Sentences with phrase «education focuses on this goal»

Unfortunately, very little in public education focuses on this goal.

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My personal goals are focused on running my business and teaching childbirth education.

Program outcomes may focus on adults or on children; providers frequently cite multiple goals (e.g., improved child development, parent social - emotional support, parent education).12

Investing in programs that focus on maternal education of exclusive breastfeeding benefits would help mothers attain their breastfeeding goals and / or the expert recommended exclusive breastfeeding durations.

«Our goal in forming a board - level committee focused on education reform is to create a formal process for business to be more involved in education reform initiatives.»

Maxwell said he will look to achieve that goal by focusing efforts on Say Yes to Education — a local, community - wide partnership that supports Syracuse students in school and through college — and career and technical programs.

The department should set a goal of investing $ 200 million a year in such activities, the president declared, giving Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos the job of «helping districts recruit and train [STEM teachers], focusing in particular on computer science.»

The study focused on liberal adult education, i.e. non-vocational courses, which are characterized by voluntariness, self - motivation, and goals related to hobbies.

The focus would be on education, health, environment, and gender equity, with the goal of building trust through collaborative research.

The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

Her goal is to increase diversity and inclusion in the sciences while pursuing a career focused on science education and outreach.

To achieve this goal, their work is primarily focused on education, access, economics, collaboration and development, and research.

I focus on Health and wellness coaching using motivational interviewing, goal and value analysis, plan development, education and enhancement of wellness through herbs.

We should be changing the goals of education to focus on deeper learning: Relevance of what is taught, to build motivation, and personalization of the...

Current discussions of grit in education focus on the need for students to pursue long - term goals — such as going to college or becoming a nurse — and to hang in there when trying to learn challenging material in school.

As to what this means for education, it implies that we should be changing the goals of education to focus on deeper learning: Relevance of what is taught, to build motivation, and personalization of the What and How; Versatility, to create «Renaissance humans», which brings robustness to face whatever life throws at us; Transfer, insuring that what we learn in the narrow confines of schools, translates into actionability in real - life situations.

«We should be changing the goals of education to focus on deeper learning: Relevance of what is taught, to build motivation, and personalization of the What and How; Versatility, to create «Renaissance humans», which brings robustness to face whatever life throws at us; Transfer, insuring that what we learn in...

«We should be changing the goals of education to focus on deeper learning: Relevance of what is taught, to build motivation, and personalization of the What and How; Versatility, to create «Renaissance humans», which brings robustness to face whatever life throws at us; Transfer, insuring that what we learn in the narrow confines of schools, translates into actionability in real - life situations.»

Organized by UNESCO and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the event will focus on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and their contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably Target 4.7 of SDG 4 on Education.

While the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All Goals established an ambitious agenda to provide a basic education worldwide, they did not, according to Reimers, focus on ways to help students develop relevant skills to expand their optionsEducation for All Goals established an ambitious agenda to provide a basic education worldwide, they did not, according to Reimers, focus on ways to help students develop relevant skills to expand their optionseducation worldwide, they did not, according to Reimers, focus on ways to help students develop relevant skills to expand their options in life.

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.

The first edition of the Digest, Laying the Foundation to Measure Sustainable Development Goal 4, finds that many countries struggle to produce the data needed today, and will find it even harder to It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and inclusion.

A holdover from President Clinton's Goals 2000 law, the centers» primary role was to fund parent education programs, with a focus on early childhood.

To ensure that we shape education for the future that we desire, some changes need to be made: to college entrance requirements that presently focus on efficient sorting; to assessments that measure the narrow traditional disciplinary goals of partially antiquated knowledge; to politics / policies that shrink away from controversy — we need courageous cathedral builders!

In interviews last week, educators for the most part gave the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» high marks for continuing the focus on national standards begun at the 1989 education summit between President Bush and the nation's governors.

The Sustainable Development Goals should not focus only on global citizenship, but also Global Economic Citizenship, particularly through Economic Citizenship Education.

Graduate research focused on the goals, communication channels, and funding structures of non-profit performing arts organizations» arts education programming in public schools.

To realize that goal, the commission urged the Department of Education to reduce its focus on monitoring a large number of postdiagnosis procedural requirements and instead concentrate on «a much smaller number of substantive measures guided by broad federal standards that focus on performance and results.»

In the decade of the 90's, we simply must find ways to set priorities and it's my own suggestion that we focus, with special urgency, on two of the nation's six education goals, both of which have wide support.

This has always been the goal of an Education, but now algorithms (search, AI) will allow us to focus on that goal even more, by «flipping the curriculum».

DB: Up to now, the early childhood education movement has focused on expanding school - based pre-K programs [see Figure 2 for enrollment and state spending trends], with the ultimate goal of «universal pre-K.»

Researcher's Goal: An Admissions Process That Rewards «Ethical Character» Chronicle for Higher Education, 10/4/15 «The project grew from the worry that many teenagers, focused on academic achievement and their own success, have too little concern for others and the world beyond their test - prep manuals.

During his year in the International Education Policy (IEP) Program, the Michigan - native made a good start toward his goal, organizing many events aimed at helping his peers better understand what students with disabilities go through, including an international conference focused on supporting students with disabilities in higher education and participatory events such as Dining in Education Policy (IEP) Program, the Michigan - native made a good start toward his goal, organizing many events aimed at helping his peers better understand what students with disabilities go through, including an international conference focused on supporting students with disabilities in higher education and participatory events such as Dining in education and participatory events such as Dining in the Dark.

The namesake and chairman of The George Lucas Educational Foundation discusses his vision of Edutopia at Dreamforce, the annual conference for customers of the customer - relationship - management company salesforce.com, as part of the event's increased focus on education reform and the need for greater business investment to achieve that goal.

Both Hobbses have long focused their volunteer efforts on education and cochaired the school's last capital campaign, which far exceeded its goal.

The narrow focus on math and reading may goose math and reading test scores in the short term but at the expense of the longer - term and broader goals of education.

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners from the fields of education, economics and policy to contribute perspectives focused on the meaningful goal of measuring and assessing teacher quality.

Education reform is a well - intentioned effort to improve outcomes for all students that is undercut by a misguided focus on achieving those goals on the cheap.

The main goal of the Global Education Magazine is to unite the cooperative efforts of the individual - society - specie for the creation of inter-ethnic dialogues that derive in the construction of a collective intelligence focused on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The goal of Game Change is to implement long - term anti-violence and healthy relationship education in Massachusetts schools, with a focus on developing peer leaders at the high school level who can provide trainings to their middle school counterparts.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

The goal of proficiency - based education is to ensure that students acquire the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and careers and the centerpiece of achieving proficiency is a clear focus on learning and instruction.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

Focusing on math achievement, STEM, and CTE education beginning at earlier ages and giving local schools flexibility to implement these goals are critical to providing opportunities for ALL Montana students to succeed.»

Admittedly, the critical pedagogues have squarely confronted two of the most enduring issues surrounding the work of education: 1) To what extent should the mission of public schools be focused on character development, societal reform, and other such affective goals, as opposed to cognitive development and academic preparation?

Unlike previous federal programs, which tended to focus on particular problems, they noted, the Bush proposal offers a comprehensive strategy for achieving the national education goals set last year.

These conferences focus on relevant topics in teacher education as they relate to North Carolina and issues pertinent to our goal of ongoing advocacy.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

Effective schools are characterized by explicit, agreed - upon academic goals for all children; a strong focus on academics; order and discipline in the classroom; maximum time on learning tasks; and frequent evaluations of student performance — all principles repudiated by the Disney school and also by many «new» education reforms.

The goal of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been to put the focus of education policy squarely on students.