Sentences with phrase «at traditional education»

I would say, though, if you are looking at traditional education or classical education, one thing it did better than we do now is that it included children constantly in relevance.

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We looked at traditional measures of K - 12 education including test scores, class size and spending.

Cecilia Retelle and Kim Taylor — co-founders of Ranku, a discovery engine for online degrees from traditional education institutions — secured Mark Cuban after informally pitching him at a bar in New York City.

We look at traditional measures of K — 12 education, including test scores, class size and spending.

Online tools like Udemy and Kahn Academy are also developing in the world of training and continuing education which are geared toward specialization and they're doing so at a significantly lower cost than traditional classes.

«There are a great many young people considering forgoing the traditional post-secondary education route in favor of less debt, more employer - sponsored training, and more employment opportunities [according to the Universum research],» said China Gorman, newly installed as Universum's chairman of the board for North America and former chief operating officer and interim CEO at the Society for Human Resource Management.

Broward County school administrators say they do all they can to offer a traditional education to youngsters whose mental illness or behavioral disorders leave them at risk for upheaval or violence, and provide therapeutic services to help them improve.

The entire approach of sex education is technocratic and, at best, morally neutral; in many cases, it explicitly opposes traditional morals while moralistically insisting on the equal acceptability of any and all forms of sexual expression provided only that they are not coerced.

The Labour leader called on the Government to «update» the current law at an LGBT event which also saw the Education Secretary disparage people who hold traditional views on sexuality.

At Camp Glen Brook we weave traditional New England camping activities with the ideals of Waldorf education.

She completed her acupuncture education through the American College of Acupuncture in New York City with additional clinical training at Chengdu University Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, and has additional training in functional medicine / holistic nutrition, homeopathy, and herbal medicine.

She emphasizes a strong need for providing children with an education at home, as opposed to using a traditional educational environment and encourages programs that are fun, comprehensive, simple, and cheap.

It's another example of how traditional subjects — like math, reading, writing and physical education — are taught differently at Prairie Moon.

She completed her acupuncture education through the American College of Acupuncture in New York City with additional clinical training at Chengdu University Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Achebe stated further that the minimum in that regard would be the recognition by the constitution of the role of the traditional institution in communal life, such as mobilising the community for enlightenment, education, economic empowerment, peace building, safety and security; custodianship of and leadership in advancing «our culture; and the creation of National council of Traditional Rulers at the fedtraditional institution in communal life, such as mobilising the community for enlightenment, education, economic empowerment, peace building, safety and security; custodianship of and leadership in advancing «our culture; and the creation of National council of Traditional Rulers at the fedTraditional Rulers at the federal level.

The traditional leader talked about the provision of potable water in the district that was of grave concern to the people, saying water delivery was in short supply in the district because of the growing population He further called for a senior high school to be cited at Gbentri in the East Mamprusi District and Sanguli in the Tatale - Sanguli area in order to bring secondary education to the doorstep of the people living around that area.

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

Speaking at an advocacy dialogue with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and cultural practices, Ms Amidu said research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing charter schools to take over space in traditional public schools.

Parent perspectives reflect the trend, too, with more than two - thirds of parents polled saying traditional health topics should definitely be covered at their child's grade level, including physical activity, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating and sex education and pregnancy prevention.

«We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

These students often sit alongside their traditional student peers for at least part of the day, with the help of individualized education programs (IEPs).

Study author, Wendy Macdowall, Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our results suggest we need a broader framing of sex education in schools that addresses the needs of both young men and women, with a move away from the traditional female - focused «periods, pills and pregnancy» approach.

The Australia - UK collaboration led by Professor Neil Selwyn at Monash University's Faculty of Education found that while Wikipedia was a popular background resource with students, it had not supplanted traditional sources of intellectual scholarship and authority.

Sharon Lynch, a science education researcher at George Washington University, says e-books such as these may eventually become mainstream but adds that research needs to be done on whether or not they are actually better than traditional textbooks.

«This year, in recognition of the culmination of the four year Scholarship and Discovery Program, the range and breadth of what is presented at the annual Senior Scientific Session has been expanded to reflect the diversity of the research that students engage in, ranging from traditional scientific investigation to applied projects in medical education, quality and safety, and global and community health,» said Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, assistant professor of medicine, leader of this year's event.

Yet the skill set for the position that many postdocs aspire to, to be Principal Investigator at a university, often require qualifications that are distinct from those achieved in a traditional research education.

He received traditional education at yoga āshrams in upstate New York and India in meditation, kirtan, mantra - science, asana, karma - yoga, and more.

Prior to moving here and staying at home with my kids, I worked in experiential education (high ropes courses, teambuilding, climbing walls) and more traditional education as well as freelance writing.

He currently serves as the Cultural Coordinator for the Indigenous Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary, and is producing his directorial debut Kills Last — a post-apocalyptic thriller based on traditional tribal coup stories and told primarily in the Blackfeet language.

Keating doesn't subscribe to more traditional notions of education that dominate the field at the time.

At a minimum, education policymakers should consider experiments that provide actuarially fair alternatives to traditional DB plans for new teaching recruits, and evaluate their utility for recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers.

Not surprisingly, all of this innovation and experimentation at the secondary level has led to a dramatic rise in applications to institutions of higher education by students without a traditional high - school background.

Rich Henderson, Director, Global Education Solutions at Lenovo commented, «The research highlights that tech and specifically VR offers endless possibilities when it comes to teaching, students are no longer bound by classroom walls and teachers are no longer bound by traditional lesson plans.

So there is an issue: traditional ways of organising and delivering school education are sometimes failing students at both ends of the achievement spectrum.

«New innovations offer the chance for teachers to shake up their traditional methods and the Canvas Network is a great tool to help facilitate this,» said Sam Blyth, Director of Further Education & Schools at Canvas.

My own sense from watching this debate play out is that most of the «white suburban moms» who oppose Common Core also share a romantic, progressive view of education that is at odds with traditional schooling in general.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

The goals of the traditional education stop at the knowledge level, which is enough for a proper social insertion of the individual.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Chosen from among the nation's more than 2.5 million elementary and secondary school teachers, Ms. McBrayer received the traditional crystal apple from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at a dinner on April...

The findings, which will be published in the spring issue of Education Next and are now online at www.EducationNext.org, show that students attending charter high schools in Florida and Chicago have an increased likelihood of successful high - school completion and college enrollment when compared with their traditional public high school counterparts.

At the Askwith Forum on December 1, Professor Howard Gardner discussed the challenges faced by traditional education in light of two forces: the post-modern critique from the humanities and the disruptive potentials of the new digital media.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige reaffirmed his support for public schools and the traditional separation of church and state last week, attempting to quell a furor over earlier, published remarks in which he praised the «strong value system» at Christian schools.

Given the rampant grade inflation at all levels of American education, grades earned by students in even the most elite traditional private schools can not be trusted.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schools.