Sentences with phrase «education than in years past»

The majority of this debt is in the form of federal student loans, offered by the Department of Education to borrowers in need.However, the amount owed in private student loans is growing as students are in more need of financing for their education than in years past.

The majority of this debt is in the form of federal student loans, offered by the Department of Education to borrowers in need.However, the amount owed in private student loans is growing as students are in more need of financing for their education than in years past.

Not exact matches

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

For example, the prices of secondary education and housing have been increasing much more rapidly than the prices of other goods and services; meanwhile fuel prices have risen, fallen, risen again and fallen again — each time very sharply — in the past ten years.

Waldorf School of Princeton (WSP) is grateful to all past and present sponsors for supporting more than 30 years of Waldorf Education in New Jersey!

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

Five other funds created in the past four years — Homeless Veterans Assistance, Veteran's Remembrance and Cemetery Maintenance and Operation, Women's Cancers Education and Prevention, Mental Illness Anti-Stigma, and NYS Teen Health Education — each had more than $ 1 million in their accounts.

In the past 50 years, thanks to education and technology, more than 2 billion people joined the middle class, swelling the human footprint nearly 50 percent.

And what about the college newspapers, where the explosion in film education over the past 20 years has generated dozens of undergraduate critics who already know more than some of their elders will ever learn?

«Jumpstart's greatest accomplishment is that we've engaged nearly 2,000 college students in one - to - one service to more than 8,000 children over the past seven years,» Aaron Lieberman tells Education World.

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

ASG COO Bruce Hawkins said the cost of education has risen at more than double the rate of inflation over the past 10 years and outstripped the growth in wages over the same period.

For more on this topic, an article in the Summer 2015 issue of Education Next looks at changes in where states set the bar for proficiency and finds that over the past year, more states rose the bar than lowered it.

«In past years, no one in the private sector thought to look to an education school for any reason other than to be of help [to them]-- never to themselves get helIn past years, no one in the private sector thought to look to an education school for any reason other than to be of help [to them]-- never to themselves get helin the private sector thought to look to an education school for any reason other than to be of help [to them]-- never to themselves get help.

This one tends toward the latter, with the author emerging not as a journalist - observer at major education events of the past 40 years but more as a key mover in far more of those events than he actually influenced.

No state in the country has accomplished more on the education reform front than Indiana has over the past two years.

Yet observations I have conducted in more than 300 classrooms in California, Minnesota, New York City, and Massachusetts over the past 15 years indicate that local school systems have commonly used bilingual education as a generic term referring to all three types of language - instruction programs.

Groundwork has been working with schools to bring environmental education to schoolchildren in a way that complements the National Curriculum for the past 30 years, and we have found that nothing brings a subject to life more than giving pupils the opportunity to experience the environment first hand.

It's a reflection of our culture, one that will see more innovation in education during the next ten years than it has seen in the past hundred.

Our findings reveal more stability than change in public opinion over the five years since the Education Next — PEPG survey began, suggesting that the momentous policy developments of the past year were not caused by — nor have they yet produced — broad changes in popular views.

Over the past ten years, much has changed in the world of education policy, and in particular the «war of ideas» today is very different than it was in 2001.

As everyone knows, the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act is closer to the finish line now than at any time in the past eight years.

About 1,500 miles to the north, the school budget in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has fallen so far behind its needs that the district has had to lay off more than 60 staff in the past four years, reports Ed Shoucair, president of the Gloucester Education Foundation.

Over the past eight years, my survey course on Politics and Education in the U.S. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education came to resemble an Internet café more than a classroom, with a laptop perched on nearly every student's desk.

PPE For the past five years, the nonprofit Raise Your Hand Texas has sent more than 600 principals from across the state to summer institutes with the Programs in Professional Education.

The reality is that more was accomplished in the first nine years of the education reform movement than in the past 16.

In fact, as Ty Eberhardt and I have argued, 2010's Republic surge deserves more credit for the education reforms of the past several years than does Arne Duncan's Race to the Top:

Over the past few decades, education reforms in Brazil and Chile have been widely celebrated as successful, and most students are much better - off than their predecessors were 15 years ago.

Participation in education training fell by almost 40 percent in the past five years, dipping to less than 19,000 in 2013 - 14.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

State education officials said that in the past year, they have ordered its vendor to scan more than 50,000 exams for any errors since Summers brought it to their attention.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

I've learned more about public education at the National Alliance in two months than I have in the past year.

BEST OF THE WEEK Few education reporters have tackled the intersection between education and housing instability more thoroughly over the past two years than The Oregonian's Bethany Barnes does in Reading, Writing, -LSB-...]

In support of this, he cites a recent Harvard study,» Evaluating Newark's Education Reforms,» that finds more than half of the significant English language arts (ELA) gains in Newark over the past five years can be attributed to students opting for a new or different school, as opposed to benefiting from improvements in their existing schooIn support of this, he cites a recent Harvard study,» Evaluating Newark's Education Reforms,» that finds more than half of the significant English language arts (ELA) gains in Newark over the past five years can be attributed to students opting for a new or different school, as opposed to benefiting from improvements in their existing schooin Newark over the past five years can be attributed to students opting for a new or different school, as opposed to benefiting from improvements in their existing schooin their existing school.

Based on analyses produced by the Benchmark Educational Resource Group, annual public education operating expenses in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student, and total spending increased by over 40 % over the past five years, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation during that period.

Under his leadership, ASK has been a driving force in education reform across the region, completing six nationwide and three regional projects over the past 3 years which have impacted 3,843 schools and more than 161,000 students.

For the past four years, Vermont has prioritized broadening work - based education in secondary schools, to include more than what has traditionally been offered in career - technical education.

In the past five years SoundOut has worked with more than 75 K - 12 schools across the nation to help students and educators re-envision the role of students in educatioIn the past five years SoundOut has worked with more than 75 K - 12 schools across the nation to help students and educators re-envision the role of students in educatioin education.

Schools Week revealed last December that the Department for Education (DfE) needed to claw back # 11 million from more than 100 free schools after they failed to recruit expected numbers in the past academic year.

For local educators, the assessment consortia's work adds to a running list of education reform efforts that spans more than a decade, but has accelerated in the past few years.

Consider this: according to Education Resource Group and data from the Texas Education Agency, aggregate public education funding from all sources over the past 14 years has increased by $ 70 billion more than the increase necessary to fully fund the growth in enrollment and inflation combined over this period, even when adding a factor for the increase in special needs Education Resource Group and data from the Texas Education Agency, aggregate public education funding from all sources over the past 14 years has increased by $ 70 billion more than the increase necessary to fully fund the growth in enrollment and inflation combined over this period, even when adding a factor for the increase in special needs Education Agency, aggregate public education funding from all sources over the past 14 years has increased by $ 70 billion more than the increase necessary to fully fund the growth in enrollment and inflation combined over this period, even when adding a factor for the increase in special needs education funding from all sources over the past 14 years has increased by $ 70 billion more than the increase necessary to fully fund the growth in enrollment and inflation combined over this period, even when adding a factor for the increase in special needs students.

A CCSSO initiative here represents no less than the 4th signal in the past year (joining NCATE's, our own, and US ED's) that major changes in teacher prep are afoot, with or without the buy - in of higher education.

Peng Her, parent of three Madison students, assistant director of the Center for Resilient Cities and a member of the Hmong Education Council, said the school improvement process under Cheatham feels different than those in past years because there's a bigger focus on engaging the community.

On Tuesday, the same day NAEP results went public, the Louisiana Department of Education announced (hat tip to the comms folks at LDOE on the timing) that the Class of 2017 was the first in state's history to have more than 50 percent of students qualify for the TOPS college scholarship program, thanks to the steady rise in ACT scores over the past six years.

Maryland doled out more than $ 26 million in federal SIG funding to 22 schools over the past four years, state education officials said.

In fact, the work has been under way for much of the past year, and few areas are more suited for bipartisan action than education reform.

Survey results released today by Front Row Education — a San Francisco - based education program provider — show that more than half of teachers have a 1:1 device - to - student ratio and that access to Google Chromebooks has increased more than 15 percent in the past yeEducation — a San Francisco - based education program provider — show that more than half of teachers have a 1:1 device - to - student ratio and that access to Google Chromebooks has increased more than 15 percent in the past yeeducation program provider — show that more than half of teachers have a 1:1 device - to - student ratio and that access to Google Chromebooks has increased more than 15 percent in the past year alone.

Taking a look at the latest numbers available, courtesy of Mike Antonucci, we see that the National Education Association lost 42,000 active members in 2013, «bringing the union's total losses among working public school employees to more than 310,000 (10.7 %) over the past five years.»