Sentences with phrase «opportunity at a better education»

She misses the more significant point that every child ought to have an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT GOOD EDUCATION.

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«The education I received at Haskayne through professors with strong academic and business credentials, combined with work experience during my studies meant I was well placed to pursue a range of interesting career opportunities,» says Wesley.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Taking effect from March 2015, this new sponsorship offers Master Sommeliers and student members access to education on wine faults, and the benefits of cork closures — as well as the opportunity for Diploma candidates to be awarded the Amorim «Taster of the Year» Trophy at the annual MS examinations in London.

Working part time at their school is a wonderful opportunity for her to take part in their school lives as well as to stay connected to education.

If you are living away from your home culture, you may want to teach your children at home while you settle in and visit the local schools, or you might decide that it's a good opportunity to try out home education long - term.

«At the Graduate School of Education, our mission is to create the opportunity and means for all people to learn and teach well.

This award can also include those members who have contributed significantly to creating and developing continuing educational programs at the local, state, regional and / or national levels, as well as other continuing education opportunities.

In addition, the Family Support unit at the Center for Schools and Communities offers supplemental PAT oriented and broader professional development opportunities to PAT providers and other early care and education professionals across the Commonwealth t hrough regular webinars, specialized workshops as well as annual regional or state meetings.

According to Prof. Yankah, the implementation of Free SHS which runs parallel with Free Vocational and Technical education system is aimed at improving the human resources capacity, promote innovation and create new job opportunities as well as generate income and sustain the development.

At the end of the session, Yousafzai told State House correspondents that he seized the opportunity of the meeting which she described as a good one to call for the declaration of a state of emergency in the nation's education sector.

However, there are insufficient opportunities for lower - level social service case workers at these providers to acquire the education needed to move up a career ladder to more responsibility and better compensation.

As a professor at Canisius College, Legislator Hardwick understands the value of a quality education and affording students the best opportunities possible.

The new donations for scholarships would make private and parochial education a reality for families seeking new quality educational opportunities and assist those already enrolled who are struggling to afford tuition at schools that best meet their needs.

The second area was led by Maresi Nerad and involved three components: obtaining a better understanding of the postdoctoral community at Berkeley; encouraging the creation of a Berkeley Postdoctoral Association; and working to make available some additional professional development opportunities to enhance the overall education and training environment for postdocs.

But Gates warned against complacency, and noted a 2012 report by PCAST that identified opportunities for the United States to keep its edge in innovation, including boosting of R&D expenditures moderately to 3.0 % of GDP, making the R&D tax credit permanent, streamlining federal regulations that decrease productivity at research universities, and adopting «best practices» to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

I was allowed to get a good education and given the opportunity to find out what I'm good at.

Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education Program CME - IPCE at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania is committed to providing lifelong learning opportunities for physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers and healthcare professional teams with the goal of improving the health and well - being of people and communities through strong emphasis on research, education, and cliniEducation Program CME - IPCE at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania is committed to providing lifelong learning opportunities for physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers and healthcare professional teams with the goal of improving the health and well - being of people and communities through strong emphasis on research, education, and clinieducation, and clinical care.

«There's an opportunity to do cannabis policy well, to apply lessons from regulating other products,» said first author Daniel G. Orenstein, JD, MPH, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

Good news for students and schools: A new study, released last week by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), looks closely at four schools that are achieving positive outcomes for low - income students of color.

They will have opportunities for showcasing their teaching practices and experiences at national conferences, through online media and multi-media case studies, as well as through a range of other promotional material, and be proactively consulted for their views and opinions for campaigns related to education policy.

«Both companies understand the importance of early literacy success and want educators to have the best opportunity to help those students struggling with reading and writing in order for them to be successful in their school years,» said Jesper Just Jensen, Senior Director, Preschool and Primary Marketing at LEGO Education.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

«The objective is to apply state education clauses as a mandate to better ensure that high - need programs possess the means to provide all students with adequate opportunity to achieve to at least the minimum standards.»

Simultaneously we must capitalize on the resources at HGSE to embark on an endless pursuit of best practices and strong practitioners with whom we can foster equity in public education and begin to chip away at the opportunity debt that still plagues our nation.

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

This is collaboration at its finest and a wonderful opportunity for life - long learners to share best practices in education.»

This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country — including the Department for Education's Opportunity Areas — to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.

In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievemEducation announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievemEducation to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievemeducation and child well - being to close achievement gaps.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Indeed, it goes to the heart of the American promise of equal opportunity: No matter your background or family circumstance, you have a shot at a middle - class life if you work hard and get a good education.

The Lab will support this network in creating and supporting cross-sector children's cabinets through light technical assistance support, webinars, annual convenings at Harvard focused on best practices, links to experts in the education and child development fields, and other networking opportunities.

In a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he did.

Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»

The Louisiana Scholarship Program gives parents the opportunity to choose their child's school, to send their kids to a school in a safe learning environment, giving them a chance at a better education.

Written by Russell J. Sojourner, Ph.D., director of Leadership Development at CEP, explains how a re-energized and innovative approach to character education today offers great opportunity to provide children with the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to become life - long learners, get good jobs, have healthy relationships and to become productive and contributing members of the community.

«Ms. Wallis has built strong relationships with the families and students at Cherokee Charter Academy over the years and we are confident that her enthusiasm and experience will provide students with the best opportunity for success in the coming year,» said Erin Lanoue, regional director of education for Georgia schools.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

But thousands of kids and their families who have won the lottery (literally) and have been given a shot at a good life via a good education by the likes of Eva Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academies, KIPP Schools and the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program undoubtedly won't.

She co-authored a range of publications on the topic, including school models and many practical tools for teachers, principals and districts; An Opportunity Culture for All; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top; A Better Blend; Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; and Improving Teaching Through Pay for Contribution for the National Governor's Association; and many others.

Sizing the Opportunity: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2002 and 2003 also looks at characteristics of online learners, student and faculty perceptions as well as how private and public institutions approach online learning.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

«We must recommit ourselves to the vision that all students have the right to equitable opportunities to learn at high levels,» said Helen Mountjoy of Daviess County, a former education cabinet secretary and chair of the State Board of Education as well as a current Prichard Committeeducation cabinet secretary and chair of the State Board of Education as well as a current Prichard CommitteEducation as well as a current Prichard Committee member.

Sir Michael argued that we are «at a watershed moment in the history of our education system», and that there has never been a «better opportunity to tackle our lamentable record on vocational education».

At the state level, Wisconsin Education Association Council spokesperson Christina Brey said better starting salaries, more predictable career paths and clear opportunities for advancement must be established.

«I have always wanted to move into the international education space at some point in my career and the opportunity to do so in a way that allows me to focus on education policy and system reform was just too good to turn down.»

His Economic Opportunity Act promised a better life to those living «on the outskirts of hope,» and at the heart of that promise was education.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program gives parents the opportunity to choose their child's school, to send their kids to a school in a safe learning environment, giving them a chance at a better education and a brighter future.

Working at the National Education Union will provide you with opportunities to use your skills and experience to meet current challenges in the sector and to better support the education prEducation Union will provide you with opportunities to use your skills and experience to meet current challenges in the sector and to better support the education preducation profession.

In remarks at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C., the president used the good - news announcement as an opportunity to tout his education initiatives, from Preschool for All through the America's College Promise free community college partnership.