Sentences with phrase «higher education matters»

Nevertheless, getting a good higher education matters the most.

Mikhail Zinshteyn is EdSource's reporter on community colleges and other higher education matters in California and is based at EdSource's Los Angeles office.

Future leaders will need to become stronger in their abilities to present, in understandable language — and, preferably with compelling narratives, metrics, and data — why higher education matters to the betterment of society.

He is also involved with higher education matters on a national level, and has, in addition, a historian's eye.

Not exact matches

Considering the high costs of having of a child, coupled with the tension in balancing family - work life matters, states and companies are starting to invest in family support policies, parental benefits and competitive education.

People with high incomes and high degrees of education claim that income and education matter to them more, and they display an especially large messaging preference for potential mates with high incomes and educations.

«Albertans depend on our schools and hospitals for the high - quality education and health care that matters most to families,» said Notley.

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

The fact of the matter is that the Church should spend more time protesting the higher costs of insurance, the higher costs of higher education, the inequities in K - 12 education, demand that physical and mental abuses stop, and let GOD be the judge of a woman's right to care for her own body... On a theological note... where in the Apostle's Creed (summary of catholic doctrine) does it mention anything about contraception anyway?

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.

«We've agreed we're going to get it done on time, and we're still finalizing a whole bunch of fiscal and appropriation matters — education and higher ed,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport).

«We've agreed we're going to get it done on time, and we're still finalizing a whole bunch of fiscal and appropriation matters — education and higher ed,» state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport) said Sunday.

It doesn't matter whether the worry was about implementing the government's higher education strategy or if the best man could be trusted to find the church in time.

Do you know how much the higher education system matters to our city?

The Network for ASSIN Development is calling on the government as a matter of urgency to sack all the Head Teachers of both the Basic and the Senior High School in the Assin Land for failing to give the students proper sex education.

What is needed is significant additional investment into our school system to support high - quality education provision for every child, no matter what their needs or circumstances.

The panelists included: Eric Joerss, Deputy for Government Affairs, the NYC Charter School Center; Barbara McKeon, Principal, Broome Street Academy Charter High School; Leonie Haimson, Executive Director, Class Size Matters; Tamara Rowe, Community Education Council, District 2.

Britain should get away from the assumption that higher education is the only thing that matters.

And the truth of the matter is that this statement can also be made for those dreaming of furthering their education beyond high school.

«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.

For academics who desire employment on this diverse and captivating continent, it is important to remember that while many aspects of European science are the same no matter which country you are in (for example, all EU scholars can apply for funds from the European Research Council [ERC]-RRB-, there are also numerous differences that exist between the members states and their higher education systems.

The relationship between the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and the Science and Engineering Research Council is becoming a matter for concern.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

Despite many matters to be resolved, higher education institutions and agencies are working towards the objectives of the Bologna Process: increased mobility, transparency and quality.

«It's a matter of drawing together researchers from different departments, faculties and higher education institutions around joint methods,» she explains.

Unlike other conferences offered in the library field, Collins notes that the institute goes beyond just talking about the latest library innovations and instead aims to inform these professionals about the larger higher education world and other pertinent leadership matters.

This is an odd objection, given that nothing in American K — 12 education (or higher education for that matter) employs a means - test.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

These children are the keys to a secure and sustainable future, and their education matters for us all,» said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and adds «Only one in two refugee children go to primary school, and one in four to secondary.

There lies a greater mystery to the MOOC saga than meets our eyes, and for that matter, the eyes of educators and higher education institutes all over the world.

The MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum (MENA - HELF) is the region's premier dynamic network established with the purpose of attracting Higher Education leaders and decision makers from across the globe to address and discuss matters of pertinence to Higher Education within the MENA region & beyond and to promote the exchange of experiences and «know - how».

An Incomplete Education: Trained for the elementary or high school grades, middle school teachers often lack knowledge about subject matter and young adolescents.

Over the last three years I have focused my instructional design efforts on a specific context: higher education courses delivered via a learning management system (LMS) by subject matter experts (SMEs).

Dr Bronwyn Hinz, Policy Fellow at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University, told Education Matters that some schools and parents have overemphasised the importance of the NAPLAN tests, which she says is not a high - stakes test.

Raising student achievement, boosting high school graduation rates and college completion rates, re-envisioning vocational education to equip our kids for twenty - first - century jobs — all of that matters immensely.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

The institutions» education students must have passing rates of 80 percent or higher on the subject - matter - licensing tests for teachers, and 85 percent or higher on the Praxis III exam.

In that same period, you people, within a matter of a couple of years, with other marches, we had the Civil Rights movement, and amazingly, we had the Civil Rights Act in» 64, the Higher Education Act in» 65.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

It does something else: it brings together higher education and K - 12 to discuss and agree on what matters most... Those critical decisions made in partnership are a key impact the College Board has in the world; its strategic impact is significant.

According to the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (2010), assessment is one of the most relevant parts of the instructional process, and not just a matter of marking (Guàrdia, Crisp & Alsina, 2016).

What would matter then is not which college one attended but rather the fact that one had the opportunity for higher education and learned something important while there.

The central concept, he says, is that the nation's 40 million K — 12 students should be offered the same high - standard education no matter where they go to school; a child in Mississippi, say, should finish each grade with the same general proficiencies as one in Maine — and ready to compete in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

But it can also be said that investing in higher education benefits society as a whole, and that is the matter state policymakers need to focus on.

Or does it make sense to be clear in education what it is we're trying to achieve with young people and recognize that no matter whether students live in the Berkshires or whether they live in Chelsea, they're all students here in the commonwealth, they're going to move around as adults and it's in our interest to have them all educated to a high level?

While the state requires future high school teachers to pass subject - matter tests, some of Oklahoma's middle school teachers seeking the grades 1 - 8 certificate must pass an elementary education exam only.

Finally, states can signal that high - achievers matter by making them a visible, trackable «subgroup,» akin to special education students or English language learners, and publishing school grades for their progress and / or achievement.

Now, my forum partner Matt Ladner dismisses this as a «poorly considered» argument because «nothing in American K — 12 education (or higher education for that matter) employs a means test.»