Sentences with phrase «gifted education called»

Phone call # 1: A long - time, politically savvy state director of gifted education called to discuss several different issues.

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The ability to enjoy God's good gift of sexuality without compromising one's education, life's work, or ability to put to use God's gifts and call is simply blessing.

On education, Mr. Diaz backed up Bronx Councilman Andy King's call for universal gifted and talented testing and programs on - site at all schools, calling the current lack of access in lower - income communities «unacceptable.»

Rangel's speech handed Republicans an unexpected political gift in a week in which the House was called back into session to pass $ 26 billion in spending for Medicaid and education funding in the states — a piece of legislation that was touted as a political winner by Democrats as they head into a six - week August recess.

It was seven years ago when she heard her calling and that is when she renounced the corporate life to devote her life completely to Yoga as a certified Yoga Teacher Her aim is to spread the message and education of Yoga around the globe as, according to her, Yoga is the most invaluable gift to the mankind ever discovered.

The program is called the Talent Development Institute (T.D.I.) and involves about 240 students participating in 10 enrichment groups - or clusters, a term coined by gifted education researcher, Joseph Renzulli, who pioneered the enrichment cluster model.

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Called a «notice of proposed priority,» the announcement, published in the Jan. 14 edition of The Federal Register, is intended to inform grant seekers what types of programs the government would like to pay for through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

In addition, what the U.S. calls «gifted education» would be considered standard for all... and a few years behind... in Europe and Asia.

The more recent publication calls attention to the many critical areas in gifted education that are not being adequately addressed.

Segregated so - called «gifted» education so often pretends to support advanced education for students, yet they are socially and emotionally unable to integrate themselves into regular social settings, because they have been excluded... in fact segregated from inclusive education.

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(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

A CD - ROM called the Mile Marker Series, a compilation of resources on gifted education for parents, is also available for purchase.

We found that the group was technically gifted, experienced in all aspects of education finance and able to engage in and estimate the sweeping changes called for in the recommendations.

In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Robertson, who made the gift through his Robertson Foundation, called Success «the best education organization in the world,» evidenced by the large numbers of parents trying to enroll their children in the network's schools.

NAGC and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted (CSDPG) conduct a biennial survey of how states regulate and support programs for advanced students called State of the States in Gifted Education.

Susan Assouline, director of the Belin - Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Iowa, helped develop a tool called the Iowa Acceleration Scale to aid schools in deciding which kids would benefit from skipping a grade.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told reporters that the pocket - change donation (which she called a «generous gift») will be used to host a camp for kids, focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

Simon and Schuster has just launched a new holiday campaign called «Give the Gift of Reading» to support local independent bookstores and Literacy Partners, whose mission is to strengthen families by empowering parents through education.