Sentences with phrase «better education of students»

But what's important is the best education of all students through high school, not the welfare of the union.

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In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in 2010 Brazil's average expenditure per student in secondary education was $ 2,571, well below the OECD average of $ 9,014.

It's clear that the growth is due to a confluence of factors: Welch's reputation and brand; a pragmatic education based on Welch's well - known dictums; the relatively low $ 39,000 price of the program (Indiana University's Kelley Direct program costs $ 66,000, while the University of North Carolina's MBA@UNC is priced at $ 99,700); and high levels of student satisfaction.

His questioning of the presumed superiority of prestigious schools — students may fare better at less - elite institutions where their self - esteem takes less of a beating — adds a provocative wrinkle to the hot debate over education.

The school is closely managed on student surveys that measure the impact of the education as well as the likelihood that a student would recommend the institute to a friend or colleague.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

FSA ID stands for Federal Student Aid ID, a number used to verify your identity on StudentLoans.gov, as well as other Department of Education websites.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

Advantage Education Student Loans have a lot of benefits, so if you can get the best terms possible, they could be a good move.

If you've taken out a student loan (or multiple loans) to finance your higher education, there's a good chance you've heard of Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, or «Great Lakes» feducation, there's a good chance you've heard of Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, or «Great Lakes» fEducation Corporation, or «Great Lakes» for short.

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

Social good — for every fully funded degree through CommonBond, it funds the education of a student in need abroad for a year through Pencils of Promise

«A stronger transit system will help thousands of students across Metro Vancouver advance their education, while building a better region for generations to come.»

You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

Weren't they questioned about: — whether a college education is important for young people to succeed — the affordability of college — whether the higher education system provides a good value for students and their families?

program, students can continue their contextual education through a variety of internships, including clinical pastoral education, campus ministry and Christian education, as well as in other ecclesial settings in the U.S. and abroad.

students in social and church placements in their first semester onward; it involved the entire faculty as well as field supervisors in a process of collaborative learning; and it was based on the clinical pastoral education model.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Examining the actual social and ecological effects of the institution upon its environment proved to be an important contribution to the education of the students as well as to the improvement of the institution.

At Hennepin County, for example, seminary students in our clinical pastoral education program have learned a good deal about suicidal people and crisis intervention by participating in our Suicide Prevention Service under the supervision of that staff clergyman.

Given the level of preparation of many students and the range of things good pastors need to know, three years of seminary is not adequate for theological education.

Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our future.

* Education as the respect for and nurture of each student as an individual with unique gifts to be discovered and developed while introducing students to the best of art, knowledge, scientific inquiry, logic, and philosophy and encouraging play, creativity, self - confidence, self - reliance, self - expression, independence, collaboration, and community.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

The most prevalent argument currently offered on behalf of liberal education is that it best prepares the student for graduate or professional school, for executive leadership in business, or for being a wife or mother in a professional or executive family.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

If I had any influence on seminary education, I would like to see a course where students read some first - rate theology of creation» along with Attenborough and Eisner and Nasrecki, and maybe E.O. Wilson on ants thrown in for good measure.

The consensus that will emerge embraces both practical education and general education, with the goals of the latter characterized as giving the student «the values, attitudes, and skills that will equip him to live rightly and well in a free society.»

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

Many of the students are homeschooled and threaten you and throw a fit that you are not good enough when you tell them that you see they can not study or do not have school or people skills or can not hold a job due to their lack of real education.

The scarcity of students and of operating funds is a relatively recent phenomenon in private higher education, and it has followed upon a decade when there were burgeoning enrollments and high prosperity, presumably good times for institutional initiative.

It was nice in the past for those of us in the academy to assume that students would accept our verdicts about what constitutes a good education.

A liberal education has a wide range of interests, challenging the student to think, to express himself well, to organize his thoughts, and to see reality, in total, more clearly — unlike STEM education, which channels one's mind into a single area.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

Hence the second requirement of theological education of «practical theologians» is that it must generate a well - informed and highly self - conscious «global consciousness» in students.

Talking about strike, some students of Nantes University are on their 2nd week of strike as well to protest against an education reform.

Taking effect from March 2015, this new sponsorship offers Master Sommeliers and student members access to education on wine faults, and the benefits of cork closures — as well as the opportunity for Diploma candidates to be awarded the Amorim «Taster of the Year» Trophy at the annual MS examinations in London.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Plus, he was an honor student --» I love education,» he says — and one of his school's best soccer and baseball players.

Our background in both culinary arts and education has lead us to having a superb track record and impressive list of clients which clearly speaks to our ability to engage students of all ages in the best cooking classes & camps in the Bay Area!

This pursuit of a rounded education through sport frequently helps our students develop the life skills, confidence and well being to succeed in study, society and within the workplace.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

When David Yeager came to Stanford as a psychology graduate student in the mid-2000s, the department was home to some of the biggest names in the psychology of education, including Claude Steele, best known for his discovery of a phenomenon called stereotype threat, and Carol Dweck, famous for her work on student mindset.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Each year, our 60 faculty and staff members work with more than 6 intern teachers, 25 student teachers, researchers, and visitors to perform the major functions associated to Laboratory Schools: the development of innovative practices in education, research, the preparation of new teachers, professional development for practicing teachers, and the education of children using best established principles of education.