Sentences with phrase «recent years education»

Teacher, School Accountability Systems Shaken Up States move to delay, alter test - based rating systems, including «A-F» approaches rolled out in recent years Education Week

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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.

According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

For years, B Corp certification was rumored to hurt a startup's ability to attract investors, but recent deals have debunked this theory: San Francisco - based education company Altschool has raised $ 170 million from venture capitalists, and Data.world, an Austin - based tech startup, recently closed $ 19 million in Series B funding.

Faculty salaries have risen slower than many other fields in recent years, and with provincial governments squeezing education budgets tough wage negotiations are likely to remain the norm.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

The Institute of International Education, a not - for - profit organization that researches the movement of international students, found that 304,467 American students studied abroad during the 2013 - 2014 school year — the most recent data available.

In recent years a lot of emphasis has been put on the need for stronger STEM education to compete in an ever more technological world.

Goods and services that can not be imported from Asia have had substantial inflation in recent years — we shall only mention the cost of health care and education.

Recent data from Juwai.com reveals 60 percent of Australian property enquiries made last year from China were related to education, reports The Daily Telegraph (9 June 2016).

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The cost of a college education has sky - rocketed in recent years!

but considering: a) his divorce * preceded * this crisis of faith (& therein career, education, etc.) b) he is marketing this paradigm shift rather than simply experiencing it c) he appears to be reciprocating the recent rash of «i followed the bible for a year» model of book - writing & simply applying it to atheism

Bad school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker and educator of the year for 2009.

In recent years, most of the more than two hundred colleges and universities in America have turned their attention to strengthening their «Catholic identity,» but relatively few come near to approximating the vision of Catholic higher education proposed by John Paul and Benedict.

The development of universal free public education, beginning at the elementary levels and rising within recent years to the college and university levels, has been a direct consequence of the democratic impulse.

One of the most salutary developments in religious education circles in recent years is widespread participation in the growing rapprochement between theology and psychodynamic theory.

His College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (Harper & Row, 328 pp., $ 19.95), a report sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describes the dusky condition of liberal education in recent years, but he writes with the hope of a sunrise in mind.

The use of dialogue has become dominant in some theories of Christian education in recent years.

This kind of higher education has increased rapidly over recent years.

They will likely respond in terms of political and economic biases rather than theological ones, for the theological education of the laity has suffered in recent years.

Below I will discern a link between this reality and the CES's lack of focus upon the basic principles of Catholic education in recent years.

Such an amendment would return to the political process a prerogative that the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years pre-empted: the right of the people and their elected representatives to determine, and to take practical steps to foster, those kinds of education that seem beneficial to the general welfare.

The valedictorian at the Edison graduation last week was a recent immigrant to the United States, who just moved here four years ago, ready to get his high school education.

In recent years there has been much debate about the positive outcomes of fathers involvement in their children's education and upbringing and the barriers men face in accessing parental support services (see Ghate et al 2000, Ryan 2000).

Both of these formats have made great strides to provide quality education in recent years, but they aren't for everyone.

Mr Tough's book is one of many in recent years to argue that education policy in rich countries has emphasised academic skills while neglecting emotional and psychological development.

In recent years, in response to this growing crisis, a new idea (or perhaps a very old one) has arisen in the education world: Character matters.

In recent years, she has also covered education.

Last month, just before the state budget was approved, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made her first visit to Albany, appearing with education advocates she has worked closely with in recent years.

Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disaEducation Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disaeducation white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

Nonunion members and opponents of public sector unions have criticized the fees and the 1977 case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, broadly in recent years.

Although Syracuse graduation rates have increased in recent years due to successful career and technical education initiatives, there's still room for improvement.

Renee and guest Ronnie Ellis with CNHI News Service run down the key state legislative races in this year's primary contest, the top - tier candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in the 6th congressional district, the impact of recent educator activism in response to pension legislation and education funding, and more.

It is headquartered over her dentist husband's office in Lansing, and one recent day on the trail found Whitmer's 15 - year - old daughter chalking up driver's education hours by ferrying the candidate to campaign events.

Education spending has typically increased in recent years as the state was flush with spending surpluses and financial settlements.

At the same time, the governor and the WFP are currently feuding over his recent comments knocking the public education system as a «monopoly» and pledged to fight next year for more charter school protections.

«As members of the New York State Senate, we are deeply offended by Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent assertion that the children in New York City are more deserving and more in need of early childhood education than the 4 and 5 - year - olds in the communities we represent,» three Republican state senators — John Flanagan, Joe Robach and John DeFrancisco — said in a statement.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Special education reform is notoriously difficult in New York City; Bloomberg's sweeping special education reforms have been criticized by a number of advocates in recent years.

Ms. Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

«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.

Sixty - nine of the 99 - member Assembly Democratic conference signed a recent letter to Speaker Sheldon Silver re-stating education as a «priority» and expressing support for continuation of the so - called millionaire's tax past its sunset date at the end of the year.

What Hammond's analysis of school funding fails to account for is that New York State's share of the burden for supporting K - 12 education has fallen from 49 % in 2001 to less than 40 % in recent years.

This number has grown in recent years as successive governments have increased the influence of religious groups in the state - funded education system.

They also trust the state Education Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in receEducation Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in receeducation policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in recent years.