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For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

In addition to calling for state laws mandating the use of helmets in alpine activities, the study also recommends such prevention strategies as securing and padding soccer goal posts, as well as enhanced education for coaches, trainers, parents, and the athletes themselves to promote increased reporting and proper management of sport - related concussion.

Alcohol: The Alabama Course of Study: Health Education (2003) sets the minimum content standard for teaching about the harmful effects of substance abuse and promoting positive healthful behavior in grades K - 12.

The present study shows that the education offered on the first day after delivery, based on a pedagogical program dealing with breastfeeding through the distribution of educational booklets (subject of the study) and associated with a short support session and oral education, has proven effective in promoting exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby's life.

It established a Children's Library to promote science education and engage young people in the study of natural sciences.

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.

An education experience for promoting breast - feeding and infant stimulation by low - income women: a preliminary study

Its primary purpose is to promote education in and the study of the administration and practice of taxation.

The CIOT is an educational charity, promoting education and study of the administration and practice of taxation.

«The office will study and promote programs on worker protections, education and safety — and it will also enforce City laws like paid sick leave and transit benefits.»

According to a 2013 study released by the Sutton Trust, a charity in the United Kingdom that promotes social mobility through education, the disparity is particularly acute at top universities.

According to a recent study, parental support for the autonomy of young people promotes the well - being of the latter in all major educational transitions: from primary to lower secondary school, from basic education to upper secondary school, and from upper secondary school to university.

Few would argue that video games can do it all in terms of education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote learning.

Her research is currently studying programs that provide services to promote parent education and employment to improve family well - being.

Teachers in the study attempted to implement research - based teaching methods that promote science education goals.

In the last the discussion of the meeting there were 4 conclusions about improving education in science: to motivate and pay teachers well (primary and secondary levels), to promote science via the media (government back up), to inspire leaders to start the change, and to develop a good mentoring system so the student can study at home and go back to the professor with questions.

DAAD supports the internationalization of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, assists developing countries in establishing effective universities and advises decision makers on matters of cultural, education and development policy.

c3) dedicated to supporting Washoe's remaining family, Tatu and Loulis, in their home at Fauna Foundation; studying communication in all primates and ways to improve captive conditions for all apes; and promoting peaceful coexistence between human and non-human animals through education and awareness.

He also is director of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, a nonprofit organization in Ithaca, New York, which promotes optimal nutrition through science - based education, advocacy, and research in partnership with eCornell, Cornell University's online course provider.

As the Chartered Institute for IT our interest in education is part of our Royal Charter to promote the study and practice of computing and to advance knowledge and education therein for the benefit of the public.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

A handful of experimental studies have documented that early - education programs promote school achievement, especially for children at risk for poor school outcomes.

First there was Chad Adelman (since promoted to the U.S. Department of Education), who complained that NCTQ's study wasn't focused enough on outcomes:

Thus, through the promotion of Study Abroad as a means to promote both International Education and post-conflict Peacebuilding, ICU has shown a concrete example that it is indeed possible for former wartime combatants to build long - term ties of mutual understanding.

So rather than abandon a modestly successful program in our attempt to promote equality of education, the best policy would be to let a few states have more control of Head Start funds, carefully study their subsequent reforms, and then determine future policy based on solid evidence.

A new era of studies to achieve the MDGs Other of our projects is promote a multi, inter and transdisciplinary education in the curricula of the universities in all the countries that are part of the United Nations, in order to teach «reading the world» through a new academic graduation: «worldology».

It makes sense, then, that soon after graduating from the Teacher Education Program, she put her studies to work promoting environmental awareness and green practices in a local school district.

The report findings suggest that opportunity to study different religious faiths and traditions help promote understanding among students of different religious groups, that «carrier» subjects such as history, second or foreign languages and the social sciences, as well as physical education and art are also critical to the fostering of LTLT competencies in these countries.

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The mission of the Center for Benefit - Cost Studies of Education is to promote the rigorous and responsible development and application of cost - effectiveness and benefit - cost methods.

As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington - based nonprofit group Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial - services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

The study, which one of the researchers provided to Education Week, also indicates that some grants under the federal magnet - schools program are going to districts that have no realistic chance of furthering the program's primary goal of promoting racial desegregation.

They will address many kinds of achievement in areas such as arts, social studies and outdoor education rather than just literacy and math and that also promote safe, healthy and zestful well - being for all our students.

With expertise in Differentiation, Standards - Based Teaching Activities, Creative and Critical Thinking, Assessment, Underachievement, and Gifted and Talented Education, we publish supplemental Activity Books to improve student thinking and questioning skills, encourage creativity in the language arts, promote critical thinking in math and science, explore character education, present research skills and provide enrichment in socialEducation, we publish supplemental Activity Books to improve student thinking and questioning skills, encourage creativity in the language arts, promote critical thinking in math and science, explore character education, present research skills and provide enrichment in socialeducation, present research skills and provide enrichment in social studies.

«These results call into question the fixed and formulaic approach to teacher evaluation that's being promoted in a lot of states right now,» said Morgan Polikoff, one of the study's authors, in a video that explains his paper, «Instructional Alignment as a Measure of Teaching Quality,» published online in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis on May 13, 2014.

DePaul University education professor Akihiko Takahashi is known internationally for promoting lesson study.

We conduct rigorous research and evaluation studies using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods that inform education policy, promote equity, and improve student outcomes.

The study suggests that long - term music education service learning partnerships benefit children, pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and school administrators and promotes creativity, growth, and reflection at all levels of contact.

In addition to promoting citizenship and character education, the activities reinforce language arts (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) and social studies curricular standards.

«No one should be surprised to learn that all studies of bilingual education have found that teaching children in their primary language promotes achievement in the primary language,» Goldenberg wrote in an article for the American Federation of Teachers.

BEIJING — Chinese students, already immersed in classes and textbooks that promote nationalist loyalty to the Communist Party as a bedrock value, must be made even more patriotic and devoted to the party, even when they are studying in universities abroad, according to a new directive sent to education officials.

Civics education in Virginia emphasizes the importance of citizen involvement in all levels of government and promotes the study of state and local government among the commonwealth's citizens.

The project, coordinated by the NYC Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Readiness (OPSR) in collaboration with Eskolta, combines monthly professional development seminars, in which participating teachers study mindset theory and practice, with in - school sessions, where facilitators support teachers as they plan, review, and refine their implementation of growth - mindset - promoting practices.

This study seeks to identify the characteristics and learning experiences of general education teachers who are differentially effective at promoting math achievement among ELLs compared to non-ELLs.

Cruickshank (1987) has designed and studied a teacher education model to promote reflective teaching.

We define global education as curriculum that seeks to prepare students to live in a progressively interconnected world where the study of human values, institutions, and behaviors are contextually examined through pedagogy that promotes critical engagement of diverse information toward socially meaningful action (Gaudelli, 2003).

The study looks at how the money is spent, the degree to which program coordination occurs, research conducted by or promoted by the Department of Education, collaboration within states and how the DoE deals with these challenges.

Jonathan Butcher, education director at the Goldwater Institute, a conservative advocacy group that promotes school choice, praised the study's methodology, and said he wasn't surprised that public school choice had failed to produce benefits in Chicago.

The Center for the Advancement and Study of International Education (CASIE) is a non-profit organization that promotes multi-language programs, the International Baccalaureate, and international understanding in K - 12 schools in the United States and abroad.