Sentences with phrase «center of academic education»

In schools and communities that serve low - income, highly mobile families, it is essential that the school become much more than a center of academic education.

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As a non-profit research and education organization, The Center covers up - to - date studies on sustainable agriculture and health, and collaborates with academic and governmental institutions to fill gaps in the current knowledge base about the many benefits of organic food and farming.

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

Indeed, a rich body of research suggests homework might benefit older students, and, even then, that there is no strong evidence that homework improves academic achievement (as discussed in this article from the Center for Public Education).

We take pride in bringing the benefits of an academic medical center — including patient education programs, the latest therapies and access to clinical trials — out into the community.

This commitment to improving SUNY Cortland's academic spaces resulted in state funding for the College's three - story education building and Child Care Center, the development of the Professional Studies Building and the renovation and expansion of the Bowers Hall science complex.

Being in the SUNY system could be a saving grace for the school's academic stability, said John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow for public policy and higher education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California in education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California in Education at the University of California in Berkeley.

The school is one of Florida's largest in the county with just over 3,100 students in the 2016 - 2017 academic year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The Summit on Latinos was a multi-coalition effort supported by NYC's Latino elected officials including Speaker of City Council Melissa Mark — Viverito; Council Members Ydanis Rodríguez, Carlos Menchaca, the city's top academic institutions the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, the CUNY Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, and community organizations such as the Hispanic Federation.

Singapore's Ministry of Education offers academic research grants for academic staffs at both the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University and their affiliated research institutes and centers.

Wu Boda, director of China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, says the new organization could learn from the experience of the European Union's Erasmus Programme, which was established in 1987 to foster student mobility and other educational cooperation within Europe.

At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks CCNY # 2 among public colleges with the greatest success in ensuring the social mobility of our student body; at the same time the Center for world University Rankings places it in the top 1.2 % of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence.

The reopening of the Johnson Space Center Sept. 5 is an invitation to reconsider — and improve — the academic quality of education in Houston in general.

We are a world - renowned academic medical center, and strive to improve the health and well - being of people through research, education, clinical care and community service.

The mission of the Rhode Island Hospital Foundation is to support excellent, compassionate, and state - of - the - art health care, education, and research through philanthropy, which is key to sustaining every great academic medical center.

10/8/2007 UC San Diego Medical Center Participates in $ 21 Million Program to Preserve Fertility in Women with Cancer The University of California, San Diego Medical Center, in collaboration with four leading academic medical centers, will share a $ 21 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for a landmark national research, clinical, and education program... More...

Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center and the state of Alabama's largest employer, with some 23,000 employees and an economic impact exceeding $ 5 billion annually in the state.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The National Cholesterol Education Program, The American Heart Association and many academic centers are led and influenced by physicians who receive direct or indirect benefit from the makers of statin drugs.

UTMB Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch is an academic health center dedicated to education, research and caring for patients ACE Controls Inc. designs and manufactures shock absorbers, gas springs, rotary dampers, hydraulic feed controls, air springs for automation control

UTMB Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch is an academic health center dedicated to education, research and caring for patients British medical student Tony Boyd, 23, dismissed claims that he shot at his girlfriend in the US as «a pack of lies».

UTMB Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch is an academic health center dedicated to education, research and caring for patients Many people do not know what they are getting into when they start medical school.

The University of Minnesota Duluth Homepage: an overview of academic programs, campus life, resources, news and events, with extensive links to other web UTMB Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch is an academic health center dedicated to education, research and caring for patients

The Center will be housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and will draw on intellectual resources from across the university, working with faculty who focus on gender from a broad range of academic perspectives.

The Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) seeks to promote greater participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences and to encourage academic excellence for all.

The first is NCES, (National Center for Education Statistics) and your state department of education site for academic and assessment infEducation Statistics) and your state department of education site for academic and assessment infeducation site for academic and assessment information.

In three short years in Washington, [he] has changed the Office of Education from custodian of highly forgettable statistics to the nation's most energetic nerve center of academic ferment.»

It will give one of the grants, a $ 1.45 million gift, to the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass., to help eight school districts determine whether a standards - based approach can produce «significant improvement» in students» academic performance.

21st Century Community Learning Center grant: A grant provided by the U.S Department of Education to community learning centers that provide academic - enrichment opportunities during nonschool hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

Important places for me to stop along my path include: undergraduate professor in a college - based teacher education program, professional development specialist for teacher collaborations, and director of community - based learning center that uses culturally responsive arts for academic support and life skills.

Early evaluations of the program by Paul Tuss of Sacramento County Office of Education's Center for Student Assessment and Program Accountability found that students who received a home visit were considerably more likely to be successful in their exit exam intervention and academic - support classes and pass the English portion of the exit exam.

In the training area we also have other projects such as INAV, which is the first online secondary education center for adults, with an integrated training program which allows to take the second cycle of secondary education in a single academic year and it is designed for the adult population.

[Professor] Bridget Terry Long, the Harvard Graduate School of Education academic dean and the chairwoman of the National Board for Education Sciences, IES» advisory board, noted that IES under Director John Q. Easton has required more partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and is launching a new center devoted to evaluating how well research is being translated into usable knowledge.»

Participants tended not to be classroom teachers, but to come from a network of public agencies, nonprofits, and academic centers, such as the Arts in Education Program at Harvard University.

Two decades of surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) suggest that the typical teacher spends only about 68 percent of classroom time on instruction related to core academic subjects, with the remainder consumed by administrative tasks, fund - raising, assemblies, socialization, and so forth.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Bureau of Study Counsel The Bureau of Study Counsel is a clinical counseling center and an academic resource center that serves Harvard undergraduates and graduate students in Arts and Sciences, Education, and Kennedy School of Government.

In this study, the EPE Research Center performed a systematic and objective analysis of state academic standards in science education in order to characterize the extent to which these documents cover the theory of biological evolution.

Fourteen percent of Michigan's charters are both low - performing and do little to improve student achievement, according to Stanford University's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes; while just one of the 11 charters shut down in 2015 - 2016 were closed because of academic failure, according to data from the Wolverine State's Department of Education.]

«This law calls for a well - rounded education and a shifting away from the narrow focus on academics,» said Ulrich Boser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), which hosted a panel discussion at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., to coincide with the release of the reports.

The use of mean scores places the focus on improving the academic achievement of all students within a school and not just those whose performance is around the state proficiency cut score (Center for Education Policy, 2011).

In response to a Harvard Graduate School of Education report centered around reforming the college admissions process, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achievements.

The survey of the perceptions of academic reform of 912 public - high - school principals was taken in the fall of 1987 for the department's National Center for Education Statistics and released this summer.

The study by the National Center for Education Statistics says that more than 80 percent of elementary and secondary school leaders agree that music, the visual arts, and creative writing are «essential» or «very important» relative to other academic subjects.

Several years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Education began offering the online workshop, a collaborative venture supported by the Dean's Office, Academic Affairs, the Office of Student Affairs, Gutman Library Writing Services, and the Learning Technologies Center (LTC), to address student questions about American academic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international sAcademic Affairs, the Office of Student Affairs, Gutman Library Writing Services, and the Learning Technologies Center (LTC), to address student questions about American academic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international sacademic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international students.

Your gift will be used solely to develop highly motivational school programs combining the best of Operation Respect and CEI's Heart Centered Education for integration into academic courses throughout the school day.

Character and Leadership Development — Character development is considered a fundamental purpose of education and will be fostered through a child - centered educational model built on high behavioral and academic expectations.