Sentences with phrase «as education champions»

Not exact matches

As its province's good - news environmental storyteller, The Alberta Emerald Foundation champions environmental excellence in management, technology and education with its Emerald Awards program.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

He championed legislation that made a difference for tens of thousands of families such as the STAR program and education and real property tax reform.

Crist, a former state senator, education commissioner, attorney general and governor, has been a champion fundraiser, but that was as a Republican.

Meanwhile, New York state's newly minted Education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, champions licensing illegal immigrants to teach in New York's public schools, as well as to practice 52 other regulated professions.

«As an IDC member, David has been an effective champion for us, working with Governor Cuomo to reform state government, expand civil rights and invest in public education and environmental protection.

The new bill is an especially bitter pill, they say, because Prime Minister Matteo Renzi earlier this year had championed research and education as a potential cure for Italy's economic malaise.»

No Child Left Behind was championed as a way for parents to hold schools accountable for the quality of education they deliver.

The reactions can be intense and likely revealing as to where Champions and Dissidents stand on the other important education issues.

When the nation's governors and top business leaders convene in Palisades, N.Y., later this month for an education summit, they plan to champion academic standards as the key to improving student achievement.

Second, as Education Week reported, the law «marks a big departure from what Duncan has championed» and «undercuts» his priorities (teacher evaluation, Common Core, RTTT, and SIG).

«At Cityserve we're all about championing our staff, the ones who make everything possible, and it's great to welcome them as well as representatives from some of our fellow education caterers into our headquarters to showcase their skills.»

That's the crux of the matter: IT professionals in schools need to act as champions for digital change, clearly communicating how technology can serve to enrich education practices and empower teachers to deliver more impactful lessons.

Thisyear, beleaguered champions of arts educationwill find their visions finally — if gradually — realized, as the growing conversationabout art education's intrinsic value playsout in partnerships between community artsorganizations and schools.

Ali Oliver, chief executive officer at Youth Sport Trust, said: «As a children's charity, we have long been championing the vital role that a refocussed physical education curriculum has in giving young people the skills they need not only for work, but for life.

As a leader in the primary STEM movement, Learning Resources will be championing the dedicated STEM area at the show and will also be supporting the event by providing a speaker on the subject of STEM in primary education.

Every freshman at UML receives a tour of this National Park and education students learn to use the city as their classroom through the Tsongas Industrial History Center, a hands - on history, science, and professional development center named after Senator Paul Tsongas, who championed this park partnership.

Or, as Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries told Richard Whitmire: «I can't think of anything more potentially harmful to the charter school movement, or anything more antithetical to its progressive roots, than having Donald Trump as its national champion.»

The unions (and other established education interests) are scrambling to re-establish their once - solid footing by contradictorily pushing back against reform while trying to position themselves as champions of it (think Randi Weingarten).

One should further note that Tom Loveless, a former Harvard policy professor and now senior fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, has produced direct criticism of the core elements in Green's argument (as condensed in her New York Times Magazine piece), namely her assertion that Japan's success in math performance is due to its embracing the pedagogical approaches she champions, while America's relatively poor results stem from our clinging to the outmoded models she dislikes.

Expect him to select unconventional leaders like Ben Carson, whose education views Trump has publicly lauded, and choice champions who see his presidency as their opportunity to break the education «monopoly» and transform education in America.

In the case of math, Loveless explains, «The PISA math assessment is based on a philosophy known as Real Mathematics Education (RME), championed by the Freudenthal Institute in the Netherlands.

Just as important, they become what Kopp called «champions» of education reform.

So, that also extends to I think a deliberate strategy that we have to have a really good cross-section of champions — which might also include champions with particular interests in schooling, such as Indigenous education or special ed.»

Now, informally dressed and over a glass of beer on the back porch of his summer compound on Cape Cod, he interviewed me (in his capacity as a board member) for the position of executive director of the Council for Basic Education, a national organization which championed the liberal arts for all students at the pre-college level.

As UTCs are a practical way of contributing to our economy, I believe that our students should have the same access to funding and going forward I will be championing the need to make all types of education accessible to all, in particular how UTCs are an opportunity to level the playing field.

For nearly a half - century in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, and a powerful liberal voice on health care, civil rights, and other issues, as well as education.

Their efforts to simultaneously exist as the champions and opponents of education reform are meeting resistance even internally.

It should be championed as a tool for culture and diversity education.

The education stream featured the likes of Invictus Games Swimming Champion Mike Goody discussing «how to turn your swimming teachers into champions» as one of many highlights.

Actor Richard Dreyfuss seems an unlikely champion for civic education, but as he demonstrates in this TEDx talk, he's passionate about making young people into active and informed citizens.

The new policies have many champions, but a little - known common denominator behind sweeping measures in nearly a dozen states is Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who has re-emerged as an adviser to governors and lawmakers, mostly Republicans, who are interested in imitating what he calls «the Florida formula» for education.

It was a friendly audience attending the seventh National Summit on Education Reform sponsored by Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, a nonprofit he has used to continue pushing the policies he championed as governor.

Much of this diaspora is associated with a handful of ideas: the championing of public education as «the civil rights movement of our time»; executive - style leadership; charter schools; and an emphasis on data, especially test scores.

It should be noted, Charla Long, C - BEN's Executive Director, was recognized in the Chronical for Higher Education as a «competency champion» and one of a select few identified as an influencer of 2016.

Eight proposals envisioned using the community as a classroom to break down barriers between school and society, an idea championed by John Dewey, the great patriarch of progressive education.

Charter schools have been traditionally been seen as an education reform effort championed by conservatives.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

A longtime champion for the advancement of equity and excellence in public education, Gentzel has served as executive director of NSBA since 2012, becoming the sixth executive director since it was founded in 1940.

Writes Ravitch: «For their courage, their integrity, and their intelligence, I add the faculty of Garfield High School to the honor roll as champions of public education.»

PBL can further champion music education and continue to legitimize it as critical content, even as it is under attack by naysayers and budget cuts.

Charter schools are the darling of the education reform movement — Governor Mitch Daniels and many state lawmakers champion charters as one solution to increase «educational opportunities.»

The highlights of Shirley's career have included coaching a two - time national champion coed cheerleading squad, speaking in front of the US Senate Education Committee as a finalist for National Teacher of the Year, and participating in the Japan - America Grassroots Summit.

State Sen. Owen Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican and school choice champion, held a telephone press conference Monday on which he lauded multi-millionaire school reform advocate Betsy DeVos as the right person to head the U.S. Department of Education for the Trump administration.

TGR Foundation, A Tiger Woods Charity and Discovery Education have partnered on an exciting new initiative to champion breakthrough transformations by digitizing and scaling existing TGR Foundation curriculum and programs as we equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to exceed any and all expectations.

As Director of the Bailey - Sullivan Leadership Institute at the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), Offiong Bassey is spearheading the Bailey - Sullivan Advocacy Leadership Fellowship, which addresses the need for more Black advocates equipped to champion parental choice and transformational education reform initiatives in the Black community.

Researchers in Schools is the second programme from The Brilliant Club, aimed at widen access to highly selective universities for under - represented groups by placing PhD holders as trainee teachers in schools, promoting subject expertise and research in the classroom, and championing higher education.

The reception was attended by nearly 20 legislators as well as many education leaders, including Joan Buchanan, Chair of Assembly Education Committee, freshman Assemblymember and charter champion Cheryl Brown, Assemblymember and member of the Education Committee Rocky Chavez and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, just to naeducation leaders, including Joan Buchanan, Chair of Assembly Education Committee, freshman Assemblymember and charter champion Cheryl Brown, Assemblymember and member of the Education Committee Rocky Chavez and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, just to naEducation Committee, freshman Assemblymember and charter champion Cheryl Brown, Assemblymember and member of the Education Committee Rocky Chavez and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, just to naEducation Committee Rocky Chavez and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, just to name a few.

Many Mississippi legislators have already championed education choice policies, as evidenced by the 24 Senators and 50 Representatives who scored an «A» on our Education Choice Scorecard released teducation choice policies, as evidenced by the 24 Senators and 50 Representatives who scored an «A» on our Education Choice Scorecard released tEducation Choice Scorecard released this week.