Sentences with phrase «found at every level of education»

Serious games are designed to improve a specific aspect of learning and can be found at every level of education around the world.

Not exact matches

We found that if all new Canadians were fully employed, at their level of education and experience, earning equal pay to someone born in Canada, personal income would increase by $ 13 billion a year.

But the problems we find here cut across the curriculum at all levels of education.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

• A substantial, UK / US study, which controlled for mothers» depression and for fathers» education levels, found severe postnatal depression in fathers associated with high levels of emotional and behavioural problems in their children (particularly boys) at age 3.5 years (Ramchandani et al, 2005) and at age 7 (Ramchandani & Stein, 2008).

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.

A level 100 student of the University of Education, (UEW) Mr Solomon Obeng, was on Friday found hanging in an uncompleted building at Abasraba in Winneba.

Borough Presidents Ruben Diaz Jr., Gale Brewer, Melinda Katz, James Oddo and Eric Adams recently penned a joint letter to the Department of Education calling on them to take immediate action on high lead levels that have been found in the water at many schools across the city.

The authors found that an investment of $ 1,110 per child in the More at Four preschool program (now called NC Pre-K)-- the funding level in 2009 — reduced the likelihood of third - grade special education placements by 32 percent.

«We found that those patients who were food insecure had higher A1C levels and ate fewer vegetables,» said Britt Rotberg, MS, RDN, LD, CDE, BC - ADM, Assistant Director of the Emory Diabetes Education Training Academy, Emory Latino Diabetes Education Program at the Emory School of Medicine.

«We found that higher rates of poverty and lower levels of education helped explain breastfeeding gaps between black and white women, especially in determining whether mothers started breastfeeding in the first place,» said Sharon Landesman Ramey, a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and an author of the paper.

After adjusting for age, race / ethnicity, facility type, ZIP code - based income and education levels, and U.S. Census region, it was found that uninsured males were 1.51 times more likely to be diagnosed at a distant stage of disease compared with patients with private insurance.

«We also found that couples in which both individuals have equal levels of education are now less likely to divorce than those in which husbands have more education than their wives,» said Christine R. Schwartz, lead author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The team at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mainz University Medical Center led by Professor Norbert Pfeiffer and PD Dr. Alireza Mirshahi found strong evidence that attaining a higher level of education and spending more years in school are two factors associated with a greater prevalence and severity of nearsightedness, or myopia.

«When we looked specifically at the level of lifetime learning, we found that carriers of the APOE4 gene who had higher education and continued to learn through middle age had fewer amyloid deposition on imaging when compared to those who did not continue with intellectual activity in middle age,» she said.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.

For example, the Gallup / Education Week poll found that just two percent of superintendents strongly agree that their school district is getting adequate support at the federal level to implement Common Core — and 56 percent strongly disagree with that statement.

If we look at a different marker of socioeconomic status, parental education levels, we find a similar pattern.

In 43 states and the District of Columbia, black students are arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an Education Week Research Center analysis from January found.

«What I have found is that one of the most important indicators to tying technology - skill instruction to the curriculum, particularly at the K - 12 level, is a firm grounding in technology standards on the part of administrators,» Nicholas Langlie told Education World.

New findings by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux released in a report today by Strategies for Children, Inc., revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts them at...

You'll find handy resources from the nearby graduate - level Education Technology program at Boise State University's College of Education, which is turning out talented online educators from around the country.

Researchers found that just 36 per cent of five to seven year olds were at an adequate level of fitness, compared with 32 per cent of those aged eight to nine and 33 per cent for children aged in their final year of primary education.

The research pointed at Australia's decentralised education system and said increasing the clarity of policies and finding within it needs attention, and added that the country's high education performance can be complemented with further focus on reducing inequities by tackling system - level policies hindering equity in education.

Using the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as our measure, we found some states had raised the achievement of economically disadvantaged students the equivalent of a full grade level or more in just eight years, 2003 - 2008 — this at grades four and eight and in reading and math.

However, given the importance of public - welfare and health spending indicated by my findings, and the large increase in state spending on Medicaid (an increase of more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987 based on figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), it is safe to conclude that Medicaid has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

She found that student performance is better in areas with competing multiple districts, where parents at the same income level can move to another locality, in search of a better education.

And, for older children, we are working a lot with data from the Tripod Project [now based at Tripod Education Partners, Inc.], which I founded more than a decade ago to help school leaders understand what students of different racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds experience at the classroom level.

In 43 states and the District of Columbia, black students are arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an Education Week Research Center analysis finds.

Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners and adviser to the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, will discuss his findings with a panel of national and state - level policy experts and practitioners.

Studies with more detailed measures of teachers» education levels and coursework in subject areas found that, at least in math and science, academic preparation does positively influence student achievement.

She found that student performance is better in areas with competing multiple districts, where parents at the same income level can move — at the margin — from one locality to another nearby, in search of a better education for their children.

«Early Childhood Preparation for School Leaders: Lessons from New Jersey Principal Certification Programs» by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, found that principal familiarity with pre-K is a problem nationwide but researchers zeroed in on New Jersey, which has a highly regarded public pre-K program but no requirement for principals to have college - level coursework in early childhood education.

So while some MATs are developing strong boards, many others find it difficult to recruit and retain people of the necessary calibre — a reality that presents a major risk to an education system with well over 1,000 MATs, in which so much power, responsibility and oversight now sits at trust board level.

Analysis of the deprivation levels at primary and secondary schools in England compared with deprivation in their local area, by education data company School Dash, has found that poorer pupils are hugely underrepresented at particular types of schools.

But the charter chain's sky - high student outcomes have not held up: A 2014 analysis by the California Department of Education found that in the previous five years the number of Rocketship students scoring at the «proficient» level or above on California state tests fell by 30 percentage points in English and 14 percentage points in math.

In our work at the higher education level and with institutions of higher education, we are finding that proven strategies for increasing college completion parallel the Quality Schools Action Framework.

Eureka Math, published by Great Minds, a small Washington, D.C. based nonprofit organization, was found to be aligned to the Common Core State Standards at all grade levels reviewed,» wrote Education Week at the time of the initial review in March 2015.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the findings are a wake - up call for educators at every level and called for a collective response to eliminate education inEducation Arne Duncan said the findings are a wake - up call for educators at every level and called for a collective response to eliminate education ineducation inequities.

After 25 years in the field of education, serving in independent, public, charter, and parochial schools, teaching at every grade level Pre-K through eighth, Linda has found a home at Helios.

Certainly teachers and parents want to have their children ready for what comes next, but many of the «getting them ready» myths are founded on mistaken perceptions of what students need in order to be confident and successful at their next level of education.

The main theme of this paper has to do with the finding that every nation that tops the list of global education performers has an agency of government at either the state or national level where the education buck stops — an agency that has the responsibility for the health of the education system and the authority and legitimacy needed to provide the effective leadership that results in a coherent, powerful education program.

It found that the most popular route into teaching was still through higher education — with around 50 per cent of trainees at primary and 60 per cent of trainees at secondary level taking PGCEs.

15 Marguerite Spencer, a Professor at University of St. Thomas, finds children studying in integrated schools have «[a] higher level of parental involvement, higher graduation rates, complete more years of education, earn higher degrees and major in more varied disciplines, gain greater access to professional jobs and have higher incomes 16.

A new nationwide survey on the state of arts education in U.S. public schools finds that arts offerings haven't declined as much as expected, but that students in high - poverty schools, particularly at the secondary level, do not receive the same rich exposure to arts opportunities as their wealthier peers.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis announced that in the 101 school districts where principals completed the Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership (PIL) program, researchers found evidence of achievement at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

A report from the National High School Center at AIR and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) found that ninth grade course performance is more predictive of high school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their education.

Dorothy Strickland, retired professor of Rutgers University and a member of the state board of education, said she is optimistic about the findings, which show the majority of teachers, three - quarters, were rated at the levels required to retain their tenure.

Even families who typically do not have much time or opportunity to engage in education can find ways to be involved in their children's academics with the help of school resources and initiatives.9 Then it becomes paramount for policymakers, educators, and school leaders to know how their institutions can best design their practices and services at the secondary level to maximize postsecondary student success, especially for underrepresented groups.