Sentences with phrase «economic focus of education»

We are faced with a paradox — we now know more about the individual nature of how children learn, their unique personalities, cultural influences, life opportunities (or lack of), and we speak more now about meeting individual needs, early intervention and personalizing learning, but in contradiction we are all being besieged by a data - driven, economic focus of education.

Not exact matches

New Profit is focused on a handful of issues — including education and economic empowerment — and is crystal clear about its mission of backing visionary leaders with big ideas.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

Specific activities like focus on enhancing leadership skills of women, promoting thrift and credit groups as well as health, education and economic activities also have contributed largely to women empowerment.

«A sustained focus on health and education will build the capacity of the national workforce, bolstering economy - wide competitiveness and facilitating economic diversification beyond the extractive industries,» the World Bank said.

The PM has put down his marker that the May State Opening of Parliament will focus on the NHS, the family, welfare, education and, of course, economic growth.

Robin's platform will focus on single payer health care, economic equality, police and criminal justice reform, housing for all, humane immigration reform, better public education, LGBTQ rights and ending the influence of money on politics.

As the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the UBA Group, UBA Foundation is committed to the socio - economic betterment of the communities in which UBA operates, focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special Peconomic betterment of the communities in which UBA operates, focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special PEconomic Empowerment and Special Projects.

Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco of the 112th district believes that every legislator and the governor will focus on turning the economy around»... and the fortunes of our constituents in terms of jobs, economic expansion for small businesses, keeping our young people who get great educations in New York State IN New York State and stopping that «brain drain.»

But whether it is upstate of downstate, the best long term economic development strategy is to have the best education system in the world, period and that is our focus.

He had a clear focus on expanding the country's economic and social infrastructure, and also worked to actualise his vision of expanding access to secondary education and also to quality healthcare across the country.

As the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the UBA Group, UBA Foundation is committed to the socio - economic betterment of communities across the African continent focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special Peconomic betterment of communities across the African continent focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special PEconomic Empowerment and Special Projects.

In a State of the State address that focused largely on job creation, economic development and tax relief, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also issued a sweeping agenda for education, including support for statewide, full - day prekindergarten programs and a plan to funnel $ 2 billion to upgrading technology in schools.

We are focusing on our core mission of education and research, while continuing to advance critical economic development projects that foster the creation of good New York State jobs through public - private partnerships, which also provide unparalleled opportunities for our research faculty and students.»

Economic development and job creation is always a top focus of mine and I think we need to tie that to the education.»

«With education, our results suggest that focussing on intelligence in early childhood could potentially enhance not only the economic success of the individual, but the level of cooperation in society in later life.»

Although a primary focus of EPSCoR is to enable strong research and education programs and expand the states» technological capacity, the economic impacts are also of interest.

Murray said the pending legislation, dubbed the Foundations for Evidence - Based Policymaking Act, is focused on the report's three core ideas: expanding access to the data, ensuring privacy, and strengthening the government's capacity to evaluate how spending trillions of dollars every year on programs affects the health, education, and economic wellbeing of millions of Americans.

Halvorsen's work focuses on elementary social studies education, particularly for children from low socio - economic backgrounds, the history of education, teacher preparation in the social studies, and the integration of social studies and literacy.

The Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE, Lesaux conducts research focusing on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children and youth from diverse linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds.

As regards access to tertiary education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic scheme.

«Too many of our further education providers have focused for too long on equipping youngsters with dubious qualifications of little economic relevance.

In addition, in some nations education goals have focused very narrowly on the development of skills that are presumed to contribute to national economic competitiveness, the formation of national identity, and local relevance, without sufficient attention to the development of the skills that contribute to effective citizenship and global citizenship.

This pack has more of a focus on economic, careers and financial education as well as the latest SRE and mental health recommendations.

Even though most education policy debates have focused on school quality and student achievement, most research on the economic impact of schooling has focused narrowly on the number of years students remain in the educational system.

As I read, I kept feeling grateful to Paul Tough for having done this work — gathering the stories of kids like Keitha Jones, the traumatized Southside Chicago teen who reminded me so much of a handful of kids I've taught; connecting Keitha's experience to research on neurochemistry and infant psychology, and situating these elements in both a socio - economic context and in the landscape of an education world focused on developing children's cognitive (and testable) skills.

With more than 26 years teaching at Harvard, Ferguson's research focuses on the racial achievement gap, education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's ongoing study of 16,000 children who entered kindergarten in 1998, the report from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, focuses on what many disadvantaged children are lacking when they arrive at school.

The combination of sensitive schools and an overarching focus on education as a tool solely to promote global economic competitiveness has seemingly deemphasized the need for civic and moral education in classrooms, according to Levinson.

``... in the education and training space that [vision and future] is about making sure that our schools, our early learning, our universities and vocational training are all focussed very much on delivering people the types of skills that are required to deal with the economic and industrial adjustment we're facing in a world where global dislocation of jobs because of technological change and so on is coming at us at rapid pace,» he said.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

A partnership of education, business, and community leaders focused on aligning and integrating the Columbus, Indiana and region's community learning system with economic growth and a high quality of life.

His research focuses on education and tax policy, and particularly on the way that public institutions ameliorate or reinforce the effects of children's families on their academic and economic outcomes.

In 2005, the state of South Carolina initiated an innovative approach to career - focused education through the Education and Economic Development Aceducation through the Education and Economic Development AcEducation and Economic Development Act (EEDA).

RESEARCH: This is the home page of the leading journal focusing on economic education.

Similarly, Singapore is a country that deliberately focused on promoting education as an economic development lever and put its money where its mouth is.They've centralized all of this (through NIE) which is a great way of controlling for shortages and mitigating leakages in terms of teacher supply.

In recent years, however, the economic realm has taken precedence, with careers and credentials becoming a focus of education policy.

The urgency of the state's need to improve its national and global economic competitiveness has meant an intense focus on STEM education.

The need for dramatic changes in secondary education is a key focus of the Governor's economic plan for North Carolina, and that focus has generated political momentum for high school reform.

«Many of the measures of «health of the movement» are just that — measures of the degree to which charter schools, as a movement, are increasing in number and influence,» said Elaine Weiss, who helps lead education initiatives at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on low - to - moderate - income people.

Only with a focus on both effective state education policy and school district practice will Colorado be able to meet the political, social, and economic challenges of this century.

He is a current member of the St. Petersburg NAACP Education Committee, which focuses on economic and educational development in south St. Pete within Pinellas County.

Andreas Schleicher, head of education at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), recently warned that Britain's focus on rote learning will cause it to fall behind in terms of education standards.

Located just over 30 miles north of Little Rock, Conway began as a small farming community but its economic focus has since shifted to education.

During the year 2016, the company provided more than $ 20 million in charitable contributions, many of which focus on education and economic development in the communities that it serves.

In his statement West renews his call, at what he called «a challenging time for the country», for a sustained focus on arts funding, education and access, asserting that «the arts should have a huge role to play in the cultural, educational and economic health and well - being of the United Kingdom».

East Side House's programs focus on education and technology as gateways out of poverty and as keys to economic opportunity.

Focusing on the key areas of skilling and education, impact funding, media, advisory and consulting, community transformation, events and special projects, or SIMACES, he puts his values to work to make social and economic transformation possible in communities around the world.

The study proposes a «paradigm shift» to outcome models, recognizing that sanitation not only remains a focus of international development targets but is also linked to many other development issues such as health, environment, education, gender, disability, tourism and economic growth.