Sentences with phrase «education summit in»

Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker, shown here speaking Aug. 20 at an education summit in New Hampshire, was supported by 25 percent of Wisconsin Republicans and Republican - leaning independents in a poll released last week.

«Cooperation, collaboration, and consensus - building are way overrated,» Rhee said at the Aspen Institute's education summit in 2008.

In contrast with politicians in Washington, many of whom «care more about their primaries than they care about anything else,» Christie declared at an education summit in Las Vegas that Republican governors like himself, as well as some Democrats, were «leading the change» on Common Core and «dragging Washington to the change.»

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The White House's higher education summit in January, as some critics described it, was all about appealing to the cameras.

Then, in 1989, the governors and President George H.W. Bush held the nation's first education summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, and formulated national education goals for America.

A two - day education summit in San Francisco last week has given California lawmakers a host of options but no consensus on how to cure the woes of the nation's largest state school system.

When Gates made this remark in 2005 at a national education summit in Washington...

They were previously seen a few years ago when the then minister was pictured making the most of an education summit in Mauritius — by cooling his toes in the Indian Ocean while enjoying a glass of vino.

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Coalition Executive Director of the STEM Education Coalition James Brown delivered a speech at the Second Arkansas STEM Summit about STEM learning pathways in line with the summit's theme of «Spotlighting STEM.»

I am attending in a unique and dual capacity, both as a member of the Youth Sports Safety Alliance (www.youthsportssafetyalliance.org)- an alliance of 60 organizations, like MomsTeam, committed to education, research and legislation to make youth sports safer, which is partnering with the NATA to put on the summit - and as a member of the media reporting on the event.

In addition to our existing partners, Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom will be bringing in allies from local anti-hunger, education, nutrition, and health communities in each eligible state, where we then host «Breakfast Summits.&raquIn addition to our existing partners, Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom will be bringing in allies from local anti-hunger, education, nutrition, and health communities in each eligible state, where we then host «Breakfast Summits.&raquin the Classroom will be bringing in allies from local anti-hunger, education, nutrition, and health communities in each eligible state, where we then host «Breakfast Summits.&raquin allies from local anti-hunger, education, nutrition, and health communities in each eligible state, where we then host «Breakfast Summits.&raquin each eligible state, where we then host «Breakfast Summits.»

The Governor stated that when he came to government, the first task of his administration was to convene an education summit which was chaired by Prof Wole Soyinka, adding that all intervention of government in education since inception came from the recommendations of the summit and nothing about religion.

I asked his spokeswoman, Rachel Noerdlinger, who told me that Sharpton was taking part in the Education Nation summit and that given his involvement in education issues, it posed a Education Nation summit and that given his involvement in education issues, it posed a education issues, it posed a conflict.

Disagreements that have roiled the state's education community in the wake of new teacher evaluation laws approved by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature as part of the budget were highlighted at a day long summit called by education officials.

Other African leaders who were in attendance at the summit include the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele; Ghana's Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori - Atta; Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Uganda's Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Hon Kasija Matia; Gambian Minister of Trade, Isatou Touray; Nigeria's former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili and many others.

The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education is organising the summit with the support of Trust Africa, Senegal.

A statement signed by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon, said the unveiling of the new school is in furtherance of the determined implementation of the report of the 2011 education summit organised by the state government which identified the multiform problems and rots standing in the way of functional education in Nigeria.

The Project 2061 authors, along with nearly 40 other scientists, science educators, science education researchers, and teachers, were invited to present their work at an international energy summit held at Michigan State University in December 2013.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

And Östros feels that, despite disagreements on accreditation, participants at the Prague summit «made strides toward the goals of stimulating mobility and encouraging more reforms in higher education.»

During the opening keynote address, former NBA basketball star and U.S. global cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul - Jabbar set the tone for the summit: In order for the United States to stay economically competitive with emerging markets in China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skillIn order for the United States to stay economically competitive with emerging markets in China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skillin China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skills.

The solution, according to the majority of experts present at the summit, is to inspire student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math and provide better STEM education.

The first seeds of what was eventually to become EQAR were planted at the 2005 Bergen summit: ministers adopted the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and welcomed the concept of a European register of quality assurance agencies, to be further developed during the next two years.

School reform, as formulated by the summit, moved so forcefully onto the nation's political agenda that, in the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton had to promise to outtough Bush on education.

When the nation's governors and top business leaders convene in Palisades, N.Y., later this month for an education summit, they plan to champion academic standards as the key to improving student achievement.

This summit gives education leaders the opportunity to meet, learn from and enter discussions with leading figures in UK education and from education systems around the world.

The National Standards Review Team accomplished, at least in large part, what the nation's governors and many business leaders called for at an education summit last...

The summit is being held in the country under the official patronage of the Kenyan Ministry of Education, Science & Technology and hosted by Cabinet Secretary Hon Fred Matiang» i.

At the summit, 41 governors and 48 business leaders from across the country agreed to speed improvement and accountability in the nation's education system.

HGSE Dean Kathleen McCartney spoke today at the annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce education and workforce summit in Dallas.

THE GLOBAL SUMMIT ON EDUCATION 2013 (GSE 2013) «Emerging Trends For sustainability in Glocal Education: Opportunities and Challenges» Date: 11 & 12 March 2013 Venue: Dynasty Hotel, Kuala Lumpur CALL FOR PAPER Paper Submission Dateline Abstract: 7th November 2012 Submit Abstract: Click Here Full Paper: 31th Disember 2012 Submit Full Paper at: [email protected] Conference paper EDUCATION 2013 (GSE 2013) «Emerging Trends For sustainability in Glocal Education: Opportunities and Challenges» Date: 11 & 12 March 2013 Venue: Dynasty Hotel, Kuala Lumpur CALL FOR PAPER Paper Submission Dateline Abstract: 7th November 2012 Submit Abstract: Click Here Full Paper: 31th Disember 2012 Submit Full Paper at: [email protected] Conference paper Education: Opportunities and Challenges» Date: 11 & 12 March 2013 Venue: Dynasty Hotel, Kuala Lumpur CALL FOR PAPER Paper Submission Dateline Abstract: 7th November 2012 Submit Abstract: Click Here Full Paper: 31th Disember 2012 Submit Full Paper at: [email protected] Conference paper -LSB-...]

The Harvard Graduate School of Education will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boysEducation will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boyseducation, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boys and men.

School leaders summit Exclusively focused for those with a leadership role in a school, the School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share ideas.

Additionally the high - level summit brings together government, business and civil society thus fulfilling the need and opportunity for greater public private partnership in education, science and research across Africa, the Middle East and beyond.

On Wednesday, Campbell Brown and the American Federation for Children will host an education policy summit in New Hampshire with at least six of the GOP presidential contenders.

This panel discussion on politics attracted a standing - room - only crowd at last week's national summit on education reform organized by the Foundation for Excellence in Eeducation reform organized by the Foundation for Excellence in EducationEducation.

Africa's leading high level summit for education and innovation returns for its fifth year in 2015 and will take place in Kampala, under the patronage of the Government of Uganda, hosted by Hon Jessica Alupo, Minister of Education education and innovation returns for its fifth year in 2015 and will take place in Kampala, under the patronage of the Government of Uganda, hosted by Hon Jessica Alupo, Minister of Education Education & Sports.

Chester E. Finn Jr.'s tiresome and laborious attempt to show that there are significant differences between President Clinton's education policies and those of former President George Bush («related story, 01/25/95) merely obscures the fact that Mr. Clinton's program basically follows through on the policies set by Mr. Bush and the governors at their famous education summit held in September 1989 at Charlottesville, Va..

While President Bush's education summit and school reform in general have been in the news in the United States, Britain has launched its own massive, national program of school improvement.

In interviews last week, educators for the most part gave the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» high marks for continuing the focus on national standards begun at the 1989 education summit between President Bush and the nation's governors.

NBC's Education Nation 2012 begins next month and will culminate with the event's national summit in New York City in September, according to details released by the network.

Last month I talked about teacher pensions on a panel at the annual summit of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE - Network).

her speech is expected to include include plans for a Department for Education summit with businesses in the autumn to start developing the T level curriculum.

The nation's governors and top corporate executives will trumpet standards and technology as medicine for what ails the nation's schools when they gather next month in New York state for an education summit.

In light of this, the mayor brought education leaders together with Ofsted, the Met police, Transport for London as well as parents and young people who have been affected by knife crime, at a special summit in Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in schoolIn light of this, the mayor brought education leaders together with Ofsted, the Met police, Transport for London as well as parents and young people who have been affected by knife crime, at a special summit in Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in schoolin Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in schoolin schools.

The first is that everyone engages in vague «it's for the kids» banalities, agree that the kids must come first, and pledge vague, meaningless collaboration going forward (e.g. see the Denver labor summit that the U.S. Department of Education hosted in February).

He was returning to a theme he and the governors had sounded in Charlottesville last September at the education summit, where their list of suggested goals included «the reduction of the dropout rate and the improvement of academic performance, especially among at - risk students.»

A month after the presidential call to arms for high - school reform, 45 governors and a host of education leaders and CEOs met in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel for a summit devoted to the subject.

In a speech to the National Indian Education Association's legislative summit in Washington last week, NIEA President Ryan Wilson said he wanted Congress to back legislation designed to help preserve American Indian languageIn a speech to the National Indian Education Association's legislative summit in Washington last week, NIEA President Ryan Wilson said he wanted Congress to back legislation designed to help preserve American Indian languagein Washington last week, NIEA President Ryan Wilson said he wanted Congress to back legislation designed to help preserve American Indian languages.

Mr. Patton, a Democrat, will be responsible for setting the tone and direction for the Washington - based organization's upcoming year, including finding ways to achieve the goals that grew out of the national education summit held in Charlottesville, Va., in 1989.