Sentences with phrase «impact education initiatives»

The Mind Trust is building a network of the nation's highest - impact education initiatives, helping to launch life - changing schools, and advancing bold plans for transforming the city's education system.

If you DO work in education, the term is a metaphor for a city - based nonprofit that plays a central role in funding and coordinating high - impact education initiatives.

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Their focus on overcoming disease, improving education, and lobbying for climate change initiatives is having a powerful impact.

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

This includes Corporate Social Investment, whereby the group promotes the development of learners through three academies which offer holistic, full - year programmes centred around sport, art and education; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the enveducation; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the envEducation, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the environment.

Studies suggest that the initiative has a bigger impact in communities where women had a lower baseline education level than in areas where women are more educated.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today he won't downplay the potential impact of the pro-school voucher stances of President - elect Donald Trump's Education Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos, but he predicted that the city's education initiatives won't be affected and that it won't be «easy» for her to push heEducation Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos, but he predicted that the city's education initiatives won't be affected and that it won't be «easy» for her to push heeducation initiatives won't be affected and that it won't be «easy» for her to push her agenda.

Maria Fitzpatrick, and Michael Lovenheim, both assistant professors of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, researched the impact of early retirement initiatives in public education.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

Ten Years of Improvement Innovation in Cystic Fibrosis Care includes reports on a range of improvement initiatives, ranging from the impact of patient education on improving adherence to critical daily treatments, and strategies for boosting nutritional status.

So in total, less than half of these parents first heard about a major education initiative that will (in those states that adopted the CCSS) impact their child's learning from the institution or individuals helping guide that learning.

In a new Education Next forum on Race to the Top, Rick Hess and Joanne Weiss debate the impact of the Obama administration's signature education inEducation Next forum on Race to the Top, Rick Hess and Joanne Weiss debate the impact of the Obama administration's signature education ineducation initiative.

Called Parents as Learning Partners, the initiative is having a positive impact on the attitudes of both parents and teachers toward family involvement in education, according to the study conducted by Denise D. Quigley, a senior education researcher from the Center for the Study...

«When we find that there are solutions to some of the most pressing problems in education that actually seem like they have larger appeal and potential,» says Professor Monica Higgins, faculty chair of Scaling for Impact, «we like to figure out how to help those organizations, those initiatives, those programs really scale.»

This initiative sets into a motion a coordinated set of high - impact actions, investments, and partnerships that will significantly increase the Ed School's capacity for research, innovation, outreach, and leadership development in early childhood education.

As part of a three - year United States Department of Education - funded initiative, students and teachers at Satellite Academy are now working with EVC staff to examine media violence and its impact on their lives.

Representatives from Nurtury (formerly Associated Early Care and Education), Crittenton Women's Union (CWU), and the Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) an initiative within the Center on Developing Child at Harvard University are working together to create a seamless, scalable, intergenerational strategy to generate much greater impacts than either could produce alone.

Professional Development Manager at Cool Australia, Kirsty Costa, told Education Matters that state government investment in school sustainability initiatives has a significant impact on what is happening «on the ground» and that the Victorian Government's 10 - year investment in the ResourceSmart Schools program has seen over 1000 primary and secondary schools implement whole - school sustainability initiatives.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five year education - to - employment initiative.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

The Welsh education system has «massive untapped potential» and the Schools Challenge Cymru (SCC) initiative has a made a «significant impact» within its first two years, according to a leading Welsh government adviser.

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

Join literacy curriculum experts Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University, and Shawn Mahoney, Ph.D., chief academic officer at McGraw - Hill Education, to discover proven methods and high - impact solutions to enrich school and district literacy initiatives.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five - year education - to - employment initiative.

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Frank Stasio also speaks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen, associate director of national outreach and community building with Education Reimagined, a non-profit initiative of Convergence that works to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner - centered education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work Education Reimagined, a non-profit initiative of Convergence that works to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner - centered education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work and life.

While large - scale education reform initiatives may succeed in the long term, a more targeted and cost - effective strategy offers potential for real impact in the near term.

Left - and right - leaning advocates sparred about the hypothetical impact of $ 9.2 billion in cuts to the U.S. Department of Education proposed by Trump last week, and whether the Republican - controlled Congress is interested in the president's pitch for a $ 1.4 billion school choice initiative.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

In her scholarship, she has studied the role of financial aid in increasing access to higher education, the effects of postsecondary remediation, and the impact of institutional initiatives aimed at reducing inequality in college outcomes.

SURN is currently a partnership of 28 public school systems, the Virginia Department of Education, and the College of William and Mary in Virginia, but is quickly spreading as individual principals in individual school systems replicate the high impact initiatives.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Northwest Comprehensive Center (NWCC) provides high - impact training and technical assistance to SEA staff in planning, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining initiatives in priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator effectiveness, school improvement, and rigorous, college - and career - ready standards implementation.

In education, those ultimate beneficiaries are the students, and student perception data can help foundations better understand the impact of their education initiatives on the lives of students.

Jan. 14: The Boston Education Justice Alliance will hold an emergency town hall to discuss the impact of new citywide initiatives, school closures, and a charter school ballot initiative.

«We are committed to achieving measurable impact in education policy, both by improving existing reform initiatives and by developing new, innovative solutions to our nation's most pressing education problems.

That's why we created the Education Endowment Foundation's DIY Evaluation Guide, a free resource that enables you to find how the impact of any initiative can be measured.

The Education Trust West recently released a report, Black Minds Matter, that lays out the troubling impact, on students and their future, if «the California Department of Education [continues to] lack an office, initiative or committee focused on African American achievement or the achievement gap, more generally.»

Since Eskolta's founding, we have worked extensively with the New York City Department of Education to understand the impact of City initiatives and policies on educators in the City.

The group will consider new tools that could be used to expand the impact of school counselors and the partners that support them, and learning about community level initiatives that promote equity and opportunity for students» post secondary education.

In these various roles, the Howard University graduate, who holds a masters of education degree from Harvard University, has evaluated how reform initiatives have impacted parental choice and student achievement.

The pilot takes place in multiple countries, all part of the broad initiative called the HP National Education Technology Analytics Project (HP NETA)-- an ambitious data analytics effort that will assist nation and state - level education leaders by providing insights about the impact of education technology on learning, society, and theEducation Technology Analytics Project (HP NETA)-- an ambitious data analytics effort that will assist nation and state - level education leaders by providing insights about the impact of education technology on learning, society, and theeducation leaders by providing insights about the impact of education technology on learning, society, and theeducation technology on learning, society, and the economy.

The 2016 — 17 ASCD Teacher Impact Grants (TIGs) provided funding and support directly to teachers for promising teacher - led, administrator - supported ideas, programs, or initiatives to improve education.

After so many reforms and initiatives in other areas of education have failed to have much impact, the spotlight has turned to trying to make the teacher - student relationship a more powerful force for achievement.

The Influence Grant program, now in its third year, helps affiliates implement initiatives that will increase the affiliates» impact on education policy.

We have also conducted implementation and impact studies of school reform initiatives focusing on math achievement in k - 12 schools funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

And, you know, speaking to education and justice, in 2011, the u.s. department — the departments of education and justice launched a supportive school discipline initiative to reduce exclusionary discipline policies, practices and their impact on youth of color and youth with disabilities.

Dr. Amelia Courts has extensive leadership experience in the education sector and a record of success in collaborating with business and community organizations to positively impact statewide initiatives.

It helps to raise awareness, provide a clearinghouse of information for character development initiatives, and foster research and publication of initiatives to assess the educational impact of character education endeavors.

Then, not to be outdone, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor took the stand calling Vallas the «shining light» of the education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over theEducation, Stefan Pryor took the stand calling Vallas the «shining light» of the education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over theeducation reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over the country.