Sentences with phrase «more about improving the education»

I suspect Alicia Rucker, that single mother of six who sent her oldest child to (and through) Georgetown, knows more about improving the education of minority children than all the Educrats in D.C. combined.

Learn more about improving education by engaging stakeholders in Commitment and Common Sense: Leading Education Reform in Massachusetts.

Not exact matches

In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministry.

The goals of these meetings are to help improve CAC's grower outreach and education efforts and to learn more about the issues growers are struggling with to better inform CAC's production research program.

After a couple of examples, I'd hoped for a more general education about where and how to look for areas to improve in my own school (again, as I said, I do realize that may have been expecting too much of the book!).

Recent qualitative and quantitative studies have confirmed MomsTEAM's longstanding belief that, more than education about concussion signs and symptoms, it is changing the negative attitude of too many coaches towards reporting and creating a safe concussion - reporting environment that may be the best ways to improve the low rates of self - reporting found in study after study.

The workers are calling for five specific changes they plan to present to the school board during a Wednesday meeting: soliciting input from lunchroom staff to help improve school food, offering more training and education for lunchroom workers, adding collective bargaining language that protects workers» right to talk about the food to parents and kids, building working kitchens in all new schools, and ceasing the replacement of fresh food with frozen and reheated fare.

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

He makes a point of noting that he wants to improve education — without the Common Core — and urges listeners to check out his campaign website to learn more about that, as well as his economic development proposals and his support for term limits.

«Legislators are going to have to weigh which they value more: advice from hedge fund billionaires that come with checks or the concerns of students, parents and teachers about what's needed to truly improve public education.»

«More recent evidence tells us a great deal about what works in early education and how early education might be improved.

In addition her Therapeutic Touch & Play class, Stephanie provides nutrition education for all ages, including fermented food classes / workshops & guided grocery store tours for those wanting to learn more about how to improve their own health in a natural & cost - effective way!

Translating more of our content into Spanish and other languages is on our long to - do list of ways to improve the site for those, like you, who are passionate about transforming pre-K-12 education.

Following the official launch of the Micro: bit Educational Foundation, Education Business caught up with CEO Zach Shelby to find out more about how it plans to build on the BBC's work to break down barriers to technology and enable young people to improve their digital skills.

Edutopia magazine launches, helping the Foundation reach even more people who are passionate about improving education.

«The absence work combined with this work has served to highlight that improving education outcomes is not just about spending more money,» Muralidharan says.

As Dean James Ryan recently wrote in Education Week, «Boredom ought to be considered much more seriously when thinking about ways to improve student outcomes.

This revolution in new knowledge about the developing brain and human genome, linked to advances in the behavioral and social sciences, offers new opportunities for more effective strategies to improve outcomes in education, economic development, health, and social welfare.

Roy Ballam, Managing Director and Head of Education at the British Nutrition Foundation, said: «From young children, to high - flying professionals, BNF Healthy Eating Week provides people of all ages with a fantastic opportunity to learn more about healthy eating, and the small daily changes we can all make to improve our health and wellbeing.

Bringing his rich experience of 7 years with Moodle, he is passionate about improving Indian education system by using open source tools like Moodle more effectively.

Following a spirited debate about federal spending priorities in education, the House education committee approved a bill last week that would authorize new money to help districts improve school facilities, including making them more environmentally friendly.

Thus they can create some thought provoking articles which can guide more and more people about ways through which education can be made more better.Even pupils can be asked to give new ideas through which teaching can be improved.

States are working with government, business and education leaders to strengthen career education, create pathways to economic success, and to expand and improve career pathways for all high school students.Learn more about Rhode Island and Tennessee's career readiness programs in our States Leading blog.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

To learn more about how the six principles guide our work, check out Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better (and read Harvard Education Review's comprehensive summary of the book).

I'm more convinced than ever that we can't improve U.S. education until we figure out how to talk and write clearly about it.

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL Education Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.&raquEducation Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.&raqueducation to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.»»

Proficiency rates on standardized tests, as NCLB showed, often revealed more about the makeup of a school's student body than what the school was doing to improve their education.

The impending closure of the Manual Education Complex in Denver is sparking a conversation about what can be learned from the experience at a time when the nation has pinned high hopes on improving secondary schools by turning them into smaller, more personalized environments.

STANFORD — Education researchers William G. Howell of the University of Chicago and Martin R. West of Brown University have released newly compiled evidence from the 2008 Education Next / PEPG survey which shows that if the public is given accurate information about what is currently being spent on public schools, their support for increased spending and confidence that more spending will improve student learning both decline.

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

If New York is serious about improving public education for all students, particularly for our most at - risk children, then we should be enabling charters to teach more students with disabilities and ELLs.

In this, the last in a series of free discussions about key education issues, our panel will address which arrangements best support innovation in education and whether the focus should be on saying which schools and colleges are effective or if we should concentrate more on helping every institution improve what it does for young people.

Though an exact definition is hard to pinpoint, it's no secret that «deeper learning,» «21st century skills,» «non-cognitive abilities,» and even the more controversial terms «soft skills» and «character education» are becoming fixtures within conversations about improving American schools.

Eric Garcetti's spokesman Jeff Millman emailed LA School Report this response to Greuel's speech: «Eric has been talking about these items for many months on the campaign trail and has also frequently discussed ideas for improving STEM education, improving career training for LA students, using city funds to build school / city joint - use facilities to make our schools the center of our communities, and being the strongest advocate for LA's students in Sacramento to fight for more funding for LAUSD schools.»

And those students with fewer caring relationships with adults are less likely to feel appreciated or welcome at school.22 When education leaders cultivate positive and inclusive learning environments, however, students are more likely to have a firm sense of belonging.23 This, in turn, improves their beliefs about their learning ability and enhances their classroom performance.24

The Committee has been an active participant with the Kentucky Department of Education and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for eachEducation and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for eacheducation leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for each student.

Curriculum has long been a third rail in U.S. education policy, dismissed by policymakers despite related, highly visible efforts to develop college - and career - ready standards, aligned assessments, Read more about Hiding in Plain Sight: Leveraging Curriculum to Improve Student Learning -LSB-...]

Sir Michael was also asked how universities could improve the quality of teacher training when there was such uncertainty about the future of teacher training in higher education — when the government has been shifting the emphasis towards more schools - based training.

Simply force - hiring more teachers isn't going to improve outcomes, and it will reinforce the «good money after bad» mantra about public education when the results of class size reduction aren't as significant as expected.

To glean more information about whether schools are improving, you might also look at the grades that Education Week, with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, hands out this year.

Learn more about ACT solutions that you can leverage toward improving Education and Career Navigation:

Free Webinar from All4Ed: Building on the Common Core State Standards to Improve Learning for English Language Learners Please join the Alliance for Excellent Education on Tuesday, February 26, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ET), for a webinar on how the transition to Common Core State Standards and Next - Generation Science Standards presents both opportunities Read more about Webinar: How can Common Core help ELL's?

If the goal of the Occupy movement is to improve social mobility, then there is «no better example of how the system is rigged against millions of Americans than the education our children receive... today zip codes remain Read more about Occupy... your school district?

Learn more about our beliefs, America's long history of unequal access to great schools, and what students are doing to improve education for their family and friends still in the K - 12 system.

While special education dollars (about $ 50 billion nationally) can do good things for students where placements are appropriate and service models are well thought out, state legislatures and departments of education need to understand that allowing districts to place more and more students into special education programs does not actually improve education outcomes, not even for the students placed therein.

The alliances are made up of stakeholders who share a specific educational concern and agree to work together to learn more about the concern so that they can make sound decisions to improve education outcomes.

Although some of my thoughts are a mere dream, most are already becoming a reality (if not a reality in many classrooms) and by the distributive nature of Education, I expect many trends to spread across the world like wildfire as they are proven successful and more research comes out about how they have improved student learning.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

You have been upfront about your belief that more choice will put pressure on schools to improve and adapt, in large part because of parents» demand for certain kinds of schools in an education marketplace.