Sentences with phrase «education systems serving»

Kristin talks about navigating the complexities of the education systems serving Native American students.

Our traditional education system serves most students poorly because it does not address individual learning needs.

In China, where the national education system serves 20 percent of the world's students, there's a strong emphasis on the mastery of core concepts.

A classic case for the debate about whom the American public education system serves more — parents and taxpayers or unionized employee special interests — is the issue of tax - funded teachers union release time.

Not exact matches

Led by author and journalist Lenora Chu, this panel will explore how China's education system must both adapt to cultivate future entrepreneurs and retain its commitment to intellectual rigor to ensure that it can serve as a global talent pipeline.

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

Mr Morfin said: «We've got some fantastic teachers in our schools who are working so hard to serve these children but the reality is that the current system doesn't enable those vulnerable children to always get the education that they need.»

That system seemed to undercut the democratic gains that were being made in law, politics, education «and family life; it tended rather toward a new feudalism, dominated by robber barons and served by a new class of.

And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

Thi spost serves asm a sad commentary on the failure of the American education system.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) today announced that «Facts Up Front» will serve as the theme for the consumer education campaign in support of the food and beverage industry's fact - based front - of - pack nutrition labeling system that was launched in January as Nutrition Keys.

Having serves as the first President of the Professional Footballers Association, he went onto become Mayor of Fleetwood in later life, combing the role with that of a teacher in the local education system.

Some of that extraordinary work includes Dougherty County School System training students to harvest, wash, and prep product from their teaching gardens for taste tests and to serve in the cafeteria, Elbert County School District featuring local strawberries on the lunch line from a farm 20 miles away, and Dade County Schools utilizing experiential nutrition and garden - based education to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards.

A national comprehensive system of education has served most children well.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

Serving as Director - General of the Electoral Institute of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), he was at the forefront advocating for free, fair, credible and participatory electoral system through research, capacity building for the staff of the Commission, and engagement of vigorous voter education activities.

In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.

The State University of New York, «the largest comprehensive system of postsecondary education in the country,» now serves 600,000 students each year, Chancellor Nancy Zimpher told the state legislature at a budget hearing in January.

The State University of New York, «the largest comprehensive system of postsecondary education in the country,» now serves 600,000 students each year, Chancellor Nancy Zimpher

«Hubert Keen is a seasoned higher education professional whose leadership within our university system as well as the Long Island community makes him ideally suited to serve as Nassau Community College's next president,» said SUNY Board Chairman H. Carl McCall.

De La Rosa — who served as City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's former chief of staff before announcing her candidacy for the 72nd District in April — has pledged to allot $ 100 million a year for capital repairs at city - run housing and create programs for youth in that housing such as sports teams, education support systems and art.

«The tax legislation, in its current form most recently passed by the US senate, would be a disaster for New York State's public education system and the 2.6 million children it serves,» the groups wrote in the letter.

The American Federation of Teachers says the New York results should serve as a «national wake - up call» about the dangers of a test - focused education system.

Rhodes said education is supposed to be the great equalizer but that the nation has two education systems, one that serves the rich and the other the poor.

This is an opportunity to recognize K - 12 education professionals who have developed innovative solutions to challenges facing our youth through the educational system that serves them.

«Rob Astorino is a product of public schools, a father of three children in the public education system and a former school board member who was recruited to serve by teachers,» spokeswoman Jessica Proud said in a statement.

«StudentsFirstNY has made clear that we will continue to serve as a counterweight to the special interests that created our broken education system,» said Jenny Sedlis, the group's executive director.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Greater emphasis is also being put on transferable skills that serve not only academic scholars but also professionals who «may have research careers in other parts of society,» says David Crosier, education system analyst at Eurydice, the E.U. organization that provides information on European education systems and policies.

The successes of minority - serving institutions must be analyzed and adopted to the larger higher education system.

The university, which holds departments in physics, chemistry, life sciences, electronic engineering, and environmental engineering, «was built with a mission to serve as an experimental ground to reform the Chinese higher education system,» he explains.

Freeman A. Hrabowski has served as President of UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since 1992 and is a consultant on science and math education to national agencies, universities, and school systems.

If wellness depended on learning our multiplication tables and being able to identify nouns and verbs, our education system would serve us beautifully.

This context is fine in larger cities as it fits with the general social ideals and norms, this is however not the case for remote and regional centres, especially with regards to NESB indigenous Australia, where our education system basically serves as a tool (ethically / morally dysfunctional tool) for their assimilation into national Australian community where they find meaning through participation at all levels.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

I've written previously about its role in creating proof points capable of scaling for the field that help propel the education system more toward a fully competency - based, student - centric one, and now NGLC is at it again (full disclosure: I serve as a reviewer for their grants).

Nick has also served as New Hampshire's Deputy Commissioner of Education, as a trustee of the University System of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Community Technical College System.

Students with disabilities are served by a system of policy and practice that extends from expansive federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within one cEducation Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within one ceducation teacher and a single student within one classroom.

Ms Rodgers, who most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider sociaEducation, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider sociaeducation and the wider social sector.

Mayors from the six cities, along with education leaders from across the country, came together to start the process of rethinking local systems to better serve all students.

And it has served him well in his native Brazil, where he returned after graduation to work on improving the country's education system.

The research included in this volume suggests that vouchers and faith - based programs had slightly positive effects relative to the traditional education systems in several nations (for instance, Chile, Columbia, and Sierra Leone), but the volume also includes some evidence that serves to counter an overly - optimistic view of PPPs.

«A superior system of higher education has never been more important to the future of the state and the nation than it is now, and I am honored to serve on the Board at this critical time,» said Barron.

He had a longtime interest in education, serving as a member of New York State's Board of Regents, but no particular obligations to the union leaders or bureaucrats within the system.

Knewton started with test prep, then moved into a partnership to deliver remedial education with Pearson for Arizona State University, and is now serving K - 12 students who are in the juvenile justice system.

It's important to remember, however, that substituting technologies for certain teaching tasks is a critical innovation for advancing the education system's ability to serve all students.

Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - ceneducation system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - cenEducation), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.

But however the case is resolved, it serves as an important reminder of the importance of state - specific constitutional language and precedents, the considerable degree of variation in legal rules in our 50 - state federal system, and the continuing power of the local control idea in education law.

«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.