Sentences with phrase «at education foundations»
What he proved in Florida, claims Jaryn Emhof, his spokesman at the education foundation he now runs, is that «it's not about how much you're spending, but how you're spending, how you're teaching.»
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«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.
In a large part, the success I have enjoyed in my career can be attributed to the solid education foundation I obtained in the Commerce and MBA programs at Haskayne.
He laid the foundation of the Nadva, a rival educational institution at Lucknow, because he felt that Sir Sayyid was taking the Muslims much too far from their proper religious outlook, and because he felt that religious education should be combined with secular education.
His masterworks — On Christian Teaching, The Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God — became bulwarks of Christian education in the West, and eventually served as the intellectual foundation for the first universities at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the later Middle Ages.
Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Education at Sunbridge Institute is a low - residency program that exceeds WECAN expectations for providing a philosophical, artistic, and practical foundation for Waldorf early childhood teaching, birth to school age.
Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education at Sunbridge Institute is a low - residency program providing appropriate credentials and practical, artistic, and philosophical foundations for successful Waldorf teaching in grades one through eight classrooms.
Professional education and the most current research and practice are at the foundation of everything we do.
Hospital education is defined as «education provided at a community special school or foundation special school established in a hospital, or under any arrangements made by the local authority under section 19 of the 1996 Act [ie the Education Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioneeducation is defined as «education provided at a community special school or foundation special school established in a hospital, or under any arrangements made by the local authority under section 19 of the 1996 Act [ie the Education Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioneeducation provided at a community special school or foundation special school established in a hospital, or under any arrangements made by the local authority under section 19 of the 1996 Act [ie the Education Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioneEducation Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioneeducation), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioneeducation by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioner».
Liberty ES also won a second Promising Practice Award for the creation of and implementation of the Student Leadership Team, a voice for students in developing a character education foundation at Liberty ES.
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The foundation aid increase backed by the Assembly stands at $ 1.2 billion, a figure backed by public education advocates who say the state is not spending enough on poor and high - needs school districts.
At the same time, the state would create charitable foundations for health care and education contributions that can be deducted.
He also welcomed the rise in numbers achieving a good pass at GCSE English and maths, saying these subjects were the «foundations of a good education».
It is said that little drops of water makes a mighty ocean and it is in this light that ONE LOVE ONE GHANA FOUNDATION, an NGO which is now focusing on education is starting its «one love elimination of schools under trees» project at Akwamu Kotoku Basic School in the Fanteakwa District in the Eastern Region.
Claussen got her position at Mines right after completing her Ph.D., but while she was a graduate student, she also took classes in the education school and established a solid foundation in teaching.
At the annual meeting of the Donors» Association, BMBF's parliamentary state secretary Wolf - Michael Catenhusen called upon potential donors to establish more foundations: «We need more private investments in education and research!»
Since the small victory, Catherine and her foundation have continued to push for more fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) clinical trials aimed at other digestive disorders, more research funding and more public awareness and education.
Her Health Education studies at The University of Florida are being paired with a firm foundation in holistic nutrition and her tendencies point her toward a life filled with ayurveda, raw foods, reiki, energy work, and a deep desire to use these things to help people reconnect with who they really are.
After completing his education at Kevyla Dham Yoga, he joined BKS Iyengar Guruji Yoga Institution in Pune in 2001 to deepen his asana practice and anatomy, which is the foundation of yoga.
«At last we have access to the numbers we need to determine the risk of consuming raw milk on a per - person basis,» says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education foundation that provides information on the health benefits of raw, whole milk from pastured cows.
Clarissa has since continued her education in Ayurvedic medicine at The Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico with Dr. Vasant Lad and Maria Garre and received her Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) certification through the Love Your Brain foundation.
While many trainers do continuing education in the areas of exercise program design, nutrition, supplementation, flexibility, and functional training, very few fitness professionals take a close look at how our clients attitudes, beliefs, and expectations, are ultimately the foundation of exercise adherence and success.
«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....
Roy Ballam, Managing Director and Head of Education at the BNF, said: «It is critical that teachers lay the foundations for children to make good dietary and lifestyle choices now and as adults.
A Beka, which sees itself as building «the content of every textbook on the foundation of God's Word,» states that it does not «paraphrase progressive education textbooks and add biblical principles,» but rather does «primary research in every subject and looks at the subject from God's point of view.»
Professor Tom McLeish, chair of the Royal Society's Education Committee, said: «Science is at the heart of modern life and provides the foundations for economic prosperity.
State aid in Massachusetts is targeted at districts that can not meet the foundation budget out of local funds, so the state's education dollar is concentrated on poor districts.
With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.
She is now the strategy director for student financial support at the Lumina Foundation, a private foundation at which she leads the work to develop new models of student financial support for higher education through strategic grantmaking.
But now some 20 states are overhauling their evaluation systems, and many policymakers involved in those efforts have been asking the Gates Foundation for suggestions on what measures of teacher effectiveness to use, said Vicki L. Phillips, a director of education at the foundation.
Mr. Boyer served as the U.S. commissioner of education under President Carter before being named to the top post at the Princeton - based foundation in 1979.
SchoolWorks provides support to educators at all levels, from individual schools to districts, state departments of education, and private foundations.
At the end of World War II, UNESCO was founded in order to promote ways to establish the lasting foundations of world peace, and its efforts to promote universal education were understood to be about planting the seeds of peace on the minds of children.
The author, Laurie Moses Hines, teaches cultural foundations of education at Kent State University, a National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)- accredited inseducation at Kent State University, a National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)- accredited insEducation (NCATE)- accredited institution.
Communication problems, power struggles, and the red tape created by government regulations and school administrators are the major barriers to evaluating the effectiveness of grants to education, foundation officials and educators said at a conference here this month.
I had a wonderful career in business, built on a lot of hard work, a little luck, and the education foundation I gained at Thirkell, Central High, and MSU.
At the same time, none of the foundation's investments in education, though similar in scale, use this powerful scientific technique.
Footwear aside, McCartney, Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development at HGSE, managed her honorary role well as one of 100 business, government, and education leaders who participated on November 1 in the third annual «Principal For A Day» event sponsored by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the Boston Plan for Excellence, an organization started by corporations and foundations in 1984 to benefit the city's school system.
Silver opened his school at a time in the history of American education when innovators could get traction for their dreams, with support from private foundations, state governments, local boards of education, and graduate programs like those at the Harvard Graduate School of Eeducation when innovators could get traction for their dreams, with support from private foundations, state governments, local boards of education, and graduate programs like those at the Harvard Graduate School of Eeducation, and graduate programs like those at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.
Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.
Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.
«His vision of education is as a foundation not just of the economy but of a society in which people take care of each other,» explained Stanford University education professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who advised Obama during the campaign and handled education policy for the president - elect's transition team, in remarks delivered in November 2007 at a National Academy of Educatieducation is as a foundation not just of the economy but of a society in which people take care of each other,» explained Stanford University education professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who advised Obama during the campaign and handled education policy for the president - elect's transition team, in remarks delivered in November 2007 at a National Academy of Educatieducation professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who advised Obama during the campaign and handled education policy for the president - elect's transition team, in remarks delivered in November 2007 at a National Academy of Educatieducation policy for the president - elect's transition team, in remarks delivered in November 2007 at a National Academy of EducationEducation event.
The policy could then have been rolled out from a more robust foundation of support, or at the very least understanding, and the extensive press coverage and considerable disruption to the education of the children involved could have been avoided.
Robert Schwartz, education adviser to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts, is leaving his post at the end of this month to direct education programs for the Pew Charitable Trust, one of the country's largest foundations.
David M. Steiner chats with students during the Foundations of Education course he teaches at Hunter College.
In a similar vein, Jennifer Vranek and her colleagues at Education First write, «Past accountability systems were the darlings of policy makers, think tanks, foundations, editorial boards, and advocates; they rarely had the support of educators, school communities, and the public writ large.
Other innovations like peer - to - peer learning or early college high school models likewise may tug at the foundation of the traditional, centralized, factory - and time - based models that have dominated our education system for over a century.
Author Bio: Jon Marcus is higher - education editor at the Hechinger Report, a foundation - supported nonprofit based at Columbia University, and North America correspondent for the (London) Times Higher Education education editor at the Hechinger Report, a foundation - supported nonprofit based at Columbia University, and North America correspondent for the (London) Times Higher Education Education magazine.
honored the recipients of the 2007 I CAN Learn — NEA Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence at the foundation's 12th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Gala on Feb. 8.