Sentences with phrase «year education race»

Your 4 year education race has come to its end and now it is time to return the favor to those who helped you financially along the grades.

Not exact matches

We used multivariable logistic - regression models to adjust for potential confounders, including maternal race or ethnic group (non-Hispanic white vs. other), parity (nulliparous vs. multiparous), insurance status (public or none vs. other), extent of prenatal care (≥ 5 visits vs. < 5 visits), advanced maternal age (≥ 35 years vs. < 35 years), maternal education (> 12 years vs. ≤ 12 years), history or no history of cesarean delivery, and a composite marker of conditions that confer increased medical risk.

Using Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge funds, Pennsylvania awarded one - year mini-grants to align over 300 early childhood education courses.

[8] See for example, Michael Tessler (2016) «The education gap among whites this year wasn't about education: it was about race».

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

Renee and guest Ronnie Ellis with CNHI News Service run down the key state legislative races in this year's primary contest, the top - tier candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in the 6th congressional district, the impact of recent educator activism in response to pension legislation and education funding, and more.

«WFP candidates swept our priority races tonight, fending off a million - dollar expenditure from billionaires seeking to privatize education and winning key open seat races that will shape the state Assembly for years to come.

In the area's two state Senate races — seats currently held by Republicans George Amedore and Hugh Farley — all of the candidates during interviews last week took swipes of some kind at the controversial education standards and state tests that drew an over 20 percent opt - out rate for the second straight year this spring.

New Yorkers for Independent Action, which was created by supporters of an education tax credit and spent $ 2.1 million in this year's primaries, has only spent in Assembly races so far for the general.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins isn't sure where potential Working Families Party candidate for governor Diane Ravitch stands on all of the issues, but believes she could contribute a lot to a debate on education in this year's gubernatorial race.

Not surprisingly, NYSUT, which is already at war with the Senate and Paterson administration over charters and education spending cuts, has signaled it might not endorse in the governor's race this year.

The breakdown of the evaluation talks in the wee hours of Jan. 17, after the mayor torpedoed a deal agreed to by his own education department and the UFT, cost the city $ 280 million in state and federal funding, threatened a further loss of $ 224 million in state aid next year, and jeopardized $ 700 million in statewide Race to the Top funds.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

The cancer patients and the controls — between the ages of 18 and 80 — were carefully matched by age, sex, race, years of education and occupation.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the neducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the nEducation and an author of the new study.

«Race, education, marital status, and age make a huge difference in terms of who is more or less likely to experience poverty in the years ahead,» Rank said.

The studies included information on participants» health, gender, age, race, education level, and family history of lung cancer, as well as their smoking history, including how old they were when they started, how many years they smoked, how many cigarettes they smoked each day, and, for former smokers, how long it had been since they quit.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

The covariates included race / ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, or other), educational attainment (< 12, 12, or > 12 years of education), smoking status (never, former, or current), alcohol consumption (0, < 3, or ≥ 3 drinks / wk), physical activity (0, < 5, or ≥ 5 times / wk of moderate - intensity to vigorous activities), BMI (< 25, 25 to < 30, or ≥ 30), family history of CVD (yes / no), and antihypertensive medication use (yes / no).

Juneau, the first Native American woman to be elected to a state office, was introduced by Dean Kathleen McCartney who applauded her as a «transformative leader» whose work is fitting for this year's AOCC conference, which, McCartney said «offers our students, faculty, and alumni the opportunity to participate in important discussions about race, class, and education.»

In 1974, 20 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many communities still had schools segregated by race.

Applicants mothers have more years of education, more likely to be from two parent household, more parent involvement, but more likely to be minority race, lower income levels, parents are less satisfied with the public school's academics, safety, location, discipline, values, and overall.

To a large extent, much of the story of American education over these last fifty years is a story of the failure to understand the complexity of our country's relationship to race and the deep consequences of integration.

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race...

In 1890, the average adult had completed about eight years of schooling, and by 1960, it was nearly 14 years (Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology).

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race relations» and included essays on social psychology and racial balance and another look at Prince Edward County, this time by Neil Sullivan, Ed.D.» 57, a New York superintendent who took a leave of absence in 1963 to become superintendent — at the request of then - attorney general Robert Kennedy — of a privately funded Prince Edward Free School.

Of course now, as an adult with over 14 years of experience in the education field as a teacher and school leader, Camacho Lewis knows that the problem her teacher had is not unusual; not every educator can artfully and caringly address difficult social problems, especially matters of race and class, in the classroom.

The U.S. Department of Education launched Race to the Top in 2009, with funds from that year's big stimulus bill.

And Microsoft has also lost the smart phone race, which will become increasingly important in education in the years ahead as mobile learning emerges as a disruptive force.

The U.S. Department of Education's National Postsecondary Student Aid Study for the 2011 - 12 academic year (the most recent survey) includes data on how much graduate students borrow broken out by race and type of school.

In an election year in which education loomed large across the country, the state races Tuesday showed that neither that issue nor any other could easily be turned to partisan advantage.

Viewing «race talk» through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

Through the lens of a culturally diverse high school and school district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on every day race labeling in education.

These «horse race» questions are likely to drive the education influence industry for years to come.

Tennessee could have one of the more interesting congressional races next year, pitting two education committee members against each other for a Senate seat.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

Advocates for education redesign are encouraged by a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations panel's decision to extend the Race to the Top program for an additional year.

The spokesperson for Idaho's department of education noted, «Race to the Top is the only opportunity for education to get additional funding over the next two to three years.»

Seven of the 11 states with governor's races this year have elected newcomers, bringing in fresh faces to offices that are pivotal in shaping education budgets and policies across the nation and to carrying out the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

That power has steadily increased over the decades, especially in recent years, as federal initiatives like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have pushed states to assume more authority over education.

Though he lost a close race for the governorship to incumbent Lawton Chiles in 1994 (the same year brother George won the Texas gubernatorial bid), Bush set up a nonprofit, the Foundation for Florida's Future, which would keep him focused on public policy and education until the next election, in 1998, which he won handily.

The conference, which explores issues of race, gender, class, and education, particularly as they apply to communities of color, is celebrating its 15th year of creating spaces for these critical discussions.

These comparisons take into account students» test scores in the prior year as well as their race or ethnicity, gender, age, suspensions and absences in the previous year, whether they repeated a grade, special education status, and limited English status.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

Previously, Ruszkowski served for six years at the Delaware Department of Education under Governor Jack Markell, building the Teacher & Leader Effectiveness Unit as Chief Talent Officer / Associate Secretary and co-leading the implementation of the state's Race to the Top plan under President Barack Obama.

After years of education being a battleground, after No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top and the tyranny of testing, Congress and the country, Republicans and Democrats alike, took on and moved past the education wars.

Earlier this year U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the third phase in the Race to the Top competition.

[1] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through Public high school 4 — year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by race / ethnicity and selected demographics for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia: School year 2014 — 15.