Sentences with phrase «higher education efforts»

It explores state and local policies that support the use of such assessments, along with emerging higher education efforts to incorporate them in college admission, placement, and advising.

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Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

As such, cryptocurrency allows people a means to generate income that is not battered by regional inflation as well as the ability to use any accumulated earnings to enter higher education in an effort to improve their lives.

So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specEducation in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq speceducation to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.

Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the conservative resistance they met in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.

Education is the attempt to fulfill the high hopes and fervent expectations which center around a child at his birth; it is the effort to make good the promise of a new life in its boundless potentiality.

Given this basic attitude toward higher education, it is understandable that institutions develop that are unambiguous in their efforts to meet the need for job training.

Such curricular measures can also be seen as major efforts to stem the tide of technological and professional pressures on higher education.

What would such an effort on the part of a church - related college, to renew and emphasize the Christian dimension of higher education and enlist the support of the church in such an undertaking, look like?

First, the rise of Darwinian evolutionary theory for almost the first time brought about efforts of some Christians to interfere with the scientific teaching to which by the late nineteenth century higher education was committed.

And I'm reading about how most of the higher ups in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion supported such an effort — either by directly blessing lawmakers in Uganda, removing any effort to improve education on the matter (and regain peaceful resolution), or by their complacency.

And with more than 325 higher - education establishments in the UK, the collective efforts of the entire student body for one day a week could make a huge difference.

It includes both formal and informal education which reinforces the high expectations of the Academy in relation to the «Tottenham Hotspur Standard» of: Team Spirit; Friendship; Excellence; Elite Player Conduct; Co-operation; Effort and Persistence and Respect, and encompasses our holistic approach.

In 2004, when he started this effort, the drive for higher education standards was in full swing, and Thacker was a voice in the wilderness.

Today's announcement builds on these continuing efforts to make high - quality early education and child care available for all.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

Collaborative efforts with Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) and Department of Education (DOE) to develop education materials in response to DOE ConcuEducation (DOE) to develop education materials in response to DOE Concueducation materials in response to DOE Concussion Law

«In an effort to address the common high - risk behaviors associated with infant mortality, we created the Sleep Awareness Family Education at Temple, or SAFE - T, program,» says Megan Heere, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Medical Director of the Well Baby Nursery at TUH.

NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Education.

Despite these positive efforts, the situation is not always conducive to encouraging the asylum seekers to go for higher education.

The coalition's efforts to clamp down on immigration have also been criticised for damaging the higher education sector, with figures from the industry saying government policy is robbing the UK of billions in investment.

During the weekend, Cuomo officials retracted his administration's effort to make the city pay for $ 485 million more for the City University of New York higher education system.

The veto was a disappointment to higher education advocates who had sought the approval of what's known as a maintenance of effort for the SUNY and CUNY systems.

Also at 2 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will visit South Brooklyn Community High School's Learning to Work program to see and hear more about their efforts to support youth in transitioning to secondary education or employment, 173 Conover St., Brooklyn.

Both education and elected leaders gathered at South Park High School to dedicate a new sign identifying the high school as the home of their joint adult education effHigh School to dedicate a new sign identifying the high school as the home of their joint adult education effhigh school as the home of their joint adult education effort.

Continue reading «Gill Wyness and Tom Frostick: Why Conservatives should back efforts to tackle information inequalities in higher education»»

Led by Senate and Assembly higher education committee leaders, Ken LaValle and Deborah Glick, a group of students, along with UUP and PSC members, are making a last - minute push to extend a «maintenance of effort» law that will expire at the end of this month unless it is renewed.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

After touring the under - performing Automotive High School in Brooklyn, de Blasio and his education team once again touted their ongoing effort to improve 94 of the city's struggling schools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 million.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

They argued that the fiscally conservative governor, in his effort to tie education funding to performance on standardized testing, has failed to fulfill the 2006 order of the state's highest court and allowed overcrowding and cuts to local schools» budgets.

[58] Starting in 1999, CUNY colleges would be required to drop their remedial courses over a 3 - year period and restrict students who could not pass entry exams in an effort to deliver a higher quality college education through the city colleges.

Cuomo has been clashing with de Blasio for over a year on a wide range of issues including homelessness, higher taxes on the wealthy, pre-K education cost, minimum - wage hikes, and efforts to win Democratic control of the Senate.

Higher education policy moved back into the news last week when the State University of New York's Chancellor announced an effort to keep increasing the cost of public college tuition.

Further moves to privatise post-16 education will undermine efforts to build strong further and higher education foundations in Britain, a union chief will warn today.

A joint effort of the Oneida County STOP DWI Program and the Oneida County Youth Bureau, along with participating school districts, partners and sponsors, the Teen Traffic Safety Week education program is presented to county high school students annually just prior to prom season.

«I fully support President Barack Obama's efforts to make higher education more accessible and affordable to all.

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

But the mayor noted that seeking additional revenue from valuable property owners in Albany such as Albany Medical Center or imposing student fees at local higher - education institutions would likely result in those entities or groups clamoring for the state to either block the local efforts or pick up the costs.

The most recent of the program's reports, AAAS Report XXIII: Research and Development FY 1999, is a collaborative effort involving contributions from 22 scientific, engineering, higher education, and industrial associations known collectively as the Intersociety Working Group.

The most recent of the program's reports, AAAS Report XXII: Research and Development FY 1998, is a collaborative effort involving contributions from approximately 20 scientific, engineering, higher education, and industrial associations known collectively as the Intersociety Working Group.

Rush Holt, the chief executive officer of AAAS, thanked each of the House members, representing both parties, for signing letters to their respective leadership, urging them to resist efforts that would limit access to higher education by eliminating graduate tuition waivers.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

But efforts to unify higher education standards have always played second fiddle to powerful regional and national sentiments.

At a higher education and science policy roundtable in New York City, University of Colorado at Boulder chancellor Philip DiStefano talked about his institution's efforts to attract science majors to teaching K - 12.

These participants were relatively highly educated compared with the rest of the population, but those with the highest levels of education do not appear to contribute the most effort and information towards these projects.»

Second, considerable efforts are on the way to restructure Germany's research and higher education system according to the needs of the 21st century.

«Attaining higher levels of education, having a mentally demanding job, or regular and sustained mental effort builds something called cognitive reserve,» Willette said.