Sentences with phrase «on broader education»

Despite Hayes «audacious» move to introduce the Native Justice of the Peace Program, progress was generally slow on the broader education front.

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In response to the criticism that children are losing out on a broad education, Ratcliffe said Governor Bush and the education commissioner, Jim Nelson, both believe schools must focus on reading because children who can't read struggle in other areas.

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While more education on ethics is certainly needed, it also needs to be a part of a broader professional standard.

We now collaborate on a broad sweep of issues, from the environment and energy to transport and education.

Following the enactment of the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012, the Investor Education Centre (IEC) was formed as an SFC subsidiary to educate the public on a broad range of retail financial products and services.

A recent market brief from investment banking firm Berkery Noyes takes a broader view and points out that private investment activity is on the rise across education sectors.

AIWM India primarily focuses on broader and strategic role of developing a more robust and forward - looking training infrastructure for private banking and wealth management sector and to promote more active industry involvement and collaboration in training and continuing education matters.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday proposed using federal money to help states freeze and eventually reduce tuition rates at universities — part of a broader effort to help students achieve debt - free college education within five years.

Centers of theological education could offer courses, directed studies and graduate research projects that focus on a broad range of related topics.

But the impressive roster of scholars, journalists, and editors takes a broader survey of the landscape than Bloom, who focused on higher education.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

In a statement posted on Facebook Thursday (Sept. 26), MacBain acknowledged she had misrepresented her education to Harvard, to the broader atheist community and to reporters.

It is also probably true that, as Holmes goes on to assert, «What Whitehead does not see (or does not emphasize) is the enormous difficulty of making education for the duller minds and slower - moving bodies what it can be (and clearly should be) for the rest — an active process leading to broad understandings and to special competence without the slightest rending «of the seamless cloth of learning»» (WVE 637).

At any rate, it has made it possible for me to discuss the relation of theology to Christian education on a much broader basis than I am doing in this book, (See my The Clue to Christian Education (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950), pp.education on a much broader basis than I am doing in this book, (See my The Clue to Christian Education (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950), pp.Education (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950), pp. 1 - 17.)

There is an on - line only version of BarSmarts that targets a broader range of bartending professions and want - to - be's with the opportunity to participate through a web - based education and certification program offered exclusively through password - protected entrance to the BarSmarts.com site.

Because of her broad education, Jacqueline provides leading edge knowledge on homeopathy, acupuncture, bodywork, neurodevelopment, oral restrictions, herbs, frenectomy and more.

Over time through what is even today a constantly evolving process, we have adapted the mainstream approach to education in order to offer a solution to a broad cross-section of parents who have alternative views on how education should be delivered.

A broad range of education and health groups, including KSHF, then urged the USDA to refine the standards and helped generate nearly 250,000 comments from the public on the proposal.

Through a new Education Center, Museum renovations, and campus improvements, the Campaign for the Concord Museum builds on the Museum's strengths to engage new and broader audiences with Concord's history.

The shorts (ranging from 3 minutes to 13 minutes) zoom in on intimate and revealing stories surrounding school lunch transformation and cooking - gardening education, and zoom out to the broader social issues and consequences around these changes.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

The broad sector policy thrust for Education is Sustainable and Efficient Management of Education Service Delivery with focus on teacher development and accountability; improved Quality of Teaching and Learning at all Levels, inclusive and Equitable Access at all Levels, skills Development and Training for Employability through Quality TVET and strengthened Mathematics, Science, ICT and Technology Education.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address was light on details, but packed with broad proposals on topics that directly affect New York City such as criminal justice reform, higher education, labor and homelessness.

Broader questions remain on school aid, however, even as education reforms such as teacher evaluation criteria are no longer linked to funding.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised the tenure of outgoing Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch on Monday, but at the same time indicated he will push for broad reforms to the state's education curriculum and Common Core standards.

Heastie said the education department would have broad authority to determine the specifics; the Cuomo source, speaking on background, said the rating system would be based on observations and testing.

Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local schoolEducation Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local schooleducation and a democratic input into local school systems.

That could signal a broader shift on education after heated controversy.

De Blasio practices his talking points and gets feedback about specifics he might have left out, Klein said, on broad topics like education.

A broad coalition of educators and organizations have gathered resources to provide interested teachers a program on plastic pollution education into their classrooms.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

«Education is fundamentally a state responsibility,» Phillips said, adding that Cuomo «has really broad discretion» on how to provide for charters.

Jepson directs the Texas A&M Water Security Initiative, a university - wide program that facilitates research, education, service learning and collaboration on the broad spectrum of water security challenges.

In a Nov. 15 letter to Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., a broad array of scientific and engineering societies called on House leaders to drop provisions in the tax bill (H.R. 1) that would eliminate tax credits, known as the Lifetime Learning Credit and the Hope Scholarship Credit, that alleviate the financial strain of higher education by providing a dollar - for - dollar reduction in the income tax liability of eligible students.

On the contrary, citizen - scholars seek broader venues where we can use our interests and education to make a difference in our lives, our disciplines, and in our communities.

Graduating family medicine residents have indicated they intend to provide a broader scope of practice than that reported by current family physicians, including for prenatal care, inpatient care, nursing home care, home visits, and women's health procedures, according to a study in the December 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

«While NSF's permanent staff are highly knowledgeable and capable,» explains a recent white paper on the use of rotators, «the ever changing global science, engineering, and education landscape requires NSF to continually complement its permanent staff with the expertise of individuals from the broader research and education community.»

The broader impact criteria came up yesterday at a hearing that the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Research and Science Education held on the merit review process in order to ensure that federal resources are being invested in the best science.

Instead of a broad reauthorization like COMPETES, FIRST is focused on NSF, NIST, and provisions related to federal innovation and education policy.

NSF judges proposals on two major criteria: intellectual merit and broader impact, the latter of which can include education, increased public understanding of science, and other benefits to society.

Section 7008 of the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law on 9 August, requires all proposals for NSF grants that will support postdocs to «include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided... under the Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion.

Chandra's program plays a key role in NASA's EPO portfolio, synthesizing and disseminating results from NASA's exploration of the high - energy Universe into a broad suite of programs and activities focused on increasing science literacy and contributing to science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) education.

Zeman has presented several notable talks on leadership, science education, science outreach, and broader impacts, including: The Secrets to Broader Impacts, GWIS Brown Bag Series (2015), Assessing Student Impact in Engagement Experiences, Penn State Engaged Scholarship Symposium, 2015, Connecting Research Institutions to K - 12 Educators, NSTA Boston 2014, Developing a Student Leadership Culture, NSTA Indianapolis 2012, Student Leadership Culture, Penn State Schreyer's Leadership Institute, Nittany Lion Innbroader impacts, including: The Secrets to Broader Impacts, GWIS Brown Bag Series (2015), Assessing Student Impact in Engagement Experiences, Penn State Engaged Scholarship Symposium, 2015, Connecting Research Institutions to K - 12 Educators, NSTA Boston 2014, Developing a Student Leadership Culture, NSTA Indianapolis 2012, Student Leadership Culture, Penn State Schreyer's Leadership Institute, Nittany Lion InnBroader Impacts, GWIS Brown Bag Series (2015), Assessing Student Impact in Engagement Experiences, Penn State Engaged Scholarship Symposium, 2015, Connecting Research Institutions to K - 12 Educators, NSTA Boston 2014, Developing a Student Leadership Culture, NSTA Indianapolis 2012, Student Leadership Culture, Penn State Schreyer's Leadership Institute, Nittany Lion Inn, 2011.

With Science Buddies» broad mix of free scientist - authored resources for STEM education, including hands - on project ideas and activities, lesson plans, career profiles, science news articles, concept videos, and complete project guides for science and engineering projects, if you are teaching it to your science class, Science Buddies has materials designed to help you bring the material to life in - class or to supplement and extend classroom learning.

Paul joins us today at the Ed Next Book Club to talk about his book, the impact he hopes it will have on the education reform debate, and what it means for the broader war on poverty.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

In so doing, it partakes of the central assumptions of the education profession itself and risks sliding over the edge into being a professional trade journal for educators, like, say, Phi Delta Kappan or Educational Leadership, rather than a watchdog on behalf of the broader American public.

Broad - based consultations on the post-2015 education agenda have confirmed the continued relevance and importance of EFA beyond 2015.