Or, it could be said, she gradually acquired a broad education through reading.
He has also expanded access to Pell grants to allow for more Americans to attend college, and he will push forward with broad education initiatives.
Good education should be broad education - an opportunity for children to discover their strengths, be they academic, sporting, musical or otherwise, and all schools should be given the full resources in order to achieve this.
Their standard short, specialised degrees suit only the well prepared: in three years there is no time for a ruthless weeding-out after one year, as is common elsewhere in Europe, or for a broad education before choosing a major subject, as in America.
Professor Alison Wolf, author of the government's review into vocational education, said the only sensible approach is to get a "broad-based education" equipped with skills and qualifications that employers recognize.
The ratings will cover eight broad categories: education, health care, water and waste water utilities, energy utilities, cities, counties and states, transportation, ports and airports, U.S. Treasuries and agency debt.
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The News tablets will come loaded with material from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a K-12 curriculum developed by a broad coalition of education experts and supported by most states.
With internet users of all ages accessing mobile and desktop services, a broad swath of login education is needed.
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So far, FindTheBest has nine broad categories such as education, sports and technology, and 440 comparison applications within those categories that users can search.
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But Bush chose to focus on a recent bipartisan accomplishment -- the passage of broad changes to federal education law -- in his Saturday address.
The country's historic "points system, " in which the government selected immigrants based on a set of broad skills such as education, work experience and language, has not worked very well in choosing immigrants who succeed in the job market.
Some employers offer financial education and planning around specific life events, either through providers who specialize in these events, such as College Coach, which helps parents with the college planning process, or through broad-based financial education programs that deliver workshops and counseling around these events as part of a financial education and planning benefit.
And for years the slow pace of technological change meant that the supply of new journalists, provided through a broad journalism or general humanities education, would slot into the marketplace with little increase or decrease in overall income.
In full realization that education is too broad and serious a subject to be treated exhaustively in a relatively brief magazine article, FORBES feels it is not unreasonable to apply some simple economic criteria to the vast and costly U.S. educational system.
Among the broad categories of majors, education (5.4%), business (4.2%), and communications (4.1%) experienced the largest increases to their average starting salaries, but for the first time the report looks at specific degree types to better pinpoint the robust demand for tech candidates.
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Irina Bokova underlined the importance of a comprehensive approach, from early childhood to higher education, as well as the need for reliable statistical data for effective planning and a broad vision of the development of the entire education sector.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation gives to a broad array of causes, especially education.
Free schools will not have to follow the national curriculum but will need to provide an education that is "broad and balanced", in the same way as new academies will.
In today's financially squeezed times, it is more important than ever to support charities, which do such vital work across such a broad spectrum for medical services to education, arts, and helping some of the most vulnerable people in society.
The workshop is expected to lead to a regional project that will mobilize a broad range of partners involved in teacher education.
Having customers in a broad swipe of industry segments--education, government and health care--ensured KI's relative success in a business-furniture market that collapsed in mid-2000.
The United States has the most highly trained military in the world, comprised of men and women who have broad skill sets because of their military education and experience.
Can games be used to solve broad social problems in areas like health and education?
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As in Egypt, Iran has a broad middle class which despite high levels of education are frustrated by a lack of jobs and opportunity.
Wisconsin's Flexible Option program is "quite visionary, " said Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, an education policy and lobbying group that represents some 1, 800 accredited colleges and universities.
In an ideal Republic, every American would get a broad-based, four-year, liberal arts education rooted in great books shared inquiry, as offered at schools like my graduate alma mater of St.
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The false flag in the sustained focus on teachers is thus: citing cases of extreme teacher malfeasance as a broad explanation of how making teachers easier to fire will produce better education outcomes and better-equipped students.
Dr. Billal has 28 years of scientific and administrative experience in research and management to his credit and has the honour of implementing more then 1200 scientific programmes and projects around the world, covering a broad category of areas like science policy and innovation system, science education, technology capability building, environment protection, climate change, and water management programmes among others.
Aiming to offer a wide-ranging syllabus, the programme focuses on six areas of education which complement each other, interact and expand into a broad spectrum of educational settings (classrooms, workshops, walks, outings, talks, etc.).
And she encouraged students from all backgrounds to respectfully exchange ideas and seek common ground -- because she believes, as I do, that exposure to a broad array of perspectives is the foundation not just for a sound legal education, but of a successful life in the law.
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