Sentences with phrase «education goals despite»

The awards recognize three public high schools that demonstrate excellence in academic growth and help disadvantaged students achieve their higher education goals despite social, cultural, and economic challenges.

Not exact matches

This is occurring despite the fact that theological education has been increasingly shaped by academic standards and goals, and at times even academic self - sufficiency.

Bentham and Mill, despite their differences, both recognized education as the most direct route to realizing the utilitarian goal of maximizing happiness for the greatest number of people.

«The reality is that despite a great deal of rhetoric, progress towards meeting the internationally agreed goal of universal access to education is already stalling.

And Östros feels that, despite disagreements on accreditation, participants at the Prague summit «made strides toward the goals of stimulating mobility and encouraging more reforms in higher education.»

Meanwhile, despite the lack of evidence that higher education leads to greater entrepreneurship, the government is sticking to its goal of sending 50 % of young people to university.

Despite broad goals — promoting science for the benefit of society, stressing public science education, taking a moral stand against government and industry misuse of science — infighting and members» opposing views limited the group's effectiveness.

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Despite loud demands for greater education equality, access to first - rate college preparatory programs for large numbers of minority students remains an unrealized goal.

Despite my loss, the fight for religious freedom and equal access to education will continue, and I am only strengthened in my resolve to further those goals.

Despite its lofty goals for every student and the support of some of the most powerful national players in education reform, the modern standards and accountability movement has hit a rough patch, if you haven't noticed.

WASHINGTON — Despite the lack of a Congressional go - ahead, the National Education Goals Panel plans next month to establish a council to oversee the development of national subject - area standards and a related system of assessments, panel officials said last week.

In actuality, despite the label, the goal of the policy is to create multiple avenues to ensure that children do read on grade level by the fourth grade, the time in education when students transition from learning - to - read to reading - to - learn.

«Despite the importance of postsecondary education to the economic and social vitality of the U.S. and the individuals who pursue this academic goal, the educational pipeline to and through college is broken for communities of color, the fastest growing segment of the population.»

Despite the low expectations commonly associated with student populations of which a majority is low - income and ELL, the Cibola faculty set and maintains a goal of not only graduating every student, but also ensuring that they continue to postsecondary education.

Despite the American Legislative Council's tentative embrace of Donald Trump's presidency, they are foaming at the mouth for the now - endless opportunities to further privatize public education — a key ALEC goal they have been promoting and pushing for decades.

Despite a court ordered agreement, five years ago, that the State of Connecticut would create a system in which at least 41 percent of Hartford students attended «integrated» schools, the State Department of Education announced yesterday that the state had failed to reach that goal... Again.

«Despite modest improvements in local education over the past decade, we remain far from the goal of providing high - quality public education for all students,» said Myrna Castrejón, acting chief executive officer of the California Charter Schools Association.

And, despite more than 40 states setting clear benchmarks for postsecondary credential attainment, not even a quarter of the states aligned their K - 12 long - term goals with those in higher education, which is a huge missed opportunity for kids.

Despite the city's optimism, the prospect of more tests, particularly ones that will have a direct influence on teachers, is causing dismay among those who believe that students already spend too much time preparing for exams and not enough on the broader goals of education, like social and emotional development.