Sentences with phrase «focus on science education»

Will the lesser focus on Science Education effect the way that science is taught?

With such concerning trends, researchers are calling for a creative and reimagined focus on science education (Bissaker, 2014).

Her goal is to increase diversity and inclusion in the sciences while pursuing a career focused on science education and outreach.

Kathryn M. Bateman is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on Science Education at Penn State University.

Katie Bateman is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on Science Education at Penn State University.

Kathryn M. (Katie) Bateman is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on Science Education at Penn State University.

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Siu has a counterintuitive suggestion: avoid education that focuses on the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math).

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which focuses on science and education, with wife Priscilla Chan in 2015.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

These include business audiences, higher education institutions, K - 12 education systems and museums focused on science, industry, innovation, etc..

In a pilot venture with SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Stanford is launching two talk programs hosted by faculty members: The Future of Everything, focused on engineering, science and technology, and School's In, focused on teaching, learning and education.

Our work overlaps in many ways, though while his focus is primarily on the education system, mine looks more broadly at application of the brain science of early adversity.

Its programming is not only for young students, but also continuing education and certification for teachers that focuses on understanding and interpreting the natural sciences.

The second results area (Pillar 2) focuses on improving the quality of education in 125 selected low - performing SHS through: (i) strengthened school management and accountability; (ii) improved mathematics and science teaching and learning; (iii) expanded information, communication technology and internet connectivity in schools; and (iv) the implementation of school performance partnership plans.

; it is weak in science and technology education often mass producing ill - educated or barely literate graduates in arts and humanities; ignores the critical role of economics, management and entrepreneurship education in the context of developing nations; destroys innovation and creativity through outdated teaching methods instead of focusing on fostering the student's own independent learning and creative thinking; and is insufficiently focused on adult, vocational and technical education.

The broad sector policy thrust for Education is Sustainable and Efficient Management of Education Service Delivery with focus on teacher development and accountability; improved Quality of Teaching and Learning at all Levels, inclusive and Equitable Access at all Levels, skills Development and Training for Employability through Quality TVET and strengthened Mathematics, Science, ICT and Technology Education.

As President & CEO of the Youth Science Center, a non-profit science education organization that focuses on STEM education, I helped expand educational opportunities in our Science Center, a non-profit science education organization that focuses on STEM education, I helped expand educational opportunities in our science education organization that focuses on STEM education, I helped expand educational opportunities in our region.

In confronting the question of the quality of education that will prepare the young population of Africa for the life of the 21st century, he indicated that it is only a greater focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, which will guarantee the future of the continent.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

The five - county region is focusing on key industry sectors, including advanced manufacturing, agriculture, bi-national logistics, energy, health & life sciences, higher education, professional services and tourism.

In this Focus on Education report WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the program works to encourages city school students to pursue studies in math, science and technology.

Pearl's placement in 2002 at the National Science Foundation, an agency that funds nearly a quarter of all the basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities, began a touchstone year focused on improving graduate education in science and enginScience Foundation, an agency that funds nearly a quarter of all the basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities, began a touchstone year focused on improving graduate education in science and enginscience and engineering.

At the U.S. - Korea Conference in Atlanta, Roseman joined representatives from KOFAC in a session focused on that organization's plan to develop a new framework for science education in Korea.

Her current work focuses on topics in the physical sciences, and she is principal investigator on a test development project funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

She was also a 2013 - 15 Executive Branch Fellow at USAID, in the Global Development Lab, where as a fellow and now program manager, she focuses on sourcing, piloting, and scaling science and technology innovations for the developing world as part of a network of universities called the Higher Education Solution Network (HESN).

The department should set a goal of investing $ 200 million a year in such activities, the president declared, giving Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos the job of «helping districts recruit and train [STEM teachers], focusing in particular on computer science.»

Grothe: Julia, what you're focusing really on is the science communication question versus just the science education question.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advancedEducation, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advancededucation at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.

These focus on harnessing the wisdom of teachers, helping the business community promote new directions in precollege science education, and — last but not least — catalyzing major changes in the way we teach college - level science.

We first focused on harnessing computer technologies for education (January 2009) and then highlighted the synergies between inquiry science teaching and the acquisition of literacy skills (April 2010).

AAAS Director of International Relations Julia MacKenzie and Colglazier attended meetings at the Polish Ministry of Science and Education, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Uniwersytet SWPS, Poland's first private university, which is focused on the social sciences and the humanities.

Since 2010 Pres. Barack Obama and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have used the bully pulpit to encourage the proliferation of public high schools that focus on STEM education and target students from underrepresented groups.

► On Tuesday, ScienceInsider invited Institute of International Education veteran Peggy Blumenthal to explore trends in international students obtaining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees in the United States, focusing on China and India, the two countries that supply the most students to the United StateOn Tuesday, ScienceInsider invited Institute of International Education veteran Peggy Blumenthal to explore trends in international students obtaining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees in the United States, focusing on China and India, the two countries that supply the most students to the United Stateon China and India, the two countries that supply the most students to the United States.

They should be focusing instead on how to incent [sic] the best and brightest to pursue graduate science and engineering educations by increasing the opportunities that exist for those people once they graduate.»

• $ 6.49 billion for NSF, which includes $ 845 million for education and training programs, focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields to help build our next generation of innovators.

He went to NIMH from the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he held a variety of senior positions, focusing on basic research in the biological, behavioral and social sciences, science policy and science eduScience Foundation (NSF), where he held a variety of senior positions, focusing on basic research in the biological, behavioral and social sciences, science policy and science eduscience policy and science eduscience education.

Australian undergraduate science education focused on the basics: mathematics, chemistry, and physics.

The journal also focuses on emerging professional issues, the role of education, evolving theories of post-modern humans and their environment, land use policy, the science of collaboration and more.

Instead, the two congressional committees with «science» in their titles have taken diametrically opposed approaches in proposing revisions to the 2010 COMPETES law, which renewed and extended a 2007 version that focused on strengthening federal support for the physical sciences and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

«Historically, assessments of science literacy have focused on individuals, but we see now that communities can engage in science and produce scientific knowledge in a way that transcends any individual's ability,» said committee chair Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

During the opening keynote address, former NBA basketball star and U.S. global cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul - Jabbar set the tone for the summit: In order for the United States to stay economically competitive with emerging markets in China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skills.

High school students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are much more likely to pursue higher education and, eventually, careers in science, technology, engineering and medicine — the STEM disciplines.

Note, in particular, the focus on diversity (a bilingual Web site), on science - education standards, and on the establishment of productive relationships — in this case, with NASA.

«Pre-college science programs lead to more science majors: Students who participate in pre-college programs that focus on science more likely to pursue education, careers in STEM.»

In the past 25 years, some two dozen major reports have focused in part or in full on improving biology and related science education.

Chandra's program plays a key role in NASA's EPO portfolio, synthesizing and disseminating results from NASA's exploration of the high - energy Universe into a broad suite of programs and activities focused on increasing science literacy and contributing to science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) education.

For oceans There was a publication released last year by the Pew Center (Pew is a charitable foundation whose main focus is education) «Coral Reefs & Global Climate Change» a summary of the current science on this issue.