Sentences with phrase «recent education success»

My past work experience and recent education success has shaped me into an employee with skills a Law Enforcement candidate able to serve a wide array of local and county municipalities.

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In recent years, both Microsoft and Google have found success in the education market thanks to their lower cost laptops and tablets.

This is not to say that there has been any lack of recent activity, or of relative success, among evangelicals in higher education.

Major universities (for example, Dartmouth and the Universities of Michigan and Massachusetts, all of which have been the scene of recent demonstrations and violence) are struggling with overt examples of racial prejudice among their students, whose education has stressed success for oneself and tolerance of others.

However, the recent success of «Back - to - Sleep,» a national public education campaign, brought to light that the position in which an infant sleeps can affect the risk of SIDS.

«If both job opportunities and education places continue to be squeezed, teachers will face a tough challenge to keep young people in school motivated to achieve the continued levels of success we have seen over recent years.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has canceled a trip to the state's most controversial and politically connected charter network, Success Academy, as she seeks to tamp down a recent drama around her appearance at a charter school rally.

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

Recent research at Griffith University has found that personality is more important than intelligence when it comes to success in education.

In the last few years, it's been worth keeping an eye (or an ear, rather) on the Sundance buzz, as the festival has birthed a number of future critical hits, and even awards - season success stories: recent Best Picture nominees «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Precious,» «An Education» and now «The Kids Are All Right» and «Winter's Bone» all premiered there, as did «Frozen River,» «Blue Valentine» and a plethora of Oscar - nominated documentaries.

Education Business takes a look at the recent successes of the programme.

Following the government's flagship # 4.4 billion Priority School Building Programme, Education Business takes a look at its recent successes and examines what makes a successful rebuild.

Education Business takes a look at the recent successes of the Priority School Building Programme.

If you follow education news you may nod knowingly, assuming this is yet another tale out of Eva Moskowitz's network of Success Academy charter schools, which have been roiled in recent weeks by exposes in The New York Times and PBS's NewsHour.

In my recent book with Bernie Trilling (Four - Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed) we describe a complete range of competencies (beyond just skills) needed for new success.

Harvard Grad Wins «Amazing Race» (The Boston Globe) Graduate School Alumnus Wins «The Amazing Race» (Harvard Crimson) HGSE alum Scott Flanary discusses his recent win on the hit TV show, The Amazing Race, and what role his work in education played in his success.

In the recent Harvard Education Press title, What Excellent Community Colleges Do, author Joshua Wyner begins by identifying four domains — degree completion, equity, student learning, and labor market success — that define excellence in community colleges.

Still, education research has yielded some important successes in recent years.

But a recent study by Bellwether Education Partners and the Collaborative for Student Success found the first batch of state plans were «mostly vague and non-specific» in this area.

Research shows that high - quality preschool education has a lasting impact on children's school success, and in recent years, cities and states have moved to increase access to preschool programs.

Recent research, as published in the British Journal of Music Education, found that school children between the ages of 11 - 16 who were taking instrumental lessons, attained higher levels of academic success in GCSE Maths and English than their peers.

A Mathematica case study and a recent article in Education Next examine first - of - its - kind research that measures how accurately a so - called next generation high school assessment designed for the Common Core predicts college success, compared with the existing state assessment in Massachusetts.

What can education advocates learn from recent successes of the gay rights campaign?

On May 7, Alex Mayer discussed the challenge of developmental education for low - income college students in New Jersey and nationwide, citing recent innovations and growing evidence about what works to overcome barriers to college success.

A national leader in education reform — and recent winner of the Broad Prize for best public charter school network in the country — Success Academy has long been committed to advancing education reform nationally by sharing its content and approach, and inviting others across the country to access and adapt what we teach and how we teach it.

School choice has been one of the great successes of the education - reform movement in recent years, and taxpayer - funded vouchers have been one of the movement's primary tools.

Here's the latest in a series of occasional case studies I've been doing the past few years, this one about an education - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more peducation - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more pEducation Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more polarized.

However, in recent years, recent political and legislative initiatives that disfavor bilingual education have made these educational options difficult to access, despite evidence of their success (Goldenberg, 2009).

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

Less often recognized, but equally troublesome, is that recent school reforms haven't just limited our view of what matters in education (what subject areas, what student outcomes, and what indicators of success) but also our view of who matters.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Matter?

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Education Week highlighted the International Association for K - 12 Online Learning's (iNACOL) recent report on six policy recommendations for states to take advantage of opportunities under ESSA to «redefine student success:» Rethink accountability for continuous improvement; Redesign systems of assessments to align with student - centered learning; Transform systems...

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Awardeducation including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice AwardEducation Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

The company strives to offer the best in performance support solutions and has achieved a high level of success via its in - house product development and content teams as well as its collaborations through recent mergers and acquisitions that bring together some of the best tools and learning platforms available in the continuing education and eLearning field today.

We are excited about past and recent successes and new directions for the College of Education now and into the future.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Moskowitz has grown her national stature in recent years, criss - crossing the country to promote Success Academy specifically, and education reform in general, in the halls of Congress and at the annual closed - door meeting of the country's most influential financiers and CEOs at the Sun Valley Conference.

We will continue to propose ways to improve the way education is funded in Indiana, endeavoring always to align our fiscal policy with our education policies and building upon recent successes, like making sure every family that wants to enroll their child in full day kindergarten can do so.

This webinar will focus on a new brief by Civic Enterprises and AYPF entitled Measuring Success: Accountability for Alternative Education, which highlights national trends from a recent 50 - state scan and provides a state perspective on accountability for alternative settings.

Issue Contents: Naum Gabo's Constructed Head No. 2; Arshile Gorky Retrospective; Collaboration: Artists & Architects; Concentrations IV: Alain Kirili: Recent Sculpture; Impressionism and the Modern Vision; John Wise, 1901 - 1981; Future DMFA Progress Report; Membership Campaign Rated A Success; The Permanent Collection in Motion; Beaux Arts Ball; DMFA Recent Acquisitions; Volunteers; Education Film Programs; Gallery Talks; Lectures; Education Department Has Greatest Year Ever!

In Racquel's recent stints in private, career - focused education, she led her teams in career placement with over a 90 % success rate.

The recent 2017 CHAT Achievement Awards, held on 21 September, celebrated the hard work and successes of over 30 metropolitan and regional schools who have been working to develop a comprehensive whole - school approach to resilience, road safety and alcohol and other drugs education.