Sentences with phrase «early education efforts»

This session will describe how libraries in public and school settings have already engaged in successful early education efforts in their communities, and will describe the benefits of partnering with libraries and librarians.

The 2016 Yearbook profiles state - funded preschool programs in 43 states, plus Guam and the District of Columbia and provides narrative information on early education efforts in states and the U.S. territories that do not provide state - funded preschool.

Montgomery County Council member Nancy Navarro (D - Mid-County), a former school board member, said increasing Hispanic enrollment points to a need to take a close look at early education efforts, English - learner programs and the «scaling up» of best practices in schools.

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Further explaining the company's diverse portfolio, Sethi told that Quest Alliance is also making an effort for a responsive education system and help students develop a career mindset at an early age.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Early on, Mr. Levitt also went to war with Congress, blocking a Republican effort in 1995 to eliminate the S.E.C.'s Investor Education Department.

If style is economy of effort with constant attention to the end you want to attain, we can see that the early education of this mathematician had great style indeed.

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.

Education efforts are mostly in the early stages, but are growing rapidly.

Grantees implement programs which teach parents and early education providers about ways to strengthen families and build protective factors (such as parenting skills and resilience in times of stress; building social connections and a support network; and knowledge of child development) in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect before it begins.

We can work more with families, work more with early education, tie those efforts together better with the work we're doing in schools.

Today's announcement builds on these continuing efforts to make high - quality early education and child care available for all.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

Every state has created a comprehensive child find and referral system under Part C of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, and there are explicit requirements for states to coordinate early identification efforts between health, social service, and educational systems.

The enthusiasm and momentum behind the recent efforts to strengthen the programs and services for early childhood education inspired us to bring together the voices presented in this issue to share the most recent innovations and milestones that have brought a focus on child development to the foreground.

To coordinate state efforts to improve children's readiness for school, Ohio Governor John Kasich created an Early Education and Development Officer position within the Governors Office of 21st Centu...

To coordinate state efforts to improve children's readiness for school, Ohio Governor John Kasich created an Early Education and Development Officer position within the Governors Office of 21st Century Education in October 2011.

Seeking to double down on an effort — expanding early childhood education — for which he has been widely praised, de Blasio announced a plan today to offer free, full - day prekindergarten to 3 - year - olds.

Both efforts emphasize the value education and childcare leaders place on early childhood education.

Ensuring all children receive the fundamental building blocks of an early education has been a top priority of mine and I am thrilled we are moving forward with this joint effort.»

«The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute applauds Senator Klein and the IDC's efforts to ensure that all of New York City's youngest residents and their parents have access to safe, secure early childhood care and education progEarly Childhood Professional Development Institute applauds Senator Klein and the IDC's efforts to ensure that all of New York City's youngest residents and their parents have access to safe, secure early childhood care and education progearly childhood care and education programs.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

Washington (CNN)-- Hillary Clinton gave a full - throated endorsement of early childhood education on Tuesday, including crediting New York Mayor Bill De Blasio — a Clinton confidant — for his efforts to make universal pre-kindergarten the law in America's biggest city.

ALBANY — Early childhood advocates are appealing to education commissioner John King for a more friendly interpretation of the state budget's pre-kindergarten provisions in an effort to boost upstate participation.

This is a fellowship program designed for genetics professionals with an advanced degree who are early in their careers and interested in the development and implementation of national genomics literacy efforts, informal science education, science education policy, program development, or science education research.

Providing training for early childhood education teachers, embedding direct instruction and practice of targeted skills into daily practice and engaging families in these efforts help to boost the success of these kinds of interventions, Oregon State University researchers suggest in a new paper.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

This effort arose from NHGRI's Insurer Education Working Group of the Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education (ISCC), beginning in early 2015.

Targeting additional resources to early childhood education, extended day, summer programs, prudent class - size reduction, or enhanced accountability structures is likely to have a higher return in these communities than racial desegregation efforts.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

Coverage of Reach Every Reader Launch: Zuckerberg, Chan Give $ 30M to Harvard and MIT for Literacy (The New York Times) Reach Every Reader Targets Early Literacy Crisis (Harvard Gazette) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Literacy Effort (The Boston Globe) Mark Zuckerberg's Charity Is Giving $ 30 Million to Help Kids Learn to Read — and Love It (Quartz) Harvard - MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $ 30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (The 74) Zuckerberg, Wife Give $ 30M for Child Literacy (The Boston Herald) Chan Zuckerburg Initiative Funds Harvard - MIT Effort to Screen Children for Reading Problems (Education DIVE) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Ed.

Both the campaign and ongoing communication will continue to acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the education of children, while demonstrating MTA's unique points of difference, including 220 - local staff, in - house customer service team and the largest educational resource field force — who visit schools and early childhood centres across Australia and New Zealand every day.

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

To support these efforts, the U.S. Department of Education awarded each of the consortia an additional $ 16 million in early 2011.

«Across the nation, committed individuals in early education settings, schools, communities, and statehouses are working tirelessly on efforts and initiatives to promote children's literacy development,» says Lesaux.

This Education Week special report takes a wide - ranging look at new efforts to address the challenges of early - grades reading instruction.

Indianapolis — The nation's chief state school officers last week endorsed a comprehensive early - childhood and family - education plan calling for universal access to prekindergarten programs, publicly supported day care, and increased federal involvement in efforts to help children at risk of school failure.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

In 2013, Robert Pondiscio wrote for Education Next about Franklin and Marshall's early efforts to reach out to low - income students through partnerships with charter schools.

As Haskins points out, the early childhood education community has resisted a focus on academic skills in Head Start, concerned that attention to academic skills will dilute efforts to promote positive social and emotional development and that the comprehensive health services that Head Start currently provides will be abandoned.

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

Her dissertation extended beyond the early childhood period and into early elementary school in an effort to understand whether continuous high - quality learning experiences between pre-kindergarten and third grade can help sustain the positive effects of early childhood education on social, behavioral, and academic skills.

But as Reville and others intimately familiar with the Bay State's school - improvement efforts emphasized in a panel at the Education Writers Association National Seminar earlier this month, the «Massachusetts story» is complicated.

The one - day convening, «Pathways to Strong Early Learning Environments: Making High Impact Decisions and Learning Improvements,» was the first in what will be many efforts to bring together early education leaders through the Saul Zaentz Professional Learning AcaEarly Learning Environments: Making High Impact Decisions and Learning Improvements,» was the first in what will be many efforts to bring together early education leaders through the Saul Zaentz Professional Learning Acaearly education leaders through the Saul Zaentz Professional Learning Academy.

The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative kicked off its professional learning efforts with a one - day convening of policymakers and practitioners at HGSE.

The impetus for the July meeting followed President Obama's announcement earlier this year to expand college opportunity and also the First Lady's efforts to help American students to advance their education past high school through the Reach Higher initiative.

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Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

We hope that our efforts in fostering these children's talents will bear fruit in the near future and believe that the provision of education and care for children from early childhood will help them develop their skills and abilities when they get older.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here leducation efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here lEducation Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.