Sentences with phrase «of literacy efforts»

More than half.That should mean that we could improve the problem by at least half by providing equal access to summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged students — and yet the creation of effective summer learning programs for lower - income students has not been a significant focus of literacy efforts in the U.S. Let's look at some of the latest facts on summer learning loss:

Joel Delmonico, chairman of the Literacy Coalition of Onondaga County, which has been in charge of the literacy effort, said at an even today that he worried about getting enough people involved when the program began in 2010.

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Michael McNiven, Ph.D., a Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Cumberland Advisors, has written a guide called, Personal Finance in a Nutshell, in support of our efforts to drive financial literacy in our local community and wider society.

We will be smarter about how we provide investor information so that it will motivate individuals to learn and utilize their new money management skills, and we will collaborate and coordinate our efforts with other organizations that share our mission of raising the level of financial literacy and investor protection.»

Financial literacy efforts can not overcome the innate limits on disclosure in such a vast gulf of complexity.

For example, Advocis, the Financial Advisors Association of Canada, emphasizes the value of financial literacy in an effort to argue that rules on referrals and consent should contain specific exceptions for financial advisors.

It all began, quite literally, as a dream — a vision for a mobile computer lab that would travel across Canada to communities large and small in an effort to promote digital literacy and a love of coding.

«We've seen our financial literacy efforts increase awareness of the $ 1.2 trillion we spend annually through the #BankBlack and #BuyBlack movement.

Today SIL works alongside speakers of more than 1,600 languages in 100 countries, and more than two million people have learned to read and write as a direct result of SIL's literacy efforts.

Editors, for their part, regard most writers as paranoid egomaniacs ungrateful for the selfless efforts that extract a modicum of literacy and coherence from unpromising texts.

Rorty does take a stand on a current educational issue when he supports efforts to promote literacy in a democracy so that the electorate can understand the issues of the day and become better citizens.

To better integrate the school gardens with other food literacy efforts, reinforce the concept of seasonality, provide multiple events during the school year, and benefit from the culinary and teaching skills of Chef Instructors, SFI morphed Jr..

Each partner plays a vital role not only in the Coalition but in the community, and to date the Coalition's actions have brought initiatives to the community including adult literacy training and English as a second language opportunities, health awareness efforts, youth and afterschool opportunities, and the creation of the Community Resource Hub at Catholic Charities.

In an effort to eradicate literacy in Lagos, Lagos State Government has announced plans to commence training of 1000 facilitators for the State's adult literacy programme christened Eko Nke Koo (Lagos is Learning) under the umbrella of Agency for Mass Education

As part of efforts to improve on previous training programmes, four hundred and fifty four facilitators are currently undergoing training sharpen their skills in functional literacy.

This is a fellowship program designed for genetics professionals with an advanced degree who are early in their careers and interested in the development and implementation of national genomics literacy efforts, informal science education, science education policy, program development, or science education research.

Roseman's presentation, «Achieving Science Literacy for All: Contributions from AAAS Project 2061,» described the origins of Project 2061, its standards - based approach to improving science teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy Literacy for All: Contributions from AAAS Project 2061,» described the origins of Project 2061, its standards - based approach to improving science teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy literacy for all.

In a bid to raise educational achievement for women, whose literacy rate is half that of men, he has promised an «all - out effort to make education free for girls [through the] college level, including professional courses of study.»

His work has embodied what the Prize was created to highlight: «promoting scientific literacy, clarity of message, and efforts to foster respect and understanding of science - based values as they relate to the implications of climate change.»

Both the content and the application are part of Lionsgate, Scholastic and Scribd's efforts to promote reading and books during National Literacy Month.

The programme provides a range of literacy courses for illiterates who account for 40 % of the population, technical and vocational training at all levels and supports graduates in their efforts to find employment or start their own business.

The three - year «Project on Adolescent Literacy,» conducted by the center for early adolescence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examined efforts by school districts and community agencies to combat illiteracy in that age group.

It is only with this kind of time - intensive, high - quality effort in all classrooms that we will be able to support all Hispanic students — whether designated as «English proficient» or not — to develop the advanced literacy skills needed for high - school graduation and well beyond.

Coverage of Reach Every Reader Launch: Zuckerberg, Chan Give $ 30M to Harvard and MIT for Literacy (The New York Times) Reach Every Reader Targets Early Literacy Crisis (Harvard Gazette) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Literacy Effort (The Boston Globe) Mark Zuckerberg's Charity Is Giving $ 30 Million to Help Kids Learn to Read — and Love It (Quartz) Harvard - MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $ 30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (The 74) Zuckerberg, Wife Give $ 30M for Child Literacy (The Boston Herald) Chan Zuckerburg Initiative Funds Harvard - MIT Effort to Screen Children for Reading Problems (Education DIVE) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Ed.

The grant will support the creation of the National Adult Literacy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a nonprofit economic and social development organization with expertise in programs for adult lLiteracy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a nonprofit economic and social development organization with expertise in programs for adult literacyliteracy.

According to Gittler, it can be seen as the result of efforts made by ConTextos, an international nonprofit she founded in 2010, which focuses on literacy development in Central America.

Caryn Stedman is a long - time champion of international literacy, and her social studies colleagues are honoring her efforts.

This plan, along with her other reform efforts, has resulted in a consistent pattern of improvement in literacy, mathematics, science, and social science for students on all grade levels as measured on a variety of assessments.

In this episode, I speak to Neil Lloyd, deputy principal of Brisbane's Youth Education and Training Centre, about the school's efforts to address literacy and numeracy skills gaps among students.

The grant will support the creation of the National Adult Literacy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort...

These efforts couldn't happen at a more critical time, says Bob McCannon, director of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, which creates media literacy curricula and works with parents and teachers to further their understanding of thLiteracy Project, which creates media literacy curricula and works with parents and teachers to further their understanding of thliteracy curricula and works with parents and teachers to further their understanding of this area.

Begun as part of an effort to raise Americas literacy rate after WWI, American Education Week now serves as a special opportunity to shine a light on the great things that schools do.

Teacher speaks to Neil Lloyd, deputy principal of Brisbane's Youth Education and Training Centre, about the school's efforts to address literacy and numeracy skills gaps among students.

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

«Wood's choice to leave Microsoft to found an organization to promote literacy instruction is a very positive successful example of such efforts.

In 2003, PISA made a special effort to measure math literacy, allocating 70 percent of testing time to questions in this subject.

Seven years ago, Jorgensen discovered a «One Book» reading promotion project that involved Chicago residents, and it spurred the creation of «United We Read,» a month - long, citywide literacy effort held each February in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

The final report of the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy caps a five - year effort to examine literacy skills among students in gradesLiteracy caps a five - year effort to examine literacy skills among students in gradesliteracy skills among students in grades 4 - 12.

Recruitment efforts include targeted outreach to community organizations, GED and literacy programs, and other places researchers might expect to find out - of - school immigrant populations.

Liu has launched an intriguing effort to crowd - source a 2016 version of Hirsch's famous list — which, in retrospect, was a double - edged sword: It made Cultural Literacy a best seller, but it also resulted in the book becoming what Dan Willingham has called «the most misunderstood education book of the past fifty years.»

This webinar delves into digital - literacy efforts in the United States — including the development of learning standards — while also looking at where the average school's efforts are now and how administrators and teachers can improve them.

The literacy test is the most challenging of four exams introduced in the 2013 - 14 school year, as part of an effort to raise the caliber of teachers and teacher training programs.

Recommendations for improving the efficacy of the intervention are discussed, including efforts to improve the match between reader ability and the readability of texts and the instructional goals of the family literacy events.

In the first micro-credentialing effort at Kettle Moraine, about 40 teachers signed up to be part of a learning group on «close reading» to improve students» literacy achievement.

Currently, Reimers said, the commission is reviewing literacy programs that the Department of State would submit for UNESCO's annual literacy prize, an important global distinction designed to highlight global efforts to advance literacy and to stimulate the diffusion of best practices.

As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington - based nonprofit group Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial - services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

In this workshop, a collaborative effort of the National Literacy Project (NLP), Seminole County (FL) Public Schools, and the National Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), teachers, district and school administrators, and instructional coaches learned to use the LDC Framework to help students meet career - and college - readiness standards.

Rather, it was the large - scale reform efforts of the 1980s described previously in this chapter that brought together literacy researchers and curriculum and measurement specialists to effect the types of changes being called for by the research community, policymakers, and the public at large.