Sentences with phrase «first education summit»

On Saturday, the Crosstown Coalition will host its first education summit for nearly 200 members of school support groups, neighborhoods and community associations.

But, while the second summit helped stabilize the standards movement, like the first education summit, its momentum only went so far.

Then, in 1989, the governors and President George H.W. Bush held the nation's first education summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, and formulated national education goals for America.

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The Governor stated that when he came to government, the first task of his administration was to convene an education summit which was chaired by Prof Wole Soyinka, adding that all intervention of government in education since inception came from the recommendations of the summit and nothing about religion.

The first seeds of what was eventually to become EQAR were planted at the 2005 Bergen summit: ministers adopted the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and welcomed the concept of a European register of quality assurance agencies, to be further developed during the next two years.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boysEducation will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boyseducation, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boys and men.

The first is that everyone engages in vague «it's for the kids» banalities, agree that the kids must come first, and pledge vague, meaningless collaboration going forward (e.g. see the Denver labor summit that the U.S. Department of Education hosted in February).

The event was billed as both a follow - up to the January White House summit aimed at boosting low - income enrollment in higher education as well as a continuation of the first lady's initiative — dubbed «Reach Higher» — to promote college enrollment.

February 21, 2015 (St. Paul)- Educators 4 Excellence - Minnesota (E4E - Minnesota) released recommendations on diversifying Minnesota's teacher workforce at its first annual summit, «Voices for Equity and Teacher Diversity,» held today at the University of Minnesota's Continuing Education and Conference Center.

The summit marked the first - ever convening of education ministers, teachers, and union leaders from Read more about Report from the International Summit on the Teaching Profession -LSB-...]

Shortly after the announcement came from Washington today that Connecticut was not a finalist, the co-chairs of the legislature's education committee called stakeholders together at a news conference to announce that «education summits» would commence to ensure that Connecticut's spring application for the second round of RTTT funding would be even better than the first.

-- Tony Wagner EdTechTeacher will host the first national iPads in education summit, bringing together educators, researchers, tech directors, principals, school leaders and industry partners to identify best practices for integrating iPads into education.

That year, when President George H.W. Bush convened an education summit of the nation's governors, it was a little - known Arkansas Democrat named Bill Clinton who drafted a bipartisan set of national goals for the year 2000 («first in the world» in mathematics, for starters).

These efforts coalesced into a national strategy after a 1989 bipartisan summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, between governors and President George H. W. Bush, where leaders looked to standards as the first step toward achieving lofty national education goals.2

A meeting with a member of the US House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Committee was a first at this year's summit.

On that same day in Google history, Google was holding its first ever Geo For Higher Ed summit, where the company got together with enthusiasts, educators, and tech industry movers and shakers alike to discuss the applications of geographic technology like GPS and positional tracking in education.