Sentences with phrase «millions of advanced students»

These and other myths prevent our country from appropriately educating millions of advanced students.

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Mohawk's $ 1.8 million Additive Manufacturing Resource Centre in Hamilton, Ontario will serve as a test lab for advanced manufacturing companies and a one - of - a-kind living lab for students from Mohawk's Faculty of Engineering Technology.

The governor proposes $ 2 million in new funds to lower test fees for low - income students, and $ 500,000 in grants for schools with limited or no selection of advanced courses looking to expand their offerings.

This year, he was able to secure $ 200,000 to advance the integration of LGBT issues in curricula, far from the millions that will be required to bring all schools up to speed in this area and make them safe for LGBT students and staff.

A total of 12 individuals and teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly $ 1 million.

August 14, 2000 Frank family pledges $ 10 million to support education of physician - scientists at the University of Chicago The Mrs. Zollie S. Frank Continuity Fund at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago has pledged $ 10 million to provide financial support for outstanding advanced students in the biological sciences at the University of Chicago.

The inaugural meeting — scheduled for 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Larsen G - 08 — will bring together various students and faculty across Harvard University to focus on advancing knowledge of the brain, and supporting the millions of families around the country dealing with brain injuries.

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff have helped advance the conversation through their longitudinal study of 2.5 million students over a 20 - year span.

In a Wired blog, «Inside the Educational Data Revolution,» David Stewart, CEO of Tembo, laments how in the largest US school systems, «millions of dollars are being spent on interim assessment systems, intended to track student performance throughout the year and adapt teaching strategies in advance of the high - stakes year - end tests.

A University of Florida team of psychology and education researchers has received a $ 1 million federal grant to pilot - test novel training methods designed to advance the skills and effectiveness of school resource officers in mediating school crimes and student violence and promoting a strong sense of community among students and school staff.

But in 2012, with advances in the availability, quality and usability of electronic devices, nearly 2 million K - 12 students are taking online courses, some 200,000 of them in full - time academic programs, according to the International Association for K - 12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

In it, we see which technologies may be used to advance personalized learning for millions of students across the globe, including virtual reality, robotics, makerspaces, online instruction and wearable tech.

Every year, however, millions of high school students — disproportionately from low - income and minority backgrounds — are denied access to such opportunities, whether it is because their schools lack the resources to offer such courses, because their teachers haven't recommended them for advanced coursework, because their test scores fall below a certain benchmark, or for some other reason (Mathews, 1998; Oakes et al., 2000; Schmidt et al., 2015; Solorzano & Ornealas, 2004; Tyson, 2013).

At the next tier down, schools where 60 to 80 % of students are proficient or advanced, housing prices aren't much lower: median sale prices vary from the high $ 600,000 s to over $ 1 million.

To what degree did the initial i3 program make progress toward those goals, and what can we learn from that experience to continue advancing innovation in public education for the benefit of the millions of students who rely on the public school system every day?

High schools serving predominately low - income students will be eligible for $ 200 million in grants to support increasing the number of Advanced Placement courses and «A-G courses,» the sequence of 15 college preparation courses that UC and CSU require for admission.

Forty - two states will receive their share of more than $ 28.8 million in federal funding to cover a portion of the fees charged to low - income students for taking advanced placement (AP) tests.

In the Legislature, Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs were again funded — $ 2 million for each of the next two years — to cover tests high school students take and training for teachers.

In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.

Tent and trailer - based medical platforms worth approximately 1.5 million dollars have been accumulated to support the faculty, staff, and senior veterinary medical student members of the team in performing our missions, as have faculty members with a variety of specialties and advanced training.

2015 Dec. 17 — Tom Loughman Appointed 11th Director and C.E.O. of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Nov. 23 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Welcomes Seven New Appointees to Board of Trustees Nov. 18 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Appoints Henry R. Martin 30th President of the Board of Trustees Nov. 17 — Susan L. Talbott Appointed to Rank of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by French Minister of Culture UPDATED Oct. 16 — «Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls» Opens Oct. 17 at Wadsworth Atheneum Sept. 21 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's MATRIX 173 Features Artist Mark Dion Aug. 31 — Unveiling of Galleries Marks Completion of Major Renovation, Secures Future for Wadsworth Atheneum Aug. 26 — Commissioned Artwork by Jack Pierson Illuminates Hartford's Main Street at Wadsworth Atheneum Aug. 24 — Wadsworth Atheneum to Present First Exhibition to Pair the Work of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe July 1 — Wadsworth Atheneum Celebrates Grand Reopening with Original Artwork by Artist James Welling June 30 — Wadsworth Atheneum Celebrates Grand Reopening with Original Artwork by Artist James Welling June 23 — Director's Choice Exhibition Examines Contemporary Portraiture in Photography at Wadsworth Atheneum June 23 — Exhibition Exploring Connecticut Artist's Influence on 20th Century Art Opens July 3 June 1 — Advance Exhibition Schedule 2015 — 2016 May 18 — «Mark Bradford / MATRIX 172» Opens June 4 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art April 16 — Student Artworks Take Center Stage at the 42nd Hartford Youth Art Renaissance UPDATED March 23 — 34th Annual Fine Art & Flowers Takes Place May 1 — 3 at Wadsworth Atheneum Jan. 21 — «Michael C. McMillen / MATRIX 171: SIDESHOW» Opens Jan. 31 at Wadsworth Atheneum Jan. 21 — New Galleries of Post-War and Contemporary Art to be Unveiled at Wadsworth Atheneum Jan. 13 — Wadsworth Atheneum's Board of Trustees Steps Up to Support Museum with $ 1.5 Million