Sentences with phrase «broad education proposals»

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The proposals were given broad, if somewhat ambiguous, support by the Catholic Education Service.

A broad range of education and health groups, including KSHF, then urged the USDA to refine the standards and helped generate nearly 250,000 comments from the public on the proposal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address was light on details, but packed with broad proposals on topics that directly affect New York City such as criminal justice reform, higher education, labor and homelessness.

Yet the proposal from NCAN has as much to do with shaping discussions of a broader higher education bill as it does in seeking to influence the spending bill for next year.

Termed the «New York Promise Agenda,» the broad - based proposals include criminal justice reform, voting access, women's rights protections, fighting homelessness, preventing faith - based discrimination, protecting the environment, and improving immigrants rights and access to education.

NSF judges proposals on two major criteria: intellectual merit and broader impact, the latter of which can include education, increased public understanding of science, and other benefits to society.

Section 7008 of the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law on 9 August, requires all proposals for NSF grants that will support postdocs to «include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided... under the Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion.

A proposal lacking mention of broader impacts «is returned without review,» James Lightbourne, NSF's senior advisor for the integration of research & education, tells Science Careers.

-- This will open up new avenues in education, outreach and innovation within the broader health sector and there will certainly be great opportunities for coordination and aligning with the SciLifeLab mission and activities, said Stefan Bertilsson, Scientific Director and SciLifeLab representative during the preparation of the KIC proposal.

But if the goal is improving student outcomes over the long term — not just generating short - term excitement — then policymakers may want to tie «free college» proposals to broader investments in higher education that make the college experience better, not just cheaper.

In this direction lie proposals for building schools around learners, gearing instruction to individual goals and learning styles, pointing education toward developing an ever - broader range of human capacities, and phasing in assessment tools that get at ever - subtler nuances of achievement.

At first, the group of 14 experts — who also included Bridget Terry Long, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Donald Saleh, senior vice president for enrollment management at Syracuse University — did not expect to reach a consensus, but instead to make several broad proposals, said Ms. Baum.

Borrow a page from Senator Alexander's 2007 proposal, or Senator Jim DeMint's A-Plus bill, and allow states to negotiate broad waivers with the Secretary of Education to do things very differently.

Under the fiscal 2011 proposal unveiled last week, a roster of 38 relatively small, targeted grant programs would be regrouped into broader, more flexible funding streams — many of them competitive — aimed at furthering the administration's education redesign goals.

Washington, D.C. — Today, 38 organizations — representing a broad cross-section of civil rights, business, disability, and education organizations — publicly released a letter sent yesterday to House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline «firmly opposing» a proposal to rewrite Title I and other parts of the Elementary and Secondary Education Aceducation organizations — publicly released a letter sent yesterday to House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline «firmly opposing» a proposal to rewrite Title I and other parts of the Elementary and Secondary Education AcEducation and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline «firmly opposing» a proposal to rewrite Title I and other parts of the Elementary and Secondary Education AcEducation Act (ESEA).

Rather than nominate such broad goals, the Copenhagen Consensus Expert Panel was presented with nearly 40 specific investment proposals designed by experts to reduce the challenges of Armed Conflict, Biodiversity Destruction, Chronic Disease, Climate Change, Education Shortages, Hunger and Malnutrition, Infectious Disease, Natural Disasters, Population Growth, and Water and Sanitation Shortages.

Ryerson University in Toronto is developing a proposal to create a new JD program «that focuses on innovation in legal education for the benefit of graduates, their communities, and the broader society.»

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law and its International Consortium for Global Legal Education invites proposals for its 2018 International Faculty Training Conference, «Engaging, Advising & Assessing Students,» on July 24 - 27, 2018 at the NSU Shepard Broad College of Law.

The public education campaign accompanying a referendum necessarily needs to be broad enough to be a component of the process from its very inception and should extend to the development and drafting of the proposals.