Sentences with phrase «educational future at»

All it takes is a few absences a month, every month to place a student's educational future at risk.

A panel of leading thinkers and actors in education shared five visions of the educational future at the Askwith Forum, Tuesday, January 29.

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Employers can learn which skills, real - world company experience and educational background offers the greatest predictor of a candidate or employee's future success at their organization.

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.

It would be pleasant to think that the new approach on boys» books - reflecting a genuine panic over the fact that boys lag behind girls in reading, and have been doing so at an increasing rate for these three decades - shows a fresh determination to base future educational policies on truth.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

They move on to other educational environments with ease and draw upon what they have learned at Waldorf to fuel all of their future endeavors.

Delivering our Labour goals — supporting families and communities, tackling disadvantage, spreading educational opportunity, safeguarding our NHS, investing for the future — will be more difficult than at any time in our living memory, certainly since the post-war Labour government of 1945.

In his remarks, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Friday Okonofua, said the lecture was aimed at bridging the gap between academics, policy makers and government officials on what needed to be done to recover the Nigerian educational system to galvanise and ensure the future development of the country.

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Future work will look at how Montessori teacher training programs affect educational outcomes.

Future research at the federal and state levels should evaluate different educational instructional models, innovative strategies to implement information technology in the classroom and instructional quality in correctional education settings, Bozick said.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

At the moment, most of these children and young people have a statement of special educational needs and in the future they will have an education, health and care (EHC) plan, which may be supported by a personal budget.

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.

Listening to Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, speak on stage to several hundred attendees at the 5th Anniversary Gala last week for Innosight Institute — the non-profit that I co-founded — I thought about how Clayton Christensen and I have speculated for some time that the long - term future of much of educational content will be in the business model of a facilitated network, a platform in which users essentially exchange modular pieces of educational content with each other.

Nancy Hoffman is a vice president and senior advisor at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit based in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for low - income young people and adults.

Your child is sure to gain a wealth of positive developmental skills at childcare camps like Barracudas, and get invaluable educational and social experiences to help them in their future!

The first, Vision 2021: Transformation in Leading, Learning, and Community, offers a future look at schools and educational trends.

This article poses succinctly whether built - for - purpose educational apps targeted at the growing smartphone user educational market could start to threaten the future viability of Learning Management Systems; it is suggested a new type of intelligent Learning Management System (LMS) needs to be created.

«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.

They do not start by asking what children need to do to adapt to a machine world, but rather, which technologies can best serve human purposes at every educational level and how we can prepare children to make wise decisions about their use in the future.

Therefore, teachers have to deploy the pedagogy of love as the theoretical principle on which sustain us in this way, we achieve active and participatory education, including all educational stakeholders, representing a necessary task to promote a dynamic and critical thinking, generating new ideas that promote economic and social development, aimed at creating a better future for Peru.

Diversity Challenged, edited by noted researcher Gary Orfield, forecasts that affirmative action's legal and political future may turn on a single question — whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.

After spending a semester on interviews, research, and documentation, the group will explain what they discovered about the future of East New York by creating an educational art project, which they'll share with the community at large through a public presentation.

This situation demands a new ethic based on respect for different, and involves decision, political will, mobilize and organization of all educational stakeholders to enhance dynamic and critical thinking, which generate new ideas that promote economic and social development, aimed at creating a better world in the future.

However, schools and colleges could do more to ensure that this trend continues and encourage entrepreneurial ambitions among students at an earlier age.Introducing business and finance - focused subjects into the curriculum will help prepare future entrepreneurs — and help resolve chronic educational issues.

In response to the publication of the SEN Code of Practice for parliamentary approval by the Department for Education, the AEP has stressed that an uncertain funding future for the initial training of the educational psychology workforce and the ever increasing demand for educational psychologists» posts will mean that there will be an insufficient number of educational psychologists supporting local authorities and schools in future, which could put the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people across the country at risk.

By taking into account factors such as where a child lives and their attainment at school, the research provides a unique analysis of how educational choices made at the age of 16 can have a deep impact on a child's future career and earnings.

It's therefore no wonder that educational institutions are looking at how to implement this technology into the curriculum - not only to familiarise students with the technology in order to prepare them for future roles involving 3D printing - but also to use technology's potential to enhance project - based learning which plays a critical role in STEM concepts.

They exist because states believed it was important to lay out clear expectations for what all kids needed to know at each grade level in order to succeed in future educational settings, the workforce, or as a contributing member of civic life.

But for Associate Professor Meredith Rowe, an educational psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the amount of words a child hears is just one factor, and not the most significant, in predicting future vocabulary growth.

Future educational leaders — principals and superintendents — need to be able to make these decisions at the district or school level.

«To better prepare the next generation, school leaders have to look at enhancing educational opportunities for all students, both college bound and career bound, to ensure future readiness for both.»

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.

In what may be one of the most comprehensive, balanced, clear - eyed descriptions of the educational revolution we are currently slashing through, Allan Collins» and Richard Halverson's Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in the future.

Teach For America One Day Magazine, Next Frontier in Education: The Future of the Movement is Families Co-founder, Veronica Palmer, shares the importance of putting families and students most impacted at the forefront of the movement for educational equity.

He later served as a tenured professor of educational administration at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles, and was Director of the Future Teacher Institute and National Director of the Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers.

He credits New York City public school teachers — particularly educators at P.S. 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island — for saving his life by providing him with rich and engaging educational experiences and by giving him hope for the future.

We think the best way to break this link between family income and educational attainment is through better use of evidence: looking at what has — and has not — worked in the past can put us in a much better place to judge what is likely to work in the future.

The result, however, may still be the same — incredible joy or sorrow felt by families at their child's educational options and future.

In this entry, she looks to the future at the challenges and opportunities of a new educational paradigm.

Three years ago, in early 2015 when other parents and I at Andrew H. Wilson found ourselves fighting and demanding for our educational rights and our children's future, we immersed ourselves in learning as much as we could about what we could do as parents.

«We think about Dr. King's words, «Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,» and when we think about it, it's our youth whose future is at stake,» said Jackie Thompson, educational equity director for Davis School District.

A look at the current state of educational finances also suggests a very different future.

In West Virginia, dual enrollment courses are offered voluntarily at a high school by two - and four - year institutions which are encouraged to work collaboratively with high schools to increase educational opportunities for potential future college students.

At the same time we recognize that there are other challenges and related aims for research and practice regarding networks for educational improvement and we look forward to exploring those with you collaborating on conference symposia, special issues, books and future ICSEI network meetings.

The Pre-School program at 21st Century Charter was founded in order to solidify essential reading, writing, and math skills as early as possible, in order to foster future educational success for 21st Century Charter scholars.

She presents at local and national professional conferences, holds leadership roles in the many professional organizations she is involved with and teaches graduate - level courses on Change Theory and Community Relations for future educational leaders.