Sentences with phrase «improving education around»

From ambitious beginnings as the Centre for British Teachers in 1968 to today's Education Development Trust, a major force in education improvement on a global scale — under the leadership of Patrick Brazier, we remain focussed on our mission to transform lives by improving education around the world.

We want to give young people a future and we do this by improving education around the world.

As an education charity, we transform lives by improving education around the world.

«Her passion and enthusiasm for improving education around the globe is infectious, and I look forward to working with her in her new role.»

For several decades, western colleges and universities have been lured into creating new initiatives outside of their countries» borders by the globalization of higher education and its potential for improving education around the world, as well as for additional funding and branding opportunities.

Clearer labelling and improved education around nutrition from a younger age is also what is needed.

Not exact matches

We are committed to improving student performance and increasing access to quality education so that children and adolescents around the globe have improved opportunities for success.

PowerSchool is the leading K - 12 education technology provider of solutions that improve the education experience for 100 million students, teachers, and parents in over 70 countries around the world.

The thing is, we know how to turn these numbers around: better education, access to contraception, and improved and affordable prenatal and infant care.

Simultaneously, during 2012 — 2015, three years of mentoring were provided by «The Postharvest Education Foundation» for more than a dozen Tanzanian extension workers and post-harvest trainers who are currently working within the local communities in and around Arusha to improve post-harvest handling practices and reduce losses in horticultural crops.

Benefits for approximately 1.5 million small - scale farmers and workers around the world include: • A fair price on products • Improved access to low - or no - interest loans • Technical assistance for building infrastructure • Communications systems • Collectively - owned transport & processing equipment • Better health care & education • Training & skill diversification

The Commission will consider what steps the CIOB needs to take to address the already identified issues around management and supervision, the importance for our education framework, and whether there are further steps the industry can take to contribute to improving build quality.

«If you look any of the challenges that we have on Staten Island or across the city or around the country, the solution, the way to improve those things, is investing in young people,» said Oddo, who added he's allocated more than $ 100 million for education since his days on the City Council.

How many cities around the world has been successfully applied, True social changes, political changes, economic changes and changes in education, Improving Quality of Life and Social Welfare under the ISO 37120 standard?

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

Improving education about risky food handling behaviors would reduce the amount of foodborne illness and help improve food security around the world, according to Kansas State University research.

However, despite the gains in life expectancy seen across China, thought to be linked to increasing GDP and improved maternal education, large inequalities between provinces remain, with life expectancy around 10 years lower for both men and women in some provinces in the west part of China, comparable to less developed countries like Bangladesh.

About the Helmsley Charitable Trust: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust aspires to improve lives by supporting exceptional efforts in the U.S. and around the world in health, place - based initiatives, and education and human services.

Institut Pasteur discoveries have improved and saved countless lives, and our teaching and education programs throughout the International Network help strengthen the Pasteur mission around the world.

It's an honor and a joy to be asked to speak at these upcoming global events focused on improving the health of women around the world by supporting the healers that care for them with education, inspiration, celebration, and in - person connection and hugs whenever possible!

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

In a new video, HGSE researchers describe their contributions to UN efforts to improve education for refugee children around the world

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

Debuting in 1925, the filmstrip projector was introduced so that students could visualise what they were being taught during the lesson; in this century, the radio also became an important part of the classroom — lessons could be broadcast to other classrooms around the UK — improving the communication and education of others.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

And experts see the partnership as something districts around the country may follow as they too seek better ways to improve STEM education.

While the education world debated and strategized about ways to improve outcomes for students around the world, Adukia suspected the answer to her question was yes.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

From improving basic education in regions of Africa to providing much - needed education to Syrian refugee children in Lebanon, this article shows how eLearning for kids can positively impact children's lives around the world.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

This annual effort focuses on improving education across America and takes place during the months of August through October when students around the nation head back to the classrooms.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has reverberated around the nation, reigniting the debate on how best to improve the education of all schoolchildren.

Delegates included spokespeople from the OECD, MirandaNet, The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education (ITTE), and UNESCO, who were joined by representatives from education companies, associations, and universities from around the world, aiming to develop a collaborative plan for improving global eEducation (ITTE), and UNESCO, who were joined by representatives from education companies, associations, and universities from around the world, aiming to develop a collaborative plan for improving global eeducation companies, associations, and universities from around the world, aiming to develop a collaborative plan for improving global educationeducation.

In Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would want.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «Technology is an integral part of school life and this new agreement will help schools around the country save money and improve outcomes for all.

Despite admitting there are some instances around the country where the implementation of Gonski funding has improved outcomes in schools, Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said the government does not believe increased funding automatically improves educational and student outcomes.

This past month, I spoke to education innovators around the world about topics ranging from improving city schools to inclusivity to the increasing importance of film festivals in the digital age.

We believe that through exceptional professional education that is responsive and relevant to the challenges practitioners face, we can equip and empower educators and institutions around the world to improve their practice in service of their students, schools, and communities.

Commenting on the grand opening, Lord Sugar, said: «Principal, Andrew Hemmings and his team have done an outstanding job turning the school around and making it Hertfordshire's most improved school and a true exemplar of best practice in education — their exam results speak for themselves.

Educators around the country are using Google for Education tools to change their teaching practices and improve student outcomes.

Legislatures around the country have enacted various forms of school choice with the intent of improving student achievement throughout the education system, seeking innovative methods of instruction and school governance, and providing parents with an alternative to neighborhood schools.

The use of mean scores places the focus on improving the academic achievement of all students within a school and not just those whose performance is around the state proficiency cut score (Center for Education Policy, 2011).

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

The Obama administration spent over $ 3 million on School Improvement Grants to states to help them turn around their lowest - performing schools, but a new report from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education finds that most states lacked the capacity to improve those schools.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

A courtroom battle over Initiative 1240 shifts the focus from improving education to arguing over only one educational strategy that is widely accepted around the country...

The Mind Trust and UNCF will host another in a series of «community conversations» designed to engage the local community in discussions around improving public education in Indianapolis.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.