Sentences with phrase «great education programs»

«I do think these retirement entities should do more coaching or mentoring because they all have great education programs and great content, and some of them have been in existence for 50, 60 years so they have a lot of data to mine, to show results and how actions can influence those things.»

Is the focus to provide access to higher level honors and Pre-IB courses or is the focus to create a great education program for students that don't get on the honors or IB track?

Not exact matches

Be Great Fest plans on offering support to Pencils of Promise, a local nonprofit that builds schools and education programs abroad, by donating $ 25,000 of the proceeds to the organization.

«The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Edcation 2020» is an investor education and protection teaching guide that can be used in a variety of learning environments including college courses, workplace education, after school programs, seminars for adults and seniors, etc. «The Basics» is also a great DIY course for individuals.

Great Lakes Higher Education: Great Lakes is a nonprofit that serves as a guaranty agency for the FFEL federal loan program.

Along with hiring, Butterfield, Lee and their CBC colleagues said they would also press companies like Apple and Twitter this week to commit to new investment goals, including greater funding for science and engineering education programs.

Fred believes in a world where leadership character is fundamental to business education programs and performance evaluation processes... a world where «Who» a leader is receives as much attention as «What» the leader is trained to do because it results in greater value for all.

There are public programs — preschool education for one — that cost money, but that seem to pay even greater dividends.

With fall education programs getting under way and Sunday school teachers beginning another year of teaching, it may be disconcerting to hear this reading from James: «Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.»

The Head Start program has demonstrated that education is a great preventive medicine for poverty's liabilities.

They probably matter a great deal to those who spend money on insurance, treatment, grants, research, prevention, correction, TV ads, education, and religious programs.

They were adopted later at Chicago, where under Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler they were known as the «Great Books program,» and at Harvard under James Conant soon after the Second World War, where they were known as «general education.»

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

(35) Ringe found that those with a twelfth - grade education or less preferred traditional religious programs, while those with greater than a twelfth - grade education preferred more novel programs.

«They provide a great deal of value to the people who are members, but I'm not sure people realize how much they do for farmers, from going to bat for us, their education program, and more.»

Potawatomi Bingo Casino (Milwaukee, Wis.) An internal education and standards program for cook chill systems, the effectiveness of which has not only improved costs, safety and efficiency — but also led to on - site workshops for local, state and federal inspectors that support better food safety for the greater community.

Not that they don't have brushfires once in a while, but their testing, their education, their discipline programs have gone a great distance in resolving the problem.»

The schools» services and programs go beyond standard child care / education to quality, positive experiences that lead to greater future successes — both inside and outside the classroom.

There was great interest in our RSCT teacher education program, and request to come back to continue intensive work in the schools.

Victoria Temple interviews the educators at Cairn Hill, on their support of Public Waldorf education via after school and pre-school programs in the greater Boston Area.

If breakfast - in - the - classroom is your passion program, the education session lineup at ANC is packed with great options to help you implement a new program, or grow an existing one.

Safe Kids Greater Naugatuck Valley was established at Griffin Hospital in April 2004 with the mission to provide education and prevention programs about unintentional injury to youth and their caregivers.

«This is a great option for viewing the eclipse together as a family, especially if you have been unable to secure a pair of eclipse glasses,» says Karyn Perdue, education program manager for The Lab.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

After moving to Kansas, he became the founding president (1993) of the Waldorf Association of Greater Kansas City which established the state's and region's first Waldorf education program in Gardner, Kansas.

Great Start is a licensed early learning center that offers child care services and education programs for young children.

Whether you're a troop leader in search of a program for a badge requirement, a parent planning a birthday party or searching for a monthly activity for your preschooler, or you are looking for a great homeschool class or field trip, the teacher naturalists at the Joppa Flats Education Center can help.

The Georgia Department of Education School Nutrition Program and the Georgia School Nutrition Association invite you to part in two great professional opportunities in Athens.

Nature offers many benefits to minority youth, which is why the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum places the highest priority on taking nature and science education programs to underserved communities, and on creating greater awareness and opportunities to experience urban nature.

We support at - risk families by offering free professional home visiting, parent education and specialized preschool for children ages 0 to 5 — the time research shows these programs to have the greatest long term impact on children's development.

Recent studies have shown that children are not only more obese than they should be, but even in elementary school the cholesterol counts of many are greater than 180, well above the 170 - or-less guidelines established by the National Cholesterol Education Program, a countrywide consortium of physicians and scientists.

The National Center for Fathering (www.fathers.com) is a leading national nonprofit organization, with widely - implemented programming such as WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a one - of - a-kind school based father involvement program that works to support education and safety.

NCF also has widely - implemented programming such as WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a one - of - a-kind school based father involvement program that works to support education and safety.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, will include representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

Also, the governor and lawmakers are responsible for crafting the state budget, a process that gives them great control over which programs to fund and leaves education officials in an advisory role.

This summer, for the first time, the Department of Education (DOE) is giving every family an opportunity to find a great pre-K program and register their child.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

As legislators and education advocates parsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget in the first of 13 joint hearings, elements of his free tuition proposal came under greater scrutiny, with the governor's office moving to counter concerns about the program's cost, scope and impact on private colleges.

$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Earthworks Institute strives to improve the quality of life for residents of the Greater Rochester area by providing education and mentoring programs that teach invaluable life - skills and social responsibility, while at the same time building healthy, lasting bonds between land and community.

Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro and New York State Senator Stephen Saland announced $ 100,000 in funding secured by Senator Saland from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice for Dutchess County to expand the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) program.

For decades, parents have entrusted Riverdale Neighborhood House as both the first stop in their child's education and as a great connector later for internships and job programs for teens.

The recommendations to Congress also include cuts in programs aimed at Great Lakes education outreach and cleaning up toxic waste sites.

Robin G. Lorenz, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Medical Scientist Training Program and chair - elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) Group M.D. - Ph.

«Because our findings strongly suggest that attending public pre-K helps to promote information access and test taking for gifted and talented programs, with the advent of universal pre-K, the New York City Department of Education has an even greater chance to provide information about public educational opportunities to many more children across all demographic subgroups,» said Weinberg.

There is a tremendous need for such training, says Steven Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University in Brunswick, New Jersey, and an advisor to the Growing Up Great program.

An important reason for this is the current setup of most university programs: Although German students experience great latitude during their university educations, they study much longer than do their competitors in other countries.

Sue Ann began her career in STEM education 31 years ago as a science teacher, but after attending a summer residential teacher enrichment program as a participant, she knew Green Bank was where she could make the greatest contribution to the field.