Sentences with phrase «higher education models»

In law schools, we are ahead of the curve in witnessing the decline of old higher education models.

With millions of nonconsumers of traditional colleges and universities in the United States and worldwide — many of them low - income adults with jobs or families — and a traditional higher education model that, increasingly, is both expensive and under financial strain, there has been no shortage of opportunities for disruptive higher education upstarts powered by online learning to emerge.

It is a mistake to expect that merely switching to the higher education model for funding is all Congress needs to do to help transform public schools.

They continue to believe that the traditional higher education model — which with bells and whistles has survived for 1,000 years — will never fundamentally change.

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Though it operates with the mission of providing high - quality, low - cost education for all, Bridge has drawn criticism from some education experts and teachers unions for the model it uses to make good on that mission.

Vocado works with thousands of financial aid sources to optimize funding for any type of higher education learning model.

It is, perhaps, the biggest vote of confidence in the MOOC model to date, and indicates that MOOCs may yet have an important place in higher education.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Today when we think of higher education, the model is the university.

Though these two elements — integration and formation — are the most costly parts of college life, they are also the only reasons not to reduce the spendy, four - year residential model to a two - year, web - based, vocation - focused, trade - school model of higher education.

This is a result of the history through which the model provided by the University of Berlin came to dominate American standards of higher education generally.

Historians of American higher education generally point to the founding in 1876 of Johns Hopkins University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

It has been a privilege to work with such a dedicated and inspiring team at FRN, a team that is firm in our work: that higher education can be the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception, and that this model can scale and translate to other sectors.

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To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

The Early Learning Center at New Legacy provides a high - quality, innovative model of early childhood education and care.

Any funding model should move away from increasing fees and debt and towards a model of entitlement for students and contributions from graduates in order to ensure that the next generation can also benefit from higher education provision.»

This, she said, had made Ghana a role model for many African countries in the provision of free education and free compulsory universal basic education and free community day Senior High Schools had increased access to education for many vulnerable groups.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to shift payment responsibility to New York City for higher education and health care, is asking state legislators to adopt a congressional model limiting their outside income, will direct $ 2.6 billion to address homelessness in New York State and will push for a system of paid family leave.

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said H. Carl McCall, chairman of the SUNY board.

Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

The current higher education funding model will become unsustainable as hundreds of thousands of new university places will be needed by 2030,...

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said McCall.

Mr. Gallagher, the president, won't speculate about what the future will bring, but he does say that «I think this model will be the norm 10 years from now in higher education.»

Although useful for making short - term predictions, these models provide little insight into how the higher education system evolves in response to external changes.

One particularly useful way to tap their knowledge would be to commission economics - based models of the higher education system with the goal of letting policy - makers examine the effects of funding and policy changes via simulation.

He proposed that online courses such as the ones pioneered by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford might be a better model for higher education in Haiti.

That publicity culminated in Hopkins's trip to the White House and the Clintons» praise of the university for doing the right thing — and for creating what they said should be «a model for the rest of higher education.»

In the fully adjusted model (model 4), more years of education and higher net worth were associated with a significantly lower odds of dementia, while older age, being African American or Hispanic, and having a history of stroke or diabetes were all associated with increased odds.

The NIMBioS GRA program has been dedicated to supporting graduate students in high priority areas, including, but not limited to, computational biology, conservation and natural resource management, STEM education and evaluation, spatial biology and infectious disease modeling.

The NIMBioS GRA program is dedicated to supporting graduate students in high priority areas, including, but not limited to, computational biology, conservation and natural resource management, STEM education and evaluation, spatial biology and infectious disease modeling.

Modeled after the acclaimed Ritsumeikan Japan Super Science Fair and the International Student Science Fair, the Pacific Astronomy and Engineering Education Summit will feature high school students from India, China, Japan, Canada and Hawaii Island.

In a linear mixed model adjusted for age, sex, education, participation in cognitive activities, physical activities, smoking, and seafood and alcohol consumption, consumption of green leafy vegetables was associated with slower cognitive decline; the decline rate for those in the highest quintile of intake (median 1.3 servings / d) was slower by β = 0.05 standardized units (p = 0.0001) or the equivalent of being 11 years younger in age.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school model.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Yet we are focused on expansion at a time when the system still needs great improvement, including increased attention to generating high - quality, affordable models of early education and care.

It's clear that higher education is at a point of change, with fiscal changes that are leading to an increasing focus upon a more student (and customer) focused model.

Free Online Courses Impact Models of Higher Learning The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland - Baltimore County), November 5, 2013» «Everyone in the research field agrees that, for the particular purpose of replacing on - campus education, the evidence is ambiguous at best,» said Andrew Ho, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatioeducation, the evidence is ambiguous at best,» said Andrew Ho, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.»

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.

More than four decades after the first model preschool interventions, there is an emerging consensus that high - quality early - childhood education can improve a child's economic and social outcomes over the long term.

Though it's shifting, the antiquated traditional model of education (higher ed in particular) will still be around 50 years from now, so the insiders, the informants, the resident experts; those who simultaneously see the inevitability of the future, while holding a deep experiential understanding of the existing system, become extremely valuable — perhaps even indispensable.

It stands in contrast to the models of online education that preceded it, which involved either highly ranked institutions offering online degrees that cost as much as their in - person equivalents, lower - ranked institutions offering inexpensive online degrees with low labor - market returns, or a variety of institutions offering free massive open online courses (MOOCs), with unclear returns and very high attrition rates.

But it isn't entirely clear yet whether XQ truly represents a more promising way of approaching high school redesign and education philanthropy or is simply a return to an old, somewhat discredited model in which funders let a thousand flowers bloom but never achieved large - scale improvement.

Like other NYC Outward Bound network schools, WHEELS uses the organization's «To and Through College» model to help students prepare for higher education — a comprehensive approach that addresses everything from logistics and deadlines to soft skills development.

Whether such low - cost, high - quality models can make inroads in undergraduate or secondary education remains to be seen, however.

Secretary da Silva called this method of teaching «teacher - present high school with technological mediation,» and he wanted to know: Would the IDB be willing to make an investment that would help the program transform from an experimental pilot into a radically new, statewide model for education?

Author Meredith Liu writes that in contrast to sustaining innovations, by which education schools might add some new faculty or online course offerings but not change their brick - and - mortar model, fully - online degree programs offer the potential to «transform the industry into one that has lower costs and higher quality, and is more widely accessible.»

She is now the strategy director for student financial support at the Lumina Foundation, a private foundation at which she leads the work to develop new models of student financial support for higher education through strategic grantmaking.