Sentences with phrase «higher education outcomes»

Improved federal oversight would better protect students and improve higher education outcomes.

The College Transition Collaborative (CTC) brings together pioneering social psychologists, education researchers and higher education practitioners to create learning environments that produce more equitable higher education outcomes.

«However, the majority of mothers really valued the whole higher education experience and felt that it benefited them in lots of other ways which aren't necessarily counted in typical higher education outcomes such as a graduate job or a good salary.

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Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation, such as the long history of agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on best practices in farming, and employer education on safety practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

One must ask then how it is that if Protestant leaders in higher education generally made the right — or at least virtually inevitable — decisions, what has gone wrong that the outcome should be so adverse to the apparent interests of Protestant Christianity?

These children have positive, measureable outcomes: higher education attainment levels, better emotional and physical health, and greater self - esteem.

Several reliable studies have shown that high levels of interest by a father in his child's schooling and education are associated with improved outcomes, including:

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

Research shows that high - quality early childhood programs can yield a 13 percent annual return on investment through better outcomes in education, health, social behaviors and employment — reducing taxpayer costs down the road.

Pediatric Therapy Network (PTN) was founded in 1996 by a handful of therapists, parents and volunteers who envisioned an organization that would provide the community with high quality therapy, research and education as it relates to fostering the best possible outcomes for children with special needs.

More research is needed to understand how participation in home visiting programs in the early years of life serves to encourage high - risk parents to take advantage of early education programs available to them that can further support children's school readiness outcomes.

Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

A technical note explaining how high needs place numbers and hospital education place numbers are determined for 2016 to 2017; and the outcome of the place change request process are available on GOV.UK.

A lifelong change agent and advocate for high quality education for all children, Dr. Cash comes to Buffalo, NY, with over 20 years of executive leadership experience in education, and successful outcomes for children as past superintendent in Memphis, Tennessee; and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Higher education only affects a small percentage of the population, but that three per cent could yet have a big say on the outcome of the 2015 election.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

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.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Tuesday that a call from teachers» unions for a three - year moratorium on using state exam results for «high - stakes» decisions is a «distraction» from the goal of improving New York graduates» outcomes in college and careers.

The governor proposes increasing education funding by $ 1.1 billion (only half of the $ 2.2 billion that nearly every education and student - focused organization in the state is demanding), but only if the legislature agrees to draconian education reforms that mistakenly blame teachers for poor student outcomes in underfunded, high need, low wealth districts.

The outcome of such complacency will be that the generation of students attending university now will have to pay for higher education twice: once in the form of their own loans, and once in the form of cleaning up the debts left by this I.O.U policy.

Liberal - Arts Learning Outcomes of Professional Majors,» will present their findings Nov. 21 at the Association for the Study of Higher Education's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

One crucial outcome of scientific knowledge is to generate new and better ways of being ignorant: not the kind of ignorance that is associated with a lack of curiosity or education but rather a cultivated, high - quality ignorance.

The Ministry for Higher Education and Research describes the outcome of the program's 1st year as «very positive.»

«Greater access to higher education could have reversed EU referendum result: New research suggests that greater access to higher education can influence political outcomes.»

The research also suggests that greater access to higher and further education can produce different political outcomes — which has been demonstrated in the 2017 General Election, where it can be argued that voting populations with a higher education had a decisive effect on the result.

«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

: The attraction, realities and outcomes of pursuing a doctorate» (Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, Toronto, 2013).

But if the goal is improving student outcomes over the long term — not just generating short - term excitement — then policymakers may want to tie «free college» proposals to broader investments in higher education that make the college experience better, not just cheaper.

Her research focuses on access and choice in higher education, the outcomes for college students, and the behavior of postsecondary institutions.

Expanding and improving the existing ECE system will produce higher - quality outcomes than a monopolistic approach to pre-K education.

Education is an investment in the future, leading eventually to higher productivity, better social outcomes and reduced spending on other public services; cuts to this budget are a false economy.»

Research on traditional VE compared outcomes for high school graduates who did not go on to postsecondary education.

In a ten - year study by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on high school interdisciplinary teaching teams, researchers found that team teaching produced positive outcomes for students, and professionalism and morale improved when teams developed collective authority and accountability.

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.

Ten states make funding to public institutions of higher education contingent on meeting key outcomes.

ECU School of Education researcher Dr Michael Fitzgerald received a $ 384,996 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to investigate whether providing high school science teachers with authentic science research experience improve outcomes for both teachers and students.

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

The National Center of Education and the Economy, through its Center on International Education Benchmarking, is working to build a community of researchers interested in investigating how a small set of countries and states have managed to build and sustain educational systems that manage routinely to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for children and youth.

Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.

We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.

Further, though case law surrounding academic freedom issues has clearly established that higher - education leadership can still require a professor to teach certain topics, overly expansive faculty contracts have led to a different outcome.

However, Education Minister Simon Birmingham said Education at a Glance report showed Australia's education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment Education Minister Simon Birmingham said Education at a Glance report showed Australia's education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment Education at a Glance report showed Australia's education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment outcomes.

Celina Marie Benavides Human Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UnivHigher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UEducation Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Univhigher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Ueducation and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate University

[xi] Di Xu and Shanna Jaggars, «Performance Gaps Between Online and Face - to - Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas,» Journal of Higher Education 85 (3), 633 - 659, 2014; Cassandra Hart, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Michael Hill, «Online Course - Taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges,» Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming.

Last year, they released a series of white papers on college accreditation, holding colleges accountable for student outcomes, and improving the provision of consumer information in higher education.

Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

inequities in early childhood and primary school education outcomes which have failed to equip Indigenous young people with prerequisite knowledge and skills for high school;

Five indicators have a clear bearing on education outcomes: preschool enrollment, kindergarten enrollment, 4th - grade reading, 8th - grade mathematics, and high school graduation.