Sentences with phrase «significant educational changes»

A partnership governance group has recently been established, to support strategic development in a time of significant educational change.

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It is significant that when Daly and Cobb wrote about needed changes to the economic order, they concluded with criticism of the disciplinary organization of knowledge and its domination of educational institutions, particularly the university (Daly & Cobb 1989, p. 357 - 60).

«Thanks to the support and partnership of Borough President Melinda Katz, we are continuing to make significant strides towards ensuring that every four - year - old in New York City will have access to this life changing educational opportunity.

Most school - choice programs offer significant but not revolutionary changes to the traditional educational model.

Also, with the democratic changes that have occurred and the new reforms that are to be implemented, there has been significant political interference in the educational system.

A little more than a decade ago we embarked on what is arguably the most significant change in educational policy of the past half century — the introduction of No Child Left Behind.

One of the most significant changes in educational policy of the past two decades is the movement toward test - based accountability in the schools.

Of course, Jobs ultimately survived the educational malpractice he faced, and he changed the world in significant ways.

Significant changes concerning the provision of special educational needs were implemented by the government last September.

Whilst it appears that the law has a long way to go and it is unlikely there will be any significant legislative changes in the near future, educational establishments should seriously consider reviewing and updating their existing policies and procedures relating to dealing with abuse in both a social media and face - to - face context, as well as offering training to their staff on how to deal with abuse.

Consequently, we believe that Global Citizenship Education has the ability to act as seeds of social change (locally and globally), to create a cognitive conflict between the various educational actors and build a significant learning as an entrepreneurial fruits sustained in practice, as for example in the performance and participation of citizens in solving social problems.

Nevertheless, it is reasonable to conclude that significant differences in sample means reflect some collective decrease in the sense that the state is a supportive partner in educational reform, and some shifts within states may be related to changes in state policies.

Each perspective here is correct: students are routinely bored at most significant educational leadership activities, and teachers are often underwhelmed or frustrated by students» disinterest in opportunities to change their education.

Guiding schools through significant change is one of the toughest challenges educational leaders face, but learning from the examples of those who have succeeded can make it less daunting.

Sam was a wonderful mentor to emerging scholars, and, because of his support and advocacy, many of his former graduate students and postdoctoral fellows went on to have productive and sometimes very prominent careers, making significant contributions to the fields of school effectiveness and improvement and educational change.

Although these early tips of the hat were appropriate and timely, the decreased costs, increased functionality, increased usability, and almost ubiquitous access, along with immensely significant new potential to transform the social studies classroom, have changed the educational landscape.

A change in local governance, however, will not address a very significant issue that the School District of Philadelphia faces: inadequate state funding to provide all students in the District with the educational opportunities they need to meet state standards and graduate ready for work or further education and a bright future.

2000 Results began to demonstrate that the changes in Finland's educational system were making a significant difference as demonstrated by scoring third on a global assessment, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15 - year - olds in approximately 40 countries.

Ultimately, 2013 may bring more significant change in the trade and educational landscape than we've seen in many recent years.

With constantly changing exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and events under one roof, as well as a resourceful secondary market division, Bivins Gallery brings globally significant art and ideas to the thriving Dallas art community.

Secondly, they point out that adolescents, who they see as an ideal demographic to consider such choices, are not presented with information about the impact of significant lifestyle changes in climate change educational materials.

Special educational needs provision is facing its most significant change for 30 years, says Richard Freeth

This introduced significant changes to the legal framework which governs the process by which children and young people with special educational needs receive support.

Children who received the low - intensity intervention demonstrated statistically significant changes in educational functioning and nonsignificant improvement in cognitive functioning.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

No significant relations were observed between profile membership and girls» inhibitory control, and the results did not change after adjustment for covariates (ie, maternal BMI and educational level, and family income; P > 0.05).

Downey, Ainsworth - Darnell, and Dufur (1998) found mixed evidence of gender differences among single - parent families on a comprehensive list of child outcomes; all of the significant differences, however, occurred in educational measures and consistently showed a disadvantage for children living with single fathers... I find support for the hypothesis that, at least in early childhood, mother changes have more lasting influences on college expectations and school disciplin ethan father changes...»