Sentences with phrase «education system sets»

A high - quality education system sets clear, rigorous standards for the knowledge, skills and abilities students need to have to succeed in the global economy.

Not exact matches

VRI is currently being used in a wide variety of settings including hospital facilities, medical offices, mental health settings, higher education, court systems, and business settings.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

«We believe it is equally important that we ensure any future system carefully takes into account the differences within such a diverse sector, where settings vary considerably in terms of their characteristics and types of activity and education they offer.»

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

Visit helpful sites like one set up by the Military Child Education Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for military kids in the school system, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Military Child Support site.

The model has been used effectively in a wide variety of venues and settings: parenting, classroom, special behaviour programs, alternate education settings, therapy, correctional settings, aboriginal communities, adoption, counseling, and the foster system.

In an education system that places so much emphasis on perfect test scores and behavior, it's refreshing that the performing arts typically don't involve set rules.

The projects goals are to: 1) reduce the number of children expelled from early care and education settings due to behavioral issues, 2) increase understanding of social and emotional development and its impact on educational success, and 3) link and bridge systems and services on behalf of a child, family, and program.

Greatest improvements in early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding rates, were seen when counselling or education were provided concurrently in home and community, health systems and community, health systems and home settings, respectively.

The prime minister today set out major changes to the education system that she claims will make Britain a «great meritocracy».

The plans were announced at a meeting of the Church's General Synod on Sunday, at which the chair of the Anglican Board of Education, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future ChurchEducation, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Churcheducation system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Church schools.

Helen Flynn sets out the principles of a progressive, social liberal education system in this discussion paper.

It increases education spending by $ 769 million and sets aside more than $ 400 million for work on New York City's beleaguered subway and transit system.

NASUWT is setting out the principles it believes must be in place to ensure our education systems across the UK recognise and develop teachers as professionals

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

«In other words, our education system is currently set up in such a way as to discriminate against the majority of children within it.

Rather, we felt our charge was to recommend a set of tangible actions the Governor and Legislature could undertake to improve the current system of public education in New York so as to produce better outcomes for our children.»

He's also a veteran of the State University of New York system — and education policy is set to be among the many flashpoints in Albany this year.

Because if the parents don't have trust in the education system, then you have nothing and that's where we are now,» Cuomo concluded, setting the stage for next steps by his administration and the state education department, which is doing its own common core review (new SED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia was named to Cuomo's task force, so there appears to be some, if not significant, overlap).

It increases education spending by $ 769 million and sets aside $ 254 million for emergency work on New York City's transit system.

Budget Includes Landmark Education Reforms New York's education system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education TransformaEducation Reforms New York's education system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education Transformaeducation system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education TransformaEducation Transformation Act.

He has his own education committee studying potential changes to the evaluation system, which is expected to release a separate set of proposals to be voted on this legislative session.

He's been discussing the need for broad changes to the public education system — including giving the governor more control over setting policy — since before the November elections.

«I believe that the reforms we are setting out today will improve the fairness of the system for all students and help to create the best possible match between students and higher education places.»

Both reports were instrumental in setting up the Faculty of Law at Legon, leading to the current bifurcated legal education system, which includes the academic component at a University followed by a professional component at Makola or an equivalent professional school.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union has commented on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education, setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has suggested that if the Legislature leaves Albany on Wednesday without renewing mayoral control of schools, which is set to lapse on July 1, the city's education system will immediately descend into chaos.

Tisch and her colleagues on the 17 - member education policymaking board have argued that Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers set an unrealistic timeline for putting the new evaluation system in place.

In further signs of the creeping influence of the Church in the education system, a Church of England - led academy trust in Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary school.

ATL believes that the cost of setting up these schools is diverting money that is desperately needed by existing schools - the DfE overspent its free schools budget by # 1bn and has had to claw that money back from elsewhere in the education system.

TWEED COURTHOUSE — Frustrated parents and advocates from across the city took to the steps of the Department of Education headquarters Thursday afternoon to demand a delay of the controversial Kindergarten Connect online application system, set to launch in early 2014.

Set to testify before Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality education system needs to start with quality teachers.

Though there is concern about pre-K gains being lost by third grade, the de Blasio administration is attempting to run a program and larger education system that sets and keeps students on a stronger trajectory.

«We must not squander the opportunity to set the right course and make New York a leader in evaluating performance in our education system,» Cuomo wrote in his letter.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

But the governor did succeed in setting in motion another overhaul of the teacher evaluation system, whose details will be worked out in the months ahead by the State Education Department and in negotiations between each local school district and its teachers union.

The DOE and the UFT failed to reach an agreement on a teacher evaluation system for 33 «persistently lowest achieving» schools by the Dec. 31 deadline set by the New York State Education Department.

The Labour leadership election has been a case - in - point: the commonest piece of abuse thrown at Liz Kendall for daring to suggest, for instance, we should not be knee - jerk hostile to parents who want to improve the outcome of the state education system by setting up challenger schools, is that she is a Tory.

After reviewing previous research on metacognition in education, Atwood and Casselman set out to design a system to help chemistry students accurately estimate their performance and make adjustments as necessary.

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 skills.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

Also focused on the access to education for communities of color, The Pushouts, directed by Katie Galloway and co-directed by Dawn Valadez, tells the story of professor and author Dr. Victor Rios, a former gang member, who attempts to inspire the youth in neighborhoods similar to those where he grew up, so that they can change their personal paths in spite of a system that sets them up for failure.

The public education system was transformed by the Progressives into a small set of large, industrial - type organizations governed by elected politicians.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

Created by Adoption UK Cymru - «Getting it right for every child: A parent's guide to working with schools - sets out the top things parents of adopted children should look for when choosing a school, how to work with staff at the school and gives advice on how attachment issues can have an impact on a child's progress through the education system.

The schools leadership team has worked very hard to set up a sound, consistent, and manageable system for monitoring student behavior, and PBIS seems to be a natural extension of the program and the schools character education program, DAmato said.

In a test of Denver's new system of school - based management, several schools are engaged in what is being called a «power struggle» with the board of education over the right to set testing policy.

The school district «operates from a core ideology that includes our strategic intent «to earn so much respect from the citizens of Houston that HISD becomes their K - 12 system of choice» and a set of core values that defines who we are,» De la Isla told Education World.