The University of Virginia President will describe the significant challenges and opportunities faced by higher education leaders today at the Askwith Forum on April 9.

Despite Mitt Romney's charge that «President Obama's policy response to every education challenge has been more federal spending,» on - budget K - 12 education expenditure has grown during Obama's first term at the slowest pace in two decades (aside from the massive, but unlikely to be repeated, infusions of ARRA and Edujobs).

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.