Sentences with phrase «of early education advocates»

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But in an interesting example of the philosophy he advocates — that the process is more real than the material fact — Whitehead himself remained more affected by the process, not the content of his early life and education.

Karen also served as the past president of the Broward Association for the Education of Young Children and is a lifelong advocate for developmentally appropriate early childhood eEducation of Young Children and is a lifelong advocate for developmentally appropriate early childhood educationeducation.

Some policy makers are trying to get the public to believe that they should be starting formal education earlier, advocating Head Start programs for children as young as 1 year, hoping to take advantage of the time when the brain is growing more than ever.

Colin Ward was also (alongside the spiritual anti-institutionalist & practical convivialist Ivan Illich) one of the early serious advocates of peer - to - peer models of education, and was a rare radical who was never afraid to call a real existing commons space exactly that.

Iannuzzi was on CapTon earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a new legal challenge of what education advocates say is a long - standing inequity in the state's foundation aid formula that disproportionately hurts low - income districts.

Nixon, an actress and education advocate who has worked with the Alliance for Quality Education, could receive the backing of the WFP as early as this weekend in Albany, The New York Times reported this aeducation advocate who has worked with the Alliance for Quality Education, could receive the backing of the WFP as early as this weekend in Albany, The New York Times reported this aEducation, could receive the backing of the WFP as early as this weekend in Albany, The New York Times reported this afternoon.

A large coalition of early childhood education advocates and elected officials took to the City Hall steps on Wednesday to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio — again — to fund pay parity between teachers at all pre-Kindergarten and day care centers in New York City.

An early backer of David Cameron, the Shadow Education Secretary is a key member of the party leader's inner circle and has been a strong advocate of the «rebalancing» of recent times.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Cuomo this year faces a primary challenge from education advocate and actress Cynthia Nixon, who has made Republican control of the Senate an issue in her early stump speeches.

TWEED COURTHOUSE — Frustrated parents and advocates from across the city took to the steps of the Department of Education headquarters Thursday afternoon to demand a delay of the controversial Kindergarten Connect online application system, set to launch in early 2014.

For 10 days in early October, a dedicated group of teachers, parents and education advocates marched 150 miles from New York City to Albany.

ALBANY — Early childhood advocates are appealing to education commissioner John King for a more friendly interpretation of the state budget's pre-kindergarten provisions in an effort to boost upstate participation.

She advocated doing so by improving higher and early education, raising the minimum wage, strengthening paid family leave and getting money out of politics.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

The Prevent Cancer Foundation advocates for and supports the prevention and early detection of cancer through research, education and community outreach.

«From her work with the Making Caring Common project to her leadership as co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative, Stephanie Jones has been a powerful advocate for children,» said Dean James Ryan.

«That's why so many dyslexia advocates in particular have been calling for this type of skills check to be put in place at an early level for many, many years because they know that you can get much, much earlier identi cation, intervention, and therefore assistance to help ensure that the early years of a child's education are successful which then enables them to be successful for the rest of their schooling.»

In particular candidates will have 3 - 5 years or more of direct work experience (paid or as a volunteer) in early childhood education, as a practitioner, researcher, advocate, or policymaker (this may include work in schools, but also in community organizations, non-profits, government work, etc.).

Roy Bostock is the chair of the Committee forEconomic Development (CED), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of business leaders and educators that advocates for strong state and federal government partnerships to ensure high - quality early education for every child.

Even Plato, that advocate of mental discipline as the basis for learning (Bigge, 1982), commented that «early education [should] be a sort of amusement; [for] you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.»

In this watershed moment, the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and socEarly Education Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and socearly education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andeducation, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and socearly learning at scale, and its benefit to children and society.

The federal government has been a vocal advocate for CBE, and earlier this year, the Competency - Based Education Network announced a group of 18 colleges and universities that will participate in researching and developing CBE programs.

Early results of an evaluation of an overhauled version of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education curriculum, or DARE, are giving its advocates new hope for the often - criticized program's future.

EN: What kinds of accountability measures, if any, would you advocate for early childhood education?

Advocates of expanded early childhood education forecast large long - term savings to taxpayers.

CEEL is designed for state leaders and administrators, leaders of early education service organizations, directors of early education centers or programs, administrators and coaches in public school preK programs, as well as community leaders, philanthropists, grantmakers, and advocates.

While most education reform advocates cloak their goals in the rhetoric of «putting children first,» the conceit was less evident at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier this year.

Early childhood experts and advocates have long called for increasing the education and training of U.S. early childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K progEarly childhood experts and advocates have long called for increasing the education and training of U.S. early childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K progearly childhood workers, and over the past two decades, policymakers have gradually increased credentialing requirements for teachers in Head Start and state - funded pre-K programs.

Earlier this week, Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, a longtime education advocate and philanthropist, testified before the Senate education cEducation nominee Betsy DeVos, a longtime education advocate and philanthropist, testified before the Senate education ceducation advocate and philanthropist, testified before the Senate education ceducation committee.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education inEducation Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education ineducation advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education ineducation initiative.

And, even in my current job at Knowledge Universe, where we're advocating for choice in the context of early childhood education.

Marlene has been associated with Californians Together for the last five years as a representative of the Campaign for Quality Early Education, a statewide coalition of educators who advocate for the needs of young Dual Language Learners.

By Monica Kennedy Kounter I am a parent of a special needs child, a certified lay advocate, and I have a Master's of Science in Early Childhood Education.

Next California governor is likely to be a strong advocate for the expansion of early education programs.

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

Early education advocates were also grateful for the administration's elevation of early educaEarly education advocates were also grateful for the administration's elevation of early educaearly education.

He is currently working across the aisle and with early education advocates to draft a bill to provide $ 5 million in funding for early education while respecting the role of parents.

He attended the Principals» Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was greatly inspired by its founder, Roland Barth, an early advocate of the collaborative culture that defines PLCs today.

Among other issues, Eastin has also been an ardent advocate of expanding early education in California.

Early childhood education research has rarely focused on supporting young children in tribal communities, hampering our capacity to understand and advocate for the kinds of high - quality practices grounded in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI / AN) culture that can make a positive difference in children's lives.

Advocates sought feedback from legislators on an earlier edition of the report, and also modeled the 2018 edition after the Rodel Foundation of Delaware's Public Education At a Glance report.

He recommended that advocates who work with military children download «Provision of Early Intervention and Special Education Services to Eligible DoD Dependents» (DoD Instruction 1342.12).

Anita Zucker, a passionate advocate of early childhood education, will provide a leadership gift of $ 5 million to bolster a comprehensive initiative at the University of Florida focused on optimizing early childhood development and learning experiences.

From advocating for improved early childhood education, to increasing the rigor and relevance of curriculum, to fostering understanding of cultural and social mores amongst disparate groups of students, schools will be at the forefront of addressing the heavy - duty issues that the greater population faces as we continue to change in terms of how we look, the languages we speak, and the traditions we celebrate.

The Academy is comprised of a diverse cadre of prominent leaders from virtually every primary sector of the education community: parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, state departments of education, school boards, PTA organizations, policy wonks, early childhood professionals, advocates, deans and professors at education schools, education columnists, afterschool programs, researchers, school nurses, school facilities managers, philanthropists, visionaries, and pioneers.

«Seven years ago I don't know that I would have been a real early education advocate,» Gerry Barousse, chair of the boards of both Educare New Orleans and the civic group in charge of the redevelopment, the Bayou District Foundation, told a recent group of visitors.

In 2010, a planning committee of early childhood advocates, educators, elementary teachers and administrators, child development specialists, and Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) staff members partnered with WestEd Center for Child and Family Studies to develop KIDS.

To illustrate, community school advocates have emphasized the importance of student support program ingredients that are largely seen as «non-instructional» (e.g. out - of - school time, school - based health, family engagement, college and career readiness, and early education), that are then assumed to add up to a comprehensive and coherent strategy at the school.

By Amaya Garcia and Conor P. Williams, New America Education, October 2015 «On a muggy evening in early June a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, a group of parents and community advocates is gathered in the gym of a local school to learn about the educational benefits...