Sentences with phrase «higher educational schooling»

Most of the parents had finished academic or higher educational schooling (fathers: 77 %, mothers: 81 %).

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To support growth, what's needed is earlier educational opportunities for young engineers, starting in junior high school, Goldstein says, as well as increases to the H1 - B visa caps, for qualified foreign workers.

Arguing that half of dropouts leave the educational system because their classes don't seem relevant to their lives, NuSkool bases its instructional materials on topics more likely to interest high school students.

What it does: Operates after - school math programs for high - performing students and publishes educational materials

The principal reason for this educational divide: female students academically outperform male students at every level — high school and university.

A few decades ago, having a high school diploma meant you at least had the education, background and ambition to complete the «bare minimum» of educational expectations.

In September last year, it went into partnership with educational authorities in Ceará state, in Brazil's north - east, to deliver educational content to 300,000 high school students.

The rest derive from a book (The Teen's Guide to World Domination) and educational materials for high schools.

Employees and spouses alike can pursue high school equivalency degrees (G.E.D.'s) and other educational goals at the company's expense; children and grandchildren who need help for supplementary tutoring get it at a Sylvan or Huntington Learning Center.

Operates after - school math programs for high - performing students and publishes educational materials

As local educational institutions go, the WA School of Mines has a higher - than - average representation of 40under40 First Amongst Equals winners.

Recognizing the need for a high tech workforce of the future, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council established an educational initiative to reach middle and high school studehigh tech workforce of the future, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council established an educational initiative to reach middle and high school studeHigh Tech Corridor Council established an educational initiative to reach middle and high school studehigh school students.

Teach full - time as a highly - qualified teacher in a high - need field at an eligible low - income elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency for at least 4 academic years.

It was during high school that he started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

Certainly since World War II there has been an accelerating national effort to provide post — high school educational opportunity to everyone who shows even the least promise of profiting by it.

Since 2013 the Diocese of Westminster has been working with the Explore educational charity to provide a «remote marriage preparation» experience in the diocese's high schools and parishes.

The comprehensive schools (and their counterparts in higher education, the comprehensive universities) recognize the necessity for educational differentiation but, by keeping the students together in some classes and in the student activities program, minimize social class divisions.

Second, the comprehensive high school has been devised to enable students with different curricular needs to study within the same educational community.

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

In this country, for example, the Jesuits are known mainly for their educational institutions: middle schools, high schools and colleges and universities like Boston College, Georgetown, Fordham and all the schools named «Loyola.»

But in both nations the predominant educational systems have pretty much ignored media education, except for a few «honors» classes in high school.

In addition to the 10,000 Catholic elementary schools and 2,400 high schools, there were 223 Catholic associations, movements and societies with an explicit educational purpose.

Thus, Catholic educational administrators take who they can get: (a) graduates who are unable to get better - paying jobs in industry or at public high schools, or (b) spouses of individuals who are the primary breadwinners of their families.

For educational levels beyond high school, however, listening and viewing of religious programs decreased rapidly.

Proceeds from the night benefited NvRAEF's educational and scholarship programs, such as ProStart, a national high school culinary and restaurant management program that teaches students the skills and knowledge needed to enter the workforce or to continue to postsecondary after high school graduation.

We provide compelling, educational and resource - filled high school sports articles and content reinforcing positive self image and confidence, leadership and acceptance, and health and nutritional enrichment — core values found in the team experience and encouraged by active, healthy lifestyles.

We are excited to be amongst some of the best running trails in the Bay Area, and a day camp format to accommodate the busy summer schedules of both our middle and high school campers as well as adults who would like to invest some educational energy into their running, but have a difficult time fitting it in between work and family commitments.

Since the fall of 2000 he has been working at Jefferson Senior High in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high schoHigh in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high schohigh schools.

Whether you are looking for educational, enrichment or sports programs this summer, Carondelet High School has it all!

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

ArtNow is an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition and educational program, presented by New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU).

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

If we advocate for improved educational opportunities, does that equate to shaming everyone who didn't graduate from high school?

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

She is the owner of CSM Consulting, an educational consulting firm, and founding director of The Parent Education Series in the Sequoia Union High School District.

The proportions of pupils eligible for free school meals and with special educational needs are both higher than the national average.

Usborne is a direct sales company that has an AMAZING selection of educational and entertaining books for kids of all ages from babies through high school.

Concussion or Sports Related Head Injury: HB 2273 (2012) requires the department of education and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association to develop a concussion educational program for students and student athletes 14 - 18 years old.

Our developmentally sound, experiential approach brings educational experiences and content in an age - appropriate manner from pre-school through high school.

The Research Institute supports projects dealing with essential contemporary educational issues such as attention - related disorders, trends in adolescent development and innovations in the high school curriculum, learning expectations and assessment, computers in education, the role of art in education, and new ways to identify and address different learning styles.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

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).

The interactive tool, which is designed to feel like a social media site, takes high school athletes through a series of engaging educational activities and videos about concussions.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

The experts are there to answer any question to help you to make an informed decision about your child's educational journey from preschool through high school.

At Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, we offer a multitude of fun and educational nature - based programs for students from Preschool to High School, as well as College and Community groups.

As homeschooling children reaches high school age, parents usually face some new educational challenges.

We'll seriously consider it when our daughter gets to that point in her educational career, but I'd like her to also think about a gap year since she'll be 17 when she graduates from high school.

Already science students at nearby Deerfield High School are keeping tabs on water quality by testing it monthly, and the Highland Park Park District is working on an educational program for the slough.