Sentences with phrase «educational concerns involves»

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Of course, the NIH is just as concerned with health research as it is with educational training, but reviewers and staff have traditionally been «reluctant» to fund projects that involve computation, an NIH advisory committee wrote last year.

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.

As an educational psychologist I used to be involved in «cause for concern» meetings in a high school where staff who taught particular students would discuss needs and strategies.

The move was politically risky for all involved, but a bipartisan passion for providing better educational options for the Milwaukee families most in need overrode short - term political concerns.

«The professional school administrator, in full recognition of the responsibility to the student's family, shall: (1) Respect the dignity of each family, its culture, customs and beliefs; (2) Promote and maintain appropriate, ongoing and timely written and oral communications with the family; (3) Respond in a timely fashion to families» concerns; (4) Consider the family's perspective on issues involving its children; (5) Encourage participation of the family in the educational process; and (6) Foster open communication among the family, staff and administrators.»

She is also the co-founder of the Teachers College Civic Participation Project which concerns itself with the educational well - being of young people involved with the juvenile justice and foster care systems in New York.

The section reads: «The professional school administrator, in full recognition of the responsibility to the student's family, shall: (1) Respect the dignity of each family, its culture, customs and beliefs; (2) Promote and maintain appropriate, ongoing and timely written and oral communications with the family; (3) Respond in a timely fashion to families» concerns; (4) Consider the family's perspective on issues involving its children; (5) Encourage participation of the family in the educational process; and (6) Foster open communication among the family, staff and administrators.

Schemes operated by fee - paying schools, under which parents are entitled to a refund of an appropriate proportion of fees paid in advance if the child concerned is unable to attend school for a specified period, in return for a small percentage increase in the fees otherwise payable, involve a single supply to the parents of educational services by the school for VAT purposes.