Sentences with phrase «goals of education by»

First, they contend that these exams detract from the larger goals of education by encouraging teachers to «teach the test.»

(For a more complex picture of the purposes of education, most of which have nothing to do with our rankings, consider reading The Goals of Education by Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen).

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Founded in 2009 by online education entrepreneur Shai Reshef, the goal of the university is to provide a free online education in computer science and business administration for students in developing countries who can't afford to go to college.

Understanding how to talk to clients about goals is an aspect of behavioral finance that is covered in depth by the new wealth management education program developed by The American College of Financial Services.

With 63 per cent of the executives for the top 10 TSX - traded companies by market capitalization having earned either an MBA or an engineering degree, determining the efficacy of the education tomorrow's business leaders are receiving in sustainability became the goal of this year's survey.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The broad goals of the our program are defined by the Standing Education Committee of the National Board of Directors and are outlined in the National Education Policy.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

Were Kimball's analysis to inform every discussion of the goals and strategies of liberal education, the ideas and goals advanced by Boyer and Bok, and possibly even those by Bloom, would more readily be fulfilled.

Choice is by itself no panacea, but it creates the framework within which effective education can be developed, and thc needs and goals of various student / parent communities met.

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

Clearly, even in Plato's proposed revision, paideia is a model of excellent education defined by the goal of capacitating people for political and public action.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

Nord would accomplish his goal through special courses and by persuading, even forcing, educators to acknowledge religion as an integral part of liberal education.

Theological education that is unified by having all of its aspects ordered to this one goal would also be a kind of paideia.

What makes this education theological is that its goal is defined theologically and not functionally: it is leadership of those who share «Christian identity» — that is, that community which recognizes and responds to God's creative and saving activity in and for the world — guided by that same Christian identity.

The «worst,» having no such tender sensibilities of mind or spirit, are zealous to fulfill whatever careerist goals are set for higher education by our technetronic and industrial society.

Let's let them know — without a doubt — that school, education, and achievement are very important, and then become involved ourselves by helping them set goals, being aware of their day - to - day assignments and progress, and providing lots of praise and encouragement.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

To achieve the goal of 75 % of breastfeeding mothers, extensive education regarding the benefits must be provided for both parents and optimally the grandmother by physicians, nurses, and the media before pregnancy or within the first trimester.

Partly sponsored by Home Education Magazine, is a national service organization with the goal of networking homeschoolers and provide them with news, information, and resources.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

«We will support Sokoto state in the area of education by allocating more resources to achieve the desired goals on the state - of - emergency in the sector,» she also said.

Saying he agrees with the goals of the Common Core educational standards but believes their implementation by the New York State Education Department has been botched, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced a «comprehensive review.»

The implementation of the Free SHS policy, President Akufo - Addo, added would mean that Sustainable Development Goal 4, which aims at ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, will be within Ghana's reach by the target date of 2030.

The Department for International Development (DFID) must do more to ensure the money spent by the UK on international aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of ability to pay.

On education, Funke reiterated the Senate Republicans» main goal of fully eliminating the gap elimination «adjustment scheme» that was implemented during a fiscal crisis by former Gov. David Paterson.

Cherry Lane Elementary has even been recognized by the US Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2013, an award «reserved for schools that boast students who meet and maintain high educational goals,» according to the department's official website.

Among the goals cited by Thompson, a former head of the Board of Education, were expanding the city's prekindergarten programs and the number of Community Learning Schools, an initiative that was launched by the UFT.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

The new numbers are a far cry from the goals of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the ambitious education law signed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

The goal of the Hopkins Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (HPREP) is to extend MSIP by providing experiences that will increase the likelihood of participants?

By providing student - focused services to students in treatment throughout McLean Hospital, the College Mental Health Program is prepared to work closely with students and with institutions of higher education to support both mental health and academic goals.

By establishing relationships with corporations, educational institutions, and individual nuclear medicine technologists, SNMMI - TS» Professional Development and Education Fund can work collaboratively toward the common goal of exceeding the challenges of tomorrow.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

The SFI Partnership Schemes aim to provide a flexible mechanism by which SFI can build strategic collaborations with key partners such as industry, funding agencies, charities, philanthropic organisations or higher education institutes (HEIs) with the goal of co-funding outstanding opportunities.

Together with the Foundation's Directors, Advisory Board and staff, Rod pursues the goal of turning science fiction into science fact by providing critical support to leading - edge organizations around the world working in the areas of science and technology, the environment, education and humanitarian advances.

Kyoto - fu, Japan About Blog The mission of the WFN, as a UK registered charity, is to foster quality neurology and brain health worldwide, a goal we seek to achieve by promoting global neurological education and training, with the emphasis placed firmly on under - resourced parts of the world.

About Blog Discussion of issues related to Christianity / theology and persons with disability, hosted by Jeff McNair, a Special Education professor.Jeff and his wife Kathi have been involved in ministry with adults with intellectual disabilities for 35 years.With the idea of developing maturity through asking the question is small steps toward a goal has grown out of the article they wrote.

Congress should set a national goal of immediately connecting every school to the developing «information highway» and insuring that every classroom has access to sophisticated data networks by the turn of the century, a policy statement released here by a new national coalition of education organizations urges.

Editor's Note: Though the San Fernando Education Technology Team is no longer active at San Fernando High School, some of the former participants have created their own company to tell stories through media, and continue to foster the program's goals by working with San Fernando students on Saturdays to produce the iCan Film Festival.

From 19 - 22 May 2015, the World Education Forum has took place in Incheon, Republic of Korea, where the world education community has been discussing about the education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in Education Forum has took place in Incheon, Republic of Korea, where the world education community has been discussing about the education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in education community has been discussing about the education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in education goal and targets in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is expected to be adopted by the UN Member States at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development of September 2015 in New York.

Their goal: to bolster a fledgling movement seeking closer ties between schools and houses of faith by building an army of religious people to support public education.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

Implications from the UN synthesis report adopted last December, as well as from the proposal by the Open Working Group for Sustainable development (goal 4 on education), will be discussed in terms of education targets and the framework of action to be adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in education), will be discussed in terms of education targets and the framework of action to be adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in education targets and the framework of action to be adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in Education Forum in Korea in May 2015.

Grade Level: 6 - 8, 9 - 12 This site produced by the University of Wisconsin, Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG), has as its goal, «to introduce you to the tools that let us «see» atoms, manipulate them, and create nano - architectural wonders.»

These are the key findings of the 2015 EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) «Education for All 2000 - 2015: Achievements and Challenges», produced by UNESCO which has tracked progress on these goals for the past 15 years.

The delegates in Thailand set a goal of universal primary education in every country by the year 2000.

If closing achievement gaps is the goal of the revolution spearheaded by the Education Leaders Council, then the ideas that Eugene W. Hickok enumerates will do little to advance that agenda.

The two year - long broad consultive process and Muscat Agreement has informed the global education goal and its associated targets and means of implementation, as proposed by the UN General Assembly's Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).