The course is
primarily focused on education in the United States, though international comparisons are made throughout.
To achieve this goal, their work is
primarily focused on education, access, economics, collaboration and development, and research.
Not exact matches
But she's been
primarily preoccupied with philanthropic ventures, with a particular
focus on education.
Susan
primarily focuses on B2B software and mission critical business services companies that operate across a variety of verticals (e.g. HR technology,
education technology, healthcare technology).
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.
Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which
primarily focus on youth and
education.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story
primarily by
focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex
education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
MoveOn.org Civic Action is a 501 (c)(4) organization which
primarily focuses on nonpartisan
education and advocacy
on important national issues.
Our work overlaps in many ways, though while his
focus is
primarily on the
education system, mine looks more broadly at application of the brain science of early adversity.
This issue is
primarily focused on athletic training
education but also includes recaps from Capitol Hill Day, the Athletic Training Educators» Conference and the Youth Sports Safety Summit.
«It has highlighted the highly charged politics of the district and the forces that control the school board — none of which
focus primarily on the
education of children,» said former School Board President James Sampson.
A native of the Greater Los Angeles area, Ocean McIntyre's writing is
focused primarily on science (STEM and STEAM)
education and public outreach.
As regards access to tertiary
education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies
focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such
focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic scheme.
Koretz
focuses his research
primarily on educational assessment and testing, particularly when it is used as a tool of
education policy.
AAHHE is
primarily focused on the need to develop Latino / a faculty and senior administrators as well as serving as a leading research and advocacy group for Hispanic higher
education issues.
Ariel
Education Initiative — Ariel Investments foundation
primarily focused on Ariel Community Academy and its investment curriculum
The Carnegie Foundation's two - year project will
focus primarily on 4 - to 8 - year - old children, but will also look at programs that provide
education for 3 - and 4 - year - olds.
At a Dec. 3 - 4 meeting in Philadelphia that
focused primarily on higher
education, the 15 - member Commission
on Opportunities in Athletics talked about ways to correct what some believe are problems with the 30 - year - old statute that prohibits sex discrimination at educational institutions that accept federal funds.
A new section
on the U.S. Department of
Education's website notes that the government is «currently rethinking its accountability system in order to shift the balance from a system
focused primarily on compliance to one that puts more emphasis...
on educational results and functional outcomes for children with disabilities.»
By
focusing their efforts
primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the
education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?
Levinson, a normative political philosopher, has
focused primarily on civic
education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics.
It constitutes the transition from an
education process
focused primarily on the teacher — Sage
on the Stage, to the one centered
on the student and his or her needs, where the teacher is the guide leading students through the twists and turns of knowledge — Guide
on the Side.
They talked about the long - range return
on investment of a college
education, different types and sources of financial assistance, and the need for athletes to
focus primarily on academics.
Recently, Tennessee Department of
Education leaders have recognized that the state's teacher relicensure requirements are out of sync with its commitment to ensure that teaching evaluation
focuses primarily on continuous improvement and sharing pedagogical practices.
The website is
focused on primarily the Common Core and the PARCC test, local control of
education, quality standards, teachers given the ability to practice their profession, and to reduce the emphasis
on high - stakes testing.
The report also stated: «Students» understanding of other religions is scant as the religious
education curriculum
focuses primarily on the study of Islam.»
Focus on content: The program built
on teachers» pre-existing mathematics and early childhood
education expertise by
focusing primarily on infusing arts - integrated strategies into mathematics instruction.
Currently, she serves as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for
Education of the District of Columbia, and works
on a number of projects
primarily focused on cross-sector planning and student assignment issues.
Although news headlines have been
focused primarily on the U.S. Senate, we wanted to take a closer look at the results from this year's 36 state gubernatorial races given that
education is — and -LSB-...]
A state department of
education (SDE) that is served by the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) requested information
on support for high school students, with a
focus on whole - school reform,
primarily behavioral and school climate initiatives.
Is the school's
focus primarily on undergraduate
education, or does it put a lot of resources into and emphasis
on research and graduate programs?
Less than a decade ago the majority of teacher
education programs in the country offered stand - alone technology courses that
focused primarily on technical skills and trouble - shooting strategies to prepare teachers to use technology (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment [OTA] 1995; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996).
Prior studies in
education employing DBR approaches have
primarily focused on classroom instruction (Anderson & Shattuck, 2012), yet DBR can hold promise in the design and implementation of teacher PD (Dede et al., 2008).
This report
focuses primarily on the case study findings and is intended as a resource to support the adoption, adaptation, and scaling of developmental
education redesign in Oregon.
Yet ongoing efforts to improve public
education focus primarily on the role of teachers, principals, and superintendents and, to a lesser extent,
on state and federal policymakers.
Although community engagement is a vital component in
education reform, this research will
focuses primarily on family engagement.
In so doing, it suggests that the revision of this belief statement can expand the conversation from one
primarily about technologies to one that
focuses on the changing nature of literacy as well as the larger and long - term implications of this shift for English
education.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
focuses its
education giving in the United States
primarily on activities supporting college readiness.
Our work in this area
primarily focuses on early childhood
education (ECE) program evaluation and finance, bringing our long history and experience in evaluation, school finance, and cost estimation to the ECE field.
Because the vast majority of local resources for
education are raised through property taxes, though, equal opportunity often
focuses on whether spending is
primarily a function of a school district's wealth, thereby violating the principle of equal opportunity.
Education policy in recent decades has been
focused primarily on ensuring that all children — especially poor and minority children — attain at least a minimum level of academic achievement.
She has over 15 years of experience in
education reform and
focuses primarily on the uses of technology to advance ambitious goals.
JEAN DESRAVINES (New York, NY), Chief Executive Officer of New Leaders, has more than 15 years of professional leadership experience working with parents and communities
on education issues and community development,
primarily focusing on improving outcomes for children in underserved communities.
While the AFC Growth Fund
focuses primarily on those avenues to a higher quality
education, advocates also believe that states should eliminate all barriers preventing the growth of high - quality private and charter schools, virtual schools, online learning options, and home schooling.
If you are a city - based nonprofit or foundation,
primarily focused on increasing the number of great public schools in your city, you may be eligible to join the
Education Cities network.
Dr. Sornson works with schools and
education organizations across the country,
focusing primarily on developing comprehensive programs which support early learning success, building classroom and school culture to support the development of social and behavior skills, and offering parent training.
The New York City reports
focused primarily on the training program's graduates, including measures such as the percentage of graduates who work in high - needs schools licensed in high - demand areas like science and special
education and the percentage that have received tenure.
The majority of other studies of Twitter use
focus primarily on post-secondary
education, such as in nursing
education (Skiba, 2008), marketing classes (Rinaldo, Tapp, & Laverie, 2011), student perceptions of instructor credibility (Johnson, 2011), and college students» grades and academic engagement (Junco, Heiberger, & Loken, 2010).
The National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has taken
on this challenge in the past couple of years but has
primarily focused on helping parents understand the role that the annual state summative assessments play in the U.S.
education system, PTAs state by state guide to assessment.
We've
primarily focused on the special
education population, but it has a lot of merit and use for other demographics like ESL.