Sentences with phrase «national consortium»

Contemporary Visual Arts Network is an independent national consortium of artists, arts professionals and arts organisations in England dedicated to working together to find new ways to strengthen the visual arts and to support the arts more broadly.
With Pence's support, it becomes more likely Indiana will become the first to leave the Common Core initiative, though many others have taken a step back from national consortiums designing new tests aligned to the standards.
The six - city national consortium is focused on building 21st - century systems featuring whole - child personalized learning, integrated health and social services, expanded enrichment opportunities, and other interventions to ensure child well - being and educational success.
So what about Smarter Balanced, the other national consortium designing a Common Core - aligned assessment?
We are part of a growing national consortium that includes networks in North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana as well as partner schools and orgnaizations around the country and around the world.
The CMAIE builds on decades of basic and applied research by Dr. Scripp and his colleagues, and the past record of establishing innovative Music PLUS Music Integration curricular practices and national consortium of music and arts based «learning laboratory» school networks.
Calling PARCC «a primary entry point for federal involvement in many of these state and local decisions,» Florida Governor Rick Scott signaled his intent Monday to withdraw from one of two national consortia designing Common Core - aligned tests.
The news should come as no surprise to anyone watching movement in the two national consortia developing new standardized tests.
Through the Clinical and Translational Science Award program (CTSA), the National Institutes of Health has created a national consortium that already includes 39 centers in 23 states with an annual funding commitment of $ 500 million by 2012.
Two years ago, the UTA Research Institute was named to a national consortium charged with integrating UAVs into general airspace.
UC San Diego School of Medicine receives an $ 18 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a national consortium for testing promising drugs for Alzheimer's disease.
Collectively, these awardees will establish a national consortium to develop, implement, and evaluate approaches to encourage individuals to start and stay in biomedical research careers.
UNC clinical geneticists are part of a national consortium of researchers studying the ins and outs of genome sequencing for newborn health screenings and beyond.
The Leadership Alliance is a national consortium of more than 30 leading research and teaching colleges, universities, and private industry.
Bionic Vision Australia is a national consortium of researchers working together to develop a bionic eye to restore vision to people with retinitis pigmentosa and age - related macular degeneration.
«We really want these technologies to help wounded warriors return to service or pursue a meaningful post-combat life,» said Tuan, who co-directs the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a national consortium focused on developing regenerative therapies for injured soldiers.
The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, part of the NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), supports a national consortium of more than 60 medical research institutions in 31 states.
This international designation was initiated recently because of international interest in what was initially a national consortium and a national exam.
[7] The department also paid for national consortia to develop national tests aligned with the national curriculum — content standards.
White said he has no choice but to continue as planned with the national consortium's test.
The department also paid for national consortia to develop national tests aligned with the national curriculum — content standards.
(R.I.) Rhode Island will become the latest in a growing list of states to drop its national consortium designed assessment in favor of using a college - readiness exam to meet federal accountability requirements, education officials announced last week.
There are two national consortia, PARCC included, that are set to roll out Common Core - aligned tests.
Indiana plans to withdraw from PARCC, one of two national consortia designing standardized tests to align to the Common Core.
Apart from the national consortia, there are individual state efforts as well as outside companies writing tests in hopes of profiting from the switch to new standards.
By contrast, while Pence hasn't advocated for exiting the initiative, he did pull the state out of a national consortium designing new standardized tests.
New exams from the two national consortia will, but Common Core opponents are especially wary of the federally - funded assessments.
Further doubt was cast Tuesday on California's ability to meet a mandated August 2 deadline for adopting new common core academic standards in math and English language arts developed through a national consortium.
Partnering with other states that have left the national consortia designing new tests would certainly be more cost effective than Indiana designing its own exam.
He served as the first Research Director for the Minority Students Achievement Network (a national consortium of school districts working to address the racial disparities in students» outcomes), working with district leaders to study patterns of racial inequality in their schools and enact practices to reduce such inequalities.
• The other half of a teacher's evaluation would be based on standards developed by a national consortium of educators.
The common assessments would be developed by two national consortia to test the CCSS as written.
But they do so at their own peril, as common assessments being developed by two national consortia test the Common Core as it's written.»
Some lawmakers say the test takes away control from local curriculum because it's being developed by a national consortium.
Nearly all Common Core adopters were in at least one of two national consortia that would be creating new exams to accompany the standards, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and Partnership for College and Career Readiness, known as PARCC.
Open Engagement has convened a national consortium of institutions and organizations dedicated to supporting socially engaged art.
The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
Dr. Dahlberg is Founder and Director of the STARS Alliance (2005, later renamed the STARS Computing Corps) a national consortium of diverse colleges and universities with a mission to develop technology leaders and broaden participation through student - led regional engagement.
The organizations agreed to pool some money from their MacArthur grants to form a national consortium of artists» communities, with the mission to «cooperate to improve the environment in which we support the creative process.»
One of the biggest changes to the structure of Open Engagement is the national consortium of partner institutions and organizations dedicated to supporting socially engaged art.
He served as executive director of a national consortium of leading solar manufacturers and worked for five years at Solaria, a solar company in Silicon Valley.
He is also on the Plaintiffs» Executive Committee for the BARD IVC Filter MDL and is a member of the Leadership Committee of The Iraq War Fund, a national consortium of attorneys suing under the Anti-Terrorism Act on behalf of veterans and their families.
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