Sentences with phrase «whether standard education»

Every growing industry, whether standard education sector or corporate sector, is considering eLearning process in order to support modern learning principles.

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Whether issue is tax repeal or tighter advice standards, it's important to remember that agents and advisors are in the planning business helping with life and disability protection, wealth distribution, education funding and securing financial futures, he said.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact 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..

«Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well - known standard effects: (1) escape — education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack — vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy — a sullen do - nothing withdrawal.

Sometimes that spills over into food and eating education, whether or not it is an official standard.

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.

The State's Business Council, which backed the Common Core standards, said in a statement from the group's President, Heather Briccetti, that whether you agree with the new standards or not «it is clear that our students are not receiving the education they need and higher standards must not be rolled back.»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday it's not his place to say whether education commissioner John King should step down amid controversy over the state's implementation of new curriculum standards and testing.

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.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

It's pretty standard stuff, mostly about your likes and dislikes, your principles and values, whether you expect your partner to make so - and - so income or have such - and - such education and whether such things are dealbreakers for you.

«Any university that has an affirmative action policy could be subject to a similar lawsuit regarding whether it's meeting the compelling standards for governmental use of race in education policy.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether common standards create economies of scale for virtual learning products.

It will give one of the grants, a $ 1.45 million gift, to the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass., to help eight school districts determine whether a standards - based approach can produce «significant improvement» in students» academic performance.

To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

In the Summer 2012 issue of Education Next, Ze'ev Wurman and Stephen Wilson debated whether the Common Core math standards are a step forward or a step backward.

If these new tests could detect whether schools and educators were changing their practices in the ways desired by Common Core and if rewards and punishments could be imposed on schools and educators for their compliance with the new standards, then perhaps the empty words of standards could be transformed into a real change in the education system.

WASHINGTON — The National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which has agreed to propose national standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the standards.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

«In most countries, the standard for 16 - year - olds is higher than what we expect from an 18 - year - old graduating high school in America,» Payzant says, explaining that a board exam taken during the tenth grade would determine whether students were prepared and had learned enough to enter the next stage of their education.

What that means is that the true education issues at stake — for instance, whether the standards for English and math are challenging enough or, conversely, age appropriate — are taking a backseat to arguments over macropolitics and ideology.

Having largely steered clear of making education grants in California over the last half - decade, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is weighing whether to invest substantially in helping California's teachers successfully put the Common Core standards into practice.

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.

Everybody's weighing in - students, teachers, parents and education leaders give their take and whether they think the new standards will last.

California test scores: State to release results at 10 a.m. KPCC: The tests in English and math measure whether school districts meet state education standards.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the National Education Union expressly disclaims all warranties, conditions and other terms of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to any implied term of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, and any term as to the provision of services to a standard of reasonable care and skill or as to non-infringement of any intellectual property right.

The State's Business Council, which backed the Common Core standards, said in a statement from the group's President, Heather Briccetti, that whether you agree with the new standards or not «it is clear that our students are not receiving the education they need and higher standards must not be rolled back».

The federal Education Department wanted the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to decide whether the old PASS standards were high enough.

In fact, Indiana is scaling back participation in PARCC — an acronym for «Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers» — until the state education leaders decide whether to stay the course with new standards.

Although State Superintendent Glenda Ritz has stopped short of saying whether Indiana should stick with the new, nationally - crafted academic standards, she's said repeatedly the state has a serious remediation problem and needs to take a closer look at its math standards.The report her office put out reviewing the new standards includes stats from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

You'll have to check out the CCSS web site and read the guide to the assessments yourself to decide whether you believe common national standards can improve public education in the US, and only time will tell if they do.

Advocates for both courses of action will be at the statehouse Monday afternoon to testify before a special panel of state lawmakers which, by Nov. 1, must recommend to the State Board of Education whether to keep or ditch the standards.

Schneider says the Board of Education would then decide by year's end whether to change the standards.

They have no idea whether the adoption of the new standards and tests will improve education or how they will affect students who are now performing poorly.

Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that «across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.»

Starting in the mid-1980s, a standards - based education reform movement emphasized beefed - up subject - matter content, with a test given at the end of the year to see whether students had «gotten» it.

I believe, and I think you might too, that the debate around the CC standards should not be whether or not they are good or bad, but on how we can implement them to provide the best education possible for our students.

MPs on the education select committee have published a report saying there is currently little evidence as to whether or not academies help improve school standards.

I have also suggested to him in two recent emails that the best way to improve the education performance of Hartford's students is to immediately end the board - mandated policy of advancing all students whether or not they have met the standards of passing their current grade levels, a practice otherwise known as social promotion.

You have folks such as Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort wEducation Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort weducation historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort will hold.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

I believe the Department of Education ought to be able to create high standards and evaluate whether or not we're achieving those standards for our kids.

Whether it be ESEA reauthorization, funding for Federal education programs, charter schools and vouchers, standards, technology and e-rate, health, child nutrition and school safety, or many others, there is no shortage of education issues being debated in the halls of Congress or among major decision - makers in Washington, DC.

However, they had to prove that this unit would meet the needs of physical education, whether the needs were created by the PE teacher or to align with specific standards and learning targets.

Loveless says in his article «Does Common Core Matter»: «the study 2012 Brown Report on American Education») does not attempt to determine whether the common - core standards are of high or low quality, only whether the quality of state standards has mattered to student achievement in the past.

Two longtime, award - winning educators seeking to oversee Wisconsin's schools sparred on Friday over how to improve academic success for black students, whether the state's academic standards are good for schools and how the state should spend its money on education.

«the study 2012 Brown Report on American Education») does not attempt to determine whether the common - core standards are of high or low quality, only whether the quality of state standards has mattered to student achievement in the past.