Sentences with phrase «higher educational settings»

The authors discuss the value of skill - training programs with a preventive mental health focus and their application within higher educational settings.

Not exact matches

That the days were numbered when such elite educational ideals might hope to set the standard is suggested by the strikingly different tone of the even more influential 1947 report of The President's Commission on Higher Education for Democracy.

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.

High needs funding is for children and young people with special educational needs or disability who need extra support at school, college or alternative provision settings.

«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.

The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today.

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who heads the 64 - campus SUNY system, set the bar high last year when she outlined goals and strategies designed to move the system to the head of the educational pack: the crown jewel of 2013's address was the three - year program to graduate students faster than the traditional four years of study...

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

The Police Service should be attracting the best calibre of candidate possible when set against a nationally recognised standard and without the requirement for higher educational qualifications.

The McLean Imaging Center (MIC) is one of the premier imaging sites in the world, offering a rare blend of diagnostic services, cutting edge research, and high - quality educational programs in a relatively small hospital setting.

The 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Program at Vayusha Yoga follows the guidelines set out by the Yoga Alliance, ensuring the highest educational standards of quality, integrity, and professionalism.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

The upcoming EPE Research Center report examines a number of key issues facing students with disabilities ranging from the demographics of the population, educational settings, overrepresentation of certain student groups, achievement, high school completion, and transitions to adulthood.

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.

For Angus MacBeath, former school commissioner in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, however, setting high standards in his home province allowed him to «tell the ugly truth,» and it was the necessary first step toward Alberta's journey of educational improvement.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.

«It is the best educational initiative in which I've ever been involved, and I believe it has the potential to change the traditional high school into a place where students are actively, independently engaged in setting and reaching academic and professional goals.»

The Chinese national educational system has won high praise as an efficient system with national standards, a narrow curriculum, a high - stakes test (the college entrance exam), and a clearly defined set of gateways to mark students» transitions from one stage to another.

Each entry is judged by a panel of educational professionals, who look for what works in the classroom or the school setting in terms of design, cost - effectiveness, support of higher order thinking skills and effective learning and teaching styles.

In an effort to set the record straight, the high tech company hired an education consulting firm, the Metiri Group, to compile and review the educational research on multimodal learning.

Our mission is three-fold: to provide high - quality, developmentally - appropriate educational programs for children; to provide a clinical setting in which students preparing for careers working with young children can observe and participate in the application of theory into practice; and to facilitate educational research opportunities that engage participants in the process of investigation, reflection, and documentation.

But they set a high bar for allowing victims to recover damages under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs.

The purpose of Professor Javier Collado is to contribute to achieving the general objectives and core competencies set by the Organic Law 2/2006 of March 3, in the high school, with the «diffusion of knowledge» through a photo exhibition and an educational - multidisciplinary talk and consciousness - raising that will address the «different realities - realities equal» to live in the countries he has been working in Latin America: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.

That cost, as well as our overall educational goals, should be taken into account when setting higher - education policies.

In the 1970's, my experience with High Schools» counselors in the urban educational setting in a General Motors «GM» town were slanted towards vocational education and not Higher Ed.

Students can investigate possible internships in diverse educational contexts (e.g., in schools and alternative educational settings, higher education, NGOs, research organizations and labs, public agencies and non-profits, museums, private corporations, technology, as well as other professional settings related to their academic studies.

Diaspora Involvement in Educational Development in Conflict - Affected Settings: Transnational innovations in provision of high quality education for marginalized children The study aims examines promising transnational educational practices and partnerships between Diasporas, Ministries of Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict sSettings: Transnational innovations in provision of high quality education for marginalized children The study aims examines promising transnational educational practices and partnerships between Diasporas, Ministries of Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict settingssettings.

This EPE Research Center report examines a number of key issues facing students with disabilities ranging from the demographics of the population, educational settings, overrepresentation of certain student groups, achievement, high school completion, and transitions to adulthood.

The judges, who are all educational professionals, focus on what works in the classroom or the school setting in terms of design, cost - effectiveness, support of higher order thinking skills and effective learning and teaching styles.

The Common Core State Standards, a set of educational guidelines that were initially adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia to improve the college and career readiness of high school graduates, have become increasingly controversial.

... instances where students of a particular race, as compared to students of other races, are disproportionately: sanctioned at higher rates; disciplined for specific offenses; subjected to longer sanctions or more severe penalties; removed from the regular school setting to an alternative school setting; or excluded from one or more educational programs or activities.

Thus, New Jersey's first set of mandated curriculum standards and high stakes tests were created to satisfy legal and political mandates, not for educational reasons.

We set high expectations for ourselves and our students, in order to provide you with a quality educational and moral development program in a safe, nurturing environment

The Center for Student Achievement's inaugural report found that charter schools are meeting a need for educational settings not widely available in district schools, and that the data contradict the common misconception that charter schools attract, or «skim» only higher performing students away from district schools.

Based in a School of Education, we are particularly focused on children and youth, and on educational and sport / performance settings, including elementary, middle, and high schools, college counseling centers, and college athletic teams.

The procedure for employment must include, but is not limited to, the filing of a complete set of fingerprints as required in s. 1012.32; documentation of a minimum education level of a high school diploma or equivalent; and completion of an initial orientation and training program in district policies and procedures addressing school safety and security procedures, educational liability laws, professional responsibilities, and ethics.

She has taught literature, literacy, systems redesign, and leadership in a range of educational settings, including Head Start, ESL, ABE, elementary and high school, and the university level.

«But these measures do not meet the challenges we face in education, such as preventing educational inequality setting in during the early years and ensuring high - quality teachers are attracted into poorly performing areas.

Our mission is to provide a caring environment of high expectations, individualized attention, and great teaching via a distance learning delivery system that is sufficiently adaptable to help K - 12 students in traditional and non-traditional educational settings achieve their maximum academic potential and life goals.

«As a rule of thumb, for a state finance system to provide equal educational opportunity, that system must ensure sufficiently higher resources in higher need settings than in lower need settings,» says Sciarra.

Alternative settings vary greatly in how they operate, whom they aim to enroll, how they are held accountable, and their ability to provide high - quality educational pathways for at - risk youth.

At the same time, new educational policies like the Common Core State Standards, intend to increase the «college and career readiness» level of high school graduates through a set of «fewer, higher, clearer» standards.

The programs» high retention rates are due in part to the fact that participants already have experience in educational settings.

They are fitting to advance learning through differentiated and inquiry — based instruction, multiple intelligence theory and higher order thinking through the arts processes of creating, performing, responding and connecting for any educational setting.

The project will have two main components: (1) The implementation of a model, named «The Link Crew High School Orientation and Transition Model,» designed to create a shared experience for freshmen, upperclassmen, and staff, where a group of upperclassmen will serve as mentors and tour guides to help the freshmen understand how to be successful at the high school level; and (2) an overhaul of the In - School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).&raHigh School Orientation and Transition Model,» designed to create a shared experience for freshmen, upperclassmen, and staff, where a group of upperclassmen will serve as mentors and tour guides to help the freshmen understand how to be successful at the high school level; and (2) an overhaul of the In - School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).&rahigh school level; and (2) an overhaul of the In - School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).»

Another round of panic will set in, fingers will point at America's public schools, yet again, and we will, yet again (though hopefully not by the grace of more visionary educational policymakers) look to even higher standards and better tests to adopt, implement, and repeat, from the beginning — see # 1 above.

One 2005 review by Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy of the educational effects of high - school demography found evidence that the factors that seem to matter for improvements for low - income students in integrated settings include high teacher expectations, more hours of homework completed, college - prep courses, and a lower percentage of students reporting feeling unsafe.

The FEA provides local education agencies (e.g., public schools), including magnet and charter schools, a set of extended services to address an educational problem, concern or practice to provide greater opportunity for every learner to receive high quality instruction and educational supports to be academically successful.

Second, we find that cross-sector differences in observed teacher characteristics such as experience and educational attainment fail to explain any of the observed gaps in teacher effectiveness in higher - poverty settings.