Sentences with phrase «particularly education initiatives»

Also, many of the top - 10 cities, and all the top five, were noted for the work their shelters achieve, particularly education initiatives.

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Tisch is driving the state's implementation of the tougher standards, despite that she has been critical of other education reform initiatives, particularly in New York City.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

The strategies are to support the development of eLearning resources; assist public - private partnerships to rally resources in order to sustain eLearning initiatives; promote the development of integrated eLearning curricula to support ICT in education; and promote distance education and virtual institutions, particularly in higher education and training, among others.

And when trying to implement large - scale initiatives like the Common Core State Standards that require rethinking professional learning, curriculum and instructional materials, family engagement activities, assessment and other aspects of the education system, collaboration is particularly important.

The initiative stems from a baseline survey which explored the indicators, prevalence and awareness levels of sexual harassment within learning environments, particularly in tertiary education.

Buono has particularly seized on the ongoing tensions in Newark, where Anderson and in turn Christie face loud criticism over the newest initiatives from some education advocates in the city.

Johns Hopkins University's School of Education Neuro - Education initiative and the research of Dr. Mariale Hardiman have been particularly valuable to St. Andrew's thinking about creating «brain friendly» classrooms.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who described overall performance as modest, credited those particularly large gains in some states to the introduction of the new, more rigorous «Common Core» standards and other initiatives the Obama administration has promoted, including new teacher evaluations.

Teach to Lead is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education and ASCD that aims to advance student outcomes by expanding opportunities for teacher leadership, particularly those that allow teachers to stay in the classroom.

Teachers are particularly unhappy with «Race to the Top,» the presidential initiative that awards grants to states that embrace education overhauls such as linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and opening more charter schools.

The foundation now spends nearly $ 400 million on various education initiatives around the country and is having a profound effect on education policy, particularly at the federal level.

The Early Career Leadership Fellow (ECLF) initiative is a collaborative effort between the National Education Association (NEA) and CEC, which connects early career teacher leaders to union leadership, particularly around professional and social justice issues.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will visit McMinnville High School to see first - hand the innovative initiatives present in the McMinnville school district, particularly its STEM programs and teacher development techniques.

The Community Foundations of Texas, through the Texas High School Project in collaboration with the Texas Education Agency, is now supporting initiatives that create Early College High Schools (ECHS), which target underrepresented populations, particularly with a STEM focus.

Hosted by Lanisa Kitchiner, director of education and scholarly initiatives at the museum, the panel «will explore how they negotiate intention versus impact in creative works, how they navigate the exclusive art world, and how they use black female bodies — particularly their own — to create alternative visions of black womanhood.»

Online information can be the basis for public legal education and information initiatives that are particularly important with the growing number of self - represented litigants in the courts.

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Apple's education event is centered on courting schools, teachers, and students to the iOS ecosystem, particularly as Google ramps up its Chromebook initiative with the announcement of the first - ever Chrome OS tablet (made by Acer) just yesterday.

• Smoothed out patient education initiatives by creating an education plan to make them comprehend the need of well - placed foot care • Singlehandedly managed inflow of 120 patients in one day, on a particularly busy day.

And we are, through the implementation, systematically, of special programs and policy initiatives, seeking to improve economic independence for our indigenous peoples to overcome inequalities which we know continue to exist in some areas, and we have targeted those areas of greatest need, particularly health, education, housing, employment, and economic development opportunities as areas in which we can move forward.