Sentences with phrase «education groups are»

Therapeutic playgroups and parent education groups are available.

GROUPS URGE FCC TO RETHINK LIFELINE DECISION: Several education groups are asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the decision to roll back the Lifeline program, arguing that it could hamper the ability of low - income students to access the internet.

Many major education groups are also skeptical.

Several education groups are preparing a letter to Harkin and Enzi decrying the removal.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

Now that a high - profile and potentially influential panel has released its detailed proposal for revising the No Child Left Behind Act, the Bush administration and education groups are waiting to hear from the institution that matters most: Congress.

As the 200th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution approaches, education groups are putting the final touches on plans to help students in virtually every school in the country learn about the document.

Education groups are lukewarm, and fiscal watchdog groups say it doesn't make good economic sense to issue long term bonds to for items like I - Pads, which will be outdated long before the debt is repaid.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and education groups are seeking at least $ 125 million in the coming state budget for pre-K in each of the next two years to further expand the program to the city's suburbs and upstate.

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

In Sweden, where the current study was carried out, parent education groups are held during pregnancy and throughout the first year of the newly born child (Fabian et al., 2005, 2006; Barimani and Hylander, 2012).

Parent education groups are an important health promotion offered to all expectant and new parents.

Women randomised to antenatal education were more likely to exclusively breast feed compared with the control group only from six weeks postnatally, when 29 % (39/133) of women in the antenatal education group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 17 % (23/136) of women receiving routine care (1.73, 1.04 to 2.90; number needed to treat = 8, 5 to 41).

At the same time, other education groups were yelling from the rooftops that the governor's proposal was «too cold.»

Fifty years ago, smoking prevalence for all education groups was fairly clustered, with nearly 40 % of college - educated individuals smoking along with approximately 45 % of individuals in all other education groups.

Initially, the project was supposed to include about 20 to 30 teachers, but the Shanghai Distance Education Group was so excited by the proposal, they asked WIDE World to expand the course.

The bill from Senate leaders was moving last week as a less expensive bill offered by Governor Schafer languished without committee action and a more expensive plan offered by education groups was quickly shot down.

But most of the administrators, teachers, and education groups re sponding to a department request for written comments on the issue said children with the disorder who need special attention are receiving it.

Education groups were top NY lobbyists of 2014 - Times Union http://t.co/0e6fII4VTx FFES leads with nearly $ 10M, NYSUT $ 3M

A nonprofit education group is giving away 9,500 backpacks stuffed with school supplies to children inPassaic City and Paterson over the next two weeks.

Insight Education Group is an international educational consulting company that works with education leaders to develop the strategy and confidence to lead bold change — and provides the boots on the ground to make it happen.

Insight Education Group is an international educational consulting company that works with education leaders to develop the strategy and confidence to lead bold change — and provides the embedded supports to make change happen.

With experience in more than 26 countries, Cognition Education Group is at the forefront of global education innovation.

Known as the PROSPER Act, the bill aims to streamline student aid programs, get rid of several regulations, limit certain benefits to graduate students, and more.The initial response from higher education groups was surprisingly restrained, in part because so many people were focused on the tax bill.

* The Cardiac Education Group is a group of ACVIM board - certified veterinary cardiologists from both academia and private practice in the United States that offers independent recommendations for the evaluation and treatment of canine and feline heart disease.

GF Education Group are the creators of the CBL Exam (Certified Business Laureate) exam, which is a business test that qualifies and quantifies the skills of recent college graduates.

Maine About Blog The Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education Group was created and exists to raise awareness, foster education, advocate for change and provide support for those affected by Lyme Disease and other tick - borne associated diseases.

Not exact matches

Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of higher education.

WestRiver Group and Boeing co-led the round and were joined by Silicon Valley Bank, TAL Education Group, Mukita, and PeopleFund.

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

FirstMark Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including First Round Capital, University Ventures, Box Group, Rethink Education, Learn Capital, John Doerr, and Omidyar Network.

While independent franchisee associations can be viewed as confrontational, when all involved parties get talking, the groups can be a collaborative source of support and education.

Different employee development groups for each department are necessary to train and develop employees in specialized areas, such as sales, engineering, marketing, or executive education.

«Education Today,» a three - year - old, 19 - employee newsletter for parents, published by Educational Publishing Group in Boston, is distributed nationwide to 60 corporations.

GGV Capital led the round, and was joined by New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc and K2VC.

• Fishawack Group of Companies, which is backed by LDC, acquired Carling Group of Companies, a London and San Diego - based healthcare marketing and medical education services provider.

Rhodes thinks the discrepancy in the ESOP's impact on the two groups may be due to the fact that his managers are more invested in the business and have greater responsibility, but it may also have to do with education.»

It's very common to see public education, private education, city government, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits come together to solve a problem as a group.

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.

While NABUCO, the trade group representing college and university business officers, is making the case that these tax reforms will hit students and employees of higher education, Skorina said it is going to be a tough fight.

Lori Becker, founder and CEO of Boston - based education publishing firm Publishing Solutions Group, says she is a fan of the five - year goal, but the current economy and some major changes in her industry have forced her to reevaluate.

Engineering and construction firm Decmil Group has been selected to build a school in Christchurch for the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany, found that morning people are often more successful than evening people because, as a group, they tend to be proactive.

Neither of those stocks trade on U.S. markets, but one of Mortimer's picks that's easier for Americans to buy is New Oriental Education and Technology Group (edu).

Leadership WA: You've been involved with groups around education, groups around charitable sectors and the disadvantaged.

And a brand - new Work and Education Survey courtesy of the analytics group Gallup would seem to indicate that you're not alone.

She was previously a Research Intern at the Michael Cohen Group in Soho with a focus on child development, education, and digital media.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

• Pacific Equity Partners is in «exclusive talks» to acquire Academic Colleges Group, a New Zealand - based provider of academic education services to international students, according to Reuters.