We partner with higher ed institutions, school districts, nonprofit organizations, companies, and foundations to generate cutting - edge solutions to
major education challenges.
Not exact matches
To steer 25 + young adults from various cultures making relatively obscene amounts of money who have little real - word adult experience or formal
education and who visit
major cities full of temptations, not the least of which are people who exist to separate said money from them, through the rapids of these
challenges as well as basically living with each other while existing in a media fishbowl.
Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced
education research to bear on
major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.
Speaking at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre's Seminar with the theme «Repositioning Nigerian Army Command School for Quality
Education in the 21st Century in Abuja on Thursday, Buratai who was represented by Major General Lincon Ogunewe, Chief of Policy and Plans, Army HQ, noted that children who were deprived of quality education would be ill - equipped to face the challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22
Education in the 21st Century in Abuja on Thursday, Buratai who was represented by
Major General Lincon Ogunewe, Chief of Policy and Plans, Army HQ, noted that children who were deprived of quality
education would be ill - equipped to face the challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22
education would be ill - equipped to face the
challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22 century.
Alhaji Rashid said, his leadership will address some of the
major challenges in the Zongo communities including unemployment,
education, health, water and sanitation, adding that, with the establishment of the Zongo Ministry and the Zongo Fund, problems of the Zongos will be reduced but propel the Zongo communities for massive development.
The new book brings together current thinking and findings about energy
education: what students should know about energy, what can be learned from research on teaching and learning, what the
major challenges are for teachers, and how to meet those
challenges in the future.
It highlights the
major research
challenges that still persist, and how the training and
education of health professionals will need to change and adapt to meet the societal
challenges of the next generation.
The
education, skills and learning sectors must adapt and refocus to the
major economic, ecosystem and social
challenges of this century and demonstrate to young people the links between their skills and talents, their future jobs and careers, and the environmental
challenges of the 21st century.
Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, in thanking President Neil Rudenstine and the Harvard Graduate School of
Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education ch
Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a
major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public
education ch
education challenges.
Secretary of
Education William J. Bennett stepped up his crusade against the National
Education Association in a
major speech here last week,
challenging Presidential candidates to «stand firm» against the union and support accountability in the schools.
While increasing access to
education is still a
major challenge in many countries, improving the quality and relevance of
education is now receiving more attention than ever, with due emphasis on the importance of values, attitudes and skills that promote mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.
There are three
major challenges for
education today: 1) To become lifelong, beginning in the first year of life and extending to old age; 2) To go beyond curricula (subject matter) in the usual sense and to focus sharply on character (the kinds of human beings we want to nurture); 3) To prepare for a world where the landscape of work is likely to be totally different and changing constantly.
These are some of the
major challenges raise
major concerns about the very foundational models of
education and global citizenship at all levels.
Although the claim of «unfunded mandate» has been asserted almost since the day NCLB was signed into law, School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings constitutes the first
major legal
challenge to the historic
education law to be filed in federal court.
The GOP's gains in the Senate and the House of Representatives could pave the way for some sharply contested
education proposals, such as an expansion of private school vouchers, and discourage
major legislative
challenges to the No Child Left Behind Act.
The UNHCR notes that
education within the camps faces
major challenges, «large number of school drop - out due to shortage of teaching and learning materials, school uniform, stationary and decimated number of qualified teacher.»
In a
challenging period for the
education built environment industry, the sixth Building Schools Exhibition and Conference (BSEC) at London's ExCeL proved successful and a
major destination for
education and industry leaders, attracting delegations and decision makers from across the globe, with 49 per cent at director level and above.
For the last 25 years, three
major goals have animated the U.S. mathematics
education community: more knowledgeable teachers, more
challenging curricula for students, and more ambitious instruction in classrooms.
Through this empirical research project, we study in - depth the perspectives of
major stakeholders at a diverse group of campuses with respect to the nature,
challenges, and value of higher
education at this time.
Despite the loss of local elections and the defeat of Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (who had appointed the controversial schools chancellor Michelle Rhee), the combined clout of these groups, plus the enormous power of the federal government and the uncritical support of the
major media, presents a serious
challenge to the viability and future of public
education.
As a mark of the expected value of OER, a number of
major philanthropic organizations, including the Hewlett Foundation, Next Generation Learning
Challenges (NGLC), and the CK - 12 Foundation, are investing in the creation and development of OER content and OER curation tools; and the U.S. Department of
Education (DOE) has a project, called the Learning Registry, which helps make OER content easier for teachers to find.
Dr Meenakshi Parameshwaran, a researcher for LKMco and
Education Datalab, writing for Schools Week today, said the figures show recruiting a top quality workforce is still a
major challenge for school leaders.
Sixty - two percent of the
education leaders said one of the
challenges they face is a concern that state officials will dump the Common Core or put it on hold; 42 percent called that
challenge «
major» while 20 percent termed it «minor.»
In a
major blow to the Department for
Education's workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «workload
challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support workload or pupil behaviour — even though these were flagged as key issues to keep teachers in the profession.
Agile Mind Biology helps ensure that students gain an essential understanding of
challenging concepts and processes from all six
major National Science
Education Standards content strands: the cell; the molecular basis of heredity; biological evolution; the interdependence of organisms; matter, energy, and organization in living systems; and the behavior of organisms.
Fifty years after the March on Washington, a
major challenge facing California and the West in general is increasing segregation of black and Latino students, reviving a debate that Brown v Board of
Education was supposed to resolve: whether it is possible to have «separate but equal» schools.
Major Forum: Examining Professional Practice: Evolving Notions of Beginning Teacher Competencies Defining what teacher candidates should know and be able to do can be
challenging, particularly given the continually evolving understanding of what teaching and learning should look like in the current
education landscape.
Many of our
major challenges, from race relations to greater economic growth to our global standing, connect to
education.
In a recent book on school district leadership (Duke, 2010a), I identified demographic change as one of the
major challenges facing contemporary
education leaders.
Unfortunately, today, the
education sector is facing a
major challenge when it comes to the
education workforce: States struggle to attract teachers to the profession, even as they are making progress to improve
education systems.
Unfortunately, today, the
education sector is facing a
major challenge when it comes to the
education workforce: States struggle to attract teachers to the profession, even Read more about Strategies for Building Teacher Pipelines from CCSSO -LSB-...]
However, we have
major challenges, none greater than our last in the nation
education system.
Even holding the line on funding will be a
major challenge for
education advocates going forward.
The
major challenges we face are familiar to everyone working in urban
education.
We have a
major challenge ahead of us to reverse these policy mistakes and I hope that this can be a «wake up» call for the need to rebuild the leadership consensus that once made Texas the national leader in
education reform.
It is a continuation of former
education secretary Nicky Morgan's «workload
challenge» — a
major consultation of teachers aimed at reducing workload.
Yet a separate survey by the Center on
Education Policy at George Washington University found that education commissioners in 35 of the states that have signed onto the Common Core report major or minor challenges in working with higher - education institutions on the transition to the new s
Education Policy at George Washington University found that
education commissioners in 35 of the states that have signed onto the Common Core report major or minor challenges in working with higher - education institutions on the transition to the new s
education commissioners in 35 of the states that have signed onto the Common Core report
major or minor
challenges in working with higher -
education institutions on the transition to the new s
education institutions on the transition to the new standards.
Educators from across the Eastern Caribbean will gather in St. Lucia on April 3 - 4, 2018 for a regional teacher
education conference to get a better understanding of the status of teacher
education and collaborate to address the
major challenges in the region.
Take this
major VAM case in Florida: In 2013, the National
Education Association and its Florida affiliate filed a federal lawsuit
challenging a state law that required at least half of a teacher's evaluation to be based on VAM.
Friday Institute for Educational Innovation Provide professional development opportunities and convene conferences to address the
major challenges of preK - 12
education in North Carolina and the United States.
Mayors» Report Card on
Education Early in 2014, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings approached the Bush Institute with a unique,
challenging idea: Create a scorecard for mayors to use in evaluating their cities»
major school district.
This report articulates
major improvements, accomplishments and
challenges facing public
education in the commonwealth.
Her employer, Bright Star Schools, reviewed the results, crafted a proposal, and on Friday won a $ 250,000 grant to improve teacher retention, which is a
major problem in
education and can be especially
challenging for charter schools.
The Common Core, one of the
major education policy initiatives of the early 21st century, sought to strengthen
education systems across the United States through a set of specific and
challenging education standards.
The limitations of
education systems — with insufficiently developed state data systems, as well as assessment systems that at best could capture a summative snapshot of student performance by grade, year - to - year (without actually tracking student progress over time)-- presented
major challenges.
While recognizing that public
education continues to face
major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.
A
major goal of the Center's program of research is to discover and document the means for improving practice so that the nation's young people experience a
challenging and equitable
education.
Additionally, hiring a full staff of qualified
education professors and liberal arts professors for the undergraduate university would be a
major challenge.
A college
education can be a path to higher income and job security for some, but loan repayment can be a
challenge for most former students, no matter what their
major was.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately one in ten Americans were self - employed in 2015.
«Gradifi is differentiating employers in the marketplace by helping employees manage one of life's
major financial
challenges — college
education,» said Gradifi CEO Tim DeMello.