At some future point you will realize that this effort is not about
improving education nation wide but about wealth transfer.
Not exact matches
These «young ambassadors,» the report claims, will help
improve relations by strengthening
education and cultural links between host and home
nations.
In this new, economistic order, the function of
education is to
improve the stock of human capital in the
nation.
HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to
improve the
nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition
education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.
CDC and ASCD developed this expanded model — in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health,
education, and school health — to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to
improve learning and health in our
nation's schools.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the president's decision «an important step toward
improving our
nation's
education system.»
Research!America is the
nation's largest not - for - profit public
education and advocacy alliance working to make research to
improve health a higher national priority.
While change is difficult, it is also the only way to get better, and this state, and this
nation, must continue to
improve our
education systems to give our kids the opportunities they deserve.
This month the National Science Foundation will unveil guidelines for a new $ 160 million program to
improve math and science
education in the
nation's elementary and secondary schools.
Meeting Tuesday at NIH for the first time, the new panel's members heard presentations from outside organizations working to
improve precollege science
education across the
nation.
She is a leader in efforts to
improve access for girls and women to STEM
education and careers, serving as the co-chair of the Gender Advisory Board of the United
Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to
improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the
nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance
Education.
Imagine Cup projects are aligned with the United
Nation's Millennium Development Goals, which include eliminating poverty, promoting
education,
improving health care, and providing clean drinking water by 2015.
About the Hepatitis B Foundation: The Hepatitis B Foundation is the
nation's leading nonprofit organization solely dedicated to finding a cure for hepatitis B and
improving the quality of life for those affected worldwide through research,
education and patient advocacy.
New population projections from IIASA researchers provide a fundamentally
improved view of future population, structured by age, sex, and level of
education, which differ from recent projections by the United
Nations.
APTA seeks to
improve the health and quality of life of individuals in society by advancing physical therapist practice,
education, and research, and by increasing the awareness and understanding of physical therapy's role in the
nation's health care system.
These amendments are supposed to
improve the
nation's
education level.
When the
nation's governors and top business leaders convene in Palisades, N.Y., later this month for an
education summit, they plan to champion academic standards as the key to
improving student achievement.
Clinton Challenges
Nation to
Improve Math and Science
Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and
Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the
education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and
education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.
As part of this work, Editorial Projects in
Education publishes a special edition of
Education Week devoted to critical issues facing efforts to
improve the
nation's high schools.
And the Chicago schools, while
improving, are still recovering from the day in 1988 when William J. Bennett, secretary of
education in the Reagan administration, pronounced them the «worst in the
nation.»
The result is that, as our
nation has struggled to
improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American
education.
«Throughout his career, Secretary Riley has demonstrated outstanding leadership and ability in
improving education for all of the
nation's children,» Kennedy said in a written statement.
The
education summit convened by President Bush reinforced the status of the
nation's governors as being at the forefront of efforts to
improve the schools.
«As a
nation, we can either intervene to inject the system with the vision, skills and energy it needs, or we can be content with the status quo and the consequences of our failure to
improve the quality and status of technical
education over many years.»
This presents an obvious problem - and a serious one - for a
nation that wants to
improve the quality of its
education system.
«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.
«The Commission recognizes that perhaps one of the most acute educational problems facing this
nation — one most directly related to assuring quality in higher
education — is the need to
improve the preparation of those who teach in the primary and secondary schools.
Yet his administration also issued the most influential
education report of the past two decades, which ultimately helped pave the way for today's federal mandates aimed at
improving the
nation's schools.
The U.S. Department of
Education lacks the capacity to tell the
nation's schools what they should do to
improve.
In the RAND report «Federal Options for
Improving the
Education of Low - Income Students,» released last week, we recommend reformulating Chapter 1 to play a far more significant role by increasing and concentrating funding for the
nation's lowest - income schools.
«Houston leads the
nation in greatest overall improvement,» said Eli Broad, the founder of the Los Angeles - based Broad Foundation, which was created in 1999 to
improve urban
education.
Florida's reform record provides hope to a
nation struggling to
improve education and to close racial achievement gaps.
The President called on the
nation to move forward on his plan to
improve American
education and issued new challenges to boost student achievement in math and science.
In his role as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Project 2061, former astronaut George D. «Pinky» Nelson is working on ways to
improve science
education in the
nation's schools.
Five high - poverty districts have shown the way to greater student learning by systematically focusing on
improved teaching, says a new report by one of the
nation's largest
education coalitions.
The U.S.
Education Department's fund for the improvement of postsecondary education has awarded grants to several higher - education institutions for projects to improve teaching in the nation's
Education Department's fund for the improvement of postsecondary
education has awarded grants to several higher - education institutions for projects to improve teaching in the nation's
education has awarded grants to several higher -
education institutions for projects to improve teaching in the nation's
education institutions for projects to
improve teaching in the
nation's schools.
For example, two of the current top priorities of the U.S. Department of
Education are to get states to implement rigorous teacher evaluation systems and to
improve the quality of the
nation's teacher preparation programs.
President Reagan's criticisms of the
nation's schools and his proposals for
improving the quality of
education are misleading the American public and threatening to reverse 20 years of progress made possible by federal support of
education, according to a report by 19
education and civil - rights leaders.
I guarantee you that if Mitt only half - listens to George W's brother, the
nation's
education prospects will be greatly
improved.
Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of
Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the
nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate,
improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.
With Election Day behind many of them, nearly half the
nation's governors gathered here last week to face a tougher task than getting or staying elected:
improving education in their states.
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to
improve the
education of all the
nation's schoolchildren.
Education professionals who want to enhance their competitiveness or change their careers can now do so at one of the nation's leading education faculties, but with the added benefit of greatly improved fle
Education professionals who want to enhance their competitiveness or change their careers can now do so at one of the
nation's leading
education faculties, but with the added benefit of greatly improved fle
education faculties, but with the added benefit of greatly
improved flexibility.
Two longtime
education experts have launched an organization to push for transforming how the
nation's largest school districts recruit and groom the teaching and school leadership talent that they argue is key to
improving student achievement.
As one of the fastest
improving nations worldwide, the UAE should be a focal point in
education as we move into the future.
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.
«If we do not use the current interest in
education reform to improve the capabilities of our schools, the nation's future will, indeed, be at risk,» said the members of the National Consortium for Educational Excellence in a report presented to Acting Secretary of Education Gary L. Jones here on
education reform to
improve the capabilities of our schools, the
nation's future will, indeed, be at risk,» said the members of the National Consortium for Educational Excellence in a report presented to Acting Secretary of
Education Gary L. Jones here on
Education Gary L. Jones here on Dec. 21.
After several years of intense and successful lobbying to block the Reagan Administration's attempts to alter educational programs for handicapped children, the organization that represents the
nation's state directors of special
education is now turning its attention to helping the states
improve special -
education services.
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.