Sentences with phrase «group education trust»

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the change, first reported by Education Week, an «about - face» that lets states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

Arun Ramanathan, who directs the advocacy group Education Trust - West, said he hoped the national focus on education and the importance of good teaching will help bring an end to the notorious «dance of the lemons,» or the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school, which is depicted in an animated cartoon.

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the November change an «about - face» that let states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

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Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

She trained there with the renowned National Childbirth Trust to teach Childbirth Education, and began teaching birth preparation classes and conducting new moms groups in her home and at local venues in North London.

The benefits apply to a wide range of factors — life expectancy, physical and mental health, education, social mobility, happiness, trust, crime — and to all social groups.

«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.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

Turnbull and his colleagues produced a study, published in 1991 by AVERT, the AIDS Education and Research Trust, which suggests there are considerably higher risks for some groups in prison.

She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.

Options that don't end in a bachelor's degree will fail to help disadvantaged students see themselves as college material, and predictably channel them into less promising options, forming an «educational caste system,» according to Kati Haycock, the president of the Education Trust, a Washington group that presses for better opportunities for low - income and minority students.

Indeed, in the face of recent findings by Education Policy institute, which found that 20 of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs)-- running more than 300 schools — fall «significantly below» the national average for improving pupils» attainment, the importance of self - assessment not just within each school but right across the trust, is perhaps more important than ever before; and goes to the heart of addressing the issues raised in the all - party parliamentary group's (APPG) 21 questions http://www.nga.org.uk/News/NGA-News/Pre-2016/21Q.aspx

Equity - oriented groups that want as many students from disadvantaged groups as possible included in the accountability system, including the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Education Trust, have advocated for states to adopt a minimum n - size of 10, whereas since revoked Obama - era accountability regulations allowed states to choose any n - size up to 30.

The trust identified this group at «missing talent» as the analysis revealed that 15 per cent of highly able pupils who score in the top 10 per cent during primary education fail to achieve in the top 25 per cent at GCSE.

Nothing much got done in those years, but I knew there was hope when I listened to an envoy from the Education Trust (whom a bunch of us invited in) give a reading from the actual law to a group of mostly minority parents.

«We've got to end this rampant dishonesty about graduation rates,» Kati Haycock, the director of the Education Trust, the Washington - based research and advocacy group that put together the report, said in a statement.

The group includes representatives from Essex County Council, the Association of Secondary Headteachers in Essex (ASHE), the Essex Primary Headteachers» Association (EPHA), Essex Special School Education Trust (ESSET) and the Diocese of Chelmsford Vine Schools Trust.

SK: Education Trust and the civil rights groups have been great allies.

• The bill passed by the House education committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver ieducation committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver iEducation • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver initiative

The lowest performing school groups at both primary and secondary were found to be MATs, with the Education Fellowship Trust performing the worst for Key Stage 2 and the College Academies Trust performing the worst at Key Stage 4.

I also work in outdoor education for the YMCA during the summers, focusing on building trust and team building with groups of students and adults.

Other providers include the Field Studies Council, which delivers activities in the Lake District to KS2 / 3 and GCSE and A» Level groups, National Trust and National Park Authorities, as well as locally significant education providers such as the Jorvik Centre and Plas - y - Brenin and Mendip Outdoors.

David Weston is the chief executive of the Teacher Development Trust and chair of the Department for Education's Teachers» Professional Development Expert Group.

But the Education Next poll varied the query for another (randomly selected) group of respondents, who were given the opportunity to choose among four answers, «How much trust and confidence do you have in the men and women who are teaching children in the public schools?»

Case study Qualitative research by EdComs helped the Co-operative Group to understand the impact of their work with academies and trust schools across the UK and shape their future education strategy.

Klein is coauthor of «Blended Learning in Practice: Four District School Journeys,» a case study of the Oakland project written with Carrie McPherson Douglass, who's now with the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust, an umbrella organization for urban reform groups nationwide.

Part group therapy, part empathy - and trust - building exercise, the Councils are at the heart of a new, research - supported understanding of the profound role that healthy communities and school cultures play in children's education.

Advocacy groups such as Education Trust?

Groups such as Education Trust and the Center for American Progress have argued for years that states and districts must find ways to get their most effective teachers in front of their poorest and most disadvantaged pupils, and it's evident that the Obama administration is finally responding.

The tepid reaction to DeVos's selection among liberal and moderate education - reform groups such as Democrats for Education Reform and Education Trust may indicate new and deepened fault lines within the ed - reform ceducation - reform groups such as Democrats for Education Reform and Education Trust may indicate new and deepened fault lines within the ed - reform cEducation Reform and Education Trust may indicate new and deepened fault lines within the ed - reform cEducation Trust may indicate new and deepened fault lines within the ed - reform coalition.

CEE - Trust, an initiative of the extraordinary The Mind Trust, convenes and collaborates with reform - minded, city - based education groups, like foundations and advocacy organizations.

Last year, thousands of parents and community groups across California used our district report cards to learn how their districts stacked up against the state's top performers for underserved students,» Dr. Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust - West, said in a statement.

But student advocacy groups, including Education Trust - West and Children Now, view the plan as a way to nail down the board's commitment to narrowing disparities in achievement.

Also on Wednesday, a second coalition of 11 education reform and civil rights groups organized by Education Trust — sharing some of the same members and including Educators 4 Excellence, La Raza, DFER and StudentsFirst — wrote a letter to Harkin education reform and civil rights groups organized by Education Trust — sharing some of the same members and including Educators 4 Excellence, La Raza, DFER and StudentsFirst — wrote a letter to Harkin Education Trust — sharing some of the same members and including Educators 4 Excellence, La Raza, DFER and StudentsFirst — wrote a letter to Harkin and Enzi.

The 2011 findings are based on annual report cards issued by The Education Trust - West revealing how well California's 147 largest unified school districts serve these student groups.

A wide coalition of civil rights, business and state education officials» groups — including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Democrats for Education Reform, Education Trust, Chiefs for Change and La Raza — released a statement Wednesday morning saying, «We can not support the bill at this timeducation officials» groups — including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Democrats for Education Reform, Education Trust, Chiefs for Change and La Raza — released a statement Wednesday morning saying, «We can not support the bill at this timEducation Reform, Education Trust, Chiefs for Change and La Raza — released a statement Wednesday morning saying, «We can not support the bill at this timEducation Trust, Chiefs for Change and La Raza — released a statement Wednesday morning saying, «We can not support the bill at this time.»

The only groups stating opposition included Education Trust Midwest and the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals (MASSP).

With a mixture of respected teachers, head teachers and members from the National Education Trust, ResearchED and the Teaching Schools Council, the CPD Expert group aims to address the lack of understanding on effective professional development in the teaching profession.

Many of Bellwether's comments reiterated criticisms that California student advocacy groups, including Education Trust - West and Children Now, have previously made to the board.

Sage is among a group of people interested in education who find many aspects of The Mind Trust plan they agree with, yet are frustrated by the sense that standardized test scores will remain the way success for students — and even teachers and schools — is defined.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools, recognised by the Department for Education as the best performing schools groups in the country at secondary level.

Sonja Santelises is the former chief academic officer for the Baltimore schools and now works for The Education Trust, an advocacy group.

We intend that our work at the Education Endowment Foundation with the Tutor Trust will provide a way of bringing one - to - one and small group tuition to pupils from low and lower middle income backgrounds.»

Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, an advocacy group that seeks to close the achievement gap, said she is concerned that plans submitted by Indiana and Oklahoma don't do enough to hold schools accountable for educating Latino, African American and other minority children.

Students in low - income schools are more likely to be given an «A» for work that would receive a «C» in a more affluent school, according to «Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools and Districts on the Performance Frontier,» an Education Trust study released last November.

When the [Common Core] standards were first introduced, I sent them to my sister, a college professor of English, and she wrote back right away, «Yeah, this is what you need to succeed in college,»» said Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K - 12 policy and practice at the Education Trust, a Washington, D.C. - based research group.