Sentences with phrase «education at scale»

Defining and fully funding access to high - quality early childhood education at scale, regardless of state or setting

To deliver on the promise and potential of early education at scale, we need to bring the science of early learning up - to - date in two major ways.

Not exact matches

At some companies, this could mean scaling back on perks like free lunches and massages or offering less reimbursement for continuing education, says Breslin.

At Babson College, Kevin also teaches entrepreneurship for MBAs and for executive education classes and leads workshops on helping companies scale and increase engagement of their employees.

It has been a privilege to work with such a dedicated and inspiring team at FRN, a team that is firm in our work: that higher education can be the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception, and that this model can scale and translate to other sectors.

bringing food safety net programs up to scale at the national level with investments that target better health, nutrition and formal education programs.

At the same time, large - scale reforms to the health, education and welfare systems — along with reductions in youth service provision and the number and services of children's centres — means confusion and real concern for professionals and families alike.

The elements of the fight have included public education, suspension of small scale mining operations to allow recovery of polluted water bodies, training of 400 small scale miners in sustainable mining practices at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa and establishment of Operation Vanguard, a 400 man strong security force to maintain security in mining districts and to enforce the ban.

She was also a 2013 - 15 Executive Branch Fellow at USAID, in the Global Development Lab, where as a fellow and now program manager, she focuses on sourcing, piloting, and scaling science and technology innovations for the developing world as part of a network of universities called the Higher Education Solution Network (HESN).

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

To address this uncertainty, the science, education, computing and engineering communities provided input to NEON's design, with the shared goal of creating a long - term ecological observatory that collects and provides a diverse suite of comparable and consistent ecological data at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Patients, enrolled in an NIH funded study, met the following criteria [17]: (1) current positive IgG Western blot using CDC surveillance criteria assessed using a single reference laboratory (University Hospital of Stony Brook); (2) treatment for Lyme disease with at least 3 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone or cefotaxime that was completed at least 4 months before study entry; and (3) objective evidence of memory impairment as documented by the Wechsler Memory Scale - III compared to age -, sex - and education - adjusted population norms.

The married couple, both graduates of the International Education Policy Program, credit one of Professor Fernando Reimers» courses with providing a framework for producing change at scale in the global context.

I've written previously about its role in creating proof points capable of scaling for the field that help propel the education system more toward a fully competency - based, student - centric one, and now NGLC is at it again (full disclosure: I serve as a reviewer for their grants).

That option is not available in public education, at least not without disruption on a scale that would dwarf the fallout of even the most bitter teachers» strike.

It is also clear that despite their best intentions many teachers, principals, superintendents, and professors at schools of education do not know how to address these shortcomings on a meaningful scale.

We are hard pressed to come up with any other education program working at scale that has produced such results.

One of the 2015 EPPC Award winners at a large scale was the Empowering Local Learners Project, a collaboration between 17 schools and pre-schools in Port Augusta and Quorn (South Australia) and the Flinders University Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century.

Receives Recognition for its Innovative Online Professional Development WIDE World (Wide - scale Interactive Development for Educators) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has won a Best Practices in Distance Learning Programming Award at the Platinum Level, the highest level possible, from the United States Distance Learning Association.

Here's the bottom line: To make these changes at scale, education policy makers need a new model of system leadership.

«What better place than the Harvard Graduate School of Education to have this experiment in online learning and in bringing the improvement process to people at scale?»

Parents who earn $ 75,000 a year are more likely than parents at the low end of the income scale to volunteer in school, attend school meetings, or move so that their children can attend a better school, according to data gathered by Education Week in April.

Even leaving this concern aside and accepting the 0.08 of standard deviation achievement boost, Hanushek finds that «we are hard pressed to come up with any other education program working at (national scale) that has produced such results.»

Granted, doing any of this at scale, across America's fragmented education landscape, is super hard.

Education needs to become better at identifying and championing key agents of change, and better at finding more effective approaches for scaling up and spreading innovation.

Over much of 1998 and 1999, HGSE Research Associate Shari Tishman and fellow researchers at Harvard Project Zero (PZ) worked with the MoMA Department of Education to plan and complete a full - scale, formal evaluation of the Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC), and lay the groundwork for the development of a revised version of the VTC.

Jess: During this election season, I had thought a lot about the absence of education from political dialogue in this country, at least on a national scale, and I found that really frustrating.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

Here's the primary problem from my perspective: Succeeding with STEM education in the 21st century requires systemic change at a scale far larger than the Harvard professors had to envision 110 years ago.

Efforts to bring the academic results of some of the nation's best urban charter schools to a far larger scale are «sharply constrained» by limits on the supply of talent willing and able to undertake the highly demanding work, argues a new working paper by Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington think tank.

An increasing number of regions are trying to create concentrated groups of blended - learning schools alongside education technology companies, which may be key to advancing the blended - learning field and increasing its odds of personalizing learning at scale to allow every child to be successful.

Blended learning offers an unprecedented opportunity to create a student - centered education system at scale — one that personalizes learning for each student in a competency - based environment where students move on in their learning upon mastery.

We are at the beginning of an exciting effort to understand how people learn and how to educate well and effectively at scale,» said Andrew Ho, an associate professor in Harvard's Graduate School of Education.»

It's not the fault of anyone in the system today, but patterned after the dominant factory model of the era in which public schooling scaled, our education system functions as though all students learn at the same pace and have the same learning needs, which we know is not true.

At the end of September, education ministers met with industry leaders in Israel to explore how to grow and scale an educational culture that is more open to innovation.

At the same time, none of the foundation's investments in education, though similar in scale, use this powerful scientific technique.

In this watershed moment, the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andeducation, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and society.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Higgins discusses what can be expected from the new program — being held at HGSE March 9 — 11, 2016 — and why helping organizations scale is so important to the field of education as a whole.

A 2013 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University found that Uncommon's schools «completely cancel out the negative effect associated with being a student in poverty,» concluding that «it IS possible to take innovation to scale and maintain a focus on quality.»

Getting positive results in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted at scale in real world conditions is difficult, illustrated by the fact that only 12 per cent of the RCTs commissioned by the Institute of Education Sciences, a US equivalent to the EEF, have shown positive effects.

2] The type of education that will have instant requirement and response on a larger scale in India at present

The researchers used data from the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES), which is based at Royal Holloway.

«HGSE is delighted to be collaborating with LearnLaunch, a leading - edge edtech entrepreneurship organization, to convene this conference on the potential of education technology to improve K — 20 education outcomes at scale,» said Dean James Ryan...

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...

Observers have written, «Turnaround at scale is still in its infancy,» and «In education, turnarounds have been tried rarely» (see «The Big U-Turn,» features, Winter 2009).

And in the process, Boser acknowledges one of the fundamental contradictions related to this accrued scientific knowledge of education and human development: At no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade agAt no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade agat a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

Robinson also learned about how China manages its education system at scale and found significant differences in the implementation of education reforms in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Hill blames this funding rigidity — not the lack of ideas from teachers, principals, or innovators — for the relative scarcity of education innovation at scale.

Sometimes it seems as if we've tried everything in our efforts to reform public education, yet nothing has worked to boost student achievement at scale.

Techniques for Unleashing Student Work from Learning Management Systems Mind / Shift, 2/13/15 «Last fall, I taught T509 - Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale, a course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that examined a variety of large - scale learning environments with many learners and few instrucScale, a course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that examined a variety of large - scale learning environments with many learners and few instrucscale learning environments with many learners and few instructors.