Sentences with phrase «education goal of raising»

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«The goal was to create a world - class event and food festival that helped raise funds in Florida for education and in New York City for the hunger causes,» says Lee Brian Schrager, founder and vice president of corporate communications and national events at Southern Wine and Spirits of America.

Menu of Hope was created with the goal of raising funds to provide healthy meals and nutrition and physical education to Ohio's at - risk children who do not have consistent access to the food they need to grow, learn and thrive.

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

For over 20 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

«For over 20 years, SNF has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships; to date, SNF has awarded members over $ 2 million in scholarships.»

$ 20 Million In Private Donations Raised For Mayor de Blasio's Computer Science For All Initiative The fundraising campaign is half - way toward meeting a $ 40 million goal that will ultimately be matched in public funding for one of the cornerstones of the Mayor's Equity and Excellence education reforms.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

The goal of National School Choice Week (NSCW) is to raise public awareness of all types of education options for children.

Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.

The goal of the International Year focus is to «raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, agriculture, communications and health».

Furthermore, the traditional salary schedule has no element directly linked to raising student achievement, the main goal of education reform.

In November 2009, I unofficially formed H.E.R.O. (Housing, Education, and Rehabilitation of Orphans) through a self - created blog with the ultimate goal of raising sufficient funds to build a residence for street children and orphans.

It is unclear how widespread this disproportionate spending is among U.S. high schools, but it raises the question of whether our spending in public education is consistent with our academic goals.

«We have elevated achievement as the primary goal of child raising and demoted or sidelined concern for others and the common good,» Richard Weissbourd, a senior lecturer at Harvard's School of Education and the co-creator and director of «Making Caring Common,» told ABC News.

The positions Trump has mentioned — pumping $ 20 billion in federal dollars and convincing states to divert another $ 110 billion into school choice; repealing Common Core; reducing or eliminating the Department of Education — remain fairly ambiguous goals that, in some cases, raise more questions than they answer.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

In addition to this lack of major success in raising student achievement, these approaches help only a small percentage of students and thereby do not further the goal of a good education for all students.

It brought together the most influential national education organizations to develop common goals for pre-k policy and raise awareness about the importance of early learning.

One of the greatest potential benefits of expanding the time and place for learning is the chance to experiment with the kinds of «out - of - the box» approaches to high school education which are sorely needed if we are to reach our goals for raising student achievement and eliminating inequities in achievement and graduation rates.

And it raised the importance of the National Assessment, requiring the Department of Education to increase the frequency of its administration in math and reading to once every two years, to help Americans monitor progress toward the goals of universal proficiency and the elimination of the achievement gap.

The goal of the Week is to shine a positive spotlight on effective education options for children, and to raise awareness of the importance of, and benefits of, school choice in a variety of forms.

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

Raising standards should be the primary goal of education reform.

Bailey says his ultimate goal is to raise the quality of discourse on education.»

In order to elevate authentic student readiness to a primary goal of education, it requires raising the level of awareness among school staff and parents and a strong role of advocating for practices that contribute to college and career readiness.

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«The VIP awards program provides an incentive for schools and school divisions to set ambitious goals for raising student achievement and meeting the needs of diverse learners,» said Board of Education President Eleanor B. Saslaw.

Education there has raised the demand for dedicated and hardworking students» and goals of students» remain unfulfilled if they do not work that additional mile.

To enrich the lives of consumers through quality education, coaching and helping them improve their credit, raise their credit scores and achieve their goals.

The foundation's primary goals are to provide emergency funding to rescues; to provide education on responsible pet ownership; to assist in fund raising ideas or opportunities for rescues; and offer guidelines for adoption of rescue Collies.

Love - A-Bull would like to help reach that goal by raising at least $ 3,000 to fund our training and therapy programs, spay / neuter services, community education, and to help continue saving the lives of animals in Austin which will ultimately impact the number of pets entering and leaving the shelters.

This year's goal is to raise $ 80,000 and by the time the kick - off event had wrapped, the combined efforts of those involved had already garnered about half that, says Jess Reekie, executive director for the Ontario Justice Education Network.

More than $ 7,000 was raised towards the trio's $ 15,000 goal, all of which will go to their local women's shelter and domestic violence prevention and education programs across Canada.