Sentences with phrase «national educators last»

A group of LA Unified students joined local and national educators last week to describe academic challenges they face and to suggest ideas for what could help them.

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The Common Core Implementation Panel, which he first proposed during his State of the State address last month, includes both national experts as well as state legislators, parents, educators, and business and community leaders.

But last week campaign officials asked the veteran teacher and longtime Republican activist to move into the limelight, naming her one of 14 co-chairs of National Educators for Romney.

An active partnership between families and schools plays an essential role in encouraging children to read, according to the educators, librarians, and parents who gathered last week for a national symposium entitled «Reading and Successful Living: The Family - School Partnership.»

A group of mostly retired educators last week announced a national effort to keep more new teachers from leaving the profession.

Washington — The National Institute of Education ought to devote a greater percentage of its dollars to efforts to define a common core of knowledge for American students, a panel of nine prominent educators told Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week.

Over the last five years, RIMA has marshaled local and national philanthropy; recruited school operators and educators into Rhode Island; provided staff support for facilities identification, finance, and development; formed and advocated for improved education policies at both the state and local levels; and served as a «help center» for questions about state laws, regulations, practices, and culture.

Arguing that academic standards for students will mean little unless educators are adequately prepared, the National Staff Development Council last week released a set of standards for effective professional development.

The report is by the Bradley Project on America's National Identity, a group of scholars, educators, and others that has studied key areas of the nation's civic life over the last two years.

In interviews last week, educators for the most part gave the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» high marks for continuing the focus on national standards begun at the 1989 education summit between President Bush and the nation's governors.

Teacher - educators soundly rejected a proposal last week to make national accreditation a prerequisite for membership in the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

The hearings, which are being held by the National Commission on Excellence in Teacher Education — a group of teacher educators, legislators, teachers, and school administrators established last March by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education — began last month in St. Paul.

As more than 5,000 educators gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., last month for the annual conference of the National Association for Bilingual Education, the prospects for their primary cause — instruction in a child's native language — looked as bright as they have at any time in recent years.

Cambridge, Mass — The elimination by the Reagan Administration last year of the $ 6 - million federal program for the gifted and talented, along with the reluctance of state legislators to appropriate funds for such programs, may hamper schools» commitment to providing special programs for gifted students, several researchers and educators told the National Commission on Excellence in Education last week.

The trend over the last five to eight years, says Vick Flanary with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, has seen educators enter principalships with fewer years of experience than what has traditionally been expected.

Chicago — Members of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, meeting here last week, outlined plans to form a subsidiary corporation to develop and market computer software for sale to educators and parents of handicapped children.

About 400 educators, human - services professionals, and officials of religious organizations gathered at the 10th annual «working with families conference» late last month to plan strategies to grab national attention for problems in their rural communities.

These issues were a recurring motif late last month at the 66th annual convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (nassp), attended by more than 8,000 educators from across the country.

But after more than three years of national reports and public soul - searching, educators said last week, services for these youngsters have barely begun to mirror the magnitude of the problem.

In the paper, which was published last week by the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research, researcher Chrys Dougherty contends that educators can draw on longitudinal data on students to determine how far off the college - and - career track their students are when they enter...

«Effective educators can have a significant and lasting impact on students» educational success, and we hope this partnership with the National Board will help to improve literacy rates among nearly 30,000 Mississippi children.»

That's one of the reasons why a group of restorative justice advocates and educators met last summer to begin outlining plans for a national association, according to Evans.

A seasoned leader skilled in building long - lasting relationships with educators at all levels, Coni Rechner serves as Discovery Education's Senior Vice President of National Partnerships.

Educators in Detroit's public school system face a tough reality: Detroit Public School students are last in the nation among urban students proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and fifty - seven percent of Detroit children under the age of 17 live in poverty.

The Standards Committee is powered by a partnership between Educators Rising and the National Education Association (NEA), which last month announced a $ 250,000 grant award to be used specifically for the development of Educators Rising Standards.

Last weekend I attended the first national convening of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice, and I am still trying to process my thoughts!

When Edwards defeated scandal - plagued Republican David Vitter in last fall's governor's contest, the Louisiana's teachers» unions rejoiced: «It's not every day that education can say we have a champion in the governor's mansion, but today we certainly do,» Debbie Meaux, president of the Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE), said in February at an event co-hosted by LAE and the National Education Association (NEA).

By Amy Buffenbarger The National Education Association hosted a National Summit on Family, School, and Community Engagement last week in Alexandria, Va where educators, education leaders, parents, family and community activists, business leaders and representatives of the faith community met...

The National Education Association hosted a National Summit on Family, School, and Community Engagement last week in Alexandria, Va where educators, education leaders, parents, family and community activists, business leaders and representatives of the faith community met for two days of small group and panel discussions.

When Hillary Clinton addressed the delegates at the National Education Association Representative Assembly last July she told them, «And if I'm fortunate enough to be elected president, educators will have a partner in the White House — and you'll always have a seat at the table.»

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For the last 8 years she has worked as a trainer supporting early childhood educators and teams in their professional learning as they navigate their way through the all aspects of the National Quality Framework and the subsequent changes to practice.