Sentences with phrase «of nga»

First appearing at the 2015 Venice Biennale, the dark, urgent Wrong Way Time comprises about 800 objects — one of the NGA's most complex installations ever

Stephen G. Stein is already a significant supporter of the NGA's photography department, having previously provided funds for major acquisitions, including works by the 19th - century photographers William Henry Fox Talbot and Captain Linnaeus Tripe.

The works formed the foundation of the NGA's exceptional collection of international prints, drawings and illustrated books.

Emma Knights, pictured, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Executive headships are well - paid posts and we must not risk building into staffing structures duplication or other inefficiencies when schools are so short of funds.»

But the dissenting voices were effectively struck down at every turn by then Secretary of Education Bennett and the Chair of NGA, Governor Alexander.

Emma Knights, Chief Executive of the NGA, said: «In any sector where an organisation fails there has been a failure of governance.

With the help of the NGA, they are focusing much more deliberately on math and science, teacher training in math and science, expanding AP, and easing the requirements for master's degrees by allowing districts to hire math and science teachers with a bachelor's degree for non-tenure track jobs.

The trip, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supports the Honor States Grant Program, an initiative of the NGA Center for Best Practices, by providing hands - on professional development to state policy leaders working on high school redesign.

Copies of it were hand - delivered to eleven officials at those two organizations, including Gene Wilhoit, executive director of the CCSSO, and Dane Linn, director of the Education Division of the NGA, who were primarily responsible for the creation of the standards.

he asked in a speech at last month's 80th annual meeting of the nga in which he outlined his agenda for the coming year.

«With ESSA, governors across the nation were given the tools to make their vision for education in their states a reality,» said South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Vice Chair of the NGA Education and Workforce Committee.

«States are at the forefront of efforts to improve accountability, equity, and transparency in K - 12 schools through ESSA state plans,» said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Chair of the NGA Education and Workforce Committee.

This website and all content on this website, including in particular the Common Core State Standards, are the property of NGA Center and CCSSO, and NGA Center and CCSSO retain all right, title, and interest in and to the same.

Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Those governing our schools are generally unhappy with the direction of government education policy: with more than six times the number of respondents negative about the government's policies than positive.

Nearly every leader of the NGA, Republicans and Democrats alike, made education, standards, and economic competitiveness a theme of his chairmanship.

But elementary and secondary school budgets will likely be spared from harm unless economic conditions worsen considerably, leaders of NGA and NASBO said at a press...

The winter meeting of the National Governors» Association kicked off a year in which the association will explore states» best practices through a series of regional meetings on educational technology and accountability, said Gov. Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, who has made raising student achievement a key platform issue in his term as the chairman of the NGA.

Free tickets are available to interested members of NGA.

Not exact matches

The National Grocers Association (NGA) and the Washington Food Industry Association (WFIA) this week presented the NGA Spirit of America Award to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R - Wash.)

GMA and NGA are teaming up to bring wholesalers and retailers together with manufacturers and suppliers as part of a new feature at the 2012 NGA Show, the NGA.

Hahahaha... And so it got me thinking, «Oo nga, we have lots of photos but not much videos.

The WSJ's Alan Murray moderated a discussion at the NGA conference this afternoon and closed the session by asking the governors, many of whom are leaving office, about their one big regret.

«Governors believe that the federal government should maintain its central role in promoting funding and developing a wide - ranging program of energy conservation and improved energy efficiency that considers all sectors of the economy,» NGA's resolution noted.

According to the NGA report, the number of recent graduates with training in geodesy and geophysics is in only the hundreds, and the number of recent graduates with training in photogrammetry is in the tens.

[F] uture shortages in cartography, photogrammetry, and geodesy seem likely because the number of graduates is too small (tens to hundreds) to give NGA choices or means of meeting sudden demand,» the report notes.

In its recent analysis, the agency determined that there are more than 2.4 million U.S. citizens capable of working at NGA if they were given substantial on - the - job training.

'' [F] uture shortages in cartography, photogrammetry, and geodesy seem likely because the number of graduates is too small (tens to hundreds) to give NGA choices or means of meeting sudden demand.»

Three new LTER sites receive NSF funding: Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES), Northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA), and Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystem (BLE);

One of the leanest examples has to be Pro Card achiever in PNBA, NGA and WNBF Pro Alberto Nunez, who often uses Pop Tarts and other goodies in contest prep.

As part of this initiative, the NGA has assembled a bipartisan task force made up of governors, business leaders, and university presidents.

The NGA Kids section of the museum's Web site offers kid - friendly features, bright colors, and «Oh, cool!»

Chaired by Sir Steve Lancashire, the Main Stage provides the opportunity to hear from an impressive range of education leaders, including representatives from the Department for Education, Ofsted, FASNA and the NGA.

School governors have given a damning verdict on the government's performance, with eight in 10 governors having a «negative» view of government policies, according to a survey conducted by the National Governors» Association (NGA) and TES.

The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan addressed the National Governors» Association (NGA) Summer Conference and spoke about the importance of school governance.

NGA has devised four model SoDs, which represent a range of approaches: with academy governing committees; with academy councils; with cluster governing committees (reporting on a number of academies); and with so - called «earned autonomy» (variable levels of responsibility for academy committees, often depending on the school's performance).

At the National Governors» Association (NGA), we have taken to using the following definition of governance from the Institute on Governance in Canada: «Governance determines who has power, who makes decisions, how other players make their voice heard and how account is rendered.»

Standalone or MAT Last year, the NGA, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and Browne Jacobson published Forming or Joining a Group of Schools: staying in control of your school's destiny; a publication designed for governors and senior leaders of both standalone academies and maintained schools to help them consider the benefits of forming or joining a MAT.

These are committees of the over-arching trust board and often referred to as a «local governing body» (LGB) which is essentially, a committee of the trust board — NGA prefers local governing committees for the sake of avoiding confusion with the role of maintained governing bodies.

Targeted dissemination to state policymakers of Center communications products and materials through CDC's Early Childhood Innovation Partnership with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA); 4.

(When we at Fordham suggested that something of the sort is needed, we were admonished by NGA and CCSSO to butt out.)

Even though they still haven't seen the light of day in draft form, much less been joined by any assessments, the evolving «common core» standards project of the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is already being laden with heavier and heavier burdens.

He believes that this person, who would need to have «excellent education credentials including teaching experience, understand a systems approach to education, and have the trust of teachers and parents» and «the respect of both political parties,» could be appointed by the NGA and CCSSO to «oversee the implementation, call out bad practices, and recommend policy changes to the politicians.»

Leaders could create a national network of organizations like the NGA and CCSSO, as well as prominent nonprofits and unions, that would serve as revisers, implementation watchdogs, and political advisors.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the strong support of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

The present «common core» standards project is an ad hoc coming together of two membership organizations, the CCSSO and the NGA, joined (with varying levels of commitment) by most (but not all) states, to develop the first round of K — 12 standards in math and reading / writing / speaking / listening.

Its calls for higher standards in schools and mastery of the basic competencies required for a globally competitive work force were warmly received by the National Governors Association (NGA).

Recent research published by the National Governors» Association (NGA) found that 61 per cent of governing boards had difficulty attracting new recruits to serve as governors and trustees and the Inspiring Governance service hopes to simplify the recruitment process, as well as provide support, advice and guidance to ensure that volunteers newly appointed to boards are able to govern effectively right from the outset.

Gillian Allcroft, deputy chief executive of the National Governance Association, said: «The vast majority of elected governors (parents and staff) do a great job for their schools and this is one of the reasons why NGA campaigned very strongly for the retention of elected parent governors.

Three years after the National Governors Association announced that all 50 members had agreed to standardize their states» graduation - rate formulas, the group is only marginally closer to its goal of a truly national definition of high school graduation rates, according to NGA data released late last month.

«We believe that the positive experiences kids have in the garden, especially at an early age, provide a vital foundation for developing a lifelong ethic of stewardship for the Earth,» said Jim Flint, of the National Gardening Association (NGA).