Sentences with phrase «producing program graduates»

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Of course, China isn't known for being particularly compromising when it comes to solving its higher - ed pickles: In 2011, the country's Ministry of Education notoriously announced that it would be canceling all majors that didn't produce employable graduates — largely programs that didn't accommodate the country's export - and manufacturing - based economy.

«This city, province and country needs exactly this kind of program and the graduates it will produce.

If, in fact, the programs produce abler graduates, employers will seek them out, thereby motivating schools to recruit and educate more students by the honors route.

Some state - certified apprenticeship programs produce few graduates, have few participants to begin with, or have apprentices who languish in the program, he said.

UMES's own PSM program in quantitative fisheries science and natural resources economics has, she continued, already produced graduates who work in agencies devoted to preserving and enhancing the economy and ecology of the region whose livelihood depends heavily on the wellbeing of the Chesapeake Bay.

With programs aiming to produce graduates at specific points along the physician - scientist continuum, it was essential that I was comfortable with their attitude.

Dr. Han and colleagues tell us that at UCSF, the medical center and the office of graduate medical education leadership joined forces to produce a program - specific quality improvement program in 2008.

Since its inception, the primary goal of the program has been to produce graduates who are prepared to bridge the gap between ecology and the quantitative methodologies typically taught in computer science, math, and statistics departments.

In a CGS survey, which produced answers from 857 deans, directors, and chairs representing 226 institutions, 62 % of respondents «indicated that their institutions and / or graduate programs offer some type of formal professional development program for graduate students in research degree programs to obtain skills beyond core academic research skills,» the report states.

First author Kim Martinod, a graduate student in the Immunology Graduate Program at the Harvard University Medical School, found that, in response to vein constriction, these «rescued» mice now could function normally, forming clots as efficiently as mice with a functioning Pad4 gene, demonstrating that the Pad4 gene did produce a functioning PAD4 enzyme in these white blood cells to regulate blood cgraduate student in the Immunology Graduate Program at the Harvard University Medical School, found that, in response to vein constriction, these «rescued» mice now could function normally, forming clots as efficiently as mice with a functioning Pad4 gene, demonstrating that the Pad4 gene did produce a functioning PAD4 enzyme in these white blood cells to regulate blood cGraduate Program at the Harvard University Medical School, found that, in response to vein constriction, these «rescued» mice now could function normally, forming clots as efficiently as mice with a functioning Pad4 gene, demonstrating that the Pad4 gene did produce a functioning PAD4 enzyme in these white blood cells to regulate blood clotting.

By merging the academic strengths of the university with the applied expertise within the local financial community, this program is another example of how the university community is working to produce graduates who are ready to drive the changes in the financial services industry and to propel the industry firmly into the next millennium.

Data on graduates of MSTPs indicate that these programs are successful in producing productive researchers, who obtain NIH grants and are promoted through the ranks of academic medicine.

These African nations will need to tailor their programs to avoid producing too many or the wrong kinds of graduate degree holders for the local economies to absorb.

And some of these biological sciences students will be groomed for a US - style graduate MBBS - PhD program, aimed at producing a new generation of clinician scientists adept at solving both clinical and basic sciences problems.

The married couple, both graduates of the International Education Policy Program, credit one of Professor Fernando Reimers» courses with providing a framework for producing change at scale in the global context.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In Nevada, for example, the nine institutes of higher education that offer teacher prep programs produced 81 graduates in 2015 - 16.

Produced by the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk youth.

Students learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban planning programs than in high school, and produce professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.

The mission of the Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program is to produce graduates who not only understand the strengths and challenges of current public education policy, but are prepared to lead the organizations and initiatives that will create 21st - century systems of education that work for all students.

States can take actions to pump up the supply of stronger teachers by using data on the effectiveness of graduates to improve teacher training programs, expanding those that produce strong teachers and shrinking or closing those that do not.

Now, it strikes me as ludicrous for the unions to sit quietly by and share the blame for timid, tepid leadership, or when unions passively take the blame for weak teachers when teacher preparation programs produce graduates of dubious merit.

However, the market will work much better if government regulates the providers more effectively and if preparation programs produce graduates whose readiness to teach can be clearly identified by the school districts that hire them.

Still, despite these wide differences in how the programs are run, they produce graduates who are statistically indistinguishable from each other.

As more states and municipalities turn their focus toward increasing early education opportunities, Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie Jones have produced a series of 10 one - page briefs to help policymakers and educators build sustainable and effective programs.

It is a fundamental principle that programs are accredited on the basis that they produce graduates who meet the Graduate Teacher Standards.

Virginia will participate in the U.S. Department of Education (USED) Green Ribbon Schools pilot program that recognizes schools where staff, students, officials and communities have worked together to produce energy efficient, sustainable and healthy school environments and to ensure the sustainability and environmental literacy of graduates.

Programs produce teachers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and they train students to teach different subjects, grades, and specialties.

The podcast is produced by the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (PennGSE).

Abolished by lawmakers for reasons still unclear, the teaching fellows program has been praised for producing highly trained education graduates that go into teaching in North Carolina classrooms, many of whom stay to teach in the state for the long haul.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

They then compared the overall student growth in the classrooms of recent graduates of different training programs to the growth produced by veteran educators.

There's not enough data yet, however, to show that the residency program is producing high - performing teachers who outshine graduates from traditional routes, something Drew Furedi, the executive director for talent management at the Los Angeles Unified School District, acknowledges.

Because programs produce teachers across a range of grades and subject areas, looking at the overall and average student growth achieved by graduates provides meaningful insight into program quality and should anchor the accreditation process.»

The new, unified ProTeach program would produce graduates eligible for elementary certification with an endorsement in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and with expertise in special education, or graduates with dual certification in special education and elementary education and the ESOL endorsement.

Comprehensive training programs like the one offered by New Leaders spend time on all of these pieces, but there is a limit to how many graduates they can produce.

Imagine the economic benefit to our nation from another million children graduating high school and going to college — a result that private - school choice programs have proven they can produce.

Ben Backes and his colleagues at CALDER found that, compared to other high school teachers in the state, graduates from the original UTeach program at the University of Texas at Austin produce as much as four months of additional learning in math and nearly six months of additional learning in science.

Look at research showing teacher education programs that produce higher student achievement gains (in their graduates» first year of teaching) have the following characteristics:

The ITE Standards and Procedures have been strengthened by including robust assessment, transparent selection processes and quality professional experience to ensure every ITE program produces quality, classroom ready graduates.

In addition, if the connections between preparation programs result from the overlap of atypical graduates or from graduates teaching in atypical school environments, use of school effects could produce bias.

Federal policymakers, as well as some state ones, are beginning to push for higher - quality teacher preparation programs proven to produce graduates who can have a positive impact on student achievement.

The implementation of the gainful employment rule appears to be weeding out the for - profit schools that can not produce programs that will help graduates find good work.

Most for - profit colleges offer programs that are career - oriented and advertise themselves as producing «career - ready» graduates.

Ni Chana Ti - Juana will present work produced during the first - year project in the Otis Graduate Public Practice Program after three trips to Camino Verde, a community in Tijuana B.C.

She is Professor in the Arts and Co-Director of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York.Judy Pfaff is the Spring 2011 Falk Visiting Artist, a residency program produced collaboratively by the Weatherspoon and the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that includes a series of MFA graduate student critiques and artistProgram at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York.Judy Pfaff is the Spring 2011 Falk Visiting Artist, a residency program produced collaboratively by the Weatherspoon and the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that includes a series of MFA graduate student critiques and artistprogram produced collaboratively by the Weatherspoon and the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that includes a series of MFA graduate student critiques and artist talks.

This program, one of the country's most respected artist - in - residency programs in the country, produces graduates whose works are shown at major galleries and museums throughout the world.

A graduate of CalArts, he took that school's interdisciplinary approach to heart, producing an oeuvre that ranged from sculpture and drawing to performance and video, and quickly became a mainstay of Metro Pictures's exceptional program in the mid-1980s.

A graduate of the MFA Art Writing program at Goldsmiths, he has recently produced performances at Tate Modern; Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland; ICA London; Nottingham Contemporary and the Van Alen Institute, New York.

Words and Places: Etel Adnan is an exhibition produced by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts with the support of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.