Sentences with phrase «major focus on education»

Technology has always been a major focus on Education World.

Furthermore, the LAGI project also places a major focus on education and outreach to stress the importance of the transition to renewable energy while consistently proving that «renewable energy can be beautiful».

So the Coalition is putting a major focus on education.

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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.

That's why major deals in the education space are likely to focus on services, rather than the typical focus on technology, said Mary Jo Zandy, the managing director of Berkery Noyes, an investment - banking firm based that represented JBHM in the deal.

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

Pramilla has pledged to focus her attention on several major issues in the 42nd district: protecting our environment, transforming our energy infrastructure to renewable energy, transitioning our economy to support «green» job creation, education, public health, safety and welfare.

Among other things, the President focused on major achievements made by his government in the health sector, education and energy.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says this is a major accomplishment for one of the district's persistently struggling schools under receivership.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says winning the state championship is major accomplishment for South Park High School, one of the district's persistently struggling schools under receivership.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement earlier today of a major initiative to help young black and Latino men today, includes a big focus on education.

These focus on harnessing the wisdom of teachers, helping the business community promote new directions in precollege science education, and — last but not least — catalyzing major changes in the way we teach college - level science.

«Pre-college science programs lead to more science majors: Students who participate in pre-college programs that focus on science more likely to pursue education, careers in STEM.»

In the past 25 years, some two dozen major reports have focused in part or in full on improving biology and related science education.

Lately, Balzani's major focus has been his long - standing interest on energy issues, chemical education, and on the role of science in society as he has always maintained that scientists have the great responsibility and duty to educate citizens and to assist decision makers in finding solutions to pressing societal problems.

As a continuation of Mr. and Mrs. Helmsley's generous giving throughout their lifetimes, the Trust supports a diverse range of organizations with a major focus on health and medical research, in addition to programs in human services, education and conservation.

Nine Presidential candidates will gather in North Carolina this week for an unprecedented event in American politics: a major national debate focused solely on education.

It didn't hurt that XQ was the first major education investment by the Emerson Collective, LLC, which was established by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, or that the media team behind it projected a relentlessly upbeat tone, focusing on the possibilities rather than the obstacles.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boysEducation will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boyseducation, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boys and men.

The education concert hall, I fear, continues to burn while the conductors of our two major parties focus on their percussion sections — rather than summoning the fire department.

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.

Four national studies of education have focused public attention on the decline in achievement in those subjects and the urgent need for major reforms.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

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

«My year at Harvard focused on the story, from children's television to the history of education to Shakespeare, and that has been the major thread of my career.»

He went from majoring in journalism, advertising, new media, and theater at the University of Georgia to becoming a high school special education teacher focused on mathematics.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Education decision.

Students are immersed in a project - based STEAM curriculum and choose a major to focus on in their education by fifth grade.

Despite the perception that these major education reform foundations are focused on expanding school choice, at least with charters, their grantees appear to be devoting more energy to arguing for greater diversity.

I have focused here on John's professional life because he was a public figure and a major force in American education reform.

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.

Teachers should be required to have core majors in all colleges, like history or science, not a general education degree that teaches how to teach but doesn't focus on understanding the subjects they'll be teaching.

Her current research is focusing on the gender and racial gaps in STEM education, including the declaration of STEM majors in college.

The report was a demographic study outlining major demographic shifts in our population, focusing in particular, on the changes from early childhood education through college and career systems.

The Buck Institute for Education currently focuses on three major 21st century skills: collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

This course immersed the education majors in the history and philosophy of effective middle level education and focused on the stages of early adolescence.

School leaders have welcomed the omission of major new education policies from the Queen's speech, which they say mean schools can now focus on «getting the basics right».

Summary: This is an interview with author Paul Tough who has written books on education including «How Children Succeed» and «Helping Children Succeed» which have focused on social - emotional learning as a major force in promoting student success.

Then, the report touches on national rates of progress through remedial education for major racial or ethnic and socioeconomic student groups before focusing on how much money students spend on these courses that do not count toward a degree.

Unlike most major large - scale education surveys, SASS focuses on teachers rather than students.

Now, however, Louisiana was planning a major intensification of teacher job reviews, another chapter in a longstanding drive to reform public education, this one focusing on better identifying top - notch instructors and ushering out nonstarters.

With the regular Texas legislative session about one - third complete, the battle lines in public education are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reforeducation are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education ReforEducation Reform (TIER).

In 1989, when the Chicago School Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others could not.

His research focuses on major policy - and practice - relevant issues in education such as: college access and success; race, equity and diversity; and student learning and development.

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.

In 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, replaced the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB, as the nation's major K - 12 education law, continuing that law's focus on increasing the quality of public education.

In addition to her focus on standards, assessments and accountability, Liz has participated in two major initiatives to transform general and special education preparation policies to ensure candidates were prepared to teach to college and career ready expectations upon licensure.

In recent years, policy - makers and major education foundations and advocacy groups have focused attention on the nation's high school dropouts — with good reason.

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One of the major focuses for the recent event was the emphasis on government spending on education, which translates into higher literacy rates, a better level of English - language instruction which will allow more readers to enjoy English pleasure reading, and a growing interaction with tablet computers thanks to spending initiatives to put more tablets in schools at even the primary levels.