Sentences with phrase «higher education selected»

A panel of experts in higher education selected Martiniello's HGSE dissertation, «Linguistic Complexity and Differential Item Functioning (DIF) for English Language Learners (ELL) in Math Word Problems» for its contributions and efforts as an agent of change in improving education.

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Entrepreneurial Winning Women is a competitive award and executive education program that identifies a select group of high - potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale — and then helps them do it.

So - called 529 college - savings plans — those state - sponsored accounts for college savers in which earnings are tax - free as long as they are used to pay for qualified higher - education expenses — typically let account holders select once a year from a number of investment options.

As with Josh and Mia, Finnish men are now more likely than Finnish women to select partners based on their high level of education.

Restore the power and independence of high school and community superintendents: State Education Law should be changed so that Community Education Councils are empowered to forward a list of three candidates for superintendent to the chancellor, who would select among those three.

Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, a Long Island Republican, ushered a bill through his chamber during the 2014 session that would change how the Regents are selected, giving the governor and legislative conferences appointment power.

Selecting the Working Families Party ballot line specifically would contribute to the passage of the state's DREAM Act, which would qualify undocumented youth who meet in - state tuition requirements to access state financial aid and scholarships for higher education.

The statement, therefore, directed all regional, metropolitan / municipal and district directors of education as well as heads of senior high schools to ensure that only students who qualified were selected to benefit from the scheme, effective September 2015/2016 academic year.

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education and Member of Parliament for Jaman North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Siaka Stevens, has commended the Government for fulfilling its major campaign promise by implementing the Free Senior High School education pEducation and Member of Parliament for Jaman North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Siaka Stevens, has commended the Government for fulfilling its major campaign promise by implementing the Free Senior High School education peducation programme.

Governor Cuomo proposed Innovation Hot Spots: Ten higher education / private sector high - tech incubators will be selected through a competitive process that fosters innovation by offering inventors and entrepreneurs support to grow their businesses and to be part of a tax - free zone, where start - ups will not be subject to business, real property, and sales taxes.

Marc Sternberg, the former principal of Bronx Lab, a high school on the Evander Childs campus, has landed a high - up job at the Department of Education where he'll be in charge of designing, selecting, and placing new schools.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

Mr Williams was appointed to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in 2005 before becoming the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales, and at varying times has been spokesman on schools and higher education.

The program provides selected high school teachers a curriculum geared to students in ninth or 10th grade in the required health education classes.

Mosca also hopes to work with Mississippi's Department of Education to begin testing all students in selected high schools for HIV, whether or not they appear to fall into a high - risk group.

Researchers tracked each participant's physical activity during selected times over seven days and considered socio - demographic factors — including household income, highest level of education attained by parents living in the household and median household income.

With the Linnaeus funding, direct government funding is distributed directly to the selected research fields instead of centrally to the higher education institutions.

Education management platforms that provide high - value services should consider whether their selected payment provider offers an option to allow users to pay in installments.

However, high - performing countries tend to require high academic achievement of entering teacher education students, and then select on the basis of skills and personal attributes required for effective teaching.

As chair, McLaughlin will oversee a 12 — 15 member council responsible for selecting members for college boards of trustees in the state and making recommendations for the state board of higher education...

But as a recent education select committee report on recruitment and retention of teachers recognises, the government shouldn't underestimate the impact of high - quality continued professional development.

Under the plan prepared by the Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education — a 30 - member panel of school - board members, teachers, school administrators, and representatives of higher education, business, and government selected by Gov. Robert Kerrey — the state would provide at least 50 percent of the total cost of public education and would develop a new state - aid distribution fEducation — a 30 - member panel of school - board members, teachers, school administrators, and representatives of higher education, business, and government selected by Gov. Robert Kerrey — the state would provide at least 50 percent of the total cost of public education and would develop a new state - aid distribution feducation, business, and government selected by Gov. Robert Kerrey — the state would provide at least 50 percent of the total cost of public education and would develop a new state - aid distribution feducation and would develop a new state - aid distribution formula...

The New England Association of Schools and Colleges has selected 49 partnerships between institutions of higher education and schools to serve as models for collaboration in the region.

«As part of the Education Select Committee I have visited hundreds of different schools across the country and I can honestly say that I have not seen a school which is more in need of repair than Todmorden High.»

The HGSE community is represented in 25 percent of the selected projects — including 12 proposals submitted by HGSE faculty and students — which aim to catalyze, evaluate, and expand experimental approaches to teaching and improve student learning in higher education.

Some students have worked in higher education previously, in entry and mid-management administrative or faculty positions; some are interested in making a career transition into higher education; and a select few come directly from undergraduate studies where they were highly accomplished students and student leaders.

The university's education department, with the support of a $ 290,000 grant from the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, will provide up to $ 26,000 in college loans to selected San Antonio high - school students.

Finally, WGU offers only a select number of high - demand degrees, including education, which allows it to gain the benefits of scale from the large number of students in each program.

Third, student responses are regionally specific, emphasizing the role of the higher - education marketplace and local options in selecting which colleges to attend.

«Residential mobility has brought about a high degree of racial segregation in education, as well as segregation by income... and it is the disadvantaged who are least able to select a school... that continues to function reasonably well.»

However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb told the Commons Education Select Committee last week that the changes to the initial teacher training system had been «successful» and resulted in higher numbers and speedier applications.

Building strategically on Education Week's reputation as the «must read» independent news source for leaders, educators, and policy experts in pre-K through high school, Editorial Projects in Education has extended its reach by serving readers, users, viewers, and clients across an array of platforms — from mobile devices to newsprint and magazine - style reports; from broadcast and Web video to webinars and live events; from targeted e-newsletters on selected topics to the online TopSchoolJobs recruitment service.

The Mexican National Development Plan has selected education as one of the five key areas for development, ensuring the right to high quality education for all Mexicans.

Many institutions used to select students by plugging applicants» grades and test scores into a formula, said Joseph Zolner, senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education.

Seven Experienced Educators from Across the Country Selected to Receive Leadership Credential Washington D.C. — High - performing education systems around the world invest in the recruitment, preparation, development, and career advancement of teachers and leaders.

• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.

[1] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through Public high school 4 — year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by race / ethnicity and selected demographics for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia: School year 2014 — 15.

It should be noted, Charla Long, C - BEN's Executive Director, was recognized in the Chronical for Higher Education as a «competency champion» and one of a select few identified as an influencer of 2016.

We did, however, write a one - page letter to the highest ranking education officer of each state telling him or her about the study and that their state had been randomly selected.309 We also invited him or her to consider taking part in the state leader interview component of our investigation.

«As competition for university places increases, there is a real risk that schools will feel forced to select certain exam boards, based on their links with higher education institutions.»

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

Hope Street Group in partnership with the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) selected the first cohort of Utah Teacher Fellows to join a cross-state teacher leader network that will participate in high - quality professional learning, mobilize their colleagues and amplify teacher impact in education policy and practice.

«For the first time, a group of parents is going to take back power of the educations of their own kids and select a high - quality nonprofit to transform their failing school,» said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that is bankrolling the parent union.

Building upon an established record of collaboration by the community organizations and higher education institutions serving within ACAN, the goal of this effort was to use the forum of ACAN to identify regional priorities around college student persistence and success and select strategies and activities that could promote that success.

Salt Lake City, Utah — August 1, 2017 — Hope Street Group in partnership with the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) selected the first cohort of Utah Teacher Fellows to join a cross-state teacher leader network that will participate in high - quality professional learning, mobilize their colleagues and amplify teacher impact in education policy and practice.

Mr Schleicher also told the House of Commons Education Select Committee that global evidence suggests greater local flexibility for schools is linked to higher results.

We selected the University of Findlay for its high quality, and great value education.

Leading provider of district and school improvement to serve Illinois schools and drive higher student achievement Naperville, IL — The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has selected American Institutes for Research (AIR) as an ISBE professional learning partner to build the educational capacity of schools identified as needing the most support.

This lack of transparency about the proficiency targets set, as well as the process by which cut scores are selected, results in children being cheated of high - quality education because schools and districts can look better - performing than they really are.

In 2001, he was selected to open the alternative education program in the Deer Valley Unified School District and later was the founding principal for the district's most recent high school, Boulder Creek High Schhigh school, Boulder Creek High SchHigh School.