Sentences with phrase «long time education»

Long time education reform advocate, Caprice Young, is taking over the troubled Magnolia Public Schools charter network, but it won't be official until a set of test results come in.

Not exact matches

He noted that mega-incubators like 1871 are great places to get started because they enable entrepreneurs to avoid all kinds of costs and commitments that are bad uses of their scarce capital and — at the same time — to secure access to enormous amounts of «free» resources, education, networking and mentoring that will be crucial to their long - term success.

To some long - time watchers of MBA education, there may be little surprise seeing Harvard and Stanford at the top of the rankings.

I'm all in favor of introducing new directors and director education, but it takes a long time to develop the experience.

Former Stanford University computer science professors, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng had spent enough time in higher education to realize that change was long overdue.

As the One - Year Executive MBA program is considered a full - time program, Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) can use the Life Long Learning Plan (LLP) to finance their own education or that of their spouse / partner.

Graduate students may borrow funds for their education through the Grad PLUS program, so long as they are enrolled at least half - time in an accredited college or university.

The authors note, however, that reducing education fees, increasing funding support for people with disabilities, and increasing public support for long term care are needed to help protect the most vulnerable populations during times of economic recovery.

Ironically, the Series 65 has been the minimum regulatory exam for Registered Investment Advisers for a long time, and RIAs have been subject to a fiduciary standard for a long time... and this disparity has been allowed to continue, despite the fact that the Series 65 doesn't really provide much education to satisfy the fiduciary duty of care.

Even the BC Teachers» Federation, which has long prided itself on being non-partisan, is clearly campaigning for the NDP this time around, with a pricey TV ad calling on British Columbians to dump a government it insists has laid waste to the education system.

PARSE has been talking about the changing nature of theological education for a long time.

Education remained largely in the hands of churches for a long time.

The version of Islam I'm speaking of is the classic one — what is in the core of the Koran, what was followed for a long time, when the Muslim lands were the center of peace and education and tolerance.

The time is long overdue for us to let go of the comforts of the private intellectual and therapeutic approaches to seminary education and to move toward the terrors of public communal discipleship.

By 1997, he expects that more than 100,000 citizens will be serving their country, receiving education and training benefits in return, and hundreds of thousands more will be doing vital community work, able now to afford the time for such satisfactions because the need to repay their college loans will no longer «block their way.»

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

The world of television, athletics, apathetic parents, and dragged - screaming - and - kicking kids pretty well eliminated for all but the few the more effective hours - long Wednesday (or whenever) times of religious education.

Not so long ago it was thought that the problems of higher education were merely methodological — that, while complex, they could be solved in time the way you would solve a giant crossword puzzle.

When, as a young man, the time came for him to further his education and choose a college, his initial instinct was to pursue a future in the industry he long admired.

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

We have maintained a long - time partnership with First Candle, the leading national non-profit organization that is dedicated to the education, advocacy and research of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), to educate parents and caregivers on the importance of safe sleep practices for infants.

Give childhood back to children (Independent, UK, 12-01-14)-- a long and thought - provoking article; not about home education as such, but about the need for less formal schooling, less homework, less structure to children's lives, and more time for play and creativity.

The mission of the LaConner School District Food Service Program is to provide nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning, while at the same time promoting nutritional education for life long healthful living.

Students will also be given more time for physical education, art, music, and library time, and the longer day will include recess.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

The founding parents named the school to commemorate the gifts of clarity of thinking, warm - hearted humanity and moral courage which Alan Howard, a long - time Waldorf teacher from England, brought to the birth of Waldorf education in Canada.

NY Times Archive - National Desk: April 28, 2005 «Soccer Mom» Education Chief Plays Hardball for Bush Team» «I would just say that I nursed my kids for a long time; I made my own baby food,» Ms Spellings told repoerters at a press breakfast.»

At secondary level (11 - 16) the education time is somewhat longer.

Positive impact on ethnic minority athletic training education and service: A Houston native, John Harvey has influenced many athletic trainers through his long - time career and service to the profession.

For this reason, education experts like the Moores, Charlotte Mason and others, recommend that formal lessons should be no longer than 20 - 30 minutes at a time.

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

We support at - risk families by offering free professional home visiting, parent education and specialized preschool for children ages 0 to 5 — the time research shows these programs to have the greatest long term impact on children's development.

He doesn't dumb down his food and kids rise to the occasion, eating foods that I know my own district would be afraid to serve on the theory that «kids just don't like X.» And he clearly doesn't feel that his job ends with the service of a meal — as discussed above, he uses his time and energy to bring kids into the kitchen, providing cooking and nutrition education that will serve his students well in the long run.

The logic behind this (as I remember it from one of Clegg's speeches) was that by the time the child reaches 18 years old, a lump - sum windfall may deliver a short - term benefit but will be of little use in the long - run if they had a poor education.

Besides low birth rates, higher life expectancy, longer education time and an increasing share of single - parent households, Germany is also the poster child of labour market dualisation: pampered workers in the industrial and unionised core contrast with part - time and irregular work in the peripheral service industry.

He pledged that one of the most radical programmes of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13 years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS, education and welfare reform.

The mayor raised the issue of the $ 15.2 billion MTA capital budget deficit and the state's failure to abide by a 2007 settlement that promised additional education funds to the city — saying arguments about lean economic times no longer hold water.

Carl Paladino was the last to testify in what was a long and at times grueling four days of proceedings before State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia — a hearing that was supposed to center on whether the two - term Buffalo School board member should be removed for violating board policy when he publicly disclosed information discussed in an executive session.

«For a long time, I've worried about the fact that in this country we're very good at saying academic education is good and for everybody, but we've never put sufficient emphasis on technical and vocational education,» she said.

After releasing his $ 77.7 billion preliminary budget, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio raised the issue of the $ 15.2 billion MTA capital budget deficit and the state's failure to abide by the 2007 CFE settlement that promised additional education funds to the city, saying arguments about lean economic times no longer hold water.

The TU on what New York should do with its $ 4.2 billion in financial settlement cash: «Put some into the huge one - time expense of replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge — and perhaps make it better — and use the rest to create an endowment to boost long - term funding for education.»

Gove's more pugilistic side may have softened since his time as education secretary — you'll no longer find him using military metaphors and pledging to vanquish «the enemies of promise», in public, at least — but he clearly retains his impulse for confronting the inertia of the political establishment.

«It is something that has existed in this state for a very long time and it sent the message of taking the politics out of education.»

At a time when youth unemployment is at 20 %, slashing the Education Maintenance Allowance and tripling university fees, risks alienating a generation of young people and losing their talent at society's longer term cost.

«So, what we do on education — whether it's funding or reform — has to be the focal point of the budget, and it has been for a long time.»

Senator John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican who chairs his chamber's education committee, said «there was a lot of intervening time» between Cuomo's introduction of the bill and his impending decision to veto it.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Wednesday that students in grades three to eight will have as much time as they need to complete their state - mandated tests this year — as long as they are «working productively.»

The BOOKS FOR KIDS campaign will kick off this year with a media announcement on Tuesday, February 25, 10:00 a.m. at the Olmsted Center for Sight's Early Education Program (OCS EEP), a long - time beneficiary of BOOKS FOR KIDS.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade