Sentences with phrase «leading rural education»

Rural schools need greater attention from policymakers and the public, a report released last week by a leading rural education group says.

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Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) delivers a comprehensive range of training, education and business support for Scotland's land - based industries, founded on world class and sector - leading research, education and consultancy.

The Barry Callebaut Group, the world's leading manufacturer of high - quality chocolate and cocoa products, inaugurated three education projects in rural cocoa farming communities of Côte d'Ivoire.

As the tuition grant proposal was aimed primarily at improving education for poor black children, the black - led coalition could not avoid being accused of promoting urban black interests at the expense of rural and suburban areas.

Strategies to increase leadership opportunities and provide mentoring in this area included the New South Wales education department's Rural School Leadership Program targeting early career ATSI teachers and Principals Australia Institute's Dare to Lead program, supported by the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Previously, he led the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative, a partnership between Battelle for Kids and 21 school districts in southeast Ohio dedicated to developing a comprehensive approach for transformational change in rural education.

Case studies provide lessons from three leading education improvement efforts that are tackling the problem of how to improve rural education in the face of challenges such as population change and financial constraints.

From 2003 - 2007 he led a USAID - funded longitudinal survey of community - based accelerated learning for primary school students in 10 rural provinces in Afghanistan and provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Education.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

Rev Genders said the report is designed to «help schools and dioceses think about the quality of education offered in small and rural schools and embrace change in a way which leads to high quality education».

Presently, Dr. Williams serves as a Regional Education Laboratory Southwest (REL SW) partnership facilitator lead for the REL SW Networked Improvement Community, the rural TA consultant for the Texas Comprehensive Center and Great Lakes Comprehensive Center.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital leLeading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital leleading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

He formerly covered the South and rural America for Education Week, the leading national publication covering preK - 12 eEducation Week, the leading national publication covering preK - 12 educationeducation.

Teachers for Illinois» Future is a campaign led by Advance Illinois, Association of Illinois Rural and Small Schools, Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University, Equity First Superintendents, Northern Illinois University, Roosevelt University, and Teach Plus.

I enjoyed researching this period of about 1919, when women had the vote in New York but not yet throughout the U.S.; when cars and telephones were changing even rural towns; when publishing birth control education materials could lead to jail time.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jesuits led efforts to redress the elitist, urban - centered biases of postprimary education that perpetuated not only social inequality, but also the historical dominance of Belize City over its primarily rural hinterland.