Sentences with phrase «education literacy program»

Helped operate the hip - hop education literacy program (HELP), a novel program that improves students» literacy through interpreting music lyrics.

On the Adult Education Program Standards project, Dr. Darwin developed the reading taxonomy to be used along with technical assistance for states in the development of adult education literacy program standards.

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The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating States.

The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating states.

Public libraries and other institutions in the District of Columbia and five states — Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska — will participate in the DASH for the STASH investor education / protection program and contest taking place April 15 - May 15, 2015 as part of Financial Literacy Month.

The Office of Investor Education carries out the SEC's investor education program, which includes producing and distributing educational materials, participating in educational seminars and investor - oriented events, and partnering with federal agencies, state regulators, and others on investor literacy iniEducation carries out the SEC's investor education program, which includes producing and distributing educational materials, participating in educational seminars and investor - oriented events, and partnering with federal agencies, state regulators, and others on investor literacy inieducation program, which includes producing and distributing educational materials, participating in educational seminars and investor - oriented events, and partnering with federal agencies, state regulators, and others on investor literacy initiatives.

We need networks and programs to offer well informed education resources to raise functional literacy levels in religion.

It could offer a powerful tool to improve literacy and education in developing areas... Now we have sought in good faith and so far as it is possible to present a program which is above the clash of partisan politics or the cold war.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Parent - Child Home Program is for families who enroll their children between 18 months and two years of age, participate for two years, are challenged by low levels of education, poverty, literacy and language barriers, and / or are isolated and not accessing community services.

Education is at the core of Drumlin Farm's mission, and our nature - based camps, workshops, preschool, and school programs cultivate environmental and science literacy in uniquely flexible and compelling ways.

Our regular program of Morning Lessons and Subject Lessons provide an education that is unusually rich in developmental movement, music, and art; literacy and numeracy foundations; and health - strengthening rhythm.

Every day, Chicago Children's Museum presents innovative programs that make math, science, literacy, and the arts come alive for families and community and education partners.

In settling the D.C. lawsuit, Chartwells agreed to make $ 14 million in credits and payments to the school system and committed to provide $ 5 million in philanthropic support for the schools, including $ 4 million to the D.C. Public Education Fund for «innovative programs» and $ 1 million to several nonprofit organizations that promote literacy and provide mentors, college scholarships and academic enrichment.

His plan, the New Education Bargain, calls for community schools, lower class sizes, more career programs and a focus on early literacy — all things that have become state and national priorities.

The agreement also restores funding for such at - risk programs as arts education, academic literacy, adult education and early childhood education.

NMIC's adult education program serves more than 2,000 residents annually, giving them free access to English, GED and computer literacy classes.

This is a fellowship program designed for genetics professionals with an advanced degree who are early in their careers and interested in the development and implementation of national genomics literacy efforts, informal science education, science education policy, program development, or science education research.

The Senior Scientists and Engineers (SSE) and AAAS forms the AAAS / SSE STEM Volunteer Program to support K - 12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, foster STEM literacy, and motivate students to pursue STEM careers.

Chandra's program plays a key role in NASA's EPO portfolio, synthesizing and disseminating results from NASA's exploration of the high - energy Universe into a broad suite of programs and activities focused on increasing science literacy and contributing to science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) education.

The Forum Leads delivered an invited plenary presentation entitled «Science and Science Education Go Hand - in - Hand: The Impact of the NASA Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach Program» at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in San Jose, CA (Ensuring STEM Literacy: A National Conference on STEM Education and Public Outreach).

Earth Science Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment AirMOSS Aqua Aura Aquarius CALIPSO CARVE Center for Earth and Climate Science Education CloudSat DISCOVER - AQ Earth to Sky - Building Climate Literacy for Informal Educators: Expanding the Earth to Sky Partnership (EPOESS NNH09CF00C) Girl Scouts Earth Science Patch Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) The GLOBE Program GLOBE at Langley GRACE ICESat - 2 Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) MY NASA DATA NASA Climate Day / Earth Ambassadors NASA Know Your Earth Campaign NOVA Labs Ocean Surface Topography Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 SAGE III on ISS S'COOL: Student Cloud Observations On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Terra

July 14, 2015 Ci3 awarded $ 1.2 M NIH grant to boost STEM, health literacy among urban teens The Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC Design Lab), a signature program for the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago, has received a five - year, $ 1.2 million federal grant to investigate gameplay and game design as a way to enhance science and health education for minority groups.

Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., is a professor in literacy, language, and culture and the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan and a member of the International Literacy Association Literacy Researcliteracy, language, and culture and the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan and a member of the International Literacy Association Literacy ResearcLiteracy Association Literacy ResearcLiteracy Research Panel.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan announced that Pamela Mason, director of the Language and Literacy (L&L) master's program and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab, has been promoted to the rank of senior lecturer.

After months of collaboration with Senior Lecturer Kay Merseth and the Programs in Professional Education (PPE) office, 75 educators participated in December's initial three - day institute, Differentiating Instruction and Team Teaching in Mathematics and Literacy.

Coverage of Reach Every Reader Launch: Zuckerberg, Chan Give $ 30M to Harvard and MIT for Literacy (The New York Times) Reach Every Reader Targets Early Literacy Crisis (Harvard Gazette) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Literacy Effort (The Boston Globe) Mark Zuckerberg's Charity Is Giving $ 30 Million to Help Kids Learn to Read — and Love It (Quartz) Harvard - MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $ 30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (The 74) Zuckerberg, Wife Give $ 30M for Child Literacy (The Boston Herald) Chan Zuckerburg Initiative Funds Harvard - MIT Effort to Screen Children for Reading Problems (Education DIVE) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Ed.

Key recommendations of the report include: • A test to assess the literacy and numeracy skills of all teaching graduates; • A requirement for universities to demonstrate that their graduates are classroom ready before gaining full course accreditation; • An overhaul of the in class practical element of teaching degrees; • A specialisation for primary school teachers with a focus on STEM and languages; and, • Universities publish all information about how they select students into teacher education programs.

Pamela Mason will join HGSE as a lecturer on education and director of the Language and Literacy Program; Jennifer Thomson will work as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer on education in the Language and Literacy Program and Mind, Brain, and Education Program; and Matthew Jukes, will join the International Education Program as an assistant peducation and director of the Language and Literacy Program; Jennifer Thomson will work as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer on education in the Language and Literacy Program and Mind, Brain, and Education Program; and Matthew Jukes, will join the International Education Program as an assistant peducation in the Language and Literacy Program and Mind, Brain, and Education Program; and Matthew Jukes, will join the International Education Program as an assistant pEducation Program; and Matthew Jukes, will join the International Education Program as an assistant pEducation Program as an assistant professor.

NAPLAN IN A NUTSHELL One of the most well known tests in the education space is the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test.

Jill Carlson International Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.M.»

Jennifer Thomson has begun work as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer on education in the Language and Literacy Program and the Mind, Brain, and Educationeducation in the Language and Literacy Program and the Mind, Brain, and EducationEducation Program.

The grant will support the creation of the National Adult Literacy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a nonprofit economic and social development organization with expertise in programs for adult lLiteracy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a nonprofit economic and social development organization with expertise in programs for adult literacyliteracy.

Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, has joined HGSE as a lecturer on education and director of the Language and Literacy Program.

The education secretary at the time, Michael Gove, outlined the rationale for the changes in a speech last January: «ICT used to focus purely on computer literacy — teaching pupils, over and over again, how to word - process, how to work a spreadsheet, how to use programs already creaking into obsolescence; about as much use as teaching children to send a telex or travel in a zeppelin.

HGSE offers 13 master's programs, leading to careers in school leadership, teaching, language and literacy, international education policy, and many other fields.

The U.S. Department of Education should provide support and oversight to local decisions and push specific «nonnegotiable» programs, such as the literacy program Ontario implemented in the 2000s.

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved legislation that would increase the spending ceilings for adult education and the Even Start program for disadvantaged parents and preschoolers, and create a council to coordinate federal literacy efforts.

Predictably, then, I have not found any bilingual - education programs that actually teach initial literacy in native languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, that use ideographic characters.

In the third instructional program, the only one that meets the definition of bilingual education in the theoretical literature, students are taught initial literacy and subjects like math and science in their native tongue as they progress toward fluency in English.

I also have not found any non-Roman alphabet bilingual - education programs that teach initial literacy in the native language, even if the alphabet is phonetic (as in the case of Hebrew, Arabic, the Indian dialects, Russian, Armenian, and Khmer).

Most importantly, a handful of references to film appearing in the English domains of the Australian Curriculum and some state curriculums, but also some bold international moves to roll out large - scale film literacy programs for primary level education.

Joshua Jenkins is an master's of education candidate in the Language and Literacy Program, pursuing licensure as a reading specialist.

Build up the literacy skills of adults to a level from which they can proceed to a higher - education program or employment.

Finally, last year, there was hope: Balanced literacy was left for dead yet when the city Education Department recommended two reading programs for elementary schools as they prepare to meet the rigorous new Common Core State Standards in English: New York State's Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum and Pearson's ReadyGen.

They also answered questions about race and education during a discussion moderated by Lecturer Pamela A. Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the Language and Literacy Program.

The Manukau Family Literacy Program, run by the City of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schooling.