Sentences with phrase «secondary education increased»

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For example, the prices of secondary education and housing have been increasing much more rapidly than the prices of other goods and services; meanwhile fuel prices have risen, fallen, risen again and fallen again — each time very sharply — in the past ten years.

The relative risk increase was greater among mothers with secondary education or less compared with mothers who had completed university (RR = 1.20, 95 % CI: 1.11, 1.31).

The Department for Education is inviting tenders to the value of # 17.4 million for services to support school readiness to provide school lunches to all infant pupils in England from September 2014 (# 9.6 m); to kick start increased take up in at least 2000 junior and secondary schools where take - up of school lunches is low (# 4.8 m); and to set up breakfast clubs in at least 500 schools where over 35 % of pupils are eligible for free school meals and there is no existing breakfast provision (# 3m).

The contest, which was co-sponsored by Project Bread and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, was designed to increase Massachusetts high school students» participation in school breakfast.

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

«I'm happy to inform you that the school has received its fair share of projects which with the help of our son, Dr. Clement Apaak, has increased access to secondary education in the last two years.

The last administration swapped the allowance system with the students loan scheme and embarked on massive infrastructural development in the education sector with many new secondary schools built to increase enrollment especially, in our rural communities.

That is why I support increased funding for primary and secondary education, as well as policies that ensure students and teachers have the tools they need to be successful.

We will have an education system that differentiates between students and finds every child where he or she is in the early years, then gives her the understanding, guidance, increasing academic challenge, and support necessary to traverse each level of our education system successfully, ultimately emerging — after some years of post secondary education — ready for success in a job and in our economy, as a citizen, the head of a family, and a lifelong learner.

Recent Upturn By the time 2012 arrived, BESA's quarterly survey of the school's digital content industry in association with the Education Publishers Council (EPC) showed a return of market confidence as procurement across UK primary and secondary schools increased by 8.6 per cent in quarter one, compared to the same quarter in 2011.

And we know that starting from about age 11, or the entrance to secondary education, «that physical bullying declines with age but... other forms increase... when children experience puberty and change schools (Berger 2007, p. 95).

«Increasing Targeting, Flexibility, and Transparency in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to Help Disadvantaged Students.»

The status of financial education in secondary schools seems not to have increased significantly after being added to the statutory Maths and Citizenship curriculum in September 2014, with 42 % of teachers revealing there had been no change in the emphasis put on the topic in their school.

The New York State legislature this month passed a $ 462 - million increase in state aid to public schools, bringing to nearly $ 1 billion the amount of new money it has invested in elementary and secondary education in the past two years.

The average age of teachers increases from 43 in primary education to 45 in upper secondary education.

They also found «an increase in cultural capital of one standard deviation is estimated to increase the likelihood of completing upper secondary education by 12.5 percentage points.»

Benefits of arts education In addition to economic benefits of investment in arts education for students in the primary and secondary sectors there are a plethora of social and intellectual benefits: • encouraging self expression and self awareness • building confidence and self esteem • thinking creatively and conceptually • problem solving • increasing motivation and improving behaviour • developing organisational skills • being able to work collaboratively and independently • developing multiple learning styles • building maturity and appreciation • developing observational skills • raising global awareness and respect for other cultures • promoting literacy through analysis and interpretation • increasing enjoyment and fun in learning • developing spatial and visual skills • encouraging qualitative awareness • seeing different perspectives • openness to subtlety, nuance, flexibility and imagination

Both primary and secondary state ‑ funded schools are projected to require increased space for rapidly growing student numbers over the next eight years, according to research carried out by the Department for Education.

It adds change is already underway in Australia, and around the world, as systems and schools introduce programs to increase student agency and engagement in secondary education, and provide relevant and personalised learning experiences.

Learning more about public transport will help to increase confidence during transition from primary to secondary education.

Our annual «Impact of New Technologies» survey into the views of English Maintained Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2011/12.

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

The Global Education Conference (GEC) is a collaborative and world - wide community event designed to reduce participation barriers and significantly increase opportunities for globally - connecting educators (primary, secondary and tertiary levels), students, and organizations.

In fact, the Government's latest Department for Education (DfE) national pupil projections show that both state primary and secondary pupil numbers are expected to continue to grow over the coming years, with the number of full - time equivalent pupils aged up to 15 years projected to increase by 320,000 (11.4 %) by 2021 and to continue to grow until 2025.

The U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of insEducation has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of inseducation agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of insEducation Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction.

As a national leader in education, the Commonwealth has seen its elementary and secondary students rise to the occasion time and again with increased rates of proficiency on state and national exams.

Drop - out rates increase further towards senior secondary school; again, almost one in five children who complete the junior level do not continue into the final years of their education.

«This ballot question actually takes a fairly tempered approach to increasing access in a gradual process, year by year, with retention of the important oversight of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,» said Christopher Anderson, a former chairman of the state Board of Education and one of the petition's signers.

That continues a pattern of steady growth in interest in private secondary education despite marked increases in the cost of attending...

Even an increase to 37 % of worldwide spending in education would not be enough to make the US the biggest spender for primary and secondary education.

If the US were to have spent 37 % of the total education spending for the 115 countries in the analysis, it would have needed to increase its primary spending by an estimated 45 % and its secondary spending by an estimated 71 %.

Finally, I calculated the percentage of US» education spending relative to education spending around the globe and used this information to estimate how much spending would have to increase if the US were to have spent 37 % of the total spending on education in primary and secondary grades in 2013.

In a letter to Congress, Educators 4 Excellence proposed key recommendations that should be considered for the future of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in order to increase equity and support teacher development and retention.

High School Allotment: Provides $ 275 per high school student in additional funding to districts to prepare students to go on to higher education, encourage students to take challenging course work, increase the rigor of academic courses, align secondary and postsecondary curriculum, and support promising high school reform initiatives in grades 6 through 12.

Mathematics teacher education programs are no different but are now faced with the challenge of increasing the preparedness to teach statistics and at the same time maintaining their strong attention to other content areas taught in secondary mathematics.

That said, increasing the emphasis on technical subjects and skills won't be done by reintroducing a tri-partite system of secondary education.

The inclusion of charter schools in the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), significantly increased their visibility.

In its October 7, 2016 meeting, the Utah State Board of Education: • Made student growth, a 2.5 percent increase in weighted - pupil unit funding, and moving the state to the use of ACT and ACT Aspire tests for secondary assessment as its top three legislative priorities.

Currently operating with an eight - period block schedule, otherwise known as a 4 - by - 4 schedule, the idea to change the schedule to increase the number of classes students attend each day is to help students with more opportunities to learn, said Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education Richard Holmes.

In addition, women now have more varied career opportunities in education, as evidenced by the increases in female teachers at the secondary level and dramatic increases in the number of female administrators.

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) focus on increasing the number of low - income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post secondary education.

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

In the meantime, President Obama in his State of the Union message gave strong support to public education followed up with a budget proposal that asks Congress to approve a dramatic increase in ESEA funding — note that it has become fashionable once again to refer to the law by its actual name the Elementary and Secondary Educaeducation followed up with a budget proposal that asks Congress to approve a dramatic increase in ESEA funding — note that it has become fashionable once again to refer to the law by its actual name the Elementary and Secondary EducationEducation Act.

She was also appointed by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to serve on a committee that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a federal guideline to increase school accountability for student achievement.

However, since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1950 and continuing to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Department of Education's Race to the Top initiative of 2009, the federal government has taken and maintained increased control over schools through mandates, incentives, and funding.

The New York Times recently published a feature on the increasing use of data in primary and secondary education.

Dubbed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), this version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act would greatly increase states» options for evaluating schools and teachers.

The National Center for Education Statistics has reported that the need for elementary and secondary teachers is projected to increase over the next several years.

Public school districts are projected to lose more than $ 303 million to Commonwealth charter schools in the 2011 - 2012 school year (minus some short - term reimbursement), an increase of more than 9 % over last year, and the first time in the 15 - year history of this privatization initiative that costs have topped $ 300 million, according to figures recently released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The 15 RCCs provide frontline assistance to states to help them implement the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and other federal school improvement programs and to help increase the capacity of states to assist their districts and schools.