Sentences with phrase «more effective education»

Through these revolutionary steps, teenagers get a more effective education on the techniques and responsibilities of driving a car.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents an opportunity to create more effective education policies by ensuring that parents, educators, and other leaders are all at the table to develop state and local policies and practices.

By creating course material based around the factors that keep your learners motivated, you help increase interest and retention for a more effective education.

Yet at these schools and others across the United States, including students with special learning needs in general education classes resulted in a more effective education for all.

I supported the adoption of the Standards as Commissioner of Education in New York State because I believed — and continue to believe — that they represent a major step towards a more effective education for our students, many of whom have hitherto been subject to unpredictable and often under - demanding learning expectations.

The answer is that we can't — not even with more effective education schools or elaborate merit pay programs or by ruthlessly dismissing ineffective teachers.

Reform is about creating a more efficient, more effective education system that meets the needs of children.

Not exact matches

It will continue working with First Nations to develop stronger, more effective, and more accountable on - reserve education systems.

It's hard to develop effective investor education campaigns in the context of misleading titles and regulations that make no sense, but we'll just have to get more creative in thinking about how to do that.

When threatened, though, fundies can become more vocal, so maybe in that sense its seems a reaction, but if you want to rid a world of fundamentalists, increasing education, safety, health and finances is the most effective, it seems.

Perhaps higher education would cost less and be more effective if we stopped wasting money on non-essential junk like this... on every side of the socio - political spectrum.

The Jewish opposition to the Christian character of public education became more effective.

The world of television, athletics, apathetic parents, and dragged - screaming - and - kicking kids pretty well eliminated for all but the few the more effective hours - long Wednesday (or whenever) times of religious education.

Students should provide perspective in their essays on who should receive sex education, what sex education should include, what would make it more inclusive and effective, why sex education is important, what they did and did not learn in their previous sex education class, what they wish they had learned, and how sex education can be taught more effectively in schools.

If you're looking for more strategic level input, our half - day mini-conferences / leadership seminars for up to 50 leaders and members of staff (drawn from schools and education departments across a local authority) offer a targeted, cost - effective solution.

Where child conduct is an issue, fathers can be as effective change agents within families as mothers; delivering a parent education programme to both mother and father is more effective than delivering it to just one parent; and each individual parent's sensitivity towards their child (and their child's attachment to them) is enhanced when both parents are included in the intervention (O'Brien 2004).

Let's invest our time in something simpler, more effective, child - centered, and founded on what we know to be best practice for early years education.

Likewise, incorporating an ongoing postnatal support package increased the information and resources available to the new parents over time and were consistent with Hannula et al.'s review (Hannula et al., 2008) that found intervention packages using various methods of education and support were more effective for breastfeeding support than interventions concentrating on a single method.

They have found that abstinence - only education does not have different long - term outcomes than more comprehensive sex ed and that comprehensive programs teaching safe sex and abstinence together are effective.

As we learn more about the mechanisms for these impacts, both direct and indirect, research will demonstrate the most effective approach to link home visiting services and early childhood education and child care programs to more fully realize positive outcomes.

As an elder doula and childbirth educator in her community, she has seen how an education with CBI lays the foundation for being a more effective birth professional.

Studies designed to test the effectiveness of intervention in the extension of breastfeeding to six months have concluded that prenatal education on breastfeeding is not enough to extend the duration, and that intervention during both prenatal and postnatal periods might be more effective [16].

Resort to more than one method of education and support in the present study (booklets + oral counselling) has proved more effective than choosing one (oral counselling) to improve mothers» knowledge, and consequently, continue to exclusively breastfeed until the age of 6 months.

Evidence is emerging that the combination of law reform and public education is more effective than either strategy alone in changing parental attitudes and behaviours.54

While both strategies were effective, postnatal support was marginally more effective than antenatal education in improving breastfeeding practice.

Published in the April 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association the study found parent training was more effective in reducing disruptive and aggressive behavior than 24 weeks of parent education.

Even more perversely, the money being earmarked toward rehabilitation and diversion programs has started to spawn less than effective private entities to take that money (much in the same way the huge infusion of money into higher education caused questionable institutions to pop into existence to consume that surplus).

In the longer term well targeted spending on health, education and infrastructure will have long terms economic benefits in terms of productivity which will make existing businesses more effective and attract new investment.

There is no quick technical fix that will protect victims — the most effective approaches use education, responsible parenting and more resources for enforcing the law.»

We must redesign and develop more effective voter education strategies and platforms while we continue to work with other stakeholders to galvanize voters to come out and vote for candidates of their choice on Election Day.

The Education Select Committee recently concluded that there is no basis for telling whether free schools are more or less effective than other similar schools.

More effective regulation of academies and free schools and better local coordination of education must be at the heart of political parties» manifesto commitments ahead of the General Election.

READ MORE: Ban harmful cultural practices that undermine women's rights — WiLDAF The United Nation (UN) said, the idea behind this year's theme, «is to consider how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and number 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning».

«Well beyond the remarkable leadership he's provided on education, Robert has been an effective fighter for tenants» rights and more affordable housing, fair wages and job training, and for equality and basic justice for all.

This week development secretary Andrew Mitchell proposed focusing DFID's work on fragile states, girls» education and on making UK aid more effective.

With record youth unemployment feeding fears of a «lost generation» and high profile protests around cuts to education, rising fees and the cutting of EMA, finding effective mechanisms to elevate young people's voice in the political process is becoming ever more pressing.

More than 95 percent of teachers in New York state were rated effective or highly effective, according to the New York State Education Department.

Virtually all education specialists agree that mayoral control has proved to be a more effective way to run the schools in New York City.

(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening study of the City's teacher rating data, published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.

Cuomo said he wanted to focus his second term on continued efforts to revitalize upstate New York, overhaul public education and make government fairer and more effective.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Brownell studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.

A study in the BMJ in 2012 found that having a professional therapist teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to an entire class was no more effective than having the teacher give their usual personal social and health education classes, in terms of the effect on pupils» well - being.

For example, having someone come in to teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to a class is no more effective than having a teacher give the usual social and health education classes, in terms of pupils» well - being.

The latter requires public awareness and education, more effective law enforcement, and also more studies as to why people kill orangutans in the first place.»

The study demonstrates that effective nutrition education programs, like those supported by the Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program, or SNAP - Ed, can impact SNAP participants» willingness to try, buy and eat more healteducation programs, like those supported by the Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program, or SNAP - Ed, can impact SNAP participants» willingness to try, buy and eat more healtEducation and Obesity Prevention Grant Program, or SNAP - Ed, can impact SNAP participants» willingness to try, buy and eat more healthy foods.

These paths for further research would benefit public policies aimed at increasing the awareness of food waste, and would contribute to more effective nutritional education initiatives since messages could be framed based on insights tested in scientific studies.

«Even though I do think yoga is, in general, incredibly beneficial, I also think there needs to be a whole lot more education about how to use yoga specifically to treat survivors of trauma in order to be the most effective and helpful,» said Leslie Roach, a certified yoga instructor and massage therapist who co-authored the study.

«While for - profit colleges may be a good solution for some people, they are expensive, and our study indicates that there are other, more cost - effective education options that are perceived similarly by employers.»

Dr. Romy Quijano, a medical doctor who heads the Philippine Action Network, also believes that the sensible approach to preventing vitamin A deficiency is to see that the vulnerable sectors of the population are empowered enough to access natural sources of vitamin A. «Effective nutrition education is much better than adding yet another source of vitamin A which most likely will not be equitably distributed anyway; improving livelihood; providing better health care system; addressing malnutrition, communicable diseases and other illnesses that make children more vulnerable to vitamin A deficiency.