Sentences with phrase «standards of education through»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This is a result of the history through which the model provided by the University of Berlin came to dominate American standards of higher education generally.

It is clear to me that the vast majority of the members of the various communities that enrich our wonderful NYC are wonderful human beings that are mostly consequent with the ethical and moral standards that they hold dearly and which may have been passed to them through religious education or through family values or acquired through rational thinking..

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

Unfounded belief has to be unraveled carefully through education, and its effects have to be blunted by holding our system of government and protections to proper standards

The Academy will play an attractive brand of football, consistent through all the age groups and offer a culture which has education at the forefront whilst maintaining the highest standards of integrity and honesty amongst the people who serve within it.

The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

Those individuals collaboratively worked with other interested schools and the Department of Education to create program standards that would provide a broad exposure to these careers through didactic and laboratory based courses.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Through constructive endeavour we have agreed a package of measures that values the professionalism of teachers and supports their continued commitment to as they to deliver the highest standards of education for children and young people in Jersey.»

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

The state Education Department is conducting its own review of the standards through end - of - session legislation and is examining the teacher evaluation system.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

Its mission is to promote quality housing and viable neighborhoods for New Yorkers through education, outreach, loan and development programs, and enforcement of housing quality standards.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders but promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a nationwide competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that boost college - and career - readiness.

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.

The monthly, peer - reviewed Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional membership society that improves sleep health and promotes high quality patient centered care through advocacy, education, strategic research, and practice standards (www.aasm.org).

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

IIN is dedicated to changing the face of nutrition on a global level, through positive change, balance and the highest standards in education.

About The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Established in 1975, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) improves sleep health and promotes high quality patient centered care through advocacy, education, strategic research, and practice standards.

The main purpose of the Crochet Guild of America is to educate the public about crochet, provide education and networking opportunities, and set a national standard for the quality, art and skill of crochet through creative endeavors.

The Academy's mission is simple to advance the science and practice of implant dentistry through education, research support and to serve as the credentialing standard for implant dentistry for the benefit of mankind.

Leading the community of Aging Life Care Professionals through education, professional development, and the highest ethical standards.

He leads a team of turf care expert regional pitch advisors who provide support services, training and education to grassroots sites while also managing the development of pitch performance standards through reporting and advising on grounds improvements.

There is new guidance on learning outside the classroom («Departmental advice for health and safety in schools» on the Department for Education's website), subject - specific support for teachers through their subject associations e.g. Association for Physical Education, and new Ofsted guidance highlighting safeguarding in lessons — ensuring that not only is the standard of teaching good, but that the standard of health and safety within each lesson is also good.

Horne, a classically trained pianist and founder of the Phoenix Baroque Ensemble, hasn't yet achieved his objective, but he has made progress: He pushed through higher standards for arts education, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout teducation, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout tEducation, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout the state.

Further, it is imperative that the education sector will need to collaborate in a unified manner through ongoing consultations to ensure that the standards truly reflect what teachers and principals desire of the profession, in terms of teacher preparation, professional learning and training, and professional recognition.

• Around 1,000 more teachers • $ 6.1 million over three years to support an updated anti-bullying strategy and resources for teachers, students and parents • Funding of $ 88 million in 2017 - 18 as part of the $ 224 million for teacher professional development through the Quality Teaching, Successful Students initiative • Funding of $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 on student counselling and wellbeing services as part of the $ 167 million Supported Students, Successful Students program • $ 149 million on education standards for provision of services related to school curriculum assessment, teaching and regulatory standards in NSW schools

The Society of British and International Design (SBID) is the professional accrediting organisation for the interior design industry in the UK supporting the interests of interior designers and manufacturers by guiding and measuring the profession's trading standards through practice, competence and education.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education eEducation, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education eeducation schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education eeducation each year.

With widespread bipartisan support from such ideological opponents as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, as well as the business community, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in 2010 the standards sailed remarkably fast through adoption in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

NCATE claims to be improving the quality of teacher education through its stringent standards and rigorous system of evaluation.

Later in that same speech, Duncan acknowledged that the Department of Education «absolutely encouraged» states to adopt the standards through Race to the Top.

The worst thing I have witnessed in education in 2008 is the continuous action based on personal interests and advantages of many local and global economic and political players losing the main objective of «education as a fun activity,» and thus of encouraging and inspiring young children through play and simple but innovative teaching methods that foster critical thinking, teamwork, and the urge to learn more for the sake of learning and not for meeting set standards.

At its annual meeting this month, the National Business Education Association unveiled draft voluntary standards for what students should know and be able to do in business in grades K - 12 and through the first two years of college.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

Inspired by Witten's vision, it is a joint collaboration between the Ed School and the faculty of education at the University of Johannesburg that aims to improve the quality of schooling and raise the standards of South African school leaders through ongoing support and training.

The ICC Academy, for instance, develops its courses in one central location, which allows the same high - quality education to be disbursed around the world through digital learning platforms, thus creating a new global standard of education.

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

WorldSkills UK Skills Competitions play a vital role in raising standards, esteem and levels of expertise in further education, apprenticeships and skills, through competition activities and local initiatives.

They are held account financially to the Department for Education through their funding agreement which also sets out the high standards of education expected of them as a neEducation through their funding agreement which also sets out the high standards of education expected of them as a needucation expected of them as a new school.

Whatever adjustments might be warranted to ensure alignment of the SOL with the Common Core State Standards can be made within the process through which the Board of Education exercises its constitutional authority to establish standards for the commonwealth's public schools.

Loveless concludes: «The past two decades of education reform in the U.S. have focused on ratcheting up expectations through standards and testing and holding schools accountable for academic progress.

The standards I apply are in keeping with those established by the What Works Clearinghouse (through which the U.S. Department of Education vets research on the effectiveness of education programs and pEducation vets research on the effectiveness of education programs and peducation programs and products).

In response, education secretary Nicky Morgan said: «The landscape of English education has been transformed over the past five years through raising both standards and expectations.

More and more school districts are turning to Blended Learning, an education model where students learn part through online math delivery of lessons and part through the traditional classroom, to implement the rigorous standards of 21st century learning.