Sentences with phrase «pressing need for education»

As Hays CEO Alistair Cox recently commented, there is a skills gap in the UK market, with a pressing need for education policy and resources to be much more closely aligned with the needs of business.

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When pressed, Benioff offered a few possibilities: He says that companies will need to explore «new models of education,» for instance, and consider how to allocate a universal basic income.

This was a profoundly felt need in the age, of the newly discovered printing press, the emergence of lay professions and education for a nonclerical world.

Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day - care centers at the parents» workplace, and day care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.

In the 19th century the churches created dozens of colleges and universities to meet the pressing need for higher education.

The Associated Press article regarding the CPSC warning gives proof to the growing popularity of baby slings and carriers and validates the need for education.

The Countryside Alliance believes a vibrant countryside needs five key changes and calls on the Government to: SERVICES — Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport and broadband network HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 834 163

The programme will operate seven modules designed to meet the pressing needs of the nation while providing jobs for the teeming youth who have received tertiary education but are struggling to find jobs.

President Akufo - Addo recently launched the NaBCo program which is designed to meet the pressing needs of the nation while providing jobs for the teeming youth who have received tertiary education but are struggling to find jobs.

«We need a budget proposal from the governor and legislature that finally pays the money owed to our children and prioritizes schools that need funding the most,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, at a Jan. 10 press conference outside City Hall to kick off a new push for public school funding in Albany.

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

``... for most nations the Kyoto Protocol would require extensive diversion of human and financial resources away from more immediate and pressing needs in health care, education, infrastructure, and, yes, the environment — all critical to the well - being of future generations.»

«Our results indicate the achievement gains that are possible with remedial education,» said Jacob in a press release issued at the time, seeming to buttress Roderick's hedge about the need for «substantial supports.»

Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, head of research, Education and Employers, said: «Our findings highlight the pressing need for closer ties between employers and state schools to ensure that all young people — regardless of gender and backgrounds — have information about all the possible career routes available to them.

Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, Head of Research, Education and Employers, said, «Our findings highlight the pressing need for closer ties between employers and state schools to ensure that all young people — regardless of gender and backgrounds — have information about all the possible career routes available to them.

Although wider press coverage of the OECD's report focused on the findings that heavy investment in ICT failed to improve results, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills stated that the key to success was to «find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning to provide educators with learning environments that support 21st century pedagogies and provide children with the 21st century skills they need to succeed in tomorrow's world».

«The United States as a nation must recognize the need for improvement in its educational system and seize the opportunities offered by technology,» Gary Bitter, president of the International Society for Technology in Education, said at a press conference in New York.

The union has urged the government to not ignore the pressing need to address the problems caused by its education cuts, and has called for five areas to be addressed in the Spring Statement.

Above all, we need a new policy regime that gives teachers and schools ample incentive to press for academic growth in all their students, just as we need a culture that embraces excellence as well as equity and demands that its education system raise the ceiling on achievement even as it also lifts the floor.

But, as Milner writes in the Harvard Education Press title, Rac (e) ing to Class, these discussions, while difficult, need to happen in order for change to take place.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

Enriched by these various sources, her popular book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts (Teachers College Press, 2008), proposes a new and unapologetic approach to advocacy for the arts in education.

EiE addresses America's pressing need for effective STEM education in three ways: curriculum development and dissemination, professional development (PD), and educational research.

The Kentucky Department of Education can set an appropriate example for each school in the state by faithfully seeking students who will challenge our educators to address the pressing educational needs of today.

When pressed by Hull MP and former NUT activist Emma Hardy on whether changes to gradings could reward schools that took large numbers of pupils with special education needs or excluded pupils, Spielman said this was an «interesting suggestion for the new framework».

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

PLEASE NOTE: The House version has been sent to the RULES COMMITTEE - a standard ploy to prevent a piece of legislation from being debated and called for a Vote.State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, Chair of the House Elementary / Secondary Education Committee joined her Latino Caucus coleagues at Monday's Press Conference, but needs to be supported and encouraged to work with Rep. Sims to get his bill sent to her Committee.

Delegates at a Westminster Education Forum, held last week in central London, pressed Joanna Hall (pictured below), deputy director of schools at Ofsted, on the rules for joint inspections of local area provision for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

While a surge of new policymaking by the U.S. Department of Education and by state officials has buffeted schools and frustrated some teacher leaders, this turbulence has yielded a pressing need for teachers to help figure out how all these changes will actually work.

«These standards are the blueprints for remodeling our education system, laying out step - by - step what students need to know and be able to do to graduate ready to start a career or go to college,» Torlakson said in a press release.

«Regardless of what the teaching unions might claim, with over 70 % of the new schools being set up by those working within the education sector itself, the reality is that their members are becoming the driving force of new free schools - particularly in disadvantaged areas where the need for good schools is even more pressing.»

Cuomo has hailed the budget — which also includes new disclosure requirements for lawmakers» outside income — as «transformative,» saying it addresses two of the state's most pressing needs: education and ethics reform.

Through its research, education, international programs, and government innovations awards, the Institute fosters creative and effective government problem solving and serves as a catalyst for addressing many of the most pressing needs of the world's citizens.

«Now more than ever, there is a great need for our state to press forward to ensure that all kids have access to a great education.

The State of Washington will be holding a press conference on August 18, 2015 at 10 am to release the disaggregated district - level results for their state which will undoubtedly reveal that the SBAC test particularly discriminates against children from low - income homes, children who face English language barriers and children who need special education services.

LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

NSNO interviewed school leaders, special education teachers and coordinators, and parents across New Orleans to determine the most pressing needs for students with disabilities in schools throughout the city.

The group of advocates — School Choice Wisconsin, Hispanics for School Choice, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, and Wisconsin Federation for Children — is hopeful that with today's vote, Mrs. DeVos can now turn her attention to the pressing needs of America's education system and give all of our children an opportunity for success and a better future.

The latest national comparison of school test scores could reveal challenges with the way we fund schools in Michigan LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

According to a press release issued at the time, «The reorganization addresses Governor Dannel P. Malloy's six principles on education reform, including: (1) Enhancing families» access to high - quality early childhood; (2) Turning around Connecticut's lowest - performing schools and districts; (3) Expanding the availability of high - quality school models; (4) Removing red tape and other barriers to success; (5) Ensuring that our schools are home to the very best teachers and principals; and (6) Delivering more resources, targeted to districts with the greatest need - provided that they embrace key reforms that position our students for success.»

Texas State Representative Ron Simmons today held a press conference announcing House Bill 1335, legislation to establish an Education Savings Account (ESA) program for special needs and at - risk students in the State of Texas.

Incoming Education Secretary John King, who will replace Arne Duncan at the end of the year, said in a press briefing on the changes that the focus in higher education needs to shift «away from just enrollment towards completion, and particularly completion for the students who are most at risEducation Secretary John King, who will replace Arne Duncan at the end of the year, said in a press briefing on the changes that the focus in higher education needs to shift «away from just enrollment towards completion, and particularly completion for the students who are most at riseducation needs to shift «away from just enrollment towards completion, and particularly completion for the students who are most at risk.»

Duncan also pressed states to increase their investments in early childhood education and advocated for health and mentorship programs that provide for the comprehensive needs of students.

Her most recent books are Defending Childhood: Keeping the Promise of Early Education (Teachers College Press, 2012); Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools, co-authored with Megan Blumenreich (The New Press, 2012); Teaching the Way Children Learn (Teachers College Press, 2008) and High Quality Early Learning for a Changing World: What Educators Need to Know and Do (Teachers College Press, 2018).

«These state grants provide the critical last step needed to connect an additional 63,000 students to the state education network that will give them access to technology, which will prepare them for college and careers, and let them take the new computer - based California assessments,» Torlakson said in a press release.

In a recent interview with Schools Week education secretary Nicky Morgan was pressed to explain how her plans for improving schools, particularly around coasting schools, would help children with special needs when their exam results were exempt from the plans.

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My extire tax returns was taking for 2015 and all the funds went to department of education and the fact that they took over 8,000 and I lost my apartment I'm currently still homeless and I'm also divorced and lost my vehicle to theft and to get even more worse my son was air lifted from school I had to miss work and I lost my job behind the the issues with my son and I don't have a good credit score because department of education and I was pressing the issues that the school was not accredited by no state and I have to pay for a service that I can't even get a job in the field I went to school for.I don't know what to do honestly about the filing for 2016 returns cause I was not offered a option to get my money back from 2015 returns cause I was really in the need for my money I worked hard for.

The publicly - traded, Nebraska - based student loan servicer Nelnet has agreed to buy its competitor, the Great Lakes Higher Education Corp., for $ 150 million according to a press release from Nelnet from Thursday of this week.The deal still needs to pass regulations to be approved, but it is set to close in January 2018.