Sentences with phrase «improving education in this country»

Lord Baker of Dorking, who over a long and distinguished career has done so much to improve education in this country, has said:

What we need to improve education in this country is a strong, highly respected education profession; a rich curriculum in the arts and sciences, available in every school for every child; assessments that gauge what students know and can do, instead of mindless test prepping for bubble tests.

With enthusiastic leadership from the federal government and a groundswell of public support, we now have a rare opportunity to significantly improve education in this country.

They seem to be very hard workers and I think they genuinely care about improving education in this country.

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He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

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.

If we don't address income inequality in this country, and if we don't support robust plans to improve healthcare and education, we simply can't sustain the very lives we're advocating be protected.

The Society was organized to encourage scholarly study of the Qur» an and Hadith, to improve and extend Islamic education, to increase cultural exchanges with Muslims of other countries, and to improve the social position of Muslims in China.

With tailored marketing activations in the US, Hong Kong and Australia, this global campaign will benefit Free The Children, an international charity and education partner dedicated to improving developing countries.

The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in an interview with Citi News said the plan will complement government's e-textbook policy to improve student literacy in the country.

«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.

Attention to improving road safety needs to apply to the whole transport sector in a country and include engineering, education and enforcement.

David Cameron appeared to have come out top in the last and most crucial of the TV leaders» debates after delivering a calm and impassioned analysis in which he accused Labour of having failed after 13 years to significantly improve the country's economy, and education and immigration systems.

«Dr. Brown was a trailblazer who fought heroically for his country despite segregation during World War II and improved the lives of countless New Yorkers and Americans through his work in the Civil Rights Movement and the education field.

He assured teachers government was determined to improve on their welfare and teaching condition and urged them to give out their best to ensure that quality education is achieved in the country.

«Hosting Speaker Boehner provides an opportunity to discuss with one of the most important leaders in our country issues like expanding economic opportunities both in Indian County and Central New York, investing in public priorities and improving education and civil rights protections,» Barkin said without offering specific details.

But under the umbrella of one particular organisation, countries in Latin America have banded together to boost physics education and research and, ultimately, improve regional innovation capabilities.

Another need that he said he recognizes because of his academic background, first at Harvard Medical School in Boston and later at Dartmouth, is to expand access to and improve education in developing countries.

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.

«Experts claim number of people with dementia in some Western European countries could be stabilizing: Risk of dementia may be falling due to improved education, living conditions, and better prevention, treatment of vascular diseases.»

In furtherance of their mutual interest in improving fundamental and clinical pharmacogenomics and its translation into clinical practice, the two organizations have agreed: (a) cooperate and collaborate on programs and activities of mutual interest, (b) work together to provide education symposia / workshops in developing countries and regions, and (c) foster collaborative research to better understand the genetic basis for ethnic diversity in the response to and adverse effects from medicineIn furtherance of their mutual interest in improving fundamental and clinical pharmacogenomics and its translation into clinical practice, the two organizations have agreed: (a) cooperate and collaborate on programs and activities of mutual interest, (b) work together to provide education symposia / workshops in developing countries and regions, and (c) foster collaborative research to better understand the genetic basis for ethnic diversity in the response to and adverse effects from medicinein improving fundamental and clinical pharmacogenomics and its translation into clinical practice, the two organizations have agreed: (a) cooperate and collaborate on programs and activities of mutual interest, (b) work together to provide education symposia / workshops in developing countries and regions, and (c) foster collaborative research to better understand the genetic basis for ethnic diversity in the response to and adverse effects from medicinein developing countries and regions, and (c) foster collaborative research to better understand the genetic basis for ethnic diversity in the response to and adverse effects from medicinein the response to and adverse effects from medicines.

The commissioner of education in Florida, where 70 percent of the 15,000 applicants for new teaching certificates each year come from out of state, has asked school chiefs across the country to help improve interstate information - sharing on teachers whose licenses have been revoked.

Therefore, it is not possible to keep evidences and make comparisons with education systems in other countries in order to constantly improve all its segments.

By improving the education of children — we are investing in the country's future.»

While health indicators have been improving almost surprisingly fast, combining resources, systems, innovation and technology even in the poorest developing countries, the quality of education has suffered relative to the quantity in terms of enrollment at all levels.

The initiative is being undertaken in partnership with the British Council, as part of a British Council - DFID funded project, to help improve the quality of education in the country.

In the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluationIn the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluationin developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluations.

Few would argue with the notion that public education in America needs to improve to ensure that our country remains prosperous in the coming years...

And it has served him well in his native Brazil, where he returned after graduation to work on improving the country's education system.

Based on years of research studying how to improve the quality of education in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Mexico and many other countries in Latin America, as well as his work as an advisor to governments, private groups, and foundations involved in education reform, Reimers recommended developing three sets of competencies.

He also serves on the board of other organizations working to internationalize the curriculum of K - 12 institutions in the U.S., in addition to his scholarly and advisory work to improve the quality of education in developing countries.

While increasing access to education is still a major challenge in many countries, improving the quality and relevance of education is now receiving more attention than ever, with due emphasis on the importance of values, attitudes and skills that promote mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.

«I appreciated [Mitchell's] interest in lessons that could be learned from other countries and jurisdictions, and his generosity in always finding time to speak to various education delegations from other countries that visited Massachusetts to learn about the State's efforts to improve our public schools,» said Professor Fernando Reimers in a remembrance piece.

Rennebohm Franz, teacher at Sunnyside Elementary School, is an early pioneer of iEARN, a network of ninety - five countries and 400,000 students that sponsors a long list of collaborative projects designed to build global bridges, improve education, and make a difference in the world.

The United States should step up its efforts to collaborate with other countries in improving education worldwide, including rejoining UNESCO, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley urged in a speech here leducation worldwide, including rejoining UNESCO, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley urged in a speech here lEducation Richard W. Riley urged in a speech here last week.

And despite clear government intent in most of these countries to improve, gaps in education outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students remain significant and stubborn.

The same day, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan outlined a policy manifesto that would raise standards in schools, tackle failure and improve the quality of teaching in this country.

But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed «merit pay,» while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.

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 year we are honored to present the alumni award to Ernesto Schiefelbein, a scholar committed to improving educational opportunity whose work has influenced education policy in developing countries across the globe,» said Jay Braatz, Ed.M.»

Today, much of his legacy on K — 12 education rests on efforts to revamp evaluations in the hopes of improving teaching across the country, which his administration pursued via a series of incentives for states.

While showing a slide of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) performance rankings since 2000, Sahlberg pointed out how most countries, including the United States, have continued to decline in performance following an education reform while Finland continues to improve.

Though most Americans believe that improving mathematics and science education is crucial to maintaining the country's competitive advantage over other countries in science and technology, few parents push their children to pursue careers in those fields, a survey has found.

While the players in this multibillion - dollar drama wrangled over Justice DeGrasse's order last winter, the question at the heart of the New York case was the one debated across the country: Will more money improve children's education or simply feed an already bloated and ineffectual bureaucracy?

How do educational policymakers and practitioners in various high performing and rapidly improving countries conceptualize their understanding of the goals and purposes of education for an increasingly interdependent world in the 21st century?

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.

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In GPE partner country Nepal for instance, enhancing early grade reading competency is now one of the country's key priorities for improving the quality of education.

These findings are of considerable significance in the wider education debate about what works best in schools for improving pupil performance - especially in countries that face urgent problems in basic literacy.

According to a report by the Centre Forum, pupil attainment is improving but still falls shorts of the world's leading countries in education, including Finland and Canada.