With the recent decision of the UW College of Education faculty to raise admissions standards for entrance into its educator preparation programs, UW's College
of Education educator candidates are now selected from among the top 50 % of the university's current student body.
Not exact matches
The market for
education software is crowded today, but D2L has kept ahead
of its competition by listening closely to
educators, experimenting constantly and having faith that the market will catch up to its ideas.
(PISA's willingness to accept only this limited sample is typical
of the gullibility and compliance
of many foreign NGOs, especially in
education, when dealing with China; I have seen numerous foreign
educators fall victim to obvious Potemkinism, including believing that Beijing No. 4 High School — the rough equivalent
of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.»)
Part
of the problem is
educators» adherence to traditional thinking, and schools» reliance on pedants rather than innovators to deliver entrepreneurship
education, Blank says.
Educators and other start - up founders who believe in the value
of education obviously disagree with this view.
She and the authors
of the report, «
Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role
of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers,
educators, and students are getting what they need out
of the system.
A Brainstorm TECH task force
of leading
educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and investors will present their recommendations for addressing the persistent gap between the digital innovations in K — 12
education and what's actually available to the vast majority
of children.
In fact, it's taxing the nation's future entrepreneurs,
educators, and scientists, who are increasingly focused on societal benefits but can't afford to pay for their
education out
of pocket.
Educators in Phoenix and Denver rallied for more
education funding at their state capitols on April 26, as part
of a wave
of teacher protests that have...
«For anyone overdue on payments, the reality is... life has probably happened,» said Adam Carroll, Chief
Education Officer at National Financial
Educators and the creator
of the student loan debt documentary Broke, Busted & Disgusted.
Its world - class
educators work in partnership with engineers and designers to build and test an
education technology platform within AltSchool's network
of lab schools.
These pay disparities between pre-k and K - 12
educators are a national constraint on increasing the quality and capacity
of early - childhood
education.
Max Carnecchia is the Chief Executive Officer
of Illuminate
Education, which creates cloud delivered tools for
educators that promote student success.
Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea
of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and
education funding, building on
educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.
Previously she led a team
of representatives to maximize the digital strategy
of McGraw Hill
Education in Southern California and also worked with
educators in selecting course materials through her work at Pearson
Education.
In 2004, it was recognized as the top environmental
education organization in North America, for its innovative year - round programs and educational resources, by the Washington - based North American Association for Environmental Education, the world's largest association of environmental e
education organization in North America, for its innovative year - round programs and educational resources, by the Washington - based North American Association for Environmental
Education, the world's largest association of environmental e
Education, the world's largest association
of environmental
educators.
The Bank is committed to supporting economics
educators and students and we have been developing a suite
of education resources and learning experiences.
Joint Base Lewis - McChord's Stone
Education Center hosted the Council of Military Educators of Washington State's annual conference on Monday; which included panels of military education counselors and active duty and veterans who have completed or currently working towards collegiate
Education Center hosted the Council
of Military
Educators of Washington State's annual conference on Monday; which included panels
of military
education counselors and active duty and veterans who have completed or currently working towards collegiate
education counselors and active duty and veterans who have completed or currently working towards collegiate degrees.
Also, greater flexibility in the use
of Title V «Well - Rounded» funds would allow state and local
educators to better support entrepreneurship
education.
As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses,
educators, students and industry groups become more aware
of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels
of government and regulation, a groundswell
of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding
education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.
I am sorry to vent and in no way taking away from what abused women go through, but looking back, in the name
of keeping peace and wanting to do a good job as an
educator, I realize now, I have been bullied, mistreated and yes, even abused by the higher ups, while the level
of educational quality and my joy
of teaching have been robbed by all the PC guidelines that now rule
education.
Bad school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker and
educator of the year for 2009.
An «untutored» conception
of neutrality has led
educators to conflate secular
education with religiously neutral
education.
Such a view
of the intellectual life is quite at odds with one dominant nowadays among
educators or theorists
of education.
After considering various criteria for what it means to be an «educated person» and encountering formidable counter-examples at every turn, they abandon the search altogether and ask us to concentrate instead on the common usage
of the term «
education» among professional
educators like themselves.
The ultimate safeguard for the integrity and freedom
of education is in the conscientious assumption
of responsibility by professional
educators.
Because they are written by
educators, they inevitably give us a model
of theological
education whereby an agenda is presupposed, advocated and imposed on future congregations.
The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track
of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later
educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister
of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.
Of course, a liberal arts approach to
education underpinned by such a grand narrative is not the only possibility for Catholic
educators.
Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home
educators, and about a range
of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of other initiatives including the steady growth
of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of the Catechesis
of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out
of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Wor
of Stratford Caldecott's two books on
education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.
It also, however, after the half - pause
of a semi-colon, «encourages the use
of peer
educators in sexuality
education as a good way to lead to empowerment,» and suggests that governments — as really the much more crucial «stakeholders» — consider using social marketing techniques to promote contraceptive use.
At a time when theological
educators fear being dictated to by financial considerations, the faculties in this study emerge as fully in control
of education.
Education, for example, is a great good, but it will always be difficult to get the right
educators; and there is no way
of insuring that the educational process will not be perverted by those who have the most political or economic power.
When the question is one about the
education of the ministry it will not do to ignore either the general — the theological — nor the particular — the educational — approach; the theologian as
educator or the
educator as theologian can not carry on his theological and his educational critiques separately and independently, nor can he reduce them to one inquiry with one method in the hope
of gaining one single answer.
I grew up in Decatur, Georgia, the son
of an
educator and a minister who were faithfully intent on ensuring I received a transformative
education.
One was the work
of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid
of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis
of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns
of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry
of a religious
educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition
of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature
of the culture encountered in the local church.
Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects
of low levels
of parents»
education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the
educators — as well as the negative effects
of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.
«As
educators who believe that every human is made in the image
of God and thus is endowed with dignity from their Creator, we want to support ambitious, driven, intelligent students who have dreams
of contributing to their communities and want to pursue an
education,» stated Shirley V. Hoogstra, president
of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
The greatest theologians in this tradition, up to and including Reinhold Niebuhr, were parish pastors without Ph.D. s; their
educators once envisioned an alliance between university and church for the sake
of lay
education in biblical studies.
The Christian
educator needs more than this, for he is asked to provide
education in Christianity for others, not only to describe what it has been and is, but to use language in such a way that the learner will come to an understanding
of the nature
of Christianity and hopefully will discern the presence
of God in his own life and commit himself to the Christian way.
And for that to happen the Catholic school needs to take on board Benedict XVI's reminder to Catholic
educators in the USA in 2008 that there is much more to Catholic
education than the nature
of the curriculum: «Catholic identity,» he said, «is not dependent upon statistics.
Education is ultimately God's work in the soul
of a child, and forgetting that fact leads some
educators to feel inadequate.
Nord would accomplish his goal through special courses and by persuading, even forcing,
educators to acknowledge religion as an integral part
of liberal
education.
Should I have the money, and a child in the public
education system, I belive I could take the issue to court and win that
educators must always preface any remark that deals with the theory
of evolution with statements such as: «it is thought» or «there is reason to believe» or some or qualifying statement indicating that it is just a theory, not fact.
Leading
educators of the mid-nineteenth century agreed with Mann that religious instruction was essential to a well - rounded
education.
It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological
education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association
of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work
of some theological
educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series
of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some
of the results
of this research and reflection.
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We are a team
of sommeliers and
educators that develop and analyze wine
education protocols for the United States.
Website: www.societyofwineeducators.org The Society
of Wine
Educators is a membership - based nonprofit organization focused on providing wine and spirits
education along with the conferral
of several certifications.
Annette is an Associate member
of the Institute Wine and Spirits
Education Trust and holds the Diploma certificate (AIWS), also holds the Certified Wine Educator (CWE) certificate from Society
of Wine
Educators.