Sentences with phrase «public education strategies»

Develop and implement factual public education strategies to inform Canadians as to risks of problematic use and lower - risk use guidance

DC School Reform Now is educating, organizing and advocating to build support for public education strategies that prepare kids to become college and career ready.

The findings paint a troubling picture of marijuana - users» habits and underscore the need for a comprehensive, far - reaching public education strategy ahead of the federal government's stated legalization deadline of July 1, 2018.

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My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

As the AIDS crisis enveloped Africa, Western nations generously pressed the snappy acronym «ABC» — Abstinence, Be faithful, use a Condom — as a strategy for education and public health.

But positive strategies that would take religion out of quarantine in public education are another matter.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

Given that global incidence rates of overweight and obesity are on the rise, particularly among children and adolescents, it is imperative that current public health strategies include education about beverage intake.

Framing community breastfeeding education as a public health strategy can allow us to look for opportunities in childhood initiatives, mental health programs, social interventions, and more!

Evidence is emerging that the combination of law reform and public education is more effective than either strategy alone in changing parental attitudes and behaviours.54

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Public education should continue for all who care for infants, including parents, child care providers, grandparents, foster parents, and baby - sitters, and should include strategies for overcoming barriers to behavior change.

Like Cameron in his first ever PMQs, where he marked a shift in Tory strategy by declaring he would work with the then prime minister Tony Blair on his education reforms, we must similarly mark ourselves out to the public.

Prior to design, her unique journey spanned multiple roles in four countries, three cities, and two states — including professional ballet, management, copywriting, event production, business consulting, and national and international public relations As a designer, she has had the opportunity to work with businesses of all sizes, start - ups, agencies, higher education institutions, and non-profits for projects in branding, brand strategy, print design, multi-media, advertising, digital design, presentation design, marketing, project management, live event production, e-learning, video, photography, art direction, and out - of - home.

«The Conservative Government is clearly encouraging a more commercialised and marketised approach to education development and is deliberately promoting a strategy which its own evidence suggests risks undermining the provision of high quality public education in developing countries.

NYPALS currently is represented by one of the state's most prominent public strategy firms, Mercury Public Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success Acpublic strategy firms, Mercury Public Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success AcPublic Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success Academy.

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, will today reaffirm its strategy to continue to defend the interests of pupils, schools and the teaching profession from the assault by the Government and administrations across the UK on our public education service.

«So I think that strategy — he is blowing that up by attacking public education here right toward the end of the election.»

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, said going to the Capitol for funding assistance is a «predictable and potentially successful strategy in that it doesn't implicate New York City public school buildings.»

«But I don't understand how he gets those things or better public education with this strategy.»

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss some new strategies in place to support student learning in Buffalo Public Schools.

The proposals include creating a single research and higher education ministry, an independent higher science council to advise the government on strategy, a new body to evaluate all researchers, a long - term jobs plan for public agency researchers, and more crossover between the two groups.

The IUCN's Hyena Specialist Group focuses on developing hyena conservation strategies worldwide through integrated research and public education to change attitudes toward these much maligned animals.

Tyre is a visiting scholar at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and is director of strategy at the Edwin Gould Foundation, which houses the EGF Accelerator, the U.S.'s premier incubator for education nonprofits.

Mounting evidence, including findings from the current study, suggests that public health interventions should include sleep education programs as part of strategies to prevent weight gain.

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa...

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa... more

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.

All of these strategies establish an important and unambiguous principle: teacher education exists to serve the needs of Pre-K — 12 schools and public financial support should depend on its ability to do so.

She led the Literacy and Numeracy Taskforce in New Zealand and was the lead advisor in the development of the New Zealand Government's Education Public Achievement Information Strategy.

As the new president — only five months on the job — of the Universite Pyublique de l'Artibonite aux Gonaives (Public University of Artibonite) in Gonaives, Haiti, Lourdy K. Dorismond was thrilled to attend IEM, a well - known institute that provides opportunities for senior leaders in higher education to assess leadership skills, renew commitment to higher education, and develop tangible strategies for long - term institutional success.

In a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balance.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

Ten years after the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) began as a collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard Business School to see how business strategies could be used to help public schools improve student performance, what has been the program's iPublic Education Leadership Project (PELP) began as a collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard Business School to see how business strategies could be used to help public schools improve student performance, what has been the program's ipublic schools improve student performance, what has been the program's impact?

For the chartering strategy to improve the whole of public education, we need to think strategically about what institutions we want authorizing schools.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Within the exploration of school reform, participants considered topics including high quality teachers, national education reform, public / private partnerships, and implementation strategies.

In particular, Russo argues that Eli Broad thought, «The main purpose of ED in ’08 [was to make] education a number - one issue with the public: the «outside» half of the organization's strategy.

«Adequacy litigation was devised as a strategy to reform public education.»

However, if charter advocates carefully target specific systems with an exacting strategy, the current policy environment will allow them to create examples of a new, high - performing system of public education in urban America.

Its mission: «To improve public education for disadvantaged children in Palm Beach and Martin counties by developing, testing, and implementing new strategies for learning.»

We hadn't quite anticipated such strong recruiting effects right off the bat at these schools, which Public Impact along with Education First and Education Resource Strategies have been supporting.

Their approach to greatness in American education, as Linda Darling - Hammond phrases it in the foreword, is to ensure that «our strategies must emulate the best of what has been accomplished in public education both from here and abroad.»

Many high - performing public schools employ strategies to screen out such students as well, either by not providing the services needed for special education students, or by employing admissions policies that make it difficult or unlikely for such students to gain access.

In CECIP's perspective, Brazil needs to foster Global Citizenship Education — with whatever denomination it takes -, since its methodologies and strategies for active learning, racism / sexism deconstruction, democracy reinforcement and glocal citizens formation make us more and more able to value and to use our great assets of joy, art, movement, ancestral sustainable values, attitudes and skills to increase our capacity to develop creative alternatives to unsustainable public policies.