Sentences with phrase «education organizing groups»

This includes nonprofits, parents, student - led education organizing groups, and others.

The Montgomery County Student Alliance was a 1,000 - member student - led education organizing group in Maryland in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Not exact matches

Traditional ways of segregating age groups from one another can lead pastors or Christian education committees to overlook some viable alternatives to traditional ways of organizing educational ministries.

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.

Six cities were selected as training centers where community resources were explored, clergymen and other professionals were enrolled, a local committee was formed to plan the curriculum, and a group organized for continuing education.

I help coordinate birth parent support groups and adoptive parent education courses; we also organize and facilitate a Fall Festival and Summer Picnic each year for our families.

The AD will work closely with the Camp Co-Directors to mentor camp staff in environmental education best practices, lead camp groups in activity, complete the camp schedules and weekly supply lists, organize camp materials, finalize field trip logistics, and co-author the daily «parent page» email communication.

Monday's news conference featuring the «Sex And The City» star was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon joined long ago to seek more state funding for schools.

The press conference was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon has long been associated with that advocates for more state funding for schools.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both haveducation council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both havEducation), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

«We are asking our city's mayor and our city's leaders to put an end to education inequality,» said Joe Herrera, of Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group, which organized the rally.

Hudson, who last performed Friday at Madison Square Garden for Pope Francis» Mass, will sing no fewer than four songs for the upcoming rally organized by education reform group Families for Excellent Schools.

The UAB Office of Postdoctoral Education was formed in 1999 following a series of focus groups with faculty and postdocs, organized by the graduate school.

Made by a group of organized youth outside the city of San Salvador in order to obtain a better education, this design features multicolored glass beads in hexagonal patterns to achieve a charming look.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

Associate Professor Mark Warren and Lecturer Karen Mapp introduced a new Special Interest Group (SIG) this week focused on grassroots organizing at the American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting in New York City.

Special education teachers are expected to do quite a lot: Assess students» skills to determine their needs and then develop teaching plans; organize and assign activities that are specific to each student's abilities; teach and mentor students as a class, in small groups, and one - on - one; and write individualized education plans in parent - friendly language.

As part of this new group, Warren and colleagues will research the power of grassroots organizing and its ability to impact education policy and communities.

But as transportation improved and demand for a high - school education increased, the one - room schoolhouse organized into «recitation groups» no longer sufficed.

This focus shocked many Americans, as was clear from the bad press the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, received when some of the curricula posted on its website suggested that teachers avoid attributing blame for the attacks — despite the fact that the attacks were a clear product of a well - organized terrorist group.

Other countries may be able to impose meaningful systems of test - based accountability, but the decentralized nature of American education and politics gives far more power to organized groups of upper - middle - class families and educators than to the technocratic elite.

In a series of seminars led by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable steps.

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

The resulting attacks come from three directions: state policymakers, local school systems, and organized public education interest groups.

The conference was jointly organized by UNESCO, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, with the support of the Qingdao Municipal Government and the region of Shangdong, and the sponsorship of the Weidong Group.

Master's student Megan Red Shirt - Shaw, Oglala Lakota and a member of the HGSE student group Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE)-- which prepares educators to resist the manifestations of colonialism in school systems — has thrown herself into the work of advocacy, helping organize protests and events at HGSE, including a donation drive for the DAPL protestors.

• The bill passed by the House education committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver ieducation committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver iEducation • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver initiative

«There is increasing evidence that cooperative groups that are not well organized... are no better for girls than «competitive» classrooms,» Jane Butler - Kahle, a professor of science education at Miami University of Ohio, said here at the 42nd annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association.

EWA was organized in 1947 by a group of newspaper reporters with the intent of improving education reporting to the public.

He organizes and supports a group of state education leaders called Chiefs for Change; and, with former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, he's pressing another initiative, Digital Learning Now!

As such, organizing differs significantly from the activities of the education interest groups that have historically been influential such as the National Education Association, the California Teachers Association, or the national Parent Teacher Asseducation interest groups that have historically been influential such as the National Education Association, the California Teachers Association, or the national Parent Teacher AssEducation Association, the California Teachers Association, or the national Parent Teacher Association.

Master's student Megan Red Shirt - Shaw, Oglala Lakota and a member of the HGSE student group Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE)-- which prepares educators to resist the manifestations of colonialism in school systems — has thrown herself into the work of advocacy, helping organize protests and events at HGSE, including a donation drive for...

The court changed its mind, however, after Governor Schwarzenegger, the state secretary of education, and leading newspapers, to say nothing of highly organized groups of home schoolers, condemned the court's action.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

Dan Leeds is the founder and president of the National Public Education Support Fund, which organizes the Education Funder Strategy Group and international study tours of high performing education systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropicEducation Support Fund, which organizes the Education Funder Strategy Group and international study tours of high performing education systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropicEducation Funder Strategy Group and international study tours of high performing education systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropiceducation systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropic leaders.

The Regional Ministerial Conference on education post-2015 is organized by UNESCO for Member States of the Eastern and Western European and North American region (Group I and II countries).

The majority of applicants identified as early educators and teachers, early education instructional personnel, policy and community organizing groups, edtech and entrepreneur groups, and university - affiliated groups and researchers.

Also on Wednesday, a second coalition of 11 education reform and civil rights groups organized by Education Trust — sharing some of the same members and including Educators 4 Excellence, La Raza, DFER and StudentsFirst — wrote a letter to Harkin education reform and civil rights groups organized by Education Trust — sharing some of the same members and including Educators 4 Excellence, La Raza, DFER and StudentsFirst — wrote a letter to Harkin Education Trust — sharing some of the same members and including Educators 4 Excellence, La Raza, DFER and StudentsFirst — wrote a letter to Harkin and Enzi.

She was the director of the Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs (PRACA); co-director of Atrévete, a group dedicated to voter registration and political participation organized by the Migration Division; member of the boards of National Women's Political Caucus, National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), and Puerto Rican Educators Association; and a member of various other organizations.

And some organized groups (teachers, superintendents, parents) are familiar faces around the General Assembly as education legislation is discussed, debated, and voted on.

During the 2014 budget session, we joined forces with other education advocacy groups and organized a campaign to share student stories about school funding shortfalls and ensure the legislature restored school investment to more adequate, pre-Recessionary levels.

The group uses its web site, issue alerts, grass roots organizing and media outreach to increase its numbers and raise awareness about the orchestrated threat to Florida public education.

The National Teaching and Learning Forum: A nicely organized discussion group full of interesting opinions, ideas, and comments about education at all levels.

Her group organized the event to release its new manifesto, outlining challenges Allen sees within education reform, and steps allies must take to get their movement back on track.

When you are using a Google Apps for Education account, gmail now automatically organize your inbox by grouping emails from Google Classroom.

Others organize through teacher groups that directly influence education policy.

«Gov. Malloy will not appear at a March education rally being organized by a coalition of parent groups.