Sentences with phrase «school diversity programs»

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The company sells software subscriptions to schools and businesses that help teach financial literacy (understanding mortgages and credit, for example), responsible college behavior (involving hazing and alcohol consumption), corporate compliance (like sexual harassment and diversity training), and other programs.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

Among other things, It uses such factors as a school's diversity — in female faculty, staff and board members — to judge the «quality» of a program.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

Our financial aid and sibling discount programs support this goal, and the families participating in these programs have contributed significantly to the economic diversity of the school as well as to its spiritual and social growth.

Our program of tuition assistance supports this diversity by making the School more accessible to families of varying economic backgrounds.

Thanks to the depth and diversity of content professionals working with children in a variety of capacities — recreation center directors, summer camps, after - school programming and aquatics, among them — have embraced and benefited from earning their CYSA credential.

Taste Washington Day originated as a Washington School Nutrition Association program in celebration of the diversity and abundance of Washington's harvest season, and to share this with school children and school communities across the School Nutrition Association program in celebration of the diversity and abundance of Washington's harvest season, and to share this with school children and school communities across the school children and school communities across the school communities across the state.

Hartsbrook adopted a new Sliding Scale Tuition Model with the goals of increasing diversity, inclusion, and equity at our school, expanding innovative programming, and living the schools» values more deeply.

The program plays a major role in contributing to the success, diversity and health of the school.

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I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.

In their proposal released in March, the IDC laid out a plan to increase diversity in the schools» enrollment, the «New York City Specialized High Schools Diversity Initiative and Gifted and Talented Program Expansiodiversity in the schools» enrollment, the «New York City Specialized High Schools Diversity Initiative and Gifted and Talented Program Expansion.schools» enrollment, the «New York City Specialized High Schools Diversity Initiative and Gifted and Talented Program Expansion.Schools Diversity Initiative and Gifted and Talented Program ExpansioDiversity Initiative and Gifted and Talented Program Expansion.»

NYC education department officials are tackling segregated schools with a new citywide classroom diversity program.

Her State of the City will also call for free birth control for all women in the five boroughs, universal free school lunch, $ 22 million for the Emergency Food Assistance program and new diversity and sex education programs in public schools.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

Twenty - five city schools are being honored — eight for the second time — for their work creating programs that teach the importance of respecting others, celebrating diversity and creating a school culture that is free from bullying and harassment.

These corporations and other diversity - leading companies often use mentoring programs, caucus groups for underrepresented races, workshops, and school outreach programs.

The program assessment won't be out until mid-February, but study director Charlotte Kuh previewed the diversity component during a talk Friday at the annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C.

The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine among high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.

«In the area of oncology, but even more generally, embracing the genetic diversity of disease is really important,» says Golub, who is also director of the Broad's Cancer Program, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana - Farber, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

To address another joint on the pipeline Diaz and colleagues in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program partnered with seven other Schools at Penn, along with the Offices of the Vice Provost for University Life and Vice Provost for Education, to organize the first Penn Honors Diversity (PHD) Symposium.

Presenters: Jabbar R. Bennett, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Northwestern University, Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine; Elizabeth L. Travis, Ph.D., FASTRO, Associate Vice President for Women Faculty Programs, Mattie Allen Fair Professor in Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Beyond the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute's programs include the Feature Film Program, Documentary Film Program, Short Film Program, Film Music Program, Theatre Program, Native American and Indigenous Film Program, New Frontier, Creative Producing Initiative, Episodic Storytelling Initiative, Ignite, Catalyst Initiative, Diversity Initiative, Creative Distribution Initiative, and the Women In Film Initiative, in addition to free community programs and a variety of opportunities for high school and university students.

What is the link between a project to design a national park using Minecraft, a program for finding rooms on a school campus, and a game teaching children about diversity and tolerance?

LGBTQ students can feel «isolated and alone and rejected» when peers and teachers don't accept them, says Tracie Jones, who runs student diversity and inclusion programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Designed for all independent school leaders, the program covers topics such as diversity, access, equity, innovative instructional design strategies, online learning, financial sustainability, and the role of independent schools in the context of their communities.

I direct the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Harvard School of KimDental Medicine and am an instructor in the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Program.

The study «Learn and Serve» evaluated service learning program at 17 middle and high schools in the United States, and found that students who participated in service learning improved acceptance of cultural diversity, service leadership, civic attitudes and volunteer behavior, and reduced engagement in risky behaviors.

The goal was to establish a program that reflected the diversity of the field itself, bringing artists, teaching artists, researchers, administrators, classroom teachers, and out - of - school educators together for a year of study on the foundational issues that inform all aspects of arts education theory and practice.

We've tried a number of solutions over the years to deal with diversity in schools, from mandated busing to desegregate schools to magnet programs to minority recruitment campaigns at colleges and universities.

Roberts and Smith started the program in 1998 after Whitwell Middle School's principal, Linda Hooper, asked them to develop a program to increase students» sensitivity to diversity.

McCartney's welcome speech opened an orientation week designed to provide students opportunities to familiarize themselves with the Ed School campus, Harvard Square, courses, faculty members, and fellow students, including a diversity event, «Engaging in Inclusive Dialogue,» led by Professor Tom Hehir, and master's program meetings.

2011 In my third year of directing the School Leadership Program, I brainstormed with students about what they would need to be transformative leaders around equity and diversity.

Given the natural diversity that exists in our schools, trying to develop programs just for kids with disabilities is too narrow an approach.

I started my interviews close to home, in a city known as the epicenter of liberalism, with Ed Byrne, the current diversity programs coordinator at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School, just around the corner from Harvard.

As part of the program, district staff members — including school psychologists, social workers, and teachers — received training so they can coach their colleagues on topics like embracing family diversity and preventing bias - based bullying.

The Obama administration has issued new priorities for its charter - school grant program, among them support for schools that «promote diversity in their student bodies, including racial and ethnic diversity, or avoid racial isolation.»

In programs that prepare teachers to work in urban schools or in communities with linguistic and cultural diversity, community experiences tend to be emphasized.

When School Isn't Safe LGBTQ students can feel «isolated and alone and rejected» when peers and teachers don't accept them, says Tracie Jones, who runs student diversity and inclusion programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

PAI is the professions own provider of professional development and runs a number of major national schools programs on diversity, community participation, health promotion and international and national leadership in Australia.

Teaching Students to «Go Fourth» Peacefully Go Fourth, an anti-bullying program based on classroom discussions and exchanges among children around the globe, recently brought teachers, parents, and fourth grade students from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, school to Shaoguan, Guandong province, China, on a mission to promote respect for cultural diversity.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

The day - long meeting, sponsored by Harvard's Reimagining Integration program, the National Coalition on School Diversity, and The Century Foundation (where I work), brought together 50 scholars, civil - rights activists, and educators to plot out new strategies for school diversity in the age of School Diversity, and The Century Foundation (where I work), brought together 50 scholars, civil - rights activists, and educators to plot out new strategies for school diversity in the age Diversity, and The Century Foundation (where I work), brought together 50 scholars, civil - rights activists, and educators to plot out new strategies for school diversity in the age of school diversity in the age diversity in the age of Trump.

Deborah Palmer is a Professor in the program in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder.

By coincidence, as the news of the program's discontinuation broke, proponents of school diversity, including King, were gathering at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a strategic - planning conference on school - diversity efschool diversity, including King, were gathering at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a strategic - planning conference on school - diversity efSchool of Education for a strategic - planning conference on school - diversity efschool - diversity efforts.

DeVos has raised numerous concerns for her support of school choice and voucher programs that critics say would pull resources from struggling public schools and stifle diversity.

Policies that promote school integration by race and class took a significant hit last week when the U.S. Department of Education announced that it was killing a small but important federal program to support local diversity efforts.

As Politico noted when the program was announced in 2013, the options available through Course Choice are impressive in their diversity:» [Students] might, for instance, take algebra from a math tutoring firm, ACT prep from Princeton Review, pipefitting from a construction trade association, French from an online public school... or all of the above.»