Sentences with phrase «gap year opportunity»

Not exact matches

The point is I would have never been given the opportunity to save the company if I had anything other than a narrow say - do gap in the two years leading up to that event.

A growing opportunity gap in access to resources, opportunities, and adult investment has emerged over the last 25 years as income inequality has accelerated, especially among families with children.

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

Over the almost four billion years during which life has been evolving on earth, there would have been countless opportunities for an ever - increasing gap to grow between the actual and the ideal.

Though i was not expecting anything too good coming from because for years now, I have not seen my beloved Arsenal capitalising on any opportunity to close any gap.

Two quick - fire first - half goals from Danny Welbeck had given last year's finalists a healthy cushion at the interval, but the Swiss outfit had missed several opportunities to close the gap against a poor United defence.

Check out the many other opportunities and programs offered at Timber - lee including parent / child weekends, family camping, Leadership in Camp Ministry internship and a new Gap Year program for recent high school graduates.

Forty - two percent of our nation's children under 6 live in low - income families and the «opportunity gap» is rooted in these very early years.

«This is the year the state should significantly increase the Foundation Formula, eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment and make good on its commitment that, no matter where students live or go to school, they have the opportunity for the sound, basic education the New York Constitution requires.»

But for physicians interested in research careers, the traditional residency route has a major disadvantage: a 4 - to 5 - year gap between graduation and the next opportunity for additional research training.

This year, the prize was awarded to not one, but six designers, who will also have the opportunity to create pieces for a limited - edition collection for high street retailer Gap.

This year, issues such as sustainable food (In Defense of Food), gender inequality in the tech industry (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive change.

But «there is an opportunity to reconceive what we think of as gap years.

Specifically, Pendoley says that effective gap - year programs (and he is quick to point out that not all gap - year programs are, by his definition, effective) give students two key opportunities they aren't finding at school.

There are a growing number of programs and opportunities that increase access to gap years, she says, and that number will only grow.

«The best possible outcome of the growing interest in gap years would be to have more students of all backgrounds gain access to the personal transformation that can take place during that time — the opportunity to enter college and the workforce with more maturity, self - knowledge, and understanding of others.

The guest speaker for the event was Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America (TFA), who has worked for the past 20 years to close the educational - opportunity gap in America.

«These early years may provide us with the richest opportunity we may have to lose the achievement gap,» he said.

The topic itself is significant because the global gender gap across health, education, economic opportunity and politics has closed by only 4 % in the past 10 years, with the economic gap closing by just 3 %.

However, access to educational opportunities remains a significant contributor to gaps in equality and equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as observed in last year's State of Reconciliation in Australia report.

In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievement gaps.

The Hechinger Report is spending a year exploring this so - called «opportunity gap.»

The Hechinger Report is spending a year exploring this so - called «opportunity gap» and how schools around the country are trying to narrow it by providing more time to learn.

But California continues to dwell in the cellar of national per - pupil funding — a persistent stinginess that many say has exacerbated an opportunity gap that this year earned the state a C in school finance, a D - plus in K - 12 Achievement and a dismal 36th place finish in Education Week's 2018 Quality Counts national performance report card.

«the district stated, «studies over the past thirty years that note the detrimental effects of ability - level tracking are an indicator of the institutionalized racism that plagues our school system and adds to the opportunity gap.

The report outlines that students who fully participate ASES or 21st CCLC after school program gain the equivalent of up to an extra 90 days of school, regular attendance in expanded learning programs increases student achievement, attendance and positive behaviors, and narrows the achievement gap, and expanded learning programs in California increase health and nutrition and offer innovative learning opportunities all year round.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.

A group of Oakland PreKindergarten (PreK) teachers is closing the opportunity gap for 3 and 4 year olds.

Over four years, this heartfelt verité film follows the journey of students, parents and educators striving to make a difference in the futures of young people whose lives are stark representations of our country's education and opportunity gaps.

The Democratic Party is committed to eliminating opportunity gaps — particularly those that lead to students from low income communities arriving to school on day one of kindergarten several years behind their peers from higher income communities.

What students want: great teachers every year What teachers want: career advancement while teaching, collaboration, on - the - job development and leadership, sustainably funded pay increases, and the chance to help more students succeed What both need: Policies to make a statewide Opportunity Culture possible Public Impact shows states the essential policies to reach far more students with gap - closing, Read more about Seizing Opportunity at the Top II -LSB-...]

A clear example that poses a significant threat to the opportunity to learn for children who are suffering most from the achievement gap is the President's call to launch» a national competition to improve our schools» as the lead policy frame for the coming year's education reform - modeled on the Race to the Top and the Innovation Fund initiatives.

This is clear in a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anytOpportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anytopportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).

Ultimately, the statewide snapshot provided by KIDS presents an opportunity to inform policies that can help close achievement gaps and help Illinois reach its goal of ensuring that 60 percent of Illinoisans earn a postsecondary degree or credential by the year 2025.

Over the project's first two years, we have recognized 37 schools that excel in these ways, and in the process, we have learned that there is no single best approach to closing opportunity gaps; each school must meet the needs of its specific students.

Summer CLCs provide expanded academic enrichment opportunities to help students bridge the academic gap between school years, which include youth development activities, technology education, art, music and recreation activities.

However, years of statewide assessments have failed to significantly close that gap; in fact, as income inequality grows across the state, the student achievement gap continues, pointing out the lack of fairness and access for all Connecticut's students to equal educational opportunities.

Over the past seven years, Excel Academy has proven the opportunity gap can be closed.

Nearly half of youth who applied for a summer job in 2015 were turned down, and this opportunity gap contributes to gaps in achievement even after high school, particularly for low - income students who lose access to supports that keep them safe, healthy, and engaged during the school year.

There will be little or no headway in closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their classmates in the next 5 years — but there is still an opportunity for secondary schools to make a difference.

Here's the start of my new column at NJ Spotlight Last month, New Jersey's new acting Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet described the state's sixth year in a row of increased high school graduation rates — now 90.5 percent — as «exciting,» because it «demonstrates we are on a path toward closing our achievement gaps and achieving excellent and equitable educational opportunities for our children.»

In addition, early skills are predictive of later outcomes, but too often early opportunity gaps are allowed to grow unaddressed into more persistent achievement gaps in later years.

Using data from the 2012 - 13 school year, researchers with Bridging the Gap's National Wellness Policy Study collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to update a series of briefs and an accompanying PowerPoint presentation highlighting opportunities to support wellness policies through evidence - based strategies.

His book, published in 2010 by Harvard Education Press, is: Start where you are but don't stay there: Understanding diversity, opportunity gaps, and teaching in today's classrooms http://hepg.org/hep/book/129/StartWhereYouAreButDonTStayThere, which represents years of research and development effort.

During these last two years since the Matrix drove off into the sunset, Scion has been quietly working on the iM, and we recently had the opportunity to drive one to see if it filled the gap.

Bruno seems too naïve for a German 9 year - old in 1943, especially about Jews and Hitler; the idea that Shmuel has the time and opportunity to sit alone by the fence daily seems very unlikely; that the fence is not regularly patrolled, and that it has a gap the size of a small boy, again unlikely; the other children in this novel also seem far too naïve.

These gaps between price and value get all the more prevalent in years where the overall market experiences volatility — which is one reason why as value investors, we root for volatility — it provides us with opportunity.

In fact, ALLYDVM Founder and COO, Jason Wernli, has spent years consulting directly with large veterinary clinics where he's seen common gaps and opportunities.

When they returned to their hometown of Medina, Ohio, several years later, Bill and Jack seized the opportunity to create a superior quality pet food that would fill a gap in the pet food market at that time.

Learning to freedive is perhaps one of the mot unique, beautiful and addictive things the Epic Gap Year team have had the opportunity to do, and it has quickly become an obsession during our travels.