Sentences with phrase «of schools and education»

«The state of Connecticut has done a number of things and committed hundreds of millions of dollars to improving the quality of schools and education as well as providing more choices for Hartford students and their families,» Murphy said.

Bringing deep learning and social justice front and center of education requires radical redefinitions of how we think and act on learning, teaching, and the management of schools and education systems.

Digital now plays a vital role in allowing us to provide accurate and concise information to the educators, and the support staff of Schools and education facilities all around Australia.

Working to enhance the life chances of children, young people and adult learners and improve their lives, Ofsted's inspection framework has changed to reflect our expectations of schools and education since it was founded almost 20 years ago.

In many cases the FM is involved in helping develop the overall strategy to ensure the effective operation of schools and education institutions.

Kids who watch videos from this YouTube channel pick up that learning is fun and easy from an early age which helps them appreciate the value of school and education.

Third, I ultimately think the are - teachers - overpaid - or - underpaid question is just not that interesting or helpful to those of us in the fields of schooling and education.

Meet four children from around the world who have different experiences of school and education.

This suits the topic of school and education and I have attached a list of suggested activities, all of them I have used myself and have led to some rather creative writing and spoken passages from my year 10.

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Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of higher education.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

That's why Andre Dua, who counsels local governments and schools in his role as a director at McKinsey & Company, says there's plenty of opportunity for disruption in education finance.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faced student criticism and then abruptly walked out of her own press conference during a visit on Wednesday to the Parkland, Fla. high school where 17 died in a mass shooting last month.

Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

While O'Leary's decision also applies to entrepreneurs who are still in school, he stressed the importance of finishing an education to get the skills and contacts that a budding business owner might need later on.

That's good news for D2L, of course, whose products are used in roughly 50 % of all kindergarten to Grade 12 schools and higher - education institutions in Canada.

Schools supplier Campion Education has agreed to purchase the stock of one - time market leader Wooldridges, bringing to an end any hopes of reviving the Wooldridges business and delivering a return to its creditors.

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

The idea was proposed by a Nebraska high school student named Shelbi Klingsporn as part of a private education program partnership with NASA and is now being supported by Medtronic.

Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

If you're dedicated enough to get into U of T's MPP program as well as their JD program (law school), you can combine the degrees and complete them simultaneously for a well - rounded law and public policy education.

Chris MacDonald is director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education & Research Program at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and co-editor of the Business Ethics Journal Review.

Family: Sand, married; Anderson and Guerrero, single Education: Anderson earned a degree in fine arts and industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design in 1982.

In Shanghai, «the mathematics scores are contributing to a high score in financial literacy,» Michael Davidson, head of early childhood education and schools for OECD, told reporters in a webinar on the results.

For the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districts.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.

If schools don't adapt and move to a more blended style of instruction, Elmore said, America's schools could see a growing disinterest in traditional education.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

Melbourne company Vocation has acquired Perth - based Australian College of Applied Education and 50 per cent ownership of the Australian School of Management for $ 2.125 m.

(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.&rSchool — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.&rschool.»)

What it does: Develops out - of - school childcare and education programs

And early next year the Schulich academic family is expecting another addition — this one a school of education at an as - yet - undisclosed university.

According to a 2011 report from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, people with just a high school diploma earn an average of $ 32,600 a year, which adds up to $ 1,304,000 over the course of their time in the workforce.

Nancy Conneely, director of policy at AccessLex Institute, which provides financial education to students and schools, applauded the funding.

Combined (including Dalhousie law and the soon - to - be-settled school of education), they comprise 15,000 students and more than 2,500 faculty, have annual spending of $ 270 million, occupy 1.6 million square feet and give out 6,000 scholarships.

Niche, an education review site that's kind of like Yelp for schools, based its ranking on a combination of user reviews and education statistics sourced from government and public databases.

Then, Apple CEO Tim Cook is on a bit of a national tour that includes visiting factories to promote manufacturing, schools to promote education, and a journalist or two to tell his story.

(The week before, he had flown in the education entrepreneur Sal Khan on one of the JetSuite planes and put him up gratis to try to persuade him to open a school downtown.)

That means schools across the country will, for the first time, be giving students a uniform education and uniform assessments, which Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, says is a major opportunity for entrepreneurs to get a foot in education and uniform assessments, which Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, says is a major opportunity for entrepreneurs to get a foot in Education Foundation, says is a major opportunity for entrepreneurs to get a foot in the door.

Engineering and construction firm Decmil Group has been selected to build a school in Christchurch for the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

The most famous is probably York University's Schulich School of Business (renamed in his honour in 1995 after an over - $ 15 million donation), but his educational namesakes include Dalhousie University's School of Law (2009, $ 20 million), the University of Calgary's School of Engineering (2005; $ 20 million) and Nipissing University's School of Education ($ 15 million).

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

The minimum education is typically a high school diploma, and much of the learning is done on the job.

Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

In Breaking Down Monopolies: Expanding Choice and Competition in Education, Yvan Guillemette echoes Milton Friedman's concerns about the lack of choice in schooling.

A fierce and outspoken defender of a female's right to education, the Swat Valley schoolgirl was shot by them four years later aboard her school bus.