Sentences with phrase «overcome educational barriers»

School districts must take «affirmative steps» to overcome educational barriers faced by non-English speakers (Lyons, 1992).

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A cultural barrier that Mattel and Alibaba will need to overcome is that when parents do have extra money to spend on their kids, they prefer to put it toward educational pursuits.

The process, which took roughly XX hours over the course of four months, helped overcome terminology barriers between the medical professionals and educational personnel, as well as helped teachers understand the impact of concussions on academics and vice-versa, including cognitive function, classroom environment, and symptom resolution.

Navigators are experts in helping patients overcome the numerous obstacles they face, including monetary difficulties, transportation issues, educational and even language barriers, and have become an integral part of the cancer care model.

Notwithstanding, there are still barriers (scientific, economic, educational, ethical, legal) that need to be overcome prior to the application of pharmacogenomic technologies towards innovative clinical strategies and optimized therapeutic outcomes.

Working sessions during the conference will include articulating key concepts and competencies and how they are best assessed; student — centered learning including how students learn and appropriate pedagogy; the role of scientific research in the curriculum; implementing and evaluating educational innovations; expanding the toolkit of approaches to teaching for both current and future faculty; and changing institutional cultures to overcome barriers and create incentives for innovation.

At the Askwith Forum on Thursday, April 25, a panel examined factors that limit the educational opportunities of African American and Latino students, and reviewed what we know about best practices to overcome those barriers.

The barriers that have to be overcome are deeply unfair, and political efforts must be made to reduce educational and socioeconomic inequities.

American politicians who've sought to erect a high fence between our two nations haven't helped, when we should be overcoming the barriers between our educational systems.

Kevin Kessler, Ed.D., completed his Doctorate in Educational Leadership with his dissertation on the «strategies used by effective transformational educational leaders to overcome barriers to implementing and sustaining blended learning in public schools».

The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 states, «No state shall deny equal educational opportunity on account of his / her race, color, sex or national origin by... the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional program» (20 U.S.C., Section 1703 (f)-RRB-.

According to Heo (2011), teachers must overcome not only those external barriers but also the «internal barriers dealing with organizational culture and pedagogy such as teachers» attitudes, beliefs, practices, and resistance toward educational technology» (p. 62).

A father of two children, Mr. Castañeda, argued that the school district of Raymondville, TX was discriminating against his children on the basis of national origin and race by not providing sufficient educational programming to help them overcome their language barriers, and thus were not allowed the same educational opportunities as other students.

The Energy Institute is developing multi-disciplinary research programs and educational materials to overcome the scientific and technological barriers to a secure and sustainable energy future, while helping policy leaders make the informed decisions required to reach this goal.

Because the program is exclusively for students from lower - income families, Aderant's partnership with Cristo Rey will be working to give «at - risk» Atlanta youth their best chance to overcome the financial and social barriers that limit their educational and professional opportunities.

First, in a community sample of English - speaking or Bengali - speaking UK South Asians who did not have a diagnosis of dementia, Mukadam et al identified the barriers and facilitators to help - seeking for memory problems.30 They identified four main categories of barriers, which interacted to prevent timely diagnosis of dementia: barriers to help - seeking for memory problems; the threshold for seeking help for memory problems; ways to overcome barriers to help - seeking; what features an educational resource should have.