Sentences with phrase «education major did»

On five occasions, Twitter also provided a means for participants to consult other educators in their specific content areas regarding course content, as the music education major did in his question.

Another possibility is that many individuals who graduate from college with an education major do not actually end up teaching, and it may be that the more academically competent among those trained to teach actually become teachers, either because of application or hiring decisions.

Not exact matches

How it Innovates: While most competing teaching platforms offer the same features as they did 15 years ago (like delivering quizzes and publishing grades), D2L is already leading a major shift in the industry: It's harnessing data and analytics to become the Netflix of education.

Of course, China isn't known for being particularly compromising when it comes to solving its higher - ed pickles: In 2011, the country's Ministry of Education notoriously announced that it would be canceling all majors that didn't produce employable graduates — largely programs that didn't accommodate the country's export - and manufacturing - based economy.

Today, The New York Times revealed (in a collaboration with The Chronicle of Higher Education) another appealing reason to declare a business major: you don't have to work very hard.

«Majorities of nearly every demographic group - including all major religious groups, age groups and education groups - agree that the government should do more to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor,» reads the survey.

Although Thomas Groome in his widely celebrated Christian Religious Education (Harper & Row, 1980) does not actually use the term, he does in fact present a powerful practical theology of Christian education that constitutes the major reason for the book'sEducation (Harper & Row, 1980) does not actually use the term, he does in fact present a powerful practical theology of Christian education that constitutes the major reason for the book'seducation that constitutes the major reason for the book's success.

Such efforts were not always academically strong and did not have a major impact on university education.

Liberal arts education does not exclude majors, and for those who plan to teach in high school, such majors will be important.

One major problem with his doing that is that he fails to recognize that in Paul's day, when that was written, few, if any, women were allowed to have a formal education, whereas to the extent formal education was available to anyone, the men got it; the women didn't.

«If this doesn't work out, then I'll quit and go on with my education,» said Peters, who is majoring in kinesiology, the study of the principles of mechanics and anatomy in human movement.

Even as you have done away with the recreational - education and physical - education majors in which football players were often stashed, an enhanced academic support system has helped the team's graduation rate climb steadily, topping out in the respectable low 70's the last time the NCAA checked.

I really do nt feel like anybody else on the stagg is going to be forcing players into majors, especially with baxter having written that book about education

Little did I expect that I would be a major creator of an entire new profession.A military assignment took my family to Canada where I became a childbirth educator, partly to help prevent breastfeeding problems through prenatal education.

What does he believe re education, climate change, entitlements, income / wealth inequality, to list just a few major issues?

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

It was the governor's longest State of the State address so far — by about a minute — and, according to Tom Precious, of The Buffalo News, «offered a toned - down plate of major spending ideas,» and «made no bold pronouncements for historic spending initiatives, as Cuomo did last year with promises for record education funding from Albany.»

Early childhood education advocates say they are going to do a major push for pre-k funding at the state level when Indiana lawmakers return in January.

Early childhood education advocates say they are going to do a major push for pre-k funding at the state level when Indiana lawmakers return in...

But it did provide data showing the state receives less in taxes from Western New York than it spends in the region in major spending categories like education, economic development, roads and human services.

As the Times reported on Wednesday, teachers unions along with other labor groups are not, as they did in previous years, launching major attack campaigns on the governor for his proposed cuts to education and other programs.

Today, poor career prospects for science doctorates continue to discourage many able science majors from pursuing graduate education, «because they don't see a career path» other than the traditional Ph.D., Teitelbaum said.

«One thing that undergraduates don't often realize is that one of the major differences between undergraduate studies and graduate studies is that they are going to move from a broad - based education to one that is extremely focused,» says careers counsellor Malisheski.

Although it did get some small education grants from the National Science Foundation, major government research agencies generally wouldn't touch the place.

Now a student at UC Davis, he is majoring in environmental toxicology with an emphasis in molecular and biomedical toxicology and a minor in education, and he continues to do research in a neurogenomics lab at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience.

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found that medical schools simply do not provide obesity education to their students, and only a small minority of major medical centers even provide adequate, effective training to students in caring for obese patients.

«The Governor's Education Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer Pauleducation system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation and HGSE Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Major elements of the education establishment still believe parents do not have the formal training or knowledge required to have direct, legitimate power within the public education system, and that parents should step out of the way and let the experts do their jobs.

Many graduates of top schools, for example, sign up for Teach For America after graduation, yet did not choose to major in education.

It didn't hurt that XQ was the first major education investment by the Emerson Collective, LLC, which was established by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, or that the media team behind it projected a relentlessly upbeat tone, focusing on the possibilities rather than the obstacles.

Partly because of the XQ project's upbeat, open approach, the competition was the first major education - grant program in recent years that didn't set off an immediate wave of public alarm from critics.

Most education reformers didn't see Illinois as ground zero for a major school - choice initiative.

The Queensland Department of Education and Training did a fairly major rejig of their promotional recruitment activities there.

Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the committee responsible for education, will almost certainly play a leading role, as he did in the successful bipartisan effort to reauthorize the major K - 12 education law in 2015.

Does a person who majored in education possess the same skills as the average college graduate, much less one who majored in engineering?

Education may not play a major role in the 2012 election, but that doesn't mean that Obama's education policies should be giveEducation may not play a major role in the 2012 election, but that doesn't mean that Obama's education policies should be giveeducation policies should be given a pass.

And Latinos are our least - advantaged major immigrant group; of course we would expect East Asians and South Asians to do better on various measures, as they do markedly on education, and they do.

We did not include in our review courses that were part of the general education requirements or courses that were specific to majors.

FERA would seal their fates as education reformers when Virginia Gilder, then the wife of one of their major political reform benefactors, Wall Street financier Richard Gilder, asked Carroll what she could do to help fix the schools.

That is why we have introduced major reforms through the Higher Education and Research Act, including the Transparency Duty which will require all universities to publish data broken down by gender, ethnicity and socio - economic background, shining a light on institutions that need to do more to widen access.»

New Territory: Pathways and Barriers to a Harvard Major Harvard Crimson, 11/24/15» «There are pressures on individuals to avoid certain concentrations that they might want to do,» said Howard E. Gardner» 65, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Marc never quite resolves the extent to which Ontario sticks out like a structural sore thumb, nor does he quite draw the lesson that might be most applicable here: American education surely needs a major overhaul of its education governance before it can successfully put into place the other changes in policy and practice that Marc urges (and that these other countries do).

On a major national survey conducted in April 2005, for example, 76 percent of Americans opposed making college prep the universal high - school curriculum and instead favored «career / technical education to equip students who don't go to college with real - world skills.»

We at Fordham have found ourselves doing this a couple of times and we've periodically reviewed major analyses of «education success stories around the world» by the likes of McKinsey.

Despite education policies being a major part of party pledges, the majority of teachers do not expect any improvement to schools after the general election, a Tes survey has revealed.

The new Department of Education would also do well to invest in strategies to prevent harm to students in districts facing major enrollment losses, such as local district - charter partnerships.

According to Feistritzer, the «old way» of training public school teachers — putting undergraduates through an education major — does not suit many of today's candidates, who get interested in the profession only after completing a degree in science or the humanities or spending several years pursuing another career.

One way it has done this is by designing research competitions that focus on the major issues and areas of education.

What are some of the major issues behind diversity and education, and campus climate, facing institutions today and how do you plan to tackle these at HGSE?