Sentences with phrase «expand access to education»

But he was wrong on one thing — the need for more people to make more progress (more geniuses), as I wrote here: «Julian Simon's 20th century notion that population growth was good because it raised the odds of generating a fresh batch of breakthroughs was half right; you just don't need the extra billions if you expand access to education and tie brains together with communication (and translation).»

Julian Simon's 20th century notion that population growth was good because it raised the odds of generating a fresh batch of breakthroughs was half right; you just don't need the extra billions if you expand access to education and tie brains together with communication (and translation).

This type of collaboration can lead to greater efficiency and increased choice, and expand access to education services for a full range of communities.

As part of the U.S. government's commitment to Let Girls Learn, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world.

We also find that this online option expands access to education and does not substitute for other informal training, and that students denied admission do not pursue any other formal education.

Next, we rigorously estimate whether this online option expands access to education for students.

There is also a growing concern that previous gains in expanding access to education will erode without a major shift in policies and resources.

Not exact matches

Key policies include introducing a Guaranteed Annual Income; ensuring universal access to quality childcare and early childhood education; cutting debt for post-secondary students; honouring the Kelowna Accord with Aboriginals; expanding the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual Canadians; and easing the income support levels required for immigrant family sponsorship.

Some of Clinton's plans include guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, expanding early childhood education, capping childcare expenses at 10 percent of a household's income, helping the families of children with autism and other special needs get access to more resources and support, and insuring more families through the Affordable Care Act.

I haven't done the calculations, but I imagine my proposed tax would produce more than half of what President Obama wants to spend to expand access to higher education.

In this role, Thornton has been responsible for improving the health and well - being of Americans by expanding access to nutritious, affordable food and providing dietary guidance, nutrition policy coordination, and nutrition education across USDA's 15 nutrition assistance programs.

April 2014 — The US Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association (US MERA) Workgroup met on April 10 - 13, 2014 to continue discussions on how to expand access to high quality midwifery care and physiologic birth for women in all birth settings in the US.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Labour also promised to expand entitlement to free school meals and increase access to nursery education.

«From providing early education to increasing access to affordable housing and expanding labor and paid leave protections, Mayor de Blasio's progressive policies are having a real, positive impact right here in the 30th District.

Governor Cuomo and Senator Addabbo have successfully worked together to create on - time budgets, and fight for important legislation to implement common sense gun laws, bring ethics reform to Albany, and expand access to quality education for New York children.

The Education Trust — New York Applauds Tuition - Free Plan for Advancing a College - Going Culture for All New York Students, While Calling for Expanding Focus on Access, Affordability and Completion NEW YORK — As New York leaders work to finalize the state budget including Governor Cuomo's landmark tuition - free degree proposal for middle - class...

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

In his remarks, President Obama said that expanding Internet access — and therefore, access to information among the Cuban people — is as central to the country's future prosperity as necessities like education and healthcare.

Concerns were recently raised when the Department of Education wanted to award a contract to expand internet access in city schools to a company that was tied to a kickback scandal.

County Executive Picente said, «As Phase One implementation continues to make great progress in education and training, access to opportunity and housing, we have expanded our sights and launched Phase Two, which is focused on developing solutions to our transportation needs.

According to him, the upgrade of the public libraries in schools across the six education districts in the State was in line with the commitment of the present administration to expand access to knowledge for Lagosians.

He had a clear focus on expanding the country's economic and social infrastructure, and also worked to actualise his vision of expanding access to secondary education and also to quality healthcare across the country.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

The establishment of the Community Day Senior High School would expand and improve access to secondary education as well as develop the quality and affordability of education in Ghana.

«Our educational assets will be rapidly expanded to provide equitable access for every child to enter and complete basic education, enter and complete secondary school» it says.

«This solid foundation has to be advanced in a manner that our growth trajectory is accelerated, our social and welfare initiatives for ordinary citizens is expanded, the opportunities to provide access and quality education to ALL our children is achieved, and our nation is able to feed itself and reap the benefits in expanded trade of our diversified agricultural produce,» President Mahama stated.

Stressing that he remained committed to expanding access to all levels of education, the Governor pointed out that the reduction of fees at the University in 2012 was to reduce the burden placed on parents by their children's tertiary education.

EDUCATION: Enhance and expand early childhood programming and improve access to food at school to ensure no student goes hungry.

The measure is expected to increase funding for education, expand access to affordable housing, create jobs and help ensure financial security for all Bronxites and New Yorkers by raising the minimum wage and preserving integral family programs.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

Boylan said adopting such an approach addresses the two central challenges at the focus of National Science Foundation funding: the need to improve the quality of STEM education and expand access to STEM across groups.

It has become the essential infrastructure of our day and is how we will grow our economy, expand businesses, foster innovation, increase access to education, improve healthcare, and even transform entertainment in the years to come.

And even knowing this, I will continue to fight for expanded access to higher education for low and middle - income students by: • Strengthening Pell Grants, student aid, student access, and minority serving institutions; • Reducing red tape for students and graduates; • Removing barriers for non-traditional students; and • Empowering consumers through «sunshine» and transparency in college costs & accreditation.

The process of reform — known as the Bologna Process, which has since expanded to include the current 47 countries — has subsequently added to this agenda additional ideals such as equal access to higher education, student - centered learning, and student participation in quality assurance and governance within their institutions.

Murray said the pending legislation, dubbed the Foundations for Evidence - Based Policymaking Act, is focused on the report's three core ideas: expanding access to the data, ensuring privacy, and strengthening the government's capacity to evaluate how spending trillions of dollars every year on programs affects the health, education, and economic wellbeing of millions of Americans.

Another need that he said he recognizes because of his academic background, first at Harvard Medical School in Boston and later at Dartmouth, is to expand access to and improve education in developing countries.

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K - 12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training.

Along these lines, the focus group participants identified the main themes as benefits of statistics to society (and thus, promoting the socially responsible practice of statistics), expanding primary education of statistics, ease of public access to data, data accuracy and quality, and protection of privacy in sampling and data analysis.

He is looking forward to making an impact in the future, not only through his research, but also by helping to build the neural engineering community, expanding access and quality of education for all.

The NCANP works to expand access to Naturopathic Medicine in North Carolina by bringing together Naturopathic Doctors from across the state for education, professional development, and legislative work.

Deming's current research includes studying the end of race - based busing in Charlotte - Mecklenburg (North Carolina), understanding the rise of for - profit postsecondary education and the consequences for student outcomes, and exploring the policy implications of expanding access to early childhood education.

The study by researchers at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., also warns that an impending shortage of college - educated workers could undermine the United States» place in the world unless the nation does a better job preparing young people for higher education and expanding access to it.

The Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis - based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school.

The University's aim is to increase access to world - class education globally through its flexible learning model, expanding its digital campus to cater for both offshore international students and full - fee paying students in Australia.

Luckily, policymakers have plenty of proven levers: expand income support for families as the EITC, [27] reduce food insecurity while improving maternal health and birth outcomes through a robust SNAP, [28] maintain children's access to Medicaid, [29] and continue to work towards improving the equity and quality of general education.

CYFI's mission is to expand a combination of financial access and education to 100 million children and youth in 100 countries by the end of 2015.

This week, as we celebrate the new rise of computer science education, we shouldn't forget how some these efforts might also offer a glimpse into new models for expanding students» access to industry experts across subject areas.

As such, these early experiments in video technology are not about new fangled tools in classrooms, but about radically expanding access to human capital in education.