Sentences with phrase «about improving education by»

Learn more about improving education by engaging stakeholders in Commitment and Common Sense: Leading Education Reform in Massachusetts.

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And I'm reading about how most of the higher ups in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion supported such an effort — either by directly blessing lawmakers in Uganda, removing any effort to improve education on the matter (and regain peaceful resolution), or by their complacency.

Albright's two - minute speech about the master teacher program, and the state's initiatives to improve education was taped from the audience by her husband, Benjamin Albright, who also teaches in Cortland.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

A new article published online by JAMA Psychiatry reports that adults assigned to receive the fully automated and interactive web - based Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi) intervention had improved sleep compared with those adults just given access to a patient education website with information about insomnia.

About the Helmsley Charitable Trust: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust aspires to improve lives by supporting exceptional efforts in the U.S. and around the world in health, place - based initiatives, and education and human services.

Westmont, Illinois About Blog Prostate Cancer Foundation of Chicago is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving quality of care and quality of life by funding patient support programs, clinical research as well as professional and public education.

Our mission is to heighten public awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and improve the quality of life for the families it affects by providing education, life skills, inspiration, and positive support.

We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.

Palmer has created a Web site to support her campaign to improve the quality of British primary education by returning decisions about curriculum to the professionals — the teachers — who know best!

About Askwith Forums: The Askwith Forum, established in 1998 by an anonymous donor and named in honor of New York City public - relations consultant, writer and publishing executive Herbert Askwith, is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide an opportunity for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share their work, talk with one another, and advance proven practices that will improve learning opportunities for all.

74, convened the conference by repeating HGSE's mission statement three times, emphasizing the clause about preparing «leaders in education to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success.»

This week Education Next published «Learning in the Digital Age: Better Apps are Coming,» an article by Marie Bjerede about the state of educational apps today — which kinds of apps are actually useful, which are fun, and what kinds of new and improved learning apps we should expect to see in the future.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and dEducation, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation is regulated, managed, and delivered.

The addition of about seven public schools with McKay funding within five miles of a public school improved the academic achievement of special education students by about.05 of a standard deviation.

Bringing his rich experience of 7 years with Moodle, he is passionate about improving Indian education system by using open source tools like Moodle more effectively.

What needs to change in order to bring about such a market, and how would we assess whether it is in fact improving the education received by children in America's schools?»

As New York City councilwoman Eva Moskowitz noted in a letter to Justice DeGrasse, «Education spending has increased by about a third since I took office in 1999, yet our schools have not improved by a third.»

74, convened the conference by repeating HGSE's mission statement three times, emphasizing the clause about preparing «leaders in education to improve student opportunity,...

Bringing his rich experience of 7 years with Moodle, he is passionate about improving Indian education system by...

I started things off by talking with Mel Ainscow (Professor of Education at the UK's University of Manchester) about his new book, Towards Self - improving School Systems: Lessons from a City Challenge, which documents how ten years of research and work was used to shape a highly acclaimed city - wide improvement initiative involving over 1,100 schools.

The meeting, cosponsored by HGSE and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies, closed with the keynote address by HGSE Professor Richard Murnane, who spoke about how to improve education in developing countries.

«All A-Twitter about Education: Improving our schools in 140 characters or less,» by Mike Petrilli This article looked at the role Twitter was playing in education policy debates and ranked the top 25 education policy / media tweeters and the top 25 educator tweeters based on their KlouEducation: Improving our schools in 140 characters or less,» by Mike Petrilli This article looked at the role Twitter was playing in education policy debates and ranked the top 25 education policy / media tweeters and the top 25 educator tweeters based on their Kloueducation policy debates and ranked the top 25 education policy / media tweeters and the top 25 educator tweeters based on their Kloueducation policy / media tweeters and the top 25 educator tweeters based on their Klout scores.

The impending closure of the Manual Education Complex in Denver is sparking a conversation about what can be learned from the experience at a time when the nation has pinned high hopes on improving secondary schools by turning them into smaller, more personalized environments.

Along with the scholarships that will be distributed by College Success Arizona to 20 students over a two - year period beginning in spring 2016, Alliance Bank is initiating a campaign to appeal to other local businesses in order to raise awareness about the need to improve Arizona's education system and the importance of workforce development.

Some argue that states, rather than districts, could assume the roles now played by the federal government, but precedent suggests this will not bring about the national reforms needed to improve education for all.

As director of community engagement, Garrett will work with the Indianapolis communities and neighborhoods most affected by education change and foster community conversations about improving and supporting public education.

Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies is a curriculum designed to support the training by qualified instructors of K — 12 school and district staff about the issues pertaining to the production of high - quality educatEducation Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies is a curriculum designed to support the training by qualified instructors of K — 12 school and district staff about the issues pertaining to the production of high - quality educatEducation Agencies is a curriculum designed to support the training by qualified instructors of K — 12 school and district staff about the issues pertaining to the production of high - quality educationeducation data.

If our nation is serious about improving public education, we would begin by funding all schools appropriately and paying teachers salaries worthy of professionals.

EN: I continue to lead through E4E at my school because I support E4E's mission of empowering teachers by supplying them with knowledge about policies that impact teachers and the students they teach, as well as advocating for changes that will improve the education system.

At its peak several years ago, tutoring services were provided by about 2,500 companies and other organizations that had received state approval to work with students, using money allocated to improve students» academic performance, according to Steve Pines, the president of the Education Industry Association, based in Vienna, Va..

Released by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a federal initiative that aims to inform educators and policymakers as they work toward improving education, the compiled resources also include an instructional video that shows how to use the WWC when making decisions about new math programs, policies, and practices.

Curriculum has long been a third rail in U.S. education policy, dismissed by policymakers despite related, highly visible efforts to develop college - and career - ready standards, aligned assessments, Read more about Hiding in Plain Sight: Leveraging Curriculum to Improve Student Learning -LSB-...]

This webinar by Maurice Elias was produced by CASEL on April 7, 2016 and is for those who wish to deepen and improve conversations about SEL or Character Education in their schools and between parents and teachers and students.

By Rodolfo Aguilar, MPU Parent Leader When we talk about public education in Massachusetts, Governor Baker is proud that we are rank among the top states with improved scores in math, science and language, the statement is true but falls short in describing that there are two types of public education, the suburban public education where schools are better equipped...

SAD 74 union to expand its role (December 12, 2011) The Morning Sentinel wrote about how the Carrabec Education Association is «broadening its traditional role by planning specific ways to improve the education of students in Anson, Embden, Solon and New Portland,» including NEA Priority Schools Campaign site Carrabec HigEducation Association is «broadening its traditional role by planning specific ways to improve the education of students in Anson, Embden, Solon and New Portland,» including NEA Priority Schools Campaign site Carrabec Higeducation of students in Anson, Embden, Solon and New Portland,» including NEA Priority Schools Campaign site Carrabec High School.

About Stacy Stewart Stacy Stewart has improved learning at Belmont - Cragin Elementary by using an approach that combines personalized learning with dual - language education and social and emotional learning.

ABOUT DIGITAL PROMISE Digital Promise is a nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to spur innovation in education to improve the opportunity to learn for all Americans.

Whether it's about dismantling the Gender Binary or improving educational access, Christine has become a leader by developing students through her deep understanding of political education.

For one hundred years, Bank Street's focus has been improving the education of children and their teachers by applying to the education process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world.

The Hamilton Project released a series of economic facts about K - 12 education in addition to three new discussion papers by outside authors — «Staying in School: A Proposal to Raise High School Graduation Rates,» «Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools,» and «Harnessing Technology to Improve K - 12 Educatioeducation in addition to three new discussion papers by outside authors — «Staying in School: A Proposal to Raise High School Graduation Rates,» «Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools,» and «Harnessing Technology to Improve K - 12 EducationEducation.»

Bradley Scott, Ph.D., director of the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity, is joined by Veronica Betancourt, M.A., Kristin Grayson, M.Ed., and Paula Johnson, M.A., to share their reflections from the event key insights about providing technical assistance to improve education of American Indian students.

We've shown that there's nothing impractical about improving efficiency by better coordinating and aligning the numerous education, health, and social service programs and funding streams that already exist.

Although some of my thoughts are a mere dream, most are already becoming a reality (if not a reality in many classrooms) and by the distributive nature of Education, I expect many trends to spread across the world like wildfire as they are proven successful and more research comes out about how they have improved student learning.

S / he will be a member of the outreach team and work closely with the Chief Strategy Officer, content teams, and the Executive Director to continue improving K - 12 education by informing educators» decisions about high quality, aligned instruction materials to support their classrooms and schools across the country.

You'd think an effort to improve school standards and promote higher expectations for students — adopted by 45 states, embraced by the business community, and endorsed by governors and education reformers from both parties — would be about as controversial as motherhood and apple pie.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Collaborates with colleagues and school administrators to plan professional learning that is team - based, job - embedded, sustained over time, aligned with content standards, and linked to school / district improvement goals; b) Uses information about adult learning to respond to the diverse learning needs of colleagues by identifying, promoting, and facilitating varied and differentiated professional learning; c) Facilitates professional learning among colleagues; d) Identifies and uses appropriate technologies to promote collaborative and differentiated professional learning; e) Works with colleagues to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the quality of professional learning and its effect on teaching and student learning; f) Advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work in teams to engage in job - embedded professional learning; g) Provides constructive feedback to colleagues to strengthen teaching practice and improve student learning; and h) Uses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learning.

I've written about Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that the terrorist attack on 9/11 was a massive government plot and that that public school reform is a conspiracy among money - grubbing reformers and «oppressed natives» who are afflicted with a «psychosis» that leads them «to improve their own subjugated standing by attempting to join the ranks of those who do the oppressing.»

Working with grassroots activists on the ground to provide parents buses that can inform families about the quality of choice options (along with information on, for example, what a child should know by third grade) would not only improve data quality, but also bolster support for school choice and education reform overall.