Sentences with phrase «education organizations around the country»

From this new leadership perspective, she said she is struck by the number of conversations on the achievement gap going on in education organizations around the country.

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Teach Away's clients — education ministries, colleges, and other organizations that provide ESL training — are situated in more than 50 countries around the world, including the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

James Baker, who is a physician and immunologist and CEO of the nonprofit Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), says his organization is tackling this problem by setting up 40 centers around the country to administer food challenges with all the necessary precautions.

This year's Twestival was held in 175 countries around the world on March 25, 2010 and raised almost $ 350,000 to date for Concern Worldwide, an organization that helps bring education to the world's poorest children.

As is often the case in education, successful systems and strategies emerge in many places around the country but these bright spots too often remain hidden to the majority of educational organizations because of geographic distance and the decentralized structure of schooling.

At last week's presentation, «Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture: From Cambridge to Tajikistan Using Raspberry Pis and the Sneakernet,» Beary shared her experiences with Entrepreneurial Lab (eLab)-- an entrepreneurship education program for high - potential, disadvantaged young women between the ages of 12 and 15 around the world — both in an effort to capture the early stages of a startup and to share how the organization has used low - cost technology to reach young women living in remote parts of low - income countries.

The organization's stated goal was to bring Indianapolis - like corporate education reforms to other cities around the country.

Harris will remain in Indianapolis for his work with the new national organization, which is being formed to help cities around the country build the right conditions for education change, drawing from The Mind Trust's success in Indianapolis.

It funnels millions of dollars to Teach for America, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (which pushed for the Florida tax credit program that NC lawmakers studied), and numerous organizations around the country that lobby for charter school expansion.

«There hasn't really been an organization dedicated to sharing the successes of education reform around the country,» Wolfson said.

MAPLE is one of many personalized learning - focused organizations that have sprung up around the country as the concept has gained a foothold in the minds of education reformers.

Available in over half of all U.S. schools and primary schools in England, community colleges and in 50 countries around the world, Discovery Education partners with districts, states and like - minded organizations to captivate students, empower teachers, and transform classrooms with customized solutions that accelerate academic achievement.

Online teacher education programs are becoming feasible as the technology infrastructure in Namibia advances (Bateman, 2002) and nongovernmental organizations such as SchoolNet Namibia continue to install networked computers in primary and secondary schools around the country.

The Gallaghers happen to be the owners of a school uniform company and therefore work closely with educational settings around the country, so their interest in children's education paired with their special concern for orphans led them to grow both this charitable organization and the ebook.

Millions of people around the country young and old have joined American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, in celebrating its «Be Kind to Animals Week ®» (May 7 - 13), the longest - running, most successful humane education campaign in American history.

Some of his previous roles include: Partnership Director at Plugged In, an organization working in East Palo Alto, California that connects individuals and cultivates minds by creating the opportunity to produce, express, and contribute using technology; International Production Coordinator at Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, which created the largest video archive in the world, containing more than 52,000 interviews conducted in 56 countries around the world; Youth Manager at the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County, which engaged more than 800 teens a year in community service and education about social and environmental issues; and Ghostwriter of the autobiography of a Polish Holocaust survivor who fought as a partisan in the forests of Belarus.

That requires education, that requires commitment, it requires time in order to really come to understand the ways that dominant identities around race or gender or class has entrenched themselves, almost become calcified within the structures of any firm, or pick an organization in this country, whether it's higher ed or the non-profit sector, medicine, et cetera.