Sentences with phrase «education initiatives meant»

This is in part due to education initiatives meant to improve performance in district schools.

Not exact matches

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

Your gift can provide general charitable support to meet the Medical Center's greatest future needs, or it can fund a specific patient care, research or education initiative that holds special meaning for you.

If you're unfamiliar with the event, Shedd Blu is meant to raise money for Shedd Aquarium's rescue, conservation, and education initiatives.

The multi-year initiative, called By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, aims to create comprehensive and linked systems for learning and wellbeing that help eliminate what Reville calls the «iron - law» connection between socioeconomic status and achievement.

What does the appointment of Betsy DeVos mean for future federal education policy and initiatives?

We (meaning all of us — educators, parents, businesspeople, politicians and others) often default to an economic argument in discussions of public education, no matter the particular initiative at hand.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the keynote speaker on Tuesday and Reville's former boss when Reville served as secretary of education in the Commonwealth, said an initiative like By All Means is critically needed, now more than ever.

The first convening of the By All Means initiative — a partnership between six cities and the Education Redesign Lab at HGSE to eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic status and achievement — was held on May 17.

That meant some budget cuts, and the legislature did cut deeply (too deeply, in my view) into state education initiatives.

Despite countless stories like Jamal's, in the end nothing — and I mean nothing — was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.

According to a case study, the university's Social Work Education Enhancement Program, an initiative to improve schooling in Vietnam, uses Cisco WebEx regularly as a means to facilitate two - way communication.

The By All Means initiative is addressing the iron law correlation between socioeconomic status and education outcomes by partnering with visionary mayors and superintendents from Louisville, Kentucky; Oakland, California; Providence, Rhode Island; and Salem, Somerville, and Newton, Massachusetts.

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

The initiative — now in its second year, and spearheaded by former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville — is called By All Means, a project of the Education Redesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievemEducation announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievemEducation to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievemeducation and child well - being to close achievement gaps.

The Lab's staff will also continue to lead the national advocacy agenda that NCTL launched in 2007 Additionally, grant will support the Lab's «By All Means» initiative by providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertise.

As the Education Redesign Lab wraps up phase one of the initiative, the Harvard Graduate School of Education is happy to announce the launch of By All Means (BAM) 2.0 and two additional initiatives to support communities in expanding services and opportunities for children.

The Education Redesign Lab launched the By All Means initiative in May 2016 and convened a national audience in support of a more effective systems for educating all children so that they are prepared to be successful in a complex, 21st century society.

As Oakland's mayor and superintendent were preparing to announce their Oakland Promise partnership, the Education Redesign Lab, headed by Paul Reville, was preparing to launch its By All Means initiative and was seeking out partner cities to participate as «laboratories» of innovation to create a children's opportunity agenda.

In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents...

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.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

(Ill.) A new plan to better prepare students in Chicago Public Schools for life after graduation has education experts concerned that the initiative, while well - meaning, may prove half - baked unless the district can provide support resources.

Expanding out of school time learning opportunities is one of the key focus areas in Somerville's work as a founding member of the Harvard Education Redesign Lab's By All Means initiative.

Even though the Common Core was meant largely to improve the college readiness of high school graduates, the report says, «Many of those within higher education were not involved in developing or endorsing the Common Core standards and assessments, and have not considered how they might change their own practices to align with this K — 12 initiative.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced today the selection of six cities, including Salem, for a new multi-year initiative — By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity — aimed at developing comprehensive child wellbeing and education systems that help eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic statEducation (HGSE) announced today the selection of six cities, including Salem, for a new multi-year initiative — By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity — aimed at developing comprehensive child wellbeing and education systems that help eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic statEducation to Restore Opportunity — aimed at developing comprehensive child wellbeing and education systems that help eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic stateducation systems that help eliminate the link between children's socioeconomic status and...

When Paul Reville was selecting cities to participate in Harvard Graduate School of Education's groundbreaking «By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity» initiative, he knew what he wanted.

Constant change in education policy has meant that teachers haven't been given the time to get to grips with one initiative properly before it is changed for another, in a way they are less «expert» at their jobs.

The Education Redesign Lab launched the By All Means initiative in February 2016 to rethink education and child developmentEducation Redesign Lab launched the By All Means initiative in February 2016 to rethink education and child developmenteducation and child development systems.

This marks the first time that the U.S. Department of Education has defined what «blended learning» means and put money behind the initiative.

To really understand what school choice means, we need to pull apart the two major components of school choice initiatives: the ability to choose one's school from an array of public, charter, private, and religious options; and the use of vouchers to subsidize these choices with public tax dollars that have historically, and constitutionally in many places, been intended to support public education.

For School Libraries Public library districts come to mind first when considering ballot initiatives, but they are by no means the only types of libraries where voter education and campaign support matters.

Biannual visits to Loreto including hotel and non-stop flights from LAX, are meant to promote and strengthen the sister city relationship between the cities, and the cost of the trip includes a donation to support the Ventura / Loreto Sister City Committee whose objectives include collaboration on tourism, culture, education, environment, and business initiatives.

Funded by a generous grant from the Law Foundation of British Columbia, West Coast LEAF's newest education initiative Only Yes Means Yes aims to inform post-secondary students about the law of sexual assault and consent through a social justice lens.

The insurer outlined changes meant to have long - term positive impact on the legal representation rate among its clients, including resolving claims effectively and quickly «in a fair and reasonable manner» through streamlining determination of coverage and payment of benefits, implementing initiatives improving access to benefits and providing education to customers so they have more control over the claims process.

Tomorrow, Apple will host an event in Chicago where it's expected to announce new education initiatives, along with a low - cost iPad meant for use in the classroom.

LIVINGSTON, NJ — As part of Mt. Pleasant Elementary School's (MPE) Character Education initiative, students recently learned what it means to show compassion toward others.

STEM, or STE (A) M, initiatives are a global focus in all education sectors at the moment, but what does STEM really mean in the Early Years?