Sentences with phrase «largest education groups»

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While Phillips acknowledges that representatives of Jesuit schools get together, he notes that similar gatherings occur among other groups in business education, including large meetings among members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the primary U.S. B - school accreditation body.

Prior to that, he researched media, advertising and online education companies for a hedge fund within Fukoku Life New York and led sales for The Capital - Gazette, a large media and communications group now owned by Tribune Publishing.

Joseph began at Credit Karma in January 2015, after spending four years as the Chief Financial Officer for TAL Education Group, one of the largest K - 12 after - school tutoring services providers in China.

YogaFit is the largest yoga fitness education school in the world with more than 200,000 instructors trained on six continents specifically designed for presentation in health clubs, fitness facilities or other group exercise locations.

Premier David Burt said: «The Binance Group is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and an international leader in digital exchange development and fintech, with a market capitalization of US$ 1.3 B. Through the Binance Charity Foundation, the Group is committed to improving education, creating awareness in the development through the use of blockchain technology.

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

Power is as significant as moral persuasion in large groups, and a just society is the result of politics rather than education.

Education Otherwise (EO) was formed by a small group of parents in 1977 and has evolved into a large self - help organisation which offers support and information to members.

The corresponding risk differences were larger in the intervention group: 0.11 (95 % CI: 0.08, 0.15) for mothers with partial university and 0.10 (95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14) for mothers with secondary education or less.

Of those (and there were many), four main issues were selected for further, immediate action: the issue of competitive foods and a la carte foods; the need for nutrition education; the need to coordinate with other groups in our community seeking similar goals; and the need for Food Services to do a better job communicating with the larger district community.

The Bay Area Midwifery Birth Center has multiple birth and treatment rooms, a large birth suite with a built - in tub, a kitchen, and meeting spaces for group prenatals, parent groups, and childbirth education.

The annual state report on lobbying is out, and it finds that $ 226 million was spent on influencing government leaders, with the largest amount from education groups.

It would likely be more beneficial in larger districts in illuminating disparities, education groups have said.

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at the rally sent education groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apEducation Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at the rally sent education groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apeducation groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

The «Costs and Outcomes» report was jointly sponsored by the Long Island Education Coalition, which represents school superintendents, teacher unions and other groups, and by the Long Island Association, the region's largest business and civic group.

Responding to the decision of the Minister for Education and Skills, Leighton Andrews AM, to set up a Task & Finish Group to review the roles and responsibilities in relation to school governance, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in Wales, said:

The University is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK and a member of the Russell Group of research - intensive universities.

Besides, the Plan also intends to develop a tactile ballot guide; accredit observers with disabilities, collate gender disaggregated data for PWDs and develop targeted messages, materials suitable for education methodology to reach PWDs; work closely with groups and organizations that work with PWDs to maximize impact of voter education campaigns and produce educational materials in braille and large font.

Beyond probationary periods, certification requirements and evaluations, education reform leaders are looking to take on larger long - term sticking points between their groups and New York's city and state teachers» union, including merit pay.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson, who was on the steering group for the review, commented, «Government surveys have suggested that a majority or perhaps even two - thirds of young people today are not religious, so for religious education to remain relevant it is vital that this large group's beliefs are taught about alongside those of their religious peers.

Joel Klein, the former schools chancellor who now runs Amplify, News Corp.'s education - technology business, had great enthusiasm for the iZone, especially its technology component: He envisioned classes in which Nobel laureates, such as Richard Feynman, would teach large groups of students via video.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at a charter school rally sent education groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apEducation Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at a charter school rally sent education groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apeducation groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

Second, for progress to be made in a very large bureaucracy like Berkeley, one absolutely requires a fairly large, high - level staff working group committed to improving postdoctoral education.

«There is a real gap for project managers in the marketplace, and it is expected that there will be a huge demand for project managers in the larger pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the near future,» says Kathryn Pottruff, president of Micro Education Group Inc., a company specializing in strategic planning, project management, and consulting.

The control group was given standard patient education and dietary recommendations, while the intervention group received a diet similar to the control group with the inclusion of a large quantity of diverse dietary fiber.

For example, in a speed dating event (which also included online profiles that could be accessed after the event), daters were more likely to use the quick and easy cues (such as age, height and weight) to make their choice when the size of the group was large compared to small, and were more likely to use cues that could not be discerned visually (education, occupation, smoking status) when the size of the group was small compared to large.2

Mr. Krol is the president and chief executive officer of DuPont Co. and the chairman of the education task force of the Business Roundtable, a group representing the nation's largest companies.

She was hoping to get a group of us to visit that pizza place while at that large education technology conference this summer.

Despite the large majority in favor of a four - year degree for their child, one may expect differences to emerge when one breaks the data out by education and ethnic group.

Indeed, in the face of recent findings by Education Policy institute, which found that 20 of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs)-- running more than 300 schools — fall «significantly below» the national average for improving pupils» attainment, the importance of self - assessment not just within each school but right across the trust, is perhaps more important than ever before; and goes to the heart of addressing the issues raised in the all - party parliamentary group's (APPG) 21 questions http://www.nga.org.uk/News/NGA-News/Pre-2016/21Q.aspx

Another option is the Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC), which is the largest purchasing consortium for the English academies and free schools sectors, and the only national purchasing group for UK Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges.

«In addition,» Smith said, «we are considering adding an online help - desk form that date / time stamps requests; providing hand - held devices for teachers who have large groups of students (physical education, music, and so on) to use to take attendance; and offering an Intel Teach to the Future program for teachers who wish to be trainers.

Participants will work in groups based on their specific research needs and interests to craft research projects whose answers could have a large impact on education policies both in the participating districts and across the nation.

As in Beijing, local demand for international schools has spiralled and Shanghai is now home to 118 in total, including large British international school branches such as Nord Anglia Education Group and Dulwich College.

This focus shocked many Americans, as was clear from the bad press the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, received when some of the curricula posted on its website suggested that teachers avoid attributing blame for the attacks — despite the fact that the attacks were a clear product of a well - organized terrorist group.

Additionally, Dubai is home to branches of some of the largest British independent schools, such as Repton and also to the important GEMS Education Group.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

This is a transcript from a student focus group conducted by Education Week on March 6, 2003 with high school seniors in a large, diverse high school in a mid-Atlantic state in an approximately 11,000 student urban / suburban fringe school district.

The Impact of Budget Cuts The director of Let Me Play, a group which has run summer schools for the last eight years, explains that a smooth transition from primary to secondary education is essential Children are going from being «a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one, in a very large unfamiliar environment».

The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.

Liaising with outside agencies The new Music Education Hubs can be a terrific resource for those seeking to expand and develop music in their school, offering: Instrumental music lessons; large group instrumental teaching; workshops; a range of extra-curricular groups; and Saturday morning music schools and after school clubs.

The grant is the largest yet received by the nonprofit group, rounded in 1989, and the largest ever awarded by Philip Morris to a single education organization, officials said.

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, a coalition of education professors and interest - group leaders, including the heads of the country's two largest teachers unions, have concluded that family income itself determines whether or not a chilEducation, a coalition of education professors and interest - group leaders, including the heads of the country's two largest teachers unions, have concluded that family income itself determines whether or not a chileducation professors and interest - group leaders, including the heads of the country's two largest teachers unions, have concluded that family income itself determines whether or not a child learns.

Teachers and principals should have a more significant voice in shaping large - scale instructional improvement plans, a national urban education group argues.

For example, coaches use the 3Rs during the last five minutes of physical education, and students respond to prompts as a large group using strategies like think - pair - share and concentric circles.

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.