Sentences with phrase «educational change at»

She talks about the challenges of generating educational change at a national scale and how to take advantage of the technological rich infrastructure that Uruguay has in order to accelerate results.

Created to drive educational change at scale, OnRamps has...

Created to drive educational change at scale, OnRamps has served over 20,000 students on more than 170 secondary campuses.

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Enactus is a student club at the University of Calgary that uses business concepts and an educational approach to enact positive social change.

At Haskayne, we embrace these challenges, and seek to go above and beyond the standard educational models to ensure our graduates have the right skills for a fast moving and ever - changing future.

There are nightly news reports these days of the efforts by young persons, black and white, to change the fundamental structure of our educational, governmental and social institutions on the grounds that these institutions support racism and the military - industrial complex at home, imperialism and immoral wars abroad.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

Rob Klim is the Ethical Issues Officer at the UEA Students» Union, which leads campaigns to create positive change and allows students to shape their educational experience.

Spend an educational day at the Oakland Museum of California and check out the new exhibition, «RESPECT: Hip - Hop Style & Wisdom,» to learn the story of how hip hop changed the...

At Prairie Moon Waldorf School, we understand that change is a part of life and that continuity of your child's educational environment is critically important during times when other factors may put unusual stress on parents and guardians.

Snuggwugg has a flex pocket filled with fun - to - feel crinkly material into which parents can insert educational flash cards, toys, apps or smartphones to help keep toddlers entertained on long car rides, during diaper changes, at restaurants and more.

Speaking at the function, Mahama encouraged educational institutions to change curricular to reflect what businesses and industries need for economic growth.

The Yonkers Democrat is due to speak later this evening with Board of Regents member Judith Johnson at the Westchester for Change forum on educational inequality.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Higher Education holds a public hearing on the changing demographics of students in higher education and educational opportunity programs, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

«We can not wait to take another look at school governance — we need to make changes before this mayor drives this educational system into the ground,» said Pietromonaco.

But at a community college campus Wednesday, he said times and jobs have changed, and pushed for educational programs that train students for today's higher tech jobs.

The first subproject looks at how changes in physical activity and fitness affect cognitive function, academic achievement and educational attainment at different stages of a person's life.

«Simply providing educational information to people about vaccines or trying to confront myths they might have heard about vaccines tend to be ineffective at changing vaccination behaviors and can sometimes backfire.»

On economic and educational reform in Japan: «I think that until the Japanese economy collapses, no changes will happen at all.

Last night, speakers at the nation's most prestigious engineering school held forth on an array of financial and educational strategies to crack the challenge of man - made climate change.

Established in the vibrant educational community of Pittsburgh, PA, The Wrinkled Brain Project is focused on enacting meaningful, measurable change in STEM education at the local level.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

Changing environmental influences is also important, labelling the dietary risks on animal products, policies to enforce marketing and advertisements, not marketing to children, and educational strategies could be highly effective (but difficult at first to change within policy).

Change in physical achievement between ages 15 y and 18 y predicted cognitive performance at age 18 y. Moreover, cardiovascular fitness during early adulthood predicted socioeconomic status and educational attainment later in life.

Researchers studying clownfish at Moorea in French Polynesia have found hormonal changes occur in males after a partner is eaten, causing them to become To identify the factors that influence educational assortment in an online dating setting, we analyse 219,013 participant contacts by 41,936 members of the

There are plenty of evidence - based recommendations for how to quickly optimize student achievement in low - performing schools, but an entry point for a broader, deeper systems change at RHS was to redesign its educational system and adopt blended learning.

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

Focusing on teaching innovatively to improve literacy skills across all subject areas, the Theatre will look at assessment changes across primary and secondary educational institutions.

At last year's iPadpalooza, we stumbled upon an idea that may have changed the way professional learning in educational technology takes place from now on.

Framing a discussion around her recent book, Schooling America, Warren Research Professor Patricia Albjerg Graham provided insight into what the American public has sought from its educational institutions, what educators have delivered, and what may come in the future on Wednesday, May 10, at this semester's final Askwith Forum, Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs.

Students remain at the school throughout their educational careers unless the family situation changes or they are expelled for misbehavior.

But making any change in educational practice — even the most obvious and necessary — asks many individuals to look at what they are doing and then do things differently.

Indeed, that's a pattern evident in many studies of educational change: a pop at the beginning, followed by fade out.

Several of the articles in that issue take a close look at the impact of changes in family structure on educational attainment in the U.S. and in other countries.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers,» eminent scholars Sara McLanahan of Princeton University and Christopher Jencks of Harvard University look at changes in family structure for both blacks and whites over the past 50 years, and note its effect on the educational attainment and other life outcomes of the children raised in single parent families.

On the whole, Sweden, like the Scandinavian and smaller countries of northern Europe generally, does very well in international tests of educational achievement — so well that one wonders why any great change was considered necessary at all.

For example, students with fewer educational resources at home may be more strongly affected by changes in their school environment.

One place where the historical significance of educational change has not escaped notice, however, is at The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.. Here, in the country's primary repository of national treasures, historians store and protect a large number of educational artifacts, including pencils, crayons, homework, textbooks, report cards, desks, and chalkboards.

But while some witnesses at a two - day oversight hearing told the House Subcommittee on Select Education that research efforts can be improved without changing the structure of the office of educational research and improvement, others called for an overhaul.

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

This exclusive opportunity will enable you to be at the forefront of educational changes and take home vital tools to help you further improve your school.

In conferences both in Korea and the United States — including one held this August in Gaithersburg, Md., aimed at Korean American youths, college students, youth leaders, and church leaders — Kim and her colleagues offer a changing slate of educational colloquiums, spiritual worship sessions, and group counseling sessions that zero in on the societal and familial realities that Korean Americans face and the role that counseling can play in fostering healthy social, emotional, and psychological development.

At the University, we continue to be proactive in a fast changing educational climate.

At CECIP, professionals involved in educational change processes strongly adhere to the African concept of UBUNTU, which is implicit in the concept of «Educative City»: ``

This past fall Ippolito began working as an assistant professor at Salem (Mass.) State College, where he teaches courses on educational leadership and school change, as well as adolescent literacy and curriculum...

This past fall Ippolito began working as an assistant professor at Salem (Mass.) State College, where he teaches courses on educational leadership and school change, as well as adolescent literacy and curriculum design.

At CECIP, professionals involved in educational change processes strongly adhere to the African concept of UBUNTU, which is implicit in the concept of «Educative City»: «we are what we are because of what all others are».

At the Civil Rights Project, she is involved in a five - year study examining the implementation of the «No Child Left Behind Act» of 2001 and how this legislation influences educational change in states and local school districts.

«To change now or in the future would mean that we would have to retrain the kids to another song, and I think at this time it would be to disruptive to the educational flow of our day,» admits Parks.

While Fasna agrees with the general direction of the policy, that creating autonomous schools is the best way to raise educational standards, it believes that the speed at which the government is planning these changes could be cause for alarm.