Sentences with phrase «public education arena»

Kno currently offers over 200,000 textbooks titles from more than 80 publishers, focusing on making these tools available for the K - 12 public education arena.

Digital textbooks continue to be one of the key frustrations in the public education arena.

The privatization and corporatization of the Public Education arena is following the same course as that of the prison system.

Not exact matches

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

CSWA's mission is to ensure that the California wine community is recognized globally as the leader in sustainable winegrowing in the marketplace and public policy arena through the development and promotion of sustainable practices, tools for education and outreach, partnerships with key stakeholders, and prioritizing research.

They included efforts to prepare communities to adapt to climate change; the cancer moonshot, precision medicine, and brain research in the health arena; a network of advanced manufacturing institutes to recapture global industrial dominance; and public - private partnerships to improve science and math education.

«Thinking outside the box» has become cliche now, yet in some arenas (like public education) many people still seem to prefer to stay in the box and cling to the traditional ways of doing things.

Sherpa Kids continues to push at the tendering door of the public education system but Ms Prout says most of the company's growth is happening in the private or church school arena.

15, was tired of witnessing the challenges of education — from bullying to the cradle - to - prison pipeline — yet rarely hearing anyone talking about those issues in the public arena.

Why can't for - profits operate effectively in public sector arenas such as education?

California, which has one of the nation's lowest funding levels for public education, has been among the most aggressive states experimenting in this arena.

When the term «public charter school» is discussed in the education arena, some might think of college preparatory courses, a focus on STEM, or dual - language programs.

After 13 years in secondary public education, I entered the teacher preparation arena and found the value of Twitter and social networking for professional development purposes.

There's a rare opportunity in New Orleans to show local and national arenas that constant community engagement matters, as the city's new public schools superintendent revisits the facilities master plan for education.

In the world of public education that has now turned into a political arena for unions, school boards, state capitols, and ed reformers, parents often...

The awards were announced at NSBA's Advocacy Institute in Washington, which focuses on building year - round advocates for public education and local school governance in public, legal, and legislative arenas.

We have observed these patterns of unconstructive responses to performance incentives across a number of domains — health, workforce training, public assistance programs and more — but the evidence of serious problems has piled up faster in public education than in any other policy arena.

Our efforts to be the premier advocate for public education in America, through our work in the legislative, legal and public arenas, are directly impacting public policy.

As the debate over how to improve public education has entered the national political arena, there is only room for dismay.

Jones also spoke to GoodeReader about the possible reasons why digital textbooks have seen a greater adoption at the higher education level than in the public schools, namely that in those arenas that students are accustomed to paying for content, as well as the fact that they see the means to an end in this kind of investment towards their degrees and ultimately their careers.

There is possibly no more community arena in which ebooks stand to make radical change than in the public education sector.

Postscript: Randy Olson has posted an interesting piece on his Web site today proposing that the community seeking public trust and engagement on climate change would do well to study the practices of two organizations fighting for science - based behavior in very different arenas: the federal Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Science Education (on evolution in the classroom).

Dr. Rose has produced more than 20 publications in peer - reviewed journals, books, state - wide education curricula, and public media outlets; provided over 85 conference presentations and educational trainings at regional, state, national, and international arenas; and given 2 - dozen educational television and radio broadcasts.»