Sentences with phrase «education have at»

In addition, one - fourth of California's 1,034 school districts and county offices of education have at least one charter school, and 8 school districts have converted all their schools into charters.

Doesn't education have at least something to do with head?

«Whatever happened to the recognition that a university education has at least three purposes: helping one understand who they are and what excites and motivates them; helping understand one's relationship to the greater world; and, also, becoming prepared for a job.»

And to all those people who say: he wants children to have the kind of education he had at his posh school...

The traditional media used in education has at least one major Achilles heel.

He points out — following Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and others — that progressive education had at least two variants, one dealing with curriculum and pedagogy, another dealing with organization for efficiency and social usefulness.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 refashioned the yardstick for judging schools, alternative education has at times become a silent release valve for schools straining under the pressure of accountability reform.

The College of Education has at least one mechanism in place to capture data for each of the 8 required measures.

As related to Arizona's teacher accountability system in particular, so far, the state department of education has at least tried to maintain some sanity in terms of its teacher accountability and related VAM - based policies, leaving much of this to be determined by and in the hands of districts and schools who still very much honor and appreciate their local control.

Not exact matches

Only 12 percent of Hispanic men and 21 percent of black men have a college degree by their late 20s, compared to nearly 40 percent of white men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education.

If you look at the problem we have today, the education issue is deeper than just education.

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

And I think that there's no doubt in my mind if you look at hard numbers since the education department has been founded in 1978 or» 79, public education has only gotten worse.

And our government is claiming that it doesn't have enough money for infrastructure or for healthcare or for police or for education and at the same time, there's just huge amounts of tax avoidance and tax evasion going on through this secrecy world.

One facility in Egypt reported a 4 - to - 1 return on investment, largely because women, who typically stayed at home when they were menstruating, had access to education and sanitary pads.

If you don't have support at work, taking continuing education courses is an opportunity to build community of new people who have the skills you covet.

To get a better sense of where things are heading, Business Insider has taken a closer look at technology's developing role in the field of education and outlined the advances that could be spelled out for the future.

«He came with an entire package that was well - established and user - friendly, and had a customizable look and feel,» explains Peter Wolf, then a distance education designer at Guelph.

At a time when about one in five young Canadians are underemployed or working in precarious part - time jobs, it's easy to think that the more education you have, the better.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

She writes extensively about education, business, self - improvement, and careers and has adjuncted at UCLA and National University.

«He always encouraged my sister and me to get an education but said that at end of the day, it would be great to be in a position to run our own business.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

The U.S. has taken a number of policy approaches aimed at increasing the country's innovation output, from boosting STEM education programs to offering tax incentives on R&D research.

Recruiting kids through summer enrichment programs at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, the SMPY has tracked 5,000 mathematically gifted students through their education and subsequent careers.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

Specifically, she has called for shoring up spending for early childhood education and capping families» costs for it at no more than 10 percent of their income.

To have a chance at success, most every child needs an education.

At the time, my employer footed the entire expense of that education but even if it had not, I had every intention of paying for it myself.

«At a time when young adults and families are struggling more than ever to pay for higher education, they simply can't afford to have more financial support eliminated by this tax plan,» said Reid Setzer, Young Invincibles» director of government affairs.

At the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at InteAt the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at Inteat Intel.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

But Jonathan Fansmith, director of government relations at the American Council on Education, said the $ 350 million is not enough to cover all the borrowers who would be eligible if they were simply enrolled in a different repayment plan.

Education services provider Navitas has entered into a 10 - year agreement with University of Northampton to establish a pathway college for international students at the UK university.

Technology continues to improve at exponential rates — education has much work ahead to catch up.

The boy, he learned, had never been to school — like the 67 million kids around the world without a chance at an education.

At 1871, we have companies (in addition to Peanut Butter) dealing with similar issues in education (Learnmetrics), funds transfers (Pangea), social services (mRelief), etc..

«It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology or any other industry will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system,» said Williams in Facebook's 2016 diversity report, released Thursday.

At the same time we've spent over $ 80 million supporting Canadian music, education, concerts and festivals through our Canadian content development commitment that we have through our CRTC license.

At the moment about 90 % of its business is in the education sector, which means it has a lot of room to grow elsewhere.

Glenn LaCoste, president and CEO of Surviscor, says Questrade has improved the user experience in the past few years so its various websites have a unified feel, and it excels at investor education through the short explainer videos it produces.

«These organizations can provide advice to clients at a very low price point, and they can serve a portion of the population that's been really under served, people who haven't had access to investment advice,» said Robert Stammers, director of investor education at the CFA Institute.

The cost of higher education has only climbed over the years, so it's no surprise that millions of people turn to student loans to finance at least a portion of that cost.

«My role here is to take a lot of those learnings that I had at Airbnb where it was about transforming an archaic system that really needed a revamp — for there it was travel and here it's education,» said Modi, now AltSchool's vice president of operations and services.

After garnering feedback from more than 80 Kaplan executives and technology experts, and tinkering with their revenue models, design plans and presentation speeches for three months at Kaplan's New York City offices, the teams behind these disruptive education technology companies have learned their fair share of business lessons.

Perhaps the kerfuffle at University of South China is emblematic of the reason why postsecondary education in the United States — despite all its administrative shortcomings and financial crises and political mayhem — has yet to lose its spark.

«While we have this image that America is this land of great opportunity, the truth is, the places we're talking about [at the top of the ranking] have high social mobility — meaning if you're born to a relatively poor family, it's not an obstacle, you'll be able to get an education and get ahead.

With the exception of a language training program that brought in $ 300,000 a year, Thunderbird had no executive education programming at all.

Giving these children a home and education and has been supported by Semester at Sea (Unreasonable at Sea's partner and host) for the last three years.