Sentences with phrase «academic education using»

Suder Montessori Magnet School provides a rigorous academic education using Montessori methods and materials.

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While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

Interest on private education loans qualifies, provided that the higher education expenses are attributable to a particular academic period and the disbursement used to pay for those expenses occurred during the academic period or a 90 - day window at the start and end of the academic period.

In doing so, they had powerful support from the secular media of communication and they made very effective use of a conception of academic freedom that had been designed to promote the secularization of higher education.

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

Cynthia is a retired teacher and academic who has written extensively on animal issues, including the use of alternatives to animals in education, and provided substantive submissions on government legislation relating to animals.

The education secretary said the popular series had sought to denigrate British patriotism and had been used by «left wing academics» to portray the first world war as a «shambles» led by an out of touch elite.

AAAS is among some 240 scientific and academic organizations that partnered with the March for Science, a non-partisan movement that aims to promote the use of science for the common good, including science education and the use of scientific evidence to inform public policy.

Academics and students alike should be making better use of Wikipedia, a major study of digital technology use in Higher Education has recommended.

Curriculum vitae (CV): A detailed summary of your education experience, work history, and research experience, including publications and presentations, that is generally used for academic job searches.

Comprising a comprehensive research and development network, a merit - based academic society and a system of higher education, CAS brings together scientists and engineers from China and around the world to address both theoretical and applied problems using world - class scientific and management approaches.

The naturopathic education is unique in that naturopathic doctors complete extensive academic and clinical education in the use of natural medicines and that the training is based on the principles of naturopathic medicine.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Two Rivers Public Charter School uses the critique protocol rules — be kind, be specific, and be helpful — developed by Ron Berger, the Chief Academic Officer of EL Education.

«You often hear the phrase, «Education starts at home,» used mostly for young children and students, but I think that idea carries all the way through a student's academic career,» Hill said.

The authors also offer one recommendation to the Department of Education, which is finalizing its ESSA regulations: Going forward, Washington should allow states to rate academic achievement using a performance index that gives schools additional credit for getting students to an advanced level.

While it may sound more like a means of informal learning, video - based learning may soon become the most sought after phenomenon across the corporate and academic learning ambiance, specifically after the advent and rise in the use of smartphones in the education domain.

Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether public schools are up to scratch.

Smith wants to research the techniques that teachers with successful students are using with the hope this will provide more insight for many districts that are working to aid the academic achievement of their special education students.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Most academic research on education policy suffers from a similar implicit assumption: that the schools automatically use their resources well.

Several principals who use PBIS told Education World that they were elated to see that when student behavior improved under the system and teachers had more time to focus on instruction, academic performance shot up as well.

The piece I wrote illustrated the power of personalized learning powered by blended learning, which addresses the call by a group of business and academic leaders in their recent «Open Letter on the Digital Economy» and a corresponding piece that contained a set of public policy recommendations to «redesign how we deliver education at all levels using the power of digital technologies.»

Important places for me to stop along my path include: undergraduate professor in a college - based teacher education program, professional development specialist for teacher collaborations, and director of community - based learning center that uses culturally responsive arts for academic support and life skills.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

It covers a wide range of topics across many academic disciplines: Trends in health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, culture, energy use, education, and environmental changes are empirically analysed and visualised in this web publication.

COACHE The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education is a research group that uses data to make the recruitment and management of faculty talent more effective for higher education instEducation is a research group that uses data to make the recruitment and management of faculty talent more effective for higher education insteducation institutions.

IES to Seed New Methods for Studying Schools Education Week, October 16, 2012 «For example, NBES member Hirokazu Yoshikawa, the academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said he used rapid prototyping, which includes 90 - day, intervention - testing cycles, to adapt a teacher professional - development program in Chile.»

Peter Stewart, Senior Vice President of School Development, works with parents, teachers, community groups, school districts, school boards, departments of education, and policy makers across the United States and internationally to start new high - tech schools that use the K12 academic program.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

What are your thoughts on advocating for using nationally normalized assessments (e.g. NWEA MAP) for each student as a baseline for their education growth during the course of an academic year and aggregating education growth on a school, district, student sub-group, etc. basis as a review body saw fit?

Using the additional time to support a well - rounded education that includes time for academics and enrichment activities;

The independent study conducted by SRI, Evaluation of Rocketship Education's Use of DreamBox Learning Online Mathematics Program, was commissioned by Rocketship to measure the impact of online math learning on its students» academic growth in Learning Lab, a key component of the Rocketship Hybrid School Model.

Texas Schools Project supports and conducts independent, high - quality academic research through the use of individual level administrative data from Texas state education agencies as well as other sources of Texas education data.

The death of a small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.

Limit alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards only to students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, up to 1 percent of all students; terminate assessments based on modified achievement standards; and prohibit the use of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) to measure academic achievement under ESEA.

The use of mean scores places the focus on improving the academic achievement of all students within a school and not just those whose performance is around the state proficiency cut score (Center for Education Policy, 2011).

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

A just - launched project will review education reports released by private think tanks for the quality of their research, methodology, and conclusions, using expert academic reviewers.

Tom Perry, a research fellow from the University of Birmingham, and research manager at the Centre for the Use of Evidence in Education, has written a new academic paper on the Progress measures which finds that the measure favours grammar schools — but his findings offers a solution to fix the bias.

The benefits of using vouchers to improve education for at - risk and minority students continues to be debated, even among academics who study the issue.

The bill specifically prevents the federal government from requiring that states evaluate teachers at all, much less use test scores to rate them, and says the education secretary can not dictate any specific academic standards to states.

The new Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (Title IV, Part A) program provides funds for programs and activities to improve students» academic achievement by increasing the capacity of local school divisions to provide all students with a well - rounded education; improve school conditions for learning; and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all sAcademic Enrichment Grants (Title IV, Part A) program provides funds for programs and activities to improve students» academic achievement by increasing the capacity of local school divisions to provide all students with a well - rounded education; improve school conditions for learning; and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all sacademic achievement by increasing the capacity of local school divisions to provide all students with a well - rounded education; improve school conditions for learning; and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all sacademic achievement and digital literacy of all students.

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Pence suggested Indiana could reject the nationally - crafted academic standards and tests, but «mimic Virginia, which has not adopted Common Core or corresponding national tests, but has compared its education standards to Common Core so teachers can use Common Core materials...

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Berger - Sweeney said her plans include maximizing the use of Trinity's campus when classes are not in session with academic camps, offering continuing education classes to professionals in the Hartford area and using school facilities for community events.

This prestigious award is given to select schools across the nation that The U.S. Department of Education (USED) Green Ribbon Schools recognizes as schools that save energy, reduce costs, feature environmentally sustainable learning spaces, protect health, foster wellness and offer environmental education to boost academic achievement and community enEducation (USED) Green Ribbon Schools recognizes as schools that save energy, reduce costs, feature environmentally sustainable learning spaces, protect health, foster wellness and offer environmental education to boost academic achievement and community eneducation to boost academic achievement and community engagement.