Sentences with phrase «based education initiatives»

A rich resource with multiple examples of place - based education initiatives.

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency - based education initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth.

The one - year, full - time AIE Program is ideal for self - directed learners who want to leverage the remarkable breadth of HGSE course offerings to become effective advocates for arts - based education initiatives, both in and out of schools.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

John Watson, Evergreen Education Group's founder said, «It seems as though a new technology - based education initiative for America's schools is announced daily.

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The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

We are based at MIT Sloan School of Management and we are a member of the MIT Innovation Initiative and of MIT - Africa, the initiative that encompasses the Institute's global priority for collaboration with Africa in the areas of education, research and innovation.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Spanning from the launch of plant - based restaurants in Istanbul, London and Munich, to the development of innovative initiatives as culinary media spokesperson for Whole Foods Market's global healthy eating programme, Sarno has brought his unique culinary style to a vast array of projects before joining Rouxbe as VP of Plant - Based Educabased restaurants in Istanbul, London and Munich, to the development of innovative initiatives as culinary media spokesperson for Whole Foods Market's global healthy eating programme, Sarno has brought his unique culinary style to a vast array of projects before joining Rouxbe as VP of Plant - Based EducaBased Education.

At GFI, Allison advises academic research and education initiatives related to clean meat and plant - based meat alternatives.

This includes Corporate Social Investment, whereby the group promotes the development of learners through three academies which offer holistic, full - year programmes centred around sport, art and education; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the enveducation; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the envEducation, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the environment.

Our numbers have expanded to 45 known schools and initiatives, and we've started to see the Public Waldorf Education impulse move from its spiritual home in the West towards its historical roots in the East... with a few stops in between: schools based on the principles of Public Waldorf Educationwere granted charters in Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Florida this year and are set to open in the fall.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

Facilities who utilize HHSC training as their main form of education for staff are encouraged to retake breastfeeding courses every five years in order to stay current with evidence - based practices, research, and initiatives.

A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a hospital based protocol (similar to the baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

«It is only through the commitment and backing of school and colleges leaders that government initiatives succeed, so we urge the new education secretary to work closely with practitioners to ensure that policies are worthwhile, achievable and based in reality.»

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

«In the past, time abroad showed initiative, but in the current climate, promotion is more likely to be based on publications, the topic of specialisation... and excellent references,» says Tracy Hussell, education secretary of the British Society of Immunology.

An analysis of survey data from participants in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)- based Disparities Leadership Program — a yearlong executive education initiative designed to help health care leaders address racial and ethnic disparities in health care services — has identified five important strategies that helped participants implement successful projects for their institutions.

These paths for further research would benefit public policies aimed at increasing the awareness of food waste, and would contribute to more effective nutritional education initiatives since messages could be framed based on insights tested in scientific studies.

In addition to Amgen's work to improve cancer patient treatment through science - based innovation, CRI will also recognize the company's commitment to the broader scientific and patient communities, both through its support of CRI's Cancer Immunotherapy Month education and awareness initiative, and for its support of the CRI - CIMT - EATI - AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference, a joint program of four cancer research organizations that convenes world - leading scientists to discuss the latest in cancer immunology and immunotherapy research.

About the Helmsley Charitable Trust: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust aspires to improve lives by supporting exceptional efforts in the U.S. and around the world in health, place - based initiatives, and education and human services.

U.S. Secretary of Education for an administration willing to dare attempts at substantive based initiatives for inner - city, lower - income school districts as well as for rural school districts

It's the reason I support African Initiatives, a small international development charity based in Bristol, which brings education, hope and human rights to remote rural communities — the kind of communities in which a girl is often seen as an extra mouth to feed until she is married off in exchange for cattle.»

Why: The trip to Ecuador specifically focused on the study of care and bilingual education under the scope of Hinton's, Professor Kurt Fischer's, and Visiting Lecturer Bruno della Chiesa's research schools initiative that partners HGSE researchers with schools around the globe to collaborate on school - based research, professional development, and dissemination of research findings.

Some of the organizers behind Education Forward have some clever ideas about how to fund the online courses a student might take, for example — by offering 50 percent of funding to the provider up - front for enrollment, 25 percent for the student passing the course, and the last 25 percent upon successful passage of the state final exam — but this idea, which moves the focus to student outcomes, isn't codified explicitly in the initiative (although the notion of competency - based learning is, which might lead to such an outcomes - based funding system).

In a student - centered approach to education one must put the student and their learning needs in the centre of it all, at the basis of all educational initiatives, right?

In this paper, Education is presented as an important initiative to promote female empowerment, based on the activities of Non Governmental Organization Brazilian Educadores sem Fronteiras.

The Rural School and Community Trust, which emerged from the Annenberg initiative, defines place - based education as learning grounded in «the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place.»

Amy Albright, a spokesman for the Governor's office of child development and education, said the initiative would dramatically increase the number of school - based clinics, although officials do not yet know...

Pathways in Education, based in Pasadena, California, operates schools for dropouts and at - risk youth in partnership with a host district in California (40,000 students annually); its initiatives in Louisiana, Illinois, and Tennessee use distance learning, experiential learning, and school - site programs to help students earn a diploma or GED.

(Washington, D.C., June 5, 2013) Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), announced the launch of a groundbreaking new initiative of the RFK Center, RFK Project SEATBELT: a comprehensive set of evidence - based tools, developed in partnership with the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to help schools, parents, and communities prevent bullying before it starts.

Known as Project 30, the initiative will bring together faculty members from the arts and sciences with those from teacher education to redesign their curricula based on answers to five broad questions:

Previously, Ms. Roman, 43, was the chief of staff for the center for faith - based and community initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education.

The Transforming Teaching Project, a HGSE - based initiative allied with education organizations across the nation, today released a white paper offering a comprehensive analysis of the problems with American teaching and detailing 12 Design Challenges to transform the teaching field.

The frequency with which education policy initiatives of the past, though based on high hopes, have yielded disappointing results when implemented in the field has led to rather low expectations.

Gioia's other reform was to develop separate arts education initiatives based squarely on art historical content.

«HGSE gave me the confidence, the initiative, the intellectual curiosity, and knowledge of the basis of international education,» says Simon.

Grades: Professional The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on Education Research (NIEER) supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research.

It has also participated in the development of the Common Core Standards initiative; created alternative - certification routes that allow organizations other than education schools to give teachers credentials; improved its teacher pipeline through strong partnerships with the New Teacher Project and Teacher for America; and experimented with performance - based compensation in 41 school districts.

Most states are turning to standards - based reforms to achieve systemic improvement of education, according to a new report outlining state education initiatives.

Duhon has directed higher - education service - learning programs, taught at the high school and college levels, and led and collaborated on several community, social justice, and faith - based initiatives in New York and Cleveland.

The program's aim is to teach awareness of the skills needed to form respectful relationships and more specifically to challenge gender stereotypes that can lead to gender - based violence and disrespectful attitudes to women.The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) states that, «Early interventions with children and young people can have a lasting effect on their relationships in the future... On the basis of current evidence, violence prevention and respectful relationships initiatives among young people can make a real difference, producing lasting change in attitudes and behaviours.»

Examples include specific education reform initiatives, job skills programs, and community - based culture / arts programs.

Todd Finley (@finleyt) believes that «games unite many of the most powerful initiatives in education: problem based learning, brain - based strategies, technology, collaboration, inquiry, and student engagement.»

MOOC - based credentials through these education - based companies and initiatives are diverse, ranging from auditing, to certificates, to Master's degrees.

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

The initiative was based on a framework underpinning its approach — developed by me as the education consultant — and included the following elements: