Sentences with phrase «highest goal of education»

We believe the highest goal of education is to become good, intellectually and morally.

We believe that the highest goal of education is to become good, intellectually and morally.

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It's with this goal in mind that he founded The Flatiron School alongside Adam Enbar, a graduate of Harvard Business School, who two years set out to rethink traditional higher education.

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

The goal, says Ng, is to exponentially expand the reach of higher education institutions and eliminate the biggest universal barrier of entry to gaining an education: the cost.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

As Director of the Business / Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Isabelle Duchaine leads BHER's external communications and several other initiatives that support its goals of increasing employment opportunities for young Canadians, boosting private sector and post-secondary research collaborations and helping businesses adapt to the economy of the future.

This was illustrated a few years ago when President Harry S. Truman appointed a Commission on Higher Education which later issued its report under the title Higher Education for American Democracy and began its discussion with definitions of the dogmas and the goals of democratic society.

The «worst,» having no such tender sensibilities of mind or spirit, are zealous to fulfill whatever careerist goals are set for higher education by our technetronic and industrial society.

The goal of the event was to preach the importance of higher education.

Waldorf educators, whether they work in independent or in public schools, hold Rudolf Steiner's goal for education to be eloquently expressed in this quote: «Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and meaning to their lives.»

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

For over 20 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

A randomized controlled trial of another program demonstrated high participation in school or training compared to the rate of the control group; a particular benefit of this program was the setting of concrete goals with the mothers for their education and professional development.

One of the goals of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is to provide all students with personalized, high - quality experiential learning opportunities, both regionally and globally with multiple pathways and delivery formats that will enable all graduates to pursue meaningful lives and successful careers.

«For over 20 years, SNF has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships; to date, SNF has awarded members over $ 2 million in scholarships.»

You still have the problem that funding higher education through flat rate contributions rather than proportionately through the tax system undermines some of our wider goals around public support for universal provision of public services.

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.

Our goal is to make our public higher education system the envy of the country.

According to her, it was the reason why government has incorporated the goals into Ghana's 40 - year development plan as well as programmes and policies such as «Planting for Food and Jobs», «One - District, One - Factory» and «Free Senior High School Education», which was all geared towards positioning Ghana on the path of fiscal consolidation, debt sustainability, growth and development.

Cherry Lane Elementary has even been recognized by the US Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2013, an award «reserved for schools that boast students who meet and maintain high educational goals,» according to the department's official website.

According to Stephanie Wood - Garnett, assistant commissioner of teacher and leader effectiveness in the Office of Higher Education at the New York State Education Department, the goal is to make sure new teachers are effective in the classroom before they are certified.

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.

And Östros feels that, despite disagreements on accreditation, participants at the Prague summit «made strides toward the goals of stimulating mobility and encouraging more reforms in higher education.»

Her account ranges from Thomas Jefferson's view of the «utilitarian university,» through the 19th - century controversy over whether higher education should stress utilitarian goals or those of liberal learning, to the impact of the Bayh - Dole Act of 1980.

Meanwhile, despite the lack of evidence that higher education leads to greater entrepreneurship, the government is sticking to its goal of sending 50 % of young people to university.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Such allowances shall be distributed on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education, companies, research foundations, trade and industry research collaborations, or consortia of such entities, or other appropriate research and development entities to achieve the goals of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (as described in section 5012 (c) of the America COMPETES Act) through targeted acceleration of --

By providing student - focused services to students in treatment throughout McLean Hospital, the College Mental Health Program is prepared to work closely with students and with institutions of higher education to support both mental health and academic goals.

Because learning and memory impairments are common after TBI, the goal of this trial is to obtain evidence that RPT is an effective tool that leads to improved academic performance and the attainment of higher education and employment.

The SFI Partnership Schemes aim to provide a flexible mechanism by which SFI can build strategic collaborations with key partners such as industry, funding agencies, charities, philanthropic organisations or higher education institutes (HEIs) with the goal of co-funding outstanding opportunities.

The primary goal of PIRE is to support high quality projects in which advances in research and education could not occur without international collaboration.

In its appropriation directions for higher education institutions for the 2016 fiscal year, the government states that all higher education institutions must produce a plan showing how they intend to move their work on Gender Mainstreaming forward, so as to contribute towards achieving the goals of gender equality policy.

The common goal of all scientists at the TB Centre is to reduce the global burden of TB, through high quality research, education and knowledge translation.

The goal of the Internet Dating Conference over the last decade has been to provide dating business executives advanced education, ideas, insight and networking to identify new opportunities, gain higher levels of traffic and revenue.

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The goal of iDate is to provide dating business executives advanced education, ideas, insight and networking to identify new opportunities, improve traffic and gain higher revenues.

The goals of iDate are to provide dating and matchmaking industry executives education, ideas, insight and networking to identify new opportunities, gain higher levels of traffic and revenue.

It has been the goal of the Internet Dating Conference for nearly a decade to provide senior dating and matchmaking industry executives education, ideas, insight and business contacts to identify new opportunities, gain higher levels of traffic and revenue.

Editor's Note: Though the San Fernando Education Technology Team is no longer active at San Fernando High School, some of the former participants have created their own company to tell stories through media, and continue to foster the program's goals by working with San Fernando students on Saturdays to produce the iCan Film Festival.

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You will reflect on your presidency, identify future plans, evaluate the state of your institution, assess your progress toward professional and institutional goals, and gain insight about critical issues facing higher education.

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Though the San Fernando Education Technology Team is no longer active at San Fernando High School, some of the former participants have created their own company to tell stories through media, and continue to foster the program's goals by working with San Fernando students on Saturdays to produce the iCan Film Festival.

Recent publications include «Inclusivity for all applicants: An admissions case study,» in Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Students (2013); «Stressors in college choice, application and decision - making — and how to reduce them» in the Journal of College Admission (with S. Friedfeld, 2013); and «Diverse student groups: Teaching with a goal of inclusivity,» in The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education (with M. Gasman, 2009).

The success of the Massachusetts approach has important implications, especially as states roll out the new Common Core standards academic goals for what students should be able to do in reading and math at each grade level to ensure high school students graduate ready for the demands of higher education and the 21st century workforce.

It assembled panels of educators and asked them what education services, in their professional judgment, a typical school district would need to reach two benchmarks: the current level of student performance on exit exams and a higher level of student performance that represents a desired goal.

We think there should be two goals of summative assessments: to maximize the learning of new knowledge and skills and to best develop students» exam / project taking skills (since exams will be a feature of most of our students» higher education lives).

At Harvard, I studied higher education and learned about the law of education, board governance, the goals of liberal arts education, and the importance of access for students in need.