Sentences with phrase «as broader education»

We also offer access to an online knowledge networking system to share resources and best practices within our network as well as the broader education leadership community.

State schools have a great deal to learn about areas such as broader education and strong higher education and careers support, for example.

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It's funny — as people's technical skills get more specialized, the world is actually demanding individuals that can see across silos, and so I think our students actually know what they're doing when they're trying to get a broader education.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

Informal education settings within the community are increasingly seen by many in the broader STEM education community as the best venues for getting at the «inspiration question» and attracting students toward STEM - focused career pathways.

These nominees, as judged by a panel of more than 3,000 professionals from the fields of product development, design, engineering, science, marketing and education, represent a broad spectrum of innovation... Continue reading 2015 Edison Award Finalists Announced

Following the enactment of the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012, the Investor Education Centre (IEC) was formed as an SFC subsidiary to educate the public on a broad range of retail financial products and services.

These nominees, as judged by a panel of more than 3,000 professionals from the fields of product development, design, engineering, science, marketing and education, represent a broad spectrum of innovation and creativity across 12 primary categories.

Yet in the broad sense in which education means the shaping of ideas and ideals, it never ends as long as any mental flexibility remains.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

It is also probably true that, as Holmes goes on to assert, «What Whitehead does not see (or does not emphasize) is the enormous difficulty of making education for the duller minds and slower - moving bodies what it can be (and clearly should be) for the rest — an active process leading to broad understandings and to special competence without the slightest rending «of the seamless cloth of learning»» (WVE 637).

Once again, we see that the different strategies of moral education do not so much offer distinct options of moral instruction as emphasize different themes within the same broad moral philosophy.

Arrangements can be made for infant baptism (or dedication, as the case may be), and the couple may be urged to participate in a group for new parents, and / or in the broader parent - education program.

Third, applying simple legislative solutions to complex social issues also seems attractive, but ignores other relevant factors such as the role of the family and parental supervision, the place of education, and broader social determinants such as employment and access to social and economic opportunity.

«We are proud to have worked alongside Members of Congress, as well as a broad coalition of public health and education groups and others in the food and beverage industry, to see this bill pass,» Neely said.

«In teaming with Coors Peak and with Jules, we feel that we are able to expand this education to a broader audience and help them to recognize the importance of products such as Coors Peak Copper & Golden and gfJules mixes in carrying the GFCO certified logo and what that really means to them, the consumer.»

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Stephen Gray Wallace, director of the Center for Adolescent Research and Education (CARE), has broad experience as a school psychologist and adolescent and family counselor.

In her years of teaching she developed a concept of education that she expressed as «liberal education for all,» by which she meant an education that was broad and deep enough curriculum to be suitable for all children.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) ICEA classes are very broad in scope and cover the options available for you as an expectant parent in the realm of family - centered maternity care and newborn care.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

In addition, the Family Support unit at the Center for Schools and Communities offers supplemental PAT oriented and broader professional development opportunities to PAT providers and other early care and education professionals across the Commonwealth t hrough regular webinars, specialized workshops as well as annual regional or state meetings.

We included studies examining interventions which included education and support as part of a broader package of care provided that these elements were an important part of the package of care.

Since then, James has worked as both a teacher, examiner and in management across a broad spectrum of the State and Independent Education sectors.

Healthy schools — also known as health - promoting schools — work with partners from the health and education sectors, and with those from the broader community, to support students to develop healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

Obstacles to initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include insufficient prenatal education about breastfeeding132, 133; disruptive hospital policies and practices134; inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding135; early hospital discharge in some populations136; lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits137; maternal employment138, 139 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding) 140; lack of family and broad societal support141; media portrayal of bottle feeding as normative142; commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and some television and general magazine advertising143, 144; misinformation; and lack of guidance and encouragement from health care professionals.135, 145,146

Their levels of education will be expanded into broader and more complicated areas such as, the scientific method, nonfiction books, and current affairs.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Our panel discussions will cover a broad and critical range of concerns such as gender, challenging left orthodoxy, trade unions and community, education and culture.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address was light on details, but packed with broad proposals on topics that directly affect New York City such as criminal justice reform, higher education, labor and homelessness.

Broader questions remain on school aid, however, even as education reforms such as teacher evaluation criteria are no longer linked to funding.

It is vital that every young person receives a broad and balanced education including teaching evolution as the only evidence - based view of how life came to be.»

Alexander Hamilton, only after the Constitution had been ratified, argued for a broad interpretation which viewed spending as an enumerated power Congress could exercise independently to benefit the general welfare, such as to assist national needs in agriculture or education, provided that the spending is general in nature and does not favor any specific section of the country over any other.

However, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, dismissed his claims as «utterly unfounded» and warned: «This new measure will undermine broad education by driving schools towards a narrow range of options for young people...... There is a very real danger that some young people will be directed away from subjects that would best support their developing aptitudes and ambitions.»

As part of the broader Community and Citywide Education Council selection process, elected officials urged parents to apply.

Cuomo said the leaders of the state Legislature have agreed to the increase in education funding as part of a broad $ 156 billion budget deal he was announcing.

As part of the state's broader effort to combat the rise in heroin and opioid addiction, the Family & Children's Association in Mineola will receive nearly $ 2 million to provide education, job training and help with healthcare and insurance for those struggling with addiction.

Yet the proposal from NCAN has as much to do with shaping discussions of a broader higher education bill as it does in seeking to influence the spending bill for next year.

The memo also lays out in detail the horsetrading that typically occurs around budget time, as in the area of higher education financing, where Mr. Cuomo has sought broad changes in how public universities procure supplies and services and wants to allow the City University of New York to raise tuition.

«Can she translate success as a charter school operator into a broader education agenda, let alone other issues?»

The broad - based subpoena received by the education department names the Department of Public Service and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority as well as the New York Power Authority, according to the sources.

However, despite having been defended by Schools Minister Nick Gibb just a few months ago as being necessary to «ensure that pupils receive an inclusive and broad - based education», the Government has decided to shelve the cap, allow religious schools to become entirely single - faith in their intake, and then introduce new measures to break down the further segregation this will cause.

In a Nov. 15 letter to Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., a broad array of scientific and engineering societies called on House leaders to drop provisions in the tax bill (H.R. 1) that would eliminate tax credits, known as the Lifetime Learning Credit and the Hope Scholarship Credit, that alleviate the financial strain of higher education by providing a dollar - for - dollar reduction in the income tax liability of eligible students.

This connection with a man of such broad yet practical brilliance and deep scientific curiosity may be why Congressmen Richard Hanna (R - NY) and Rush Holt (D - NJ and a Ph.D. physicist) arranged to use the Library's exquisite Members of Congress Room as the setting for an event marking what they consider a significant milestone in American education: the establishment of the country's 300th Professional Science Master's degree (PSM) program.

But having a broad education is important as well.

Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented.

The findings, which offer a roadmap for broad, quality implementation of preschool programs, expand upon studies that have long served as barometers for the value of early childhood education: the Abecedarian Project, which traces back to the 1970s, and the Perry Preschool Project, which commenced in the 1960s.

This collaborative research will also be supported by education and training activities for therapists, physicians and doctoral researchers — the designers of future therapeutic devices — as well as by dissemination of the broader rehabilitation benefits of commercial and experimental wearable robots.