Sentences with phrase «education are in competition»

Although schools of education are in competition with some of the alternative certification programs for students, some of the schools like what they see in the residency model.

Not exact matches

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

«Changes in how information is distributed and knowledge communicated will both create more competition in higher education and provide the occasion for new forms of cooperation.»

This observation is underscored with a special pointedness in the 1979 report of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, titled Fair Practices in Higher Education and somewhat ominously subtitled «Rights and Responsibilities of Students and Their Colleges in a Period of Intensified Competition for Enrollments.»

This is characterized by competition for the marketplace which is open to anyone who can produce the goods and services, unhindered by government subsidy, monopoly, or other interference with competition.1 For a system actually to function as free enterprise capitalism there must be opportunity for individuals in the general populace to obtain education and also to obtain access to capital and resources for new ventures.

The issues in religion and science have been very lively in the British media and education system, though still largely fixated on a paradigm of opposition and competition between Christianity and modern science.

American higher education is the strongest in the world precisely because it has an informal public - private «system» which allows for pluralism and competition among diverse institutions.

The company's Facebook page is full of images of its team members who have excelled in their jobs, such as Pharmacist Gina Moser, Steve Davis, who was a contestant in the Tennessee Best Bagger competition, and Matthew McTaggert, who received the Tennessee Grocers Education Foundation Scholarship, as well as all of the recent Employees of the Month.

The American Culinary Federation Education Foundation is home to ACF Culinary Team USA, the official representative for the United States in major international culinary competitions, and to Chef & Child, founded in 1989 to promote proper nutrition in children and to combat childhood obesity.

In 2003 he was appointed an Officer, Order of Australia for «service to the law, particularly as a leading spokesperson in the areas of trade practice, competition, taxation and corporate law, and in the field of legal education»In 2003 he was appointed an Officer, Order of Australia for «service to the law, particularly as a leading spokesperson in the areas of trade practice, competition, taxation and corporate law, and in the field of legal education»in the areas of trade practice, competition, taxation and corporate law, and in the field of legal education»in the field of legal education».

The scholarship applications have updated and are now in four categories; high school students, college students, professional chefs (for help with continuing education), and culinary team grants (for competing culinary teams participating in ACF regional conference competitions or ACF national convention).

In the end they forced a move of the gymnastic competition to the larger Winnipeg Arena where, on the final night, there was a standing - room - only crowd of 10,000, as the U.S.'s Mark Cohn, a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University, won the side horse, and Linda Jo Metheny, a 19 - year - old University of Illinois physical - education major, won four gold medals in her shocking fuchsia tightIn the end they forced a move of the gymnastic competition to the larger Winnipeg Arena where, on the final night, there was a standing - room - only crowd of 10,000, as the U.S.'s Mark Cohn, a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University, won the side horse, and Linda Jo Metheny, a 19 - year - old University of Illinois physical - education major, won four gold medals in her shocking fuchsia tightin her shocking fuchsia tights.

The winning messages from children are displayed on www.fatherhoodinstitute.org by Fathers Direct, the national information centre on fatherhood, which, along with the Department for Education and Skills, ran the competition in May 2004 in Britain's primary schools.

We should be funding school food as if it's a priority, not as if it need to be in competition with education dollars.

The nation's top education official will be in Albany next week to discuss the federal Race to the Top competition.

The competition, keenly contested by eight secondary schools selected by the state's Ministry of Education from the three senatorial zones of Akwa Ibom State was the first of its kind in the state.

The NYS Envirothon is an environmental education competition where a team of high school students work together in hopes of winning scholarships and awards.

«Now that you are doing well in physical fitness and football competitions, there is the need for you all to take your education seriously as well as your priority because it is best legacy you could bequeath from your parents.

They are scared of competition and the Sen. Dems use their junket to Puerto Rico next month to vacation instead of working to solve the high rate of unemployment and substandard education in their communities.

Having seen how communities, counties, towns, cities and businesses in locales come out to support their reps to the national competition in the US, I am convinced we need more education to appreciate it.

She earned the recognition based what the President said is her ``... 12 years of dedication and commitment to the education of our nation's children through her work at the Young Educators Foundation and establishment of the National Spelling Bee and Young Debaters Competition in the nation of Ghana»

He advised that each student should factor himself into being part of that future by making personal efforts at growth and development nurtured through education, which he described as the most portent tool for competition in the world...

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and builIn addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and builin ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and builin ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

Since then, it's a been a whirlwind of education in exercise science and nutrition, fitness competitions, landing several national covers for fitness modeling and plenty of business growth.

Those honored were selected by their peers in the fifth annual competition sponsored by the Education Department and the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Unfortunately, unlike other enterprises in which competition improves the overall quality of the product or service being offered, this dynamic has not worked as well in our education system.

In these high - performing countries, places in teacher education programs are limited and competition for entry is intensIn these high - performing countries, places in teacher education programs are limited and competition for entry is intensin teacher education programs are limited and competition for entry is intense.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eyIn this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eyin six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

The competition is aimed at reinforcing the government's amended ICT syllabus for schools, and is based on the Raspberry Pi, a small, fully functional Linux - based PC that was developed specifically for use in promoting computer science education.

On August 24, U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan announced that New York was among the 10 finalists to win the competition, receiving $ 700 million in funding.

Partly because of the XQ project's upbeat, open approach, the competition was the first major education - grant program in recent years that didn't set off an immediate wave of public alarm from critics.

Apart from curriculum enrichment activities, team competition is perhaps the most reliable and easy - to - use motivational «hook» in education.

The VEX Robotics Competition UK National Championships was held at the Birmingham NEC in March and was the 4th year that the competition, supported by Rapid Education, has been heldCompetition UK National Championships was held at the Birmingham NEC in March and was the 4th year that the competition, supported by Rapid Education, has been heldcompetition, supported by Rapid Education, has been held in the UK.

Up against stiff international competition in the category, including the French Ministry of Education, judges commented that the MYP eAssessment «was impressive in how the examinations are designed to assess students» higher thinking skills which previously had been harder to do using paper testing» and that it «clearly demonstrates that it is possible to successfully deliver online summative assessment in schools anywhere in the world».

Now, in an era when choice and competition in education are gaining acceptance among both parents and policymakers, it is the educational community itself that may need to heed a lesson from the past.

Bending the Cost Curve Inside Higher Ed, 1/27/15 «Online education can «bend the cost curve» of an undergraduate degree, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, but whether the lower tuition is caused by a boost in productivity — as opposed to more competition — is still undetermined.

Though some adults thrived on the competition in their school physical education classes, others remember the experience as humiliating, with the operative word being last — picked last for a team or coming in last in the mile run.

That's the problem with these design competitions in education — it's a lot easier to say things than to do them.»

One way to diminish the power of established interests and permit the adoption and implementation of merit pay is to expand choice and competition in education.

«Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve» will be available Wednesday, January 20 on educationnext.org and will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next, on newsstands by March 1.

An advanced instructional program in the workings of the U.S. government that is class infused with competition, We the People was established by the Center for Civic Education in 1987; a grant from the U.S. Congress has funded it each year.

The history of U.S. education is filled with evidence of how this competition for residents and tax base has spurred improvements in quality and increases in rigor.

Susan Patrick, president and CEO of the International Association for K — 12 Online Learning (iNACOL), agreed: «Education is no longer a cottage and local industry,» but one in which true competition can thrive, improving standards and driving productivity gains.

The object of the statewide competition, open to all students in grades K - 8, is to develop technological solutions to problems children encounter in daily life, explained Sylvia M. Kaplan, director of the education department's...

To bring this same innovation to school report cards, the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of eEducation (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of educationeducation.

A new article, «Assessing New York's Commissioner of Education,» which will appear in the Summer 2011 issue of Education Next, looks at what has been accomplished in New York, and in particular, how the Empire State came to be a winner in Round 2 of the Race to the Top competition.

Washington — The embattled National Institute of Education was under attack again last week, as the Congress moved to cut its budget by 13 percent and to delay the onset of its competition for some $ 30 million in grants to sponsor research through its national laboratories and centers.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Is this not evidence of competition's long - term success in the education sphere?