Sentences with phrase «leading education nation»

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Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

Itai Matamombe (left), an advisor to the United Nations Secretary - General on global education, with a Barnard College student moderator (right) leading a thoughtful discussion after the film.

The primary purpose of our organization is to form a network of the nation's leading new menu developers who are involved in multi-unit research and development and to provide education advancing both the individual and the corporation they represent.

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Over the past century, the United States had advanced to the world's leading nation — in terms of technology, finance, and in the broad accessibility to education.

Furthermore at a time when both major parties have adopted very similar education policies, the quality of public debate would be diminished if no one in the House of Commons were able to bring forward evidence that may lead to better educational outcomes for the nation's children,» Mr Brady argued.

Away from infrastructural development, the governor's giant strides in regular payment of workers» salaries and retirees» pensions, when many states are unable to pay not to talk of embarking on capital projects because of the nation's economic downturn; his remarkable achievements in other strata of the economy, such as in education, health, investment promotion, empowerment, water supply, agriculture, sports, etc, have also brought enormous goodwill to the PDP - led government in Enugu State.

Cathie Black another example, a bachelor's degree in English, former advertising and media mogul, appointed to be the NYC Schools Chancellor lacks credits, coursework, relevant graduate degrees and professional experiences in public education yet she is suppose to lead the largest public school system in the nation.

«From investing in education and creating good - paying jobs to protecting immigrants» rights and advancing issues of social justice, Congresswoman Meng and Assemblyman Blake will help lead the fight to ensure our nation remains a beacon of hope and opportunity for everyone.

In the governor's statement issued Sunday, Mr. Cuomo kept up his strong words in trying to address what he described as «decades of leading the nation in education spending but lagging in results.»

As the deputy mayor for education for a decade, Walcott is well - prepared to lead the nation's largest school district.

In a letter to Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, the heads of AAAS, the nation's leading societies and higher education organizations highlighted the vital role of scientifically accurate information in government documents and communications, saying restrictions on the use of words threatens the integrity of scientific advice.

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, long the nation's leading defender of evolution education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative to help climate science Education, long the nation's leading defender of evolution education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative to help climate science education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative to help climate science educationeducation

«A half century ago, this nation made a commitment to lead the world in scientific and technological innovation; to invest in education, in research, in engineering; to set a goal of reaching space and engaging every citizen in that historic mission,» Obama said.

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.

Dr. Paddock and Dr. Runde, two of Baltimore's leading naturopathic doctors, are East Coast natives who received the best natural medicine education that the nation has to offer, and have spent years building their clinical skills in private practice.

New York, NY About Blog The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation leads the nation in providing direct patient programs, education, public awareness, advocacy and funding for novel lupus research on the national level.

Kinsey tells of how a zoologist became the nation's premier sex expert, seeing an incredible lack of education as intolerable, led by moral zealots who sought to keep the public feeling puritanical about the act.

Please join EPE Research Center director and study author Christopher Swanson as he moderates a lively and wide - ranging discussion among leading experts on critical issues shaping special education in the nation's schools.

Lesaux's 2010 report, Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, formed the basis for a third - grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy planning.

Of the 75 million children worldwide who are out of school, more than half are living in situations of conflict and millions more live in areas affected by natural disasters, according to Faryal Khan, Ed.D.» 05, who leads the education program for the Gulf states and Yemen for the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) located in Doha, Qatar.

My new book is just out, Education Nation: Seven Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools (Jossey - Bass, 2010).

A new education management company, led by the former head of a global electric company, has acquired Chancellor Beacon Academies, the nation's second - largest for - profit manager of charter 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.

To find out if these nations might have something to teach us, the Fordham Institute's Chester E. Finn, Jr. circled the globe, searching for answers, talking to educators and officials, and learning how leading countries do «gifted and talented education.»

It's an embarrassment that California, the state that led the technology revolution in America, is, according to Digital Learning Now, last in the nation in using technology to transform its education system from its current factory - model roots into a student - centric one.

No obscure figure, Kilpatrick was «the most influential teacher in the nation's leading college of education,» spending nearly 30 years on the faculty of Columbia University's Teachers College, notes education historian Diane Ravitch.

The touchstone A Nation at Risk report expressed fear of a deteriorating education system leading to an erosion in our global standing.

Bent on blunting what they see as a federally organized attack on public education, the nation's two leading teachers» organizations, with a combined membership of nearly 2.2 million, are putting unprecedented efforts into this year's Congressional elections.

«Massachusetts has a long history of leading the nation in education reform, and we have an opportunity now to lead again in developing the competent readers our children's future and our country's future demand.»

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It's a legitimate concern, and one I share... the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

Responding to what they perceive as growing public disillusionment with their profession, 19 deans from some of the nation's leading schools of education are meeting in Wisconsin this week to consider forming a new organization to promote higher standards in the field.

American membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, they say, will lead to richer collaborations between education researchers in the United States and other countries, more straightforward participation of the United States in UNESCO's agenda, and more opportunities for American educators to land jobs with the international organization.

As Scott McLeod, one of the nation's leading thinkers on educational technology and the director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education, observes, the «reason Sal Khan is so visible right now is that nobody did this instead.

The pattern is very clear in the education systems where global themes and building consciousness on world problems are not relevant in comparison with micro-national visions of different themes that don't lead to international understanding and cooperation within nations and peoples.

She has also directed the National Institute of Education and served as the head of the Spencer Foundation, the nation's leading funder of educational research.

During the 1970s, nearly every state in the nation began instituting tests of basic skills for high - school students as the leading edge of the so - called «first wave» of education reforms.

«If we want to match standards in some of the world - leading nations and secure greater equity in our education system, more must be done to raise the attainment of our lowest, and often most vulnerable, pupils.»

In The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press; Publication date: September 17, 2012), these leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seek to challenge familiar assumptions and to generate new thinking in a variety of ways, including looking at other sectors, other nations, and emerging new technologies.

Leading figures in education policy, academia, and philanthropy called today for a «re-engineering» of the nation's approach to adolescent literacy, saying nothing short of a «literacy revolution» is needed to keep students in school and ensure that they are able to learn the complex material that college and careers will demand of them.

James E. Ryan, one of the nation's leading scholars of education law and policy, will become the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, President Drew Faust announceducation law and policy, will become the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, President Drew Faust announcEducation, President Drew Faust announced today.

My new book is just out, Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools (Jossey - Bass).

On Tuesday, August 20, James Ryan, one of the nation's leading scholars of education law and policy, officially began his tenure as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Eeducation law and policy, officially began his tenure as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Asseducation - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers AssEducation and the Media and the Education Writers AssEducation Writers Association.

My favorite story on this point was told to me by Roger Nichols, director of the Boston Museum of Science in the mid-80s, and I tell it again in my new book, Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools.

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Some of the nation's leading training providers have been highlighted in a new register published by the Department for Education and the Skills Funding Agency.