Sentences with phrase «by education leaders»

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A new study finds that elementary school students are getting nearly three times as much homework, on average, than is recommended by education leaders.

Carmen is an educator's educator and universally respected by education leaders on the ground.

Results of the Capturing Kids» Hearts process as reported by education leaders implementing around the United States of America.

The program will feature keynote addresses by education leaders, TED - style EdTalks presented by local teachers, and Edcamp discussions led by teachers, for teachers.

Indeed, this is a business opportunity for outstanding schools to earn more money, and the brokerage process should be overseen by education leaders (a new function for Schools Forums maybe).

The author calls for a debate on standardized tests led by education leaders instead of politicians and the testing, tutoring, and textbook industries that benefit the most from testing.

Her research focuses on school cost - cutting practices, the role of private enterprise and business engagement in public education, and the legal and structural barriers faced by education leaders.

Though controversial among teachers and others, the method has been increasingly embraced by education leaders and policymakers across the country, including the Obama administration.

The study, published Wednesday in The American Journal of Family Therapy, found students in the early elementary school years are getting significantly more homework than is recommended by education leaders, in some cases nearly three times as much homework as is recommended.

If closing achievement gaps is the goal of the revolution spearheaded by the Education Leaders Council, then the ideas that Eugene W. Hickok enumerates will do little to advance that agenda.

Adopted by nearly every state and largely commended by educators, the standards were designed collaboratively by education leaders and teachers to prepare students for the challenges of the modern workplace.

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The SAVI (USA): The SAVI ™ (translated «the wise») is an education technology company that offers engaging original content delivered by proven business leaders from all over the globe by combining cutting edge technology such as virtual and augmented reality and an international community of entrepreneurs to deliver a world class learning experience.

With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation.

On the ninth anniversary of the opening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie and the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, museum leaders were joined by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as they raised concerns over...

With 63 per cent of the executives for the top 10 TSX - traded companies by market capitalization having earned either an MBA or an engineering degree, determining the efficacy of the education tomorrow's business leaders are receiving in sustainability became the goal of this year's survey.

More than just a convenient solution, the BSc (Eng) / BComm combined program aims to train a new kind of leader by leveraging the strengths of the world - class business and engineering education offered at the University of Calgary.

Accepted participants undergo an intensive two week program, including formal academic lectures by Schulich Executive Education Centre instructors, workshop - based training in entrepreneurship, and mentorship by key industry leaders.

The deep budget cuts imposed by Ms. Redford's government in 2012 damaged both the post-secondary education system and the government's relationship the leaders in that system.

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.

In fact, this economy is driven by faith, faith in investments whether it be coporate shares or investments one's education or the education of the next generation, faith in our leaders such as the POTUS or Congress.

Further, many national churches offer comprehensive and sophisticated programs of theological education by extension for lay leaders.

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

His concern was shared by many other progressive denominational leaders, who saw the usual education in confessional theology as too narrow for the demands of modern ministry.

By engaging directly in teaching and in planning the complete educational strategy of the congregation's life, the pastoral leader models the importance of education.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

On the occasion of his fortieth anniversary in the chancellorship in 1933 he would be hailed by the presidents of all the colleges of the Southern Methodist Church as the unquestioned leader of education in the South.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

By the same token, the education that prepares people to be leaders in our society can hardly be called a free man's privilege.

In a response to the policy update announced last week by the Department of Health and Human Services, the church leaders said the policy offers «second - class status to our first - class institutions in Catholic health care, Catholic education and Catholic charities.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Further, experience has shown that theological education defined as clergy education suffers from the «happiness paradox»: that is, just as we can not achieve happiness by a course of life defined by the pursuit of happiness, so we can not achieve the education of superlative church leaders by a course of study defined by the roles and tasks of church leadership.

I by no means think Jamie Carragher is brilliant i rather think he is a Hypocrite, but his points rang true, arsenal needs a leader in the CB and DM role, someone who not only leads on the field but off the field also, Mert is not the solution and i do nt see him offering any education for our young CBs coming up

This think - tank event and reception on attachment parenting by parenting experts Dr. William and Martha Sears, sleep expert Dr. James McKenna, LLL founder Mary Ann Cahill, parent education leader Dr. Stephen Bavolek, separation / custody and AP expert Dr. Isabelle Fox, hosted by noted parenting author and television anchor / entrepreneur Lu Hanessian, and honored guests, API founders and authors Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker.

He is the winner of numerous other honors and awards, including a 1995 «Miracle Maker» award honoring exceptional children's physicians from A.H. Robbins Co., the National Education and Apgar Awards of the AAP, the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council on Higher Education, and recognition as one of the «10 Parenting Leaders» by Parenting Magazine.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

He was followed by C. Russell Mason whose tenure (1939 - 1959) included formation of the Natural Science Workshop to train teachers and youth leaders in natural history education and the founding of residential camp Wildwood.

In K - 12 education, teachers, educators, and school leaders can create environments in the classroom that change students» mindsets by implicitly and explicitly giving them messages around belonging and possibility.

Local Groups, led by experienced mothers who have been accredited as Leaders by La Leche League International, provide free education, information, and support to women who want to breastfeed.

Topics awarding Alliance for Breastfeeding Education CEU credits are designed to improve a Leader's effectiveness in her role by enhancing skills in breastfeeding education, organization and management, and commuEducation CEU credits are designed to improve a Leader's effectiveness in her role by enhancing skills in breastfeeding education, organization and management, and commueducation, organization and management, and communication.

Leaders and Leader Applicants have the opportunity to upgrade their skills at LLL - sponsored conferences and workshops, and by earning Alliance for Breastfeeding Education CEU credit, Leaders have tangible evidence of their expertise.

Our Nutrition Mission: «Houston ISD will be a leader in child nutrition and wellness by providing the highest level of nutrition possible on our campuses, by providing comprehensive nutrition and wellness education, and by engaging the entire HISD community to teach our children the benefits of making healthy choices.»

Our suite of education and community outreach programs position Mass Audubon as a leader and catalyst for conservation by inspiring and stimulating individual and institutional action, ensuring that our members, visitors, and program participants feel and act upon a deep sense of interconnection and responsibility as stewards of the natural world.

-- April 22, 2009 — Child safety experts, policymakers, leaders in the nonprofit sector and the wireless industry joined together today at the Wireless Online Safety Conference, co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and The Wireless Foundation, to discuss the challenges kids face in a mobile online environment and the vital role education plays in keeping them safe.

In 2008 the Family Online Safety Institute took the initiative to examine the current state of online safety education by holding three roundtable discussions with leaders in the field.

«Everyone is trying to figure out how do we properly fund education and, by extension, how do we pay for everything,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Suffolk County.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein, one of several Democrats targeted by a recent AFL - CIO leaflet campaign for leaving a «trail of broken promises» to labor unions, is hitting back with a mailer that highlights his support for public education.

Rayner has now indicated that the answer to that question is a clear yes, with the shadow education secretary telling Nick Robinson that she is capable of being Labour leader - and would not let feminists down by saying otherwise.

Parents and family members learned how to help their children become college and career ready by attending workshops and hearing from education and community leaders on October 8 at Teachers College, Columbia University.