Sentences with phrase «challenging the education communities»

Clinton Challenges Nation to Improve Math and Science Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

Principals must constantly innovate, challenging the education communities they lead to raise the bar, as well as to shift direction to respond to new initiatives and technologies.

Not exact matches

Many of the countries and communities in which they operate face significant challenges in health, education, economic development, and basic infrastructure.

To recognize the differences among different moral communities and take them seriously in moral education is to enter a pluralistic quagmire in which disagreements arise, one's impartiality is challenged, and feelings are hurt.

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.

Mary Hofstedt, Ed.M., is the Community Education Director for Challenge Success.

Committee members will also include: Brian Brady of Mikva Challenge, Dr. Byron Brazier of the Apostolic Church of God, Celine Coggins of Teach Plus, Sarah Cobb of Neighborhood Parents Network, Guillermo Gomez of The Healthy Schools Campaign, Timothy Knowles of the Urban Education Institute, Karen Lewis from the Chicago Teachers Union, Phyllis Locket of New Schools for Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's Church, Juan Soto of Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, Alderman Latasha Thomas, Robin Steans of Advance Illinois, Senator Kimberly Lightford.

Parent - Child Home Program is for families who enroll their children between 18 months and two years of age, participate for two years, are challenged by low levels of education, poverty, literacy and language barriers, and / or are isolated and not accessing community services.

Committee members will also include: Brian Brady of Mikva Challenge, Dr. Byron Brazier of the Apostolic Church of God, Celine Coggins of Teach Plus, Sarah Cobb of Neighborhood Parents Network, Guillermo Gomez of The Healthy Schools Campaign, Timothy Knowles of the Urban Education Institute, Phyllis Locket of New Schools for Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's Church, Juan Soto of Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, Alderman Latasha Thomas, Robin Steans of Advance Illinois, Senator Kimberly Lightford.

Our local team of community experts will help meet the needs of parents as they tackle many challenging parenting issues... sleep, breastfeeding, maternity education and preparation, child and environmental safety, food and nutrition, parenting, and educational and special needs advocacy.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

Well integrated societies are more likely to challenge extremist ideologies and extremist activity, as well as having greater social mobility, better access to education, and greater cooperation across communities.

Our panel discussions will cover a broad and critical range of concerns such as gender, challenging left orthodoxy, trade unions and community, education and culture.

Using the education of Welsh pupils, striving for attainment in some of the most challenged and deprived communities of Britain, as a means to score points off the Labour Party, is a cheap trick which will be seen for what it is by the Welsh people.

Responding to a question on the need to tackle extremism in schools, the Education Minister stated that schools in Wales needed to «rise to the challenge of community cohesion», and the transformation of Religious Education (RE) was an important means of achieving this.

Oneida County is a diverse community and the County is committed to eliminating barriers to job access that may exist due to education, language, income or other challenges.

Alhaji Rashid said, his leadership will address some of the major challenges in the Zongo communities including unemployment, education, health, water and sanitation, adding that, with the establishment of the Zongo Ministry and the Zongo Fund, problems of the Zongos will be reduced but propel the Zongo communities for massive development.

In the Spring of 2012, following 16 months of challenging and collaborative work by a dedicated group of community volunteers and Buffalo School District professionals and students, the BUFFALO BOARD of EDUCATION approved a comprehensive and updated District wide Wellness Policy.

A former college drop - out, Baskin is conscious of the systemic challenges many women, people of color, and impoverished communities experience in attaining the education credentials needed for economic advancement.

With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high - quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

In addition to the economic and social development challenges that face individual countries, regional disparities in the capacity for scientific advancement and research and in the quality of education continue to plague the development of a strong, unified research community.

Since 1994, SRIC has worked with those communities and the community - based group, Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM - CCT), to stop the proposed mines through community education, interaction with Navajo Nation leaders, and a seven - year - long legal challenge of the mines» federal license.

The Institute will spur significant advances in software infrastructure, education, standards, and best - practices that are needed to enable the molecular science community to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases to the design of new catalysts vital to the global chemical industry and climate change.

The film takes us inside the Asian community, showing us a group of smart Asian high school kids who know the drill of grades = college = success, but are bored and not challenged by our current sad state of education.

Proponents of greater public funding for early childhood education (ECE) argue that too many children, often those from challenged communities and homes, arrive for kindergarten with insurmountable development gaps and that low - income and disadvantaged children who are exposed to high - quality pre-K programs gain lifelong benefits.

The 2015 Schools Conference session included Tony Dolan of Curtins discussing «Transport and access issues for school construction projects» and Gareth Woodfin, HLM, discussing inclusion in a session entitled «Challenges faced in designing facilities to accommodate both mainstream and special education needs under one roof and how they were overcome to provide an inclusive learning environment for the local community».

The United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), the community group that I lead in Chicago, and its network of charter schools provide Hispanic immigrant families with access to a high - quality education, thereby challenging them to fulfill their great potential while promoting American values, ideals, and our collective successes.

Course aims and links to learning Randall Williams, in his summary of outdoor learning research «Time for Change», shows that there is now clear and demonstrable evidence that challenging outdoor activities and environmental studies contribute towards a range of societal targets across education, health, anti-social behaviour and community cohesion.

Welch explains that as philanthropists start applying their entrepreneurial skills to the challenges confronting low - income communities, they often find themselves putting education and child - focused efforts at the center of their lives.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and...

The annual WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) Awards celebrate projects that are providing solutions to education challenges affecting students, teachers and communities across tEducation) Awards celebrate projects that are providing solutions to education challenges affecting students, teachers and communities across teducation challenges affecting students, teachers and communities across the globe.

One of the greatest challenges that the education community faces in implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative is ensuring that...

Chike Aguh Education, Policy, and Management Current cities: Laurel, Maryland / Washington, D.C. Current job: Director, Education Advisory Board Career highlight: Visiting community colleges in over half the states in the union to think about how technology can help solve the college completion challenge

Over the past decade or so, the prevalence of emergency education scenarios — and the incredible challenges they present — has led to a new focus and commitment by the international community.

Sessions will focus on new ways to talk about race, what it's like being a professor of color working in a higher education institution, and challenging the various labels placed on people and communities of color.

Also, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has to be defined and adapted regionally, nationally and locally, for nations, cities and communities to understand their particular sustainability challenges, their needs and available resources as well as to empower them to undertake concrete actions and efforts to enhance the mindset of decision makers and all citizens.

Canada urged community members to take risks and embrace boldness as they tackle the biggest challenges in improving education.

If we, you and I together, take this challenge and indeed build that community of collaborative and diverse learners and give to the world what Harvard's Graduate School of Education has already given to us, I believe that the prophesy of the Jesuit French educator Tielhard de Chardin will come true about the HGSE graduating class of 2008 - that women and men will decree, long after we have walked across this stage, that for the second time in history, humankind discovered fire.

A pack of information and activities designed to support teachers in delivering anti-racism education, particularly challenging racism aimed at GRT communities.

«Rather than feeling overwhelmed by those challenges, Laura became determined to use education to empower girls to change their own lives and their communities.»

This is my challenge to you, the education community.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

In addition to the great suggestions found in the Building Pathways report, I would add one more: I challenge all of us in education, but especially school leaders, to share the joys of our work and the reasons we love of our jobs with our colleagues, our students, and our communities.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

Watson - Blagden says the concept of place - based education has taken root over the past ten to twenty years, fueled, in part, by Annenberg Rural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communities.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve eveEducation Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve eveeducation systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Although no one argued against the need for parental involvement in community partnerships and education, part of the challenge is figuring out how to initiate and build the relationships.

One of the greatest challenges that the education community faces in implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative is ensuring that the education workforce is ready to help students succeed under these new, higher standards.

Canada knows firsthand both the challenge and love of education, having spent the past 30 years as the founder and president of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a full - service community organization comprising charter schools, preschools, afterschool programs,...