Sentences with phrase «major education areas»

IDRA has contended for decades that rather than causing education advocates to fight over small slices of the funding pie, legislators should create a larger pie that provides what is needed in all major education areas so that all students are served appropriately.

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The Cohens have been stepping up their role as active mega-donors in the New York area, focusing mainly on healthcare and education, with the arts as another major interest.

We already paved the way for a mega-development in an urban area with the requisite access to highways, rail, an international airport; proximity to major institutions of higher education; a redundant fiber optic loop in the works for Internet access, and capacity to handle the 8 million square feet of office space the company will eventually need.

The report suggests that the major VR and AR areas that will be generating revenue fall into one of three categories: Content (gaming, film and TV, health care, education, and social); hardware and distribution (headsets, input devices like handheld controllers, graphics cards, video capture technologies, and online marketplaces); and software platforms and delivery services (content creation tools, capture, production, and delivery software, video game engines, analytics, file hosting and compression tools, and B2B and enterprise uses).

It is encouraging that several of the major denominations have developed plans and resources in the areas of alcoholism education, community action, and rehabilitation.

«Youth education is one of our foundation's major focus areas.

The Institution is taking particular interest in IT, communications, energy, manufacturing, education and research issues, and is seeking to play a major role in influencing government policy in these areas.

During his 9 year reign, his government chalked some major successes in the area of physical infrastructural development, education, transportation among others.

Making the host committee for the event are former Florida Education Commissioner Betty Castor, Tampa City Councilman Harry Cohen, former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, former state Sen. Arthenia Joyner, former CFO Alex Sink and a host of other major Democrats in the Tampa Bay area.

He also wants to continue utilizing the major health and education institutions in the area and to promote job training.

De Blasio said he saw five major areas where the Trump Administration and Republican controlled Congress posed a major threat: police funding, public health funding for the city's hospital system, education, environmental protection efforts and affordable housing.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

Major areas of focus in the research activities within the Department of Physics include solid - state physics, cluster physics, surface physics, biophysics, and physics education.

The DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has a major impact not only in the New York metropolitan area, but across the globe, in pioneering public science education for the genome age.

Global health is one of the institute's four major «areas of engagement,» the other three being human freedom, economic growth, and education reform.

While we are being a little glib here, in the way that we are framing them, these are truly the most central questions that anyone can ask of the human condition, and they reoccur time and time again across all the major areas of substantive scholarship from education, to economics, to psychology, to sociology, to psychiatry and medicine, and beyond.

Many applicants who graduate from more - competitive colleges, earn higher GPAs, or hold degrees in specialized areas such as math or science are turned down in favor of less - qualified candidates who took the traditional route of majoring in education.

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The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

For the Technology Leaders section of Technology Counts 2006, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center collected data on 14 indicators covering three major areas of state technology policy and practice: access, use, and capacity.

Nationally, the average number of high school credits earned in career and technical education dropped notably between 1990 and 2009, while those earned in almost every other major subject area increased.

One way it has done this is by designing research competitions that focus on the major issues and areas of education.

Others allow them to major in elementary education or a content area, such as math or science, and pursue a minor in special education.

The goal is to bring about transformational education change in America's major urban areas.

In the 1960s, the California legislature decided that aspiring teachers would have to major in an academic area other than education, but last week, Gov. Jerry Brown reversed that decision

In the 1960s, the California legislature decided that aspiring teachers would have to major in an academic area other than education, which they believed to be a watered - down degree.

During his first year with the district, he and the Board of Education worked together to develop the District Strategic Plan, which focuses the district on three major areas: Curriculum and Programs; Environment and Culture; and Partnerships.

Major areas cited in the research are declining enrollment, higher shares of special education students and drops in state funding — which, the study notes, policy makers control.

Education is shaping up to be a major issue in the 2018 gubernatorial race as it's an area where the four top Democratic candidates differ.

Given its location in a major metropolitan area, I suggest seeking learning experiences via partnerships with educational programs at one of the many nearby colleges of education while remaining critical of pedagogical choices in their school.

She advised the secretary and assistant secretary on the Obama Administration's major education reform initiative, ESEA flexibility, which grants waivers of key provisions of the ESEA in exchange for state - led reforms in the areas of standards and assessments, accountability, and educator evaluations.

Remember that secondary teachers, those teaching middle and high school, receive majors in their core area, not in education.

At the secondary level, students who complete the program will end up with two concurrent majors: one in secondary education and the other in their area or specialty.

The Residency is for students graduating with content - area majors whether or not you completed any education courses while undergrads.

An individual looking to enter the education field might want to give serious thought to majoring or minoring in one of these areas.

On five occasions, Twitter also provided a means for participants to consult other educators in their specific content areas regarding course content, as the music education major did in his question.

Not only does she have a deep passion for education advocacy and long experience in this area, but as a charter school parent herself, she has a personal connection that will allow her to have a major impact on our work,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association.

The history and the physical education and health majors, although they accounted for 50 % of the participants, sent 69 % of the content - area - related tweets that included links.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

Comparison of the fields of gifted education and middle school education indicates some major differences in such areas as organizing for instruction, how students learn, mainstreaming, delivery of instruction, affective needs, and the concept of giftedness.

We should require aspiring teachers to major in the content area they wish to teach and then reallocate the funding of colleges of education to school districts that would assume the obligation for pedagogical education and mentoring in classroom management.

ASCD and more than 25 other major education organizations, representing a wide array of subject areas, are promoting consensus recommendations for how federal education policy can better support subject disciplines beyond reading, math, and science.

But there are some major areas of disagreement - such as Whitman's contention that only 60 percent of education spending reaches the classroom and thus suggesting the rest is wasted.

Kelli Hillestad is the school counselor at Brooklyn Center Secondary in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and school coordinator for the Ramp Up to Readiness program, a school wide advisory program designed to help students prepare for postsecondary education in the five major areas: academic, admissions, career, financial and personal / social readiness.

An analysis of the course requirements for the various education areas of emphasis indicated that all undergraduate majors, with the exception of the physical education majors, must choose one of two computer literacy courses.

The results from an analysis of the Teachers College website indicated that technology - related themes were present only in certain areas of focus for the education major.

If you chose to study secondary education, you will graduate with a concurrent major in your chosen content area from the College of Liberal Arts and sciences in addition to your secondary education degree.

That history resonates throughout our current work in education, which is focused on three major areas: 1) advancing literacy, 2) urban school reform, and 3) teacher education reform.

Other majors available at UAA include undergraduate and graduate offerings in postsecondary education (including specialty areas such as reading, history, math, science, etc.), counseling, administration, special education and school psychology.

Diana serves as a content area specialist, reviewer and CCSS advisor for State Departments of Education, nonprofit organizations and major publishers.