Sentences with phrase «number of education funders»

Recently, any number of education funders, nonprofits, and associations have climbed aboard the personalized learning bandwagon — e.g., the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Gates Foundation, Digital Promise, AASA, and many others.

Prior to joining the foundation, she worked as an independent consultant to a number of education funders and ngos on projects including strategic planning and advising, monitoring and evaluation, grant - making support and due diligence, advocacy and policy change work, and grantee network facilitation and support.

Not exact matches

The curriculum will be developed in consultation with a number of prominent African American organizations and figures including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

And we consider the number of higher - education institutions in each state, as well as long - term trends for funding higher education.

There are a number of helpful investor education websites that provide useful information that should consider prior to selecting an investment representative or funds.

There are other organizations that contribute to this as well — too many to list but they include all the higher education institutions, a large number of startup hubs, funders, etc..

«Using the Indian government's own numbers, just 4 percent of Compassion's funds in India are used for moral and spiritual values education — values which transcend all religions,» said Oakley.

There are, of course, an indefinitely large number of other practices that are part of the common life of Christian congregations: pastoral care of the ill, the troubled, and the grieving; nurture and education of children and adults; management of property; raising of funds; maintenance of institutions; and so forth.

We are trying to post this funding opportunity on our website (CA dept of education), and will send out a message to our listserv, but can not do so without (1) a contact name and phone number and (2) the name of the administering agency.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

The stories run the gamut from simple press releases to heated op - eds on the pros and cons of any number of issues surrounding food in schools: nutritional value, funding, USDA guidelines, education, etc..

c) The «speakers» sound ridiculous because their message is empty: there is no credible strategy on offer as to how to fund the massively (and unnecessarily) increased numbers of students entering a dumbed - down higher education system.

Williams suggested a number of new taxes or fees targeting the state's wealthiest residents to generate an estimated $ 20 billion in new revenue to fund education, transportation, environmental remediation, public housing and health care.

Negotiations in Albany were also bogged down over how to divide increased education funding, the details of an affordable housing and development tax credit in New York City and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

The UK is risking billions of pounds in funding for the higher education sector following a crack - down on foreign student numbers, according to new research

The money raised by the Education Fund was then directed to Common Cause, Citizens Union and a number of other groups as part of a 2013 push for publicly funded elections, which many believe would help Senate Democrats» electoral odds.

In a statement, Cuomo's spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, «The governor's priority is providing education funding based on the number of students it helps, not growing the education bureaucracy to serve the demands of the special interests.

There are a number of areas where the state could step up its funding, Choi said, but as an example, he suggested an increase in adult literation education, noting that there's current about 3.5 million New Yorkers who don't have English proficiency or a GED.

This number has grown in recent years as successive governments have increased the influence of religious groups in the state - funded education system.

But the politicians who dole out money aren't particularly interested in funding mathematicians because that isn't going to win any appreciable number of votes - but wasteful spending will lose votes, as will cuts to welfare, nutrition programs, education, etc..

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

During his tenure, White expanded the number of NAACP branches, increased the membership to more than 500,000, and helped found the Legal Defense and Education Funds, which fought for social integration in the 1950s and 1960s.

New York negotiations also focused on how to divide increased education funding and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

«What's striking in these numbers is that a few dozen Wall Street financiers and billionaire hedge fund managers are able to far outspend more than 600,000 educators who believe in the promise of public education and voluntarily give a few bucks out of each paycheck to ensure they have a voice,» said Carl Korn, NYSUT's spokesman.

The exact amount that each educator will receive in Teacher's Choice funds for the coming school year will be determined by the Department of Education during the summer, once it has a clearer sense of the total number of eligible educators.

A new report released by the Center for Arts Education paints a grim picture for children, given Mayor Bloomberg's proposed cuts to arts funding in the schools and to the number of teaching positions in the arts.

We are working with Governments in a number of different countries; the hon. Gentleman mentioned Afghanistan, and we have contributed about # 60 million to the Afghanistan reconstruction trust fund specifically for education.

A number of active projects of the ETE were supported by a seed grant from the NSTB and further supplemented by a cost - sharing grant from the Academic Research Fund of the Ministry of Education.

An overall increase in the number of students in Higher Education without a commensurate increase in funding is placing another burden on PhD students which is making it difficult for them to get on with their research: An increasing teaching load is falling on them.

The research was supported by the Burroughs Welcome Fund, The Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology at TSRI, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (numbers R43 AI1088843, 2T32AI007244 and U54 AI057153), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Institutions are being assisted through the Research Councils and the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and I think you will find a healthy number of enterprise fellowships being advertised from this August, when the funds become available.

«Understanding the flow of sediment in rivers is important to the large number of people around the world who live near these waterways,» said Judy Skog, a program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Coastal SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability) program, which funded the research.

Government funding agencies will have examples of documentation they require, many venture capital companies have guidelines on business plans, and there are any number of Web sites devoted to business education that will help you out with such arcane documents as cash - flow summaries, Gantt charts, and the like.

Together with industry partners in the M — era.Net project BIOGRAPHY, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), they have developed a printing process which makes it possible to produce large numbers of graphene biosensors in a cost - effective roll - to - roll process.

Although the fashion education sector has already expanded significantly to meet demand, by creating courses and enlarging the number of places on them, non-private schools — which include many of the industry's most renowned institutions — remain constrained by funding limitations and government - dictated quotas.

In the past few weeks, SeekingArrangement.com has gained a lot of media attention and coverage primarily revolving around the large number of «college» Sugar Babies who use our website as a means to fund their college education...

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Subsequently, the EFA [Education Funding Agency] made a number of recommendations that were to be addressed within a robust action plan and the strategic plan created and implemented by the new Trust board.

(These numbers came from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Department of Education, and a 2016 joint report from the 21st Century School Fund, the National Council on School Facilities, and the Center for Green Schools.)

Supported by the BFI with Lottery funding, together with funding from the film industry and a number of other sources, Into Film incorporates the legacy and staff of two leading film education charities, FILMCLUB and First Light, building on their experience and success in delivering programmes of significant scale and reach to children and young people across the UK.

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

With the Commonwealth Government no longer controlling the maximum number of funded places in initial teacher education programs, there has been strong recent growth in the numbers of students enrolling in initial teacher education.

We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.

Avis Glaze, former superintendent of the Ontario education system, correctly observed that Canada does not have charter schools, but others mentioned that the large number of religious schools that are both government - funded and subject to state regulation give Canadians even more choice than exists in the United States.

In fact, this same caution applies to any number of advocates seeking standalone funding for a specific niche in the education system.

These «cyber» charters must now document their instructional minutes, and their per - pupil funding may be reduced if they offer less than the minimum number of student course minutes per year — a district - style regulation of the process of education without regard for outcomes.

Both of the major - party presidential candidates support increasing federal funding for special education and want to see strategies put in place to help reduce the number of students referred for such services, according to their answers to a questionnaire.

Education statistician John Howson criticised the pilot for limiting funding to EBacc subjects, claiming this will not address a number of other subjects also suffering from teacher shortages.

Program Links Hispanic Families to Education Resources The goal of the ENLACE Initiative, a project funded by the philanthropic W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to support Hispanic students» academic efforts and increase the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college.

The House bill, HR 7, would allow 80 percent of funds from the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to flow directly to local school districts using a formula that is based on a district's number of Chapter 1 students, number of handicapped students, and overall enrollment.