Sentences with phrase «studying education standards»

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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

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

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.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

Studies from Europe have shown that out - of - hospital birth can be a safe option for women and their babies when the risk of complications is low.28 - 30 The European Union defines uniform standards for the education and training of midwives, 31 whereas the United States takes a piecemeal approach to the training and credentialing of out - of - hospital birth attendants.

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.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.

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«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

With the gain in knowledge from [this trial], it may be possible to make the recruitment of patients less restricted, to incorporate education about self - measurement as a standard procedure and focus on which scheme for titration to use, or to study the timing of the home blood pressure recordings.

For the study, 322 expectant American Indian teens were randomly assigned to receive optimized standard care — transportation to prenatal and well - baby clinic visits, pamphlets about childcare and other resources and referrals to local services — or optimized standard care plus a program of 63 in - home education sessions, known as Family Spirit.

While supporters hope the proposal will speed up studies and boost the chances of German graduates in the increasingly global job market for academics, critical voices bemoan the sacrifice of tradition and fear that Germany's high education standards might suffer.

The United Kingdom has always been expensive by European standards, but it has long been the destination of choice for university education, attracting 18.3 % of international students in Europe, according to Study in Europe.

Nonetheless, the only features of doctoral education that are legally stipulated at the national level by this law are the minimum period of study, the admission standards, and the minimum requirements for the completion of the PhD.

The study compared subjects receiving intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) to a comparison group receiving standard diabetes mellitus support and education (DSE), measuring knee pain at the end of one year and four years.

The Next Generation Science Standards do a better job overall of covering genetics than most previous state standards, but are missing some key content, according to a new study by science education specialists at the American Society of Human Genetics.

Not only is the game great fun and easy to integrate into the curriculum, it also reinforces standards set by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE).

And, of course, the study is also not a randomized experiment, the gold standard in education research.

Lessons in all three Teaching Guides are tied to the appropriate standards: the NCSS Social Studies Standards, the NCTM Math Standards, and the Geography Education Standards Project Geography Standards.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.

The Department for Education (DfE) has decided to abolish A-level general studies, as a result of concerns that it does not meet the «high» standards being introduced under its exam reform programme.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

One group of teachers received copies of the national standards in the arts, civics, geography, history, mathematics, physical education, science, and social studies beforehand.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

The standards for an adequate education in this study were that all students must achieve proficiency on the state assessment by 2014, and that all schools must meet «adequate yearly progress» targets.

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

According to the 2005 NCREL report draft, «Only a small percent [of the hundreds of studies addressing distance education] meet established standards as experimental or quasi-experimental research.»

In a Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) study of the new evaluation system's 1999 — 2000 pilot, 75 percent of teachers said the new teaching standards were valid descriptions of good teaching.

The curriculum study group of the National Association of State Boards of Education urged in a report that policymakers replace the units with systems that require students to meet defined performance standards.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

«Resource Adequacy Study for the New York State Commission on Education Reform,» Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service (March 2004).

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

These standards seek to upgrade existing standards in the states, districts, and schools and to help strengthen the rigor of social studies education.

Technology education, a relatively new field of study in secondary schools, is joining the standards movement.

Stanford education professor Darling - Hammond, author of The Right to Learn and well - known in our field for her emphasis on the importance of schools of education and professional certification for teachers, accused me of using «personal and political» standards and castigated our study as one of those «diatribes that come at the problems ideologically.»

The state board of education, which began studying upgrading graduation standards three years ago, also approved the establishment of a «certificate of merit» for students who take an extra year of science and earn foreign - language credit.

Among them: requiring at least one art class for high school graduation; adding arts education standards to those the state is adopting in language arts, math, science, and social studies; and offering tax breaks to arts and entertainment companies that volunteer time, expertise, and other resources to schools.

That is the finding of a research team writing the latest in a series of studies of state standards for Education Next.

A new study analyzing changes at North Carolina's 44 teacher - education colleges during the enrollment decline of the past decade has found that those colleges committed to maintaining high standards are losing the most students because they have no flexibility in the present market.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

Charged by the U.S. Department of Education with combing the existing research on teacher preparation and subjecting it to scientific standards used in other fields, scholars with the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy at the University of Washington (Wilson, Floden, and Ferrini - Mundy 2001) eliminated all but 57 studies written in the past 20 years.

School officials should reach out to parents of English - language learners and encourage both student and parental literacy, says a study by the Education Policy Research Unit, a division of Tempe - based Arizona State University that conducts research on student - performance standards and curriculum.

The best studies of school quality are randomized experiments, the gold standard in both medical and education research.

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In this study, the EPE Research Center performed a systematic and objective analysis of state academic standards in science education in order to characterize the extent to which these documents cover the theory of biological evolution.

Grounded in science, health, social studies and ELA standards, education resources seamlessly integrate into classroom instruction and out - of - school learning environments.

Maarit Rossi and Cecilia Villabona have worked hard the last two years to update the 10 - year project; to align it to the U.S. Curriculum and standards, to enhance it in ways that fulfill the PISA purpose of educating children so they develop the competencies and knowledge of students from around the world when they are at the end of their compulsory - basic education or at the beginning of their upper secondary or vocational studies.

Studies by the Fordham Institute, a right - leaning education think tank in Washington, D.C., consistently found most state standards were severely lacking.

«We decided several years ago to study rich examples of complex student projects — often arts - infused, aesthetically rich, interdisciplinary, community - connected, long - term studies of important ideas, concepts, and skill sets — to see if they could help us «illuminate» specific standards — making those standards «visible,»» said Steve Seidel, director of HGSE's Arts in Education Program, in a prepared statement.