The areas will be selected based on 11 indicators, with five relating to
education standards such as access to a good secondary school and attainment and progress data.
Not exact matches
For that they need programs
such as the federal «Goals 2000» Act, which sets up national
standards in
education for «gender - equitable and multicultural» teaching.
As anywhere else in the world, Church initiatives in public
education, social ministries, historical commemoration, and establishment of new parishes require Church and state to negotiate
such matters as licensing, training
standards, and financing.
That the days were numbered when
such elite educational ideals might hope to set the
standard is suggested by the strikingly different tone of the even more influential 1947 report of The President's Commission on Higher
Education for Democracy.
It is rather paradoxical that while European political colonization is nowadays firmly rejected, the spread of European culture goes on apace in
such forms as
education, science and technology, democratic rule, and Western
standards and ways of thought.
Development is also often used in a normative sense as a multi-valued social goal covering
such diverse spheres as better material well - being, living
standards,
education, health care, wider opportunities for work and leisure, and in essence the whole gamut of desirable social and material welfare.
• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production
standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public
education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges
such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..
Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding,
such as setting
standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public
education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
«In judging our progress as individuals, we tend to concentrate on external factors
such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and
standard of
education... but internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being: humility, purity, generosity, absence of vanity and readiness to serve our fellow men — qualities within the reach of every human soul.»
During a speech at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, King offered
education reforms
such as the Common Core
standards and teacher evaluations as vehicles of greater equality in schools.
Two members of the panel argued that the group's final report, released Tuesday, neglected several controversial issues facing public
education,
such as the state's implementation of new, rigorous academic
standards known as Common Core.
In 2013, the Department for
Education (DfE) published advice stating that» There are many different actions that schools can take to meet this part of the
standard,
such as:... Use teaching resources from a wide variety of sources to help pupils understand a range of faiths, and beliefs
such as atheism and humanism.»
Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate
standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether
such an
education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.
Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Twigg added
such schools opened in England would be brought into line with the teaching
standards of conventional
education.
In a paper written for the conference, Roseman also touched on the role of scientists and scientific organizations
such as AAAS in reforming science
education, including the development of
standards and the curriculum materials, assessments, and teacher professional development that are aligned to them.
Using scientific literature in the classroom does more than supplement lessons — the articles made available by Science in the Classroom also align with educational
standards such as the Framework for K - 12 Science
Education, the Common Core, Advanced Placement practices and competencies suggested in Vision & Change in Undergraduate Biology
Education, said Shelby Lake, senior program associate of Science in the Classroom.
There he could search by diet preferences
such as gluten - free, macrobiotic or paleo in addition to the
standard categories of age, religion and
education.
Russia has internationally acknowledged universities
such as the Moscow University or St. Petersburg Institute, the Russian
education system is known throughout the world for the high
standards of
education it produces.
It's pretty
standard stuff, mostly about your likes and dislikes, your principles and values, whether you expect your partner to make so - and - so income or have
such - and -
such education and whether
such things are dealbreakers for you.
fairly
standard information,
such as your location,
education level, ethnicity, and body type.
The Producers Guild has more than 5,700 members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry and community by providing members with employment opportunities, seeking to expand health benefits, promoting fair and impartial
standards for the awarding of producing credits, as well as other
education and advocacy efforts
such as encouraging sustainable production practices.
«I am very pleased to be joining the Academies Enterprise Trust, which is doing
such important work, and I share its commitment to achieving the highest
standards in
education.
If the purpose is to ensure that potential teachers have basic characteristics like honesty or fairness, existing
standards such as university honor codes in higher
education should suffice.
If BYOD has
such a wide reach, did it contribute to creating any
standards among the devices used for
education?
Such values are perhaps touched upon too briefly in
standard education, so having a job can help children learn these important life skills.
Some argue that
education lacks the characteristics of a fully professional field,
such as uniformly recognized
standards or a common core of knowledge that is taught in every school of
education.
His articles and essays address
such topics as school desegregation, school finance, school choice,
standards and testing, pre-K, and the intersection of special
education and neuroscience.
Quality badges
such as the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Quality Badge and the Association of Heads of Outdoor
Education Centres (AHOEC) Gold
Standard are both indicators of high quality provision.
A range of initiatives from the New York State
Education Department (SED) regarding
standards, assessments, and graduation requirements has been very helpful in [forming]
such important district strategies as aligning our curriculum, more effectively focusing our staff development, and instituting additional summer and afterschool programs.
This is a good opportunity to convey moral
standards such as honesty, fairness, and integrity and is a missed opportunity in most schools, even those with strong character -
education agendas.
Even leaving this concern aside and accepting the 0.08 of
standard deviation achievement boost, Hanushek finds that «we are hard pressed to come up with any other
education program working at (national scale) that has produced
such results.»
Ms Rodgers will replace the recently departed Ms Margery Evans, who served as the inaugural CEO of AITSL for six years and established the organisation's role in delivering national
education reforms
such as the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and the Australian Professional
Standard for Principals.
The international math and science scores so important for growth rates are not related to variations in spending on
education or other
standard measures of school resources,
such as pupil - teacher ratios.
To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in
such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math,
Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency
standards each state has established.
The program starts with
such basics as setting up a classroom, state teaching
standards, and
education policies.
But special
education vouchers are not the best way to do this; they create other, adverse consequences,
such as further segregating or perpetuating double
standards for children with disabilities and creating perverse incentives for parents and educators.
Not only will
such rhetoric keep it in the forefront as implementation progresses, it has the potential to build support for the CCSS among those who wonder if ELA and math
standards are all we want out of our children's
education.
A leading researcher in
education, he is a speaker, trainer, and author of more than 30 books and 150 articles on topics
such as instruction, assessment, writing and implementing
standards, cognition, effective leadership, and school intervention.
«I submit to you that in a system of
education that serves
such a highly diverse and transitory culture,... shared
standards aren't simply an option, but a mandatory conversation,» the Council of Chief State School Officers» executive director, Gene Wilhoit, said in a speech at the conference's opening session.
In a revealing analysis of a large data set, Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and his colleagues found that placement in special
education in grades 3 - 6 was associated with gains of 0.04
standard deviation in reading and 0.11 in math;
such small gains indicate that children with LD clearly are not closing the gap.
While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and
education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives,
such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic
standards.
People who study
education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the
standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized
such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»
With widespread bipartisan support from
such ideological opponents as U.S. Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, as well as the business community, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in 2010 the
standards sailed remarkably fast through adoption in 40 states and the District of Columbia.
In its much - anticipated report, the National Council on
Education Standards and Testing, a 32 - member panel of educators, business leaders, and public officials, concludes that creating
such standards and assessments is both highly desirable and feasible.
In order to meet the
standards of federal legislation
such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top ~ state departments of
education have revamped a great deal of their educational infrastructure
such as assessment programs and teacher certifications.
All the aforementioned obstacles in society and within the
education profession impede any large political unit (
such as a state) from attaining consensus about what should be in its civics
standards - much less tying an enforcement regimen to them.
I agree with a lot of the things that Al Gore says about
education,
such as high
standards and giving teachers bonuses.
BESA includes some of the country's top educational suppliers,
such as YPO, and, as an association, we're fully invested in exploring ways of unlocking the potential of schools and giving teachers the support they need to drive up
standards of
education.
The author of 16 books and more than 400 articles, his work has appeared in
such publications as The Weekly
Standard, Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times,
Education Week, Harvard Business Review and Boston Globe.
Groups
such as the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of State Boards of
Education (NASBE) have been working with states from both consortiums to implement the Common Core
standards and prepare for their assessments.