Sentences with phrase «language departments on»

Collaborated with social studies or world language departments on a weekly basis to establish common learning objectives.

Be sure to also reach out to any international institutes, study abroad program offices, or language departments on your campus for more info on funding international internships.

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Here is where marketing, corporate communications and human resources departments need to be closely aligned in developing a rollout plan and guidelines that are engaging, easy and clear, including parameters on social posts, special offers to share with family and friends and key messages (in simple, clever language) about the product or campaign.

Of the partnership, MPS Vice President Shi Jun said that the departments would embark on a special campaign to combat a range of fraudulent online activities, language which sparked rumors that the MPS might arrest some prominent figures in order to make examples of them.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

Watson seemed particularly rankled by the Justice Department's plea for him to rule specifically on the language of the travel ban itself and not make his decision based on some of President Trump and his colleagues» language about the ban — language which made it clear the ban violates the spirit of the Constitution.

The University of Notre Dame To: My Colleagues in the Department of TheologyFrom: James F. White On December 13, 1982, the Department made an important step in approving a motion calling upon us to avoid sex - exclusive and sex - discriminatory language.

On December 13, 1982, the Department made an important step in approving a motion calling upon us to avoid sex - exclusive and sex - discriminatory language.

The fact that the Old Testament may be an object of investigation in 1) church seminaries and divinity schools; 2) undergraduate departments of religion; 3) Near Eastern language and civilization programs; 4) archaeological institutes; 5) comparative literature studies; 6) English classes; or 7) anthropology departments makes for a considerably diverse angle of vision on the subject.

History, English, and language departments lurch and lumber on, but the final tire - iron to the head might be student enrollment.

A Civilian Complaint Review Board report on the use of Tasers by the New York Police Department was scrubbed of language highlighting a central finding in an earlier - circulated draft report: that in most Taser encounters reviewed, officers used the stun guns on unarmed people.

The strongest language on welfare came from Corbyn, who called on Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, to resign following the publication of figures from his department showing thousands of benefit claimants died within weeks of being declared fit to work.

I am calling on Governor Cuomo to include language within his 2012 - 2013 State Budget allowing the Babylon United Free School District to be fully reimbursed for a project already approved by the Department of Education and included in a prior State Budget.»

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Under the budget language, the department would be required to develop a new evaluation system based on a «matrix» model, which would include student performance on state exams as well as observations but differs from the current model in that it is not based on percentages.

Speaking in turns on a theme: «English Studies in Non-Native Environments; Reflections and Projections» at the 32nd Annual National Conference of the English Scholars» Association of Nigeria (ESAN), on Wednesday, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife, a Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Professor Akin Odebunmi, charged government and stakeholders to fine tune the acquisition of English language by introducing non-native English in nation's education curricula.

This release is based on early findings from «Diagnosing reading in a second or foreign language» funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and carried out by Professor J. Charles Alderson at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.

At the time of the meeting, the majority of the party was vowing not to authorize funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless the legislation contained language to dismantle President Obama's executive action on immigration, but Donovan implored them anyway.

Latest figures show the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spends # 5 million on language services a year.

The Department of Education introduced the funding formula almost a decade ago to dole out resources not simply based on a school's student body size, but also accounting for extra resources needed to support certain kinds of students, like English language learners and students with special needs.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

But Patsye Peebles, a retired science teacher who served on a committee that helped the education department draft the original policy language, thinks otherwise.

«When people communicate as advocates, they tend to use more certainty in their language than may be warranted,» said Vanessa Schweizer, a professor with the Department of Knowledge Integration in the Faculty of Environment at Waterloo, and who is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.

In a paper that will be presented on November 4 at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn of the Department of Psychology at the University of California San Diego and Mark Dolson of E - mu / Creative Technology Center show that native speakers of tonal languages, even those with no musical training whatsoever, exhibit a remarkable ability to sound perfect pitches.

Although there is no equivalent legislation pending in that body, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is putting the finishing touches on a new version of the America COMPETES Act, a broader bill to reauthorize programs at NSF and research at the departments of energy and commerce that could include language on NSF's oversight of major facilities.

During the visit representatives of the foreign delegation together with SFedU students worked on a joint project of involvement of company personnel in innovation activities, participated in the seminar «Innovative regional development», as well as in the IV International scientific conference «Prospects for the development of language education in modern educational space», organized by the Department of foreign languages.

The Department of Energy's pages on bioenergy and wind energy as well as transportation have both reduced their mentions of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fossil fuel use in favor of language more geared toward jobs and energy independence.

The Department of Education has spent $ 1.8 million for a panel of researchers to analyze studies on how English - language learners develop literacy, but has decided not to publish the resulting report.

If this is something the Department deems important in and of itself, however, then better language might be that a personal learning plan must be updated at least weekly based on a student's progress so that it is an active and useful tool, not a check - the - box criterion that merely encourages compliance for its own sake.

Substantively, this is quite different from both ESSA and the Department's own guidance on Title I schoolwide programs (to whom the new language already applied under NCLB).

She is working on a project funded by the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, using multiple approaches such as using eye - tracking technology to investigate growth of silent reading, video - taping and coding classroom instruction, and coding thousands of children's oral language and writing samples.

The study has argued that it is not just the responsibility of the Department for Education (DfE) alone and that the UK was struggling with a skills deficit on foreign languages that would have «wide - reaching economic, political and military effects».

The Council on Foreign Relations calls for the U.S. Defense Department to evaluate and «periodically» review the new national curriculum standards in science, civics, foreign languages, technology, creativity, and problem - solving.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

The Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy has proposed language that would simply allow the Department of Education to reserve up to one percent of funding of all ESEA programs (except Title I) to award grants for innovation and research, with grant amounts based on the tiered evidence model used in i3.

Energy Conservation Enhancement Project The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources has put together a Web site with lesson plans based on energy conservation for a multitude of classroom subjects, from language arts to diesel mechanics.

A survey of 101 secondary schools asked language teachers how important they thought the Department for Education currently sees MFL in schools on a scale of 0 - 10 — with the average response being just 5/10.

For parent information about the NYSESLAT, please see the Parent Brochure, available on the New York State Education Department's Office of Bilingual Education's website in multiple languages.

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).

The California Department of Education has been harming language - minority children with its «single minded» emphasis on native - language instruction, a new report by a bipartisan state watchdog agency argues.

Buried on page 166 of the Appropriations Committee report accompanying the $ 105 - billion spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education was a statement of support for the flexibility that Mr. Bennett seeks in the bilingual - education program — which now mandates use of the transitional method, in which non-English-speaking students receive some instruction in their native language.

Where is the «plain language» of ESEA that gives the Department of Education the authority to mandate statewide teacher - evaluation systems, particularly for states that want waivers on school accountability.

But based on that 2010 language, the $ 330 million it spent on the consortia, and its weaving of common standards and assessments into other programs, I suspect it was the Department's wish that all or nearly all states participated in the consortia.

She is also a research associate on the National Panel on the Development of Literacy in Language Minority Children and Youth, a panel funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive, evidence - based review of the research literature on the development of literacy among language minority children and youth.

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

Native Spanish speakers who participated in Tulsa's preschool program or Head Start, for instance, progressed more in their language development by the end of kindergarten than non-English learners.Michael Puma et al., Head Start Impact Study: Final Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010); W. T. Gormley, «The Effects of Oklahoma's Pre-K Program on Hispanic Children,» Social Science Quarterly 89 (2008): 916 — 936.

Since it may take a couple of years for states and districts to follow the department's urging and set up systems that will allow them to measure teacher effectiveness based on growth in student achievement, she said, states should be required to show that they are making good on the language about equitable distribution of teachers that's already in the No Child Left Behind Act.

Dr. Morell currently serves on an advisory board to the New York State Education Department on the identification and instruction of young language learners in the growing PreK programs across the state.

Because it has discretion over how to administer the law, unclear language makes it easier for the US Department of Education to justify and make decisions to place requirements on the states through its rule - making authority.»

The members wished to include art programs in the department's recommendations and required clarification on some language in the proposal that may be interpreted by states to exclude these...