Sentences with phrase «skills at a community college»

Just last month, in a major school funding ruling, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher excoriated his state for watered down graduation standards that, he says, have already resulted «in unready children being sent to high school, handed degrees, and left, if they can scrape together the money, to buy basic skills at a community college.»

«The lack of a substantial and rational high - school graduation standard has resulted in unready children being sent along to high school, handed degrees, and left — if they can scrape together the money — to buy basic skills at a community college,» he wrote.

Start building websites for local non-profits or teaching technical skills at a community college.

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(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

The show does not deal with the important things that go on at a community college which are basically apprenticeships in needed skilled careers required for a productive economy, as well as training in skills that can provide for the needs for one's own life and family in terms of holding a career in an honorable and albeit remunerative manner.

If you're stuck in a routine and you need to break out of it, look at the options at your local library or community college — many offer one - night classes where you can learn a new skill, such as a cooking class or an art class.

Excerpt: «Link skilled workforce training at community colleges to local businesses so students are prepared for area jobs and are ready to hire upon graduation.»

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«From the Unemployment Strikeforce to the Urban Youth Jobs program, we are making smart investments to tackle unemployment in communities where it is most pervasive, and connect tomorrow's workers with the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace,» said Cuomo at a bill signing ceremony held at Hostos Community College.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick and Erie Community College President Jack Quinn held a press conference today at the Legislature Chambers to unveil ECC's Excels plan, a SUNY - informed initiative that focuses on creating a skilled workforce to support this region's resurgence.

Dutchess County is located at the center of a vibrant business community in the Hudson Valley — which is home to more than 1.2 million highly - skilled workers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, with much attributed to our award - winning colleges and universities, such as Vassar College and the Culinary Institute of America.

«Let's say you have someone working at one of your local manufacturers and they realize they can get a better paying job if they take a training course to somehow advance their skills at the local community college,» Gillibrand said.

I'm an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) for AMR and teach skills for an EMT program at a local community college.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening July 1, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Larry Crowne (PG - 13 for brief profanity and sexuality) Tom Hanks stars in the title role of this romantic romp as a victim of downsizing who develops a crush on his jaded speech professor (Julia Roberts) when he enrolls at a community college to brush up on his job skills.

Today, three main staff members are involved: Barnewall, as Transition teacher at the school; Flinders Council's Community Development Officer; and Simone Rigby, Advanced Skills Teacher at Newstead College.

With her collaborator Mariela Paez, associate professor at Boston College, Uccelli examined the development of vocabulary and oral narrative skills among a group of 24 bilingual (Spanish / English) children living in communities in Massachusetts and Maryland.

The service - learning projects they participate in at City College benefit the community and give students the opportunity to practice their research and writing skills, add to their career or college resumes, and learn technology skills that will serve them well in the years after high College benefit the community and give students the opportunity to practice their research and writing skills, add to their career or college resumes, and learn technology skills that will serve them well in the years after high college resumes, and learn technology skills that will serve them well in the years after high school.

Earlier this week he spoke at the auto shop of a community college in New Hampshire about the need for young people to learn tangible skills.

In 2014, while still and undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he launched the first AYLE as a pilot program with the goal of giving students like him the social - emotional skills and support they need to navigate their own educations and make strong contributions to their communities.

BTEC students at Leeds College of Music join the conservatoire's 1000 - strong community of undergraduate and postgraduate musicians, and develop their skills across a broad range of genres.

Only 45 percent of respondents support allowing students who pass an exam at the 10th - grade level to transfer immediately to a community college, as recently proposed by the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

About $ 3 million would be spent to develop a rigorous college and technical program at every high school; $ 250,000 to create a central office group charged with raising awareness of institutional racism and giving people the skills and knowledge to dismantle it; $ 575,000 to create partnerships with bilingual communities; and $ 1 million to carry out intervention plans in struggling schools.

Meanwhile, Josh is among the students who receive specialized mentoring services through College Success Arizona's team of highly skilled «Success Advisers,» and its partnership with the EXCEL Program, which serves students at Glendale Community College and other community Community College and other community community colleges.

At BVP, our community prepares scholars for college with rigorous academic programming, support for social and emotional growth, and a focus on the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

Those skills prepare students to pursue richer lives if they don't pursue higher education, the necessary skills to allow them to perform in the job market, and should they desire to, go on to community college, vocational training, or go on to college at their own pace and when time, resources, and motivation allows.

As E-School News reported, «when it opened its doors in 2006, Philadelphia's School of the Future (SOF) was touted as a high school that would revolutionize education: It would teach at - risk students critical 21st - century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project - based learning, technology, and community involvement.

Speakers include Joe Harris, Director, College and Career Readiness and Success Center at AIR; Jennifer Brown Lerner, Senior Director, American Youth Policy Forum; Melinda Mechur Karp, Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Louisa Erickson, Program Administrator, Basic Skills, Washington State Board for Technical and Community College; Thomas Acampora, Field Manager, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University.

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The tech scholarships pay tuition for skill or occupational training in the two - year Louisiana Community and Technical College System or at state - sanctioned schools that offer cosmetology or other training.

Speakers include Jennifer Brown Lerner, Senior Director, American Youth Policy Forum; Melinda Mechur Karp, Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Louisa Erickson, Program Administrator, Basic Skills, Washington State Board for Technical and Community College; Thomas Acampora, Field Manager, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University; and Joe Harris, Director, College and Career Readiness and Success Center at AIR.

e3 Civic High (CA) This district - and community - supported early college high school, located in San Diego's new downtown public library, has an intentional civics, service, and internship focus aimed at developing deeper learning, ownership, and inquiry - based thinking skills.

Meanwhile, Tim is among the students who receive specialized mentoring services through College Success Arizona's team of highly skilled «Success Advisers,» and its partnership with the EXCEL Program, which serves students at Glendale Community College and other community Community College and other community community colleges.

If you're serious about honing your skills, put your money where your mouth is and pay for a class at a nearby community college.

Some high school seniors with specific high - value technological knowledge and other marketable workforce skills, as well as those with the creative potential to become inventors or entrepreneurs, may be quite successful with postsecondary training or apprenticeships other than a four - year baccalaureate degree — or, they may want to spread their coursework and costs over a longer period than four years by attending classes part - time at a community college while working or starting a business.

Hell, I helped create one of these college programs myself at a community college here in Austin, although the program I worked on had a lot more hands - on vocational skills we need in local studios in Austin, rather than the navelgazing that DiGRA excels in.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

In the late 1980s, Eveleen further developed her skills at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, before gaining experience in a diverse range of creative activities including theatre set - design, community art, and commercial design.

Consider enrolling in a simple web design course at a local community college to learn even more skills.

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Maintained skills by taking training courses for new version of AutoCAD at local community college.

Qualification Highlights → Provided instruction in Guided Studies and Study Skills at Houston Community College, Houston, Texas.

Prior to joining Penn State, she served as Adjunct Faculty at Northern Virginia Community College, teaching business and coaching students on job - search skills.

In order to gain this knowledge and skill set, these candidates take part in a program at a vocational school or community college.

Developer and Deliverer of seminars and workshops at local community colleges on job application process, resume development and interview skills.

Having completed professional chef training at City Community College, I am now fully equipped with all the skills and abilities.

To utilize the knowledge and critical thinking skills I gained at Lehigh Carbon Community College.

Many learn their skills on the job, although some attend a training program at a vocational school or community college.

Many employers prefer candidates with at least some college education, such as a couple of years at a community college or vocational school, with courses in computer, communication and office skills.

This could mean anything from taking a class at your local community college to getting certified for a skill to put on your resume.