Sentences with phrase «educational agendas of»

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«In no way will Amazon's decision slow our pursuit of a strong growth agenda for Baltimore, as we work to attract new investment, quality job opportunities, and importantly, new residents to a city celebrated for its diversity, and its rich higher educational, athletic, cultural, medical, and maritime assets.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Nord may not offer a panacea, but he has an educational agenda more specific than usually comes from those who bemoan the lack of religion in the public schools.

The event has a two - day educational seminar, where some of the big industry names will speak & debate on one common agenda «Bulk Beverage Market».

Let go of your to do list and any educational agenda and just be fully present in your child's world for a few moments a day.

They reveal the extent to which the Government is pursuing an ideological educational agenda that has nothing to do with meeting the needs of local families and everything to do with promoting its own vanity projects and those of its corporate supporters.

«Pride Agenda Board leaders last week had constructive conversations with some former Executive Directors and others about the work that lies ahead for our community,» Norman C. Simon, chair of the Pride Agenda and co-chair of its affiliated educational Foundation, wrote in a December 23 email to Gay City News.

Teacher evaluations — the most controversial aspect of educational policies pursued by Cuomo — are not on the task force's agenda.

Why: Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will their progressive agenda agenda for full funding public schools; Common Core; how teaching to test results is corrupting our education system and the dangers of privatizing for profit our educational system

«We did not and are not declaring mission accomplished on LGBT equality,» said Norman C. Simon, chair of the Pride Agenda and co-chair of its affiliated educational Foundation.

They took on meaningful struggles against entrenched political interests whose agendas conflicted with the educational needs of children.

Our committee created groups to work on stating a «Declaration of Learning» to blend informal and formal learning, pre-K through gray; advance a research agenda to study the outcomes of park - based experiences; develop digital tools for learners of all ages; and create new partnerships and funding sources with educational agencies, institutions, and foundations.

Today, leadership development is at the forefront of academic agendas and many educational establishments are investing in training to help develop skills and experience within existing teams to prevent fraud and corruption at work.

It aims to mobilize all stakeholders around the new global education goal and targets, and proposes ways of implementing, coordinating, financing and reviewing the 2030 education agenda — globally, regionally and nationally — to guarantee equal educational opportunity for all.

De Blasio should be wise enough to leave those parts of the reform agenda in place while he works to construct a sturdy educational foundation for the city's youngest children.

«I think this is the first attempt to have a common research agenda that can be broadly communicated to the field,» Francie M. Alexander, a deputy assistant secretary in the Education Department's office of educational research and improvement, said in an interview.

Though the Governor has not (yet) put education on his campaign agenda — it is not, for example, one of the four issues highlighted on his new Perry for President website — he has, on multiple occasions, depicted Texas as an independent - minded model of educational progress.

Washington — The condition of the nation's educational system figured prominently on the nation's political agenda last week, as President Reagan introduced a four - part plan to «revitalize American education by setting a standard of excellence» during his State of the Union Message to the Congress.

Gov. George E. Pataki promised an ambitious educational agenda last week in his final State of the State Address, but he didn't answer the $ 5.6 billion education question: Will the state put up the money to end the 13 - year - old lawsuit that led to a court ruling that the state is shortchanging New York City public schools?

In addition to providing a more equitable and improved educational experience, which will (as panelist Meira Levinson pointed out) serve the civic mission of schools in and of itself, there are specifics in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that promote this agenda.

And in return, Hanushek has embedded his conclusion about the lack of class - size effects in a broader endorsement of a conservative educational agenda.

Opening the new year debate at Holyrood, Sturgeon promised that educational reform would be placed at the «front and centre» of the SNP's agenda if they win a third term in May's election.

We will institute a two - year action research agenda amongst six or seven of the network schools with a view to developing scalable educational innovations.

Cristian Bellei, Cristian Cabalín and Víctor Orellana, «The 2011 Chilean student movement against neoliberal educational policies,» Studies in Higher Education 39, no. 3 (2014): 426 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.896179; and Andrés Bernasconi, «Policy path dependence of a research agenda: the case of Chile in the aftermath of the student revolt of 2011,» Studies in Higher Education 39, no. 8 (2014): 1405 - 1416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.950448.

And, honestly, if one believes that our educational agenda should be primarily defined in terms of the racial and socioeconomic «achievement gap,» you can see how this kind of strip mining might have a certain appeal.

In harmony with the new educational agenda 2030, the Ministers of Education and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in the region.

The World Education Forum 2015 was a meeting point between the different educational agents worldwide to promote participatory contexts and including cultural diversity to achieve the targets of post-2015 sustainable development agenda.

Foreign leaders, in countries from the United Kingdom to Japan to Brazil, have also committed their nations to expanding international educational exchange and comparison as a component of both foreign policy and their broader education reform agendas.

Today, the challenge is to embrace increasing diversity with different [shades of] pedagogical practice, and that's really at the heart of the equity agenda... it's about personalising educational experiences, it's about realising that ordinary students have extraordinary talents.»

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

In formulating an agenda that cuts across the fields of measurement, teaching, and educational administration on the one hand and family and state interests on the other, we hope to begin a dialogue that will serve students, families, practitioners, and elected officials.

FRS Leadership Team of leading educational experts to create a research - based, two - day agenda that is action packed with personalized professional learning that models high - quality professional development practices lead by expert facilitators.

She is directly responsible for the development and advocacy of NJPSA's legislative agenda which covers a broad spectrum of educational issues including the preparation, support and development of school leaders, school finance, collective bargaining / employment issues and school reform issues.

The Association of American Educators (AAE) is the largest national, non-union, professional educators» organization, advancing the profession by offering a modern approach to teacher representation and educational advocacy, as well as promoting professionalism, collaboration and excellence without a partisan agenda.

As Klein told me in an email last night, «This is the right time — it gives someone three years to move the agenda forward and I have been offered an opportunity at NewsCorp to have a big impact in the area of educational technology, which holds out enormous opportunity for transforming education.»

Improving educational opportunities for all will mean moving forward with the School's ambitious agenda to change the methods by which practitioners are trained, while simultaneously deepening understanding of the conditions necessary for learning.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

Teacher effectiveness is the pillar of educational policy agendas, and it mediates the impact that any instruction - related reform or intervention has on student learning (Stronge, 2010).

«It's about pursuing an agenda in the best interest of our children whose educational needs are not being met and those who are getting a decent education but deserve a great one.»

The Alaska Council of School Administrators (ACSA) is a professional organization committed to providing leadership and a collective professional voice in setting the educational agenda for Alaska.

These schools exist in part because to actually address through fairer taxation and wealth redistribution the largely socio - economic factors underlying educational inequality would be to admit that the neoliberal agenda of the last four decades, eg the tax cuts, the deregulation, has not in fact worked for the Many and wealth and social mobility have gone backwards.

We believe in a demanding educational agenda that builds on the active engagement of school, parents and community and our staff maintains a steadfast commitment to continuous student achievement.

Connect grassroots organizations, advocates, educators, parents, and the business community, who may have different interests but share the common agenda of ensuring educational equity.

DeVos» appointment has increased awareness of educational issues, and many parents and community members who were not previously active in politics are organizing protests and running for school board in an effort to thwart DeVos» agenda of privatization.

Dr. Brooks» research agenda centers on everyday educational practices that impact the educational trajectories of bilingual adolescents.

Zachary had the misfortune of beginning his school career as the national and state educational agendas held a standardized approach to assessment in high - esteem, often relegating Zachary to tracking, or grouping, techniques that would easily deflate his developing self - image and motivation.

My educational journey began in the 1990s, when the desegregation and integration of Philadelphia public schools were on the agenda of former Superintendent Constance E. Clayton.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

readers know Commissioner Pryor has been on an unrelenting campaign to remove, undermine and destroy the professional staff and professional capabilities of the Connecticut Department of Education and replace experienced and dedicated professionals with high - cost, out - of - state consultants and staff who have little to no educational experience except for their loyalty to the corporate education reform agenda.

The fact that the work was being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also offered some possibility that the grand dame of old - school civil rights groups would offer a school reform agenda that would actually meet the educational and civil rights challenges facing Black America today.