Sentences with phrase «new educational efforts»

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

Meanwhile, new educational efforts were launched to respond to behavioral issues like cyberbullying, sexting, and revenge porn.

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We all need encouragement to exercise a new vision of the public good, and to join with others in sacrificial efforts to achieve that good in concrete ways, ranging from providing housing for the homeless to parks for everyone and enriched educational environments for disadvantaged children.

If it is a correct answer, it implies that we must support such organized efforts as that of the APPE4 to deflect current educational momentum into other channels than a mere reshifting of the same materials and approaches, putting forward of dead models as new panaceas, or the temptation to begin with precise discipline where in fact learning should start in a different way.

New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty, class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.

We also encourage each woman and partner to take advantage of the many classes and support groups we recommend — from prenatal yoga, yoga for labor workshop, and postpartum mommy and me yoga classes, positive birth story pregnancy circles, community new mother blessing ceremonies, annual family reunion, postpartum mom circles, pregnancy retreats and a variety of other educational, supportive, and fun events, classes, and ways to connect with other likeminded people and build community — in an effort to bring back the needed village it takes to raise a new baby, and new parents.

The Board of Regents will continue its efforts to foster educational equity for all New York schools and children.»

Kaduna State government has named new heads for two of its tertiary institutions in the state in an effort to reposition its educational sector.

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

Board Member Larry Quinn was very vocal that old ways will not work, citing Google's efforts to create a new educational environment, like the Manhattan complex toured by district administrators last year.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose $ 11.5 million for afterschool programs, job training and other educational efforts in a bid to stem gang violence.

The Erie County Clerk's Office worked closely with Judge Paula Feroleto, Administrative Judge for New York's 8th Judicial District, on this project and has partnered in numerous educational outreach efforts for local attorney's to prepare them to the transition to electronic filing.

It is imperative that we as a city elevate this educational effort as a priority, in robust partnership with healthcare providers and professionals, combined with the full resources and commitment of the entire City of New York.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

Evaluation of these new efforts will tell us whether a combined sequence of academic and CTE courses can benefit students not only in career academies but also in other educational settings.

Both the campaign and ongoing communication will continue to acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the education of children, while demonstrating MTA's unique points of difference, including 220 - local staff, in - house customer service team and the largest educational resource field force — who visit schools and early childhood centres across Australia and New Zealand every day.

A new effort, Project for Policy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communities.

As part of a new faculty research effort called Research Schools, Professor Kurt Fischer hopes to bridge the gap between research and practice, and build a new foundation for promoting strong, useful educational research.

students who wish to build and operate new schools will have a richer tool set for designing highly effective educational environments and will able to take advantage of the best techniques that are being developed in the field.rough all of these efforts, I'm confident that the Ed.L.D.

I conclude that educational progress is real, but stalled, and that we may need new and sustained policy efforts to resume the gains we saw in the 1990s and 2000s.

This appears to be the result of a whirlwind of creative efforts, including expanding educational options for teenagers via the creation of hundreds of brand - new high schools.

The new standards, published in the June 7 Federal Register, are part of an ongoing effort to revamp the office of educational research and improvement, the department's major research arm, and to improve the quality of the research that it finances.

Investment in educational hardware and software, while «a major component in educational restructuring and reform initiatives,» has not been matched by coordinated efforts to train teachers to use the equipment effectively, a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board concludes.

With a new generation of reform - minded philanthropists targeting high - profile efforts that will influence educational politics and policy, the time is ripe for a project that targets methodological advances and improvements for cost modeling strategies.

Employers want to know if you have actually taken the time and made an effort to learn as much as possible about new and emerging eLearning Authoring Tools, educational technologies, Learning Management Systems, etc..

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

A state guided, bipartisan effort to save Camden, New Jersey, from educational failure is slowly seeing signs of progress.

Since we implemented Clever, we've seen a decrease in the level of effort to implement new educational applications, allowing teachers greater access to educational tools in their classroom.

The new ESEA, or No Child Left Behind law, exposed grossly unequal educational outcomes and motivated a range of efforts across the country to address the low performance of low - income children and children of color.

Yes, I think the state is lagging in educational reform efforts and needs to be studying what other states have done and try new approaches to improve student performance.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

FOSTERING NEW COMMUNITY - DESIGNED SCHOOLS: Our School Design Lab supports efforts across Oakland to grow innovative and proven educational models and cultivate transformative leaders for our community schools.

City - based education organizations, or «harbormasters» and others who coordinate efforts to improve education within a city to incubate new school models; work to attract talented entrepreneurs to develop break - the - mold innovations; and build an infrastructure of charter school supports that allow operators to focus more energy spent on innovative educational approaches, not operations.

Despite intense funding, facilities and authorizing challenges faced by charter schools, heroic efforts are being made by charter leaders, teachers and staff to expand, replicate and open new schools to meet the unrelenting parent demand for better educational options for their children.

In the Memphis Daily News, New Leaders» Regional Executive Director Carol Johnson weighs in on a new effort to evaluate the educational impact of after - school and summer programming in MemphNew Leaders» Regional Executive Director Carol Johnson weighs in on a new effort to evaluate the educational impact of after - school and summer programming in Memphnew effort to evaluate the educational impact of after - school and summer programming in Memphis.

Therefore educators and policy makers in the Arab world should communicate these concepts pragmatically as well as theoretically, starting with formulating a new vision for education in the Arab World, a deep and continuous revision of their curriculums, setting standards for equal chances in professional development, and making serious efforts in creating an educational philosophy not only for gender equity, but rather for human justice.

August 18, 2016 - In an effort to combat the educational achievement gap in West Virginia — where new data shows 70 percent of students are not proficient in math and half of kids are not proficient in reading — an innovative early childhood education program is now doubling in size.

November 2011: A Gates Foundation grant to the New Venture Fund — «to support efforts to better engage and mobilize public support for educational policy and advocacy goals, especially around common core standards and effective teaching reforms within and among the faith community and faith leaders.»

In response to Polis» ringing endorsement of the failed policies of the education reform industry, Michelle Rhee, the Patron Saint of the effort to privatize public education said, «I am honored to stand with the New Democrats as we seek to build a better educational system for America's children.»

But the new student attendance policy coupled with the fact that the virtual charter schools» contracts don't require students to be actively working online for a minimum amount of time would suggest that there is great potential for «gaming the system» by those who want to invest minimal effort in order to progress through the state's public educational system.

Grounded in a research - based, time - tested curriculum model and fueled by a visionary commitment to early learning and robust family engagement, Elm City Montessori School is on the leading edge of New Haven's efforts to provide a portfolio of exemplary educational options designed to ensure that all New Haven students complete high school equipped with 21st Century skills and ready to lead successful lives.

This is the guiding question behind XQ: The Super School Project — a new educational reform effort backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, who recently committed $ 50 million to the endeavor.

This allows us to target our philanthropic efforts toward growing new schools and regions while also ensuring that our educational models for our existing children and communities are not at risk of waning philanthropic support over the long - term.

This district public school, which is located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, has historically struggled to engage parents in its educational efforts, and welcomed Family Playlists as a potentially effective tool to do so.

The variation in union strength identified in recent literature, the new policy experiments occurring in states across the country, and the sheer availability of large administrative datasets that link individual students to teachers in school across the country now allow a new field of highly focused questions that link educational outcomes to rules, regulations and conditions directly attributable to union efforts.

Efforts to foster collaboration between district and charter schools — traditional rivals for scarce educational resources — are showing some promise, but challenges remain in forging effective partnerships, according to a new study released today by Mathematica Policy Research.

Texas should be applauded for its tireless efforts to develop new policies that will increase educational effectiveness and to set high achievement goals for its students.

«We look forward to supporting the new Administration's efforts to provide parents with the ability to determine the educational environment where they believe their children will have the greatest opportunity to succeed.»

Now, the new teacher evaluation system that is being introduced by the State, the City, and the Talent Management Pilot Program, does not take into consideration the time and effort our community has invested in establishing high quality educational programs and student achievement.