Sentences with phrase «american education level»

The best that would happen is raising the American education level across the board.

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Founded in 1993, The Investor Protection Trust works both nationwide and on a grassroots level to provide independent objective investor education needed by all Americans to make informed investment decisions.

Boeing supports millions of American jobs at all education and skill levels.

IPI has partnered with a variety of organizations at the national, state, and local level to develop and implement programs to help older Americans recognize and avoid investment fraud, to help younger Americans understand the value of investing early, and to provide investor education in the workplace.

More than 80 % of Muslims say they are satisfied with their lives in this country, according to Gallup surveys, which also show that only American Jews have higher education levels.

And don't forget the irresistible techno - imperatives of biotechnology, terrorism, political correctness, the reduction of higher education to low - level techno - vocationalism, the emptying out of American religion, the unmanageable debt, our demoralized and underfunded military, and the surge of the Chinese.

Almost all Lutheran theological writing has been generated in European or North American academies — in part, the legacy of Luther's own concern for learning and education — and it has been done almost exclusively by European or (more recently) North American men among whom differences of race, economic and social class, and level of education are even less remarkable than their theological differences.

The effects of higher education on religious orientations can be interpreted entirely at the social - psychological level or within the context of American society by itself.

Rising levels of education, as we know, have had a number of serious consequences for American religion, both direct and indirect.

A second illustration comes from considering the effects of rising levels of education on American religion since World War II.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Royalties realized from the project will be divided between the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, two professional groups which have helped raise the level of training and practice in the pastoral care field.

Level I training is approved for 14 continuing education credits from the American Psychological Association (APA).

He also coached high school football, served as an athletic director and held high level positions with the Athletic Institute and the American Sports Education Institute before creating NAYS, which would become the nation's most well - known and respected advocate for youth sports under his leadership.

If you're going to criticize the educational level of minorities, I'm wondering why other groups get high level policy positions that impact on the lives of most Americans with low levels of education.

Towne and colleagues also found that race and ethnicity, education level and income affected prevalence rates: People with lower income or lower educational levels had a higher prevalence of diabetes, and the diabetes rates were highest among American Indians or Alaska Natives, followed by African Americans and Hispanics.

Americans had higher levels of education, which might explain their higher performance to some extent.

«Data show that African - Americans have higher body mass indexes than do whites, and as a group, they have lower income and education levels, consume less fruits and vegetables, and work out less,» Sen said.

Even when controlling for party identification, gender, education level, age, evangelical self - identification, and social dominance orientation — all factors known to predict Americans» attitudes toward Donald Trump — the Harry Potter effect remained.

There are substantial differences between younger and older Americans that are independent of their political beliefs, education levels or other factors.

«What we found was that African - American students, older adults, students who attend part - time, those who had a GED versus a high school diploma and those assigned to the lowest level of developmental education brought significantly less performance - based funding to the institution,» McKinney said.

While master's degrees awarded to women hovered at 22.6 percent in 2010, a slight dip from 2008 and 2009 levels, bachelor's degrees among women climbed to 18.1 percent, and more engineering doctorates - 22.9 percent - were awarded to women than any time in the past, according to the American Society for Engineering Education.

«The 15 - year risk of poverty for an American who is in their later 30s, white, not married, and with an education beyond the high school level, is 32 percent.»

Diabetes education significantly improves outcomes among people with the condition, leading to reduced blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, according to data presented by the Diabetes Self - Management Education Program from New York - Presbyterian Hospital today at AADE14, the American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Meeting & Exeducation significantly improves outcomes among people with the condition, leading to reduced blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, according to data presented by the Diabetes Self - Management Education Program from New York - Presbyterian Hospital today at AADE14, the American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Meeting & ExEducation Program from New York - Presbyterian Hospital today at AADE14, the American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Meeting & Exhibition.

With funding from the American Society of Plant Biologists and support from the National Science Foundation, ABRC's outreach program kicked off with the release of 20 education kits designed for use in K - 12 and college - level instruction.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

Other groups that saw significant increases included: older adults; racial / ethnic minorities; and Americans with lower levels of education and income.

It's National Cholesterol Education Month, and clearly, many of us need a refresher: About half of Americans have high or borderline blood cholesterol levels, a major risk factor for heart disease and a serious threat to overall health.

Education 2012 Minister Practitioner 2011 Level 1 Training Certification, Tennant Institute for Pastoral Medicine 2002 Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition, Clayton College of Natural Health 1993 Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), American College of Nutrition 1977 M.S. in Nutrition Education, Teachers College, Columbia University 1976 Dietetic Technician, New York Institute of Dietetics 1976 Principal and Teaching Certificate, New York Federation of Reformed Synagogues 1972 Teaching Certificate, Hayim Greenberg Teacher's College, Jerusalem, Israel 1971 B.A. in English, Connecticut College

Online daters are most likely to contact people with the same level of education as them, but are less fussy about an intellectual match as they get older 11 % of American adults have used an online dating site or a mobile dating app.

The United States still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels, and other socioeconomic lines, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009.

The Education Trust and the Center for American Progress released reports last year simulating district - level federal funds under portability.

The analogous estimates for African Americans suggest that affected children attained lower levels of education.

In addition, a higher parental education, being male, and being white or Asian American has been associated with higher levels of Web - use skill (Hargittati, 2010).

Readers of Education Next may have seen a report entitled Diploma to Nowhere from Strong American Schools last year that counted up the number of high school graduates who end up in remedial courses at the next level.

The low level of personal savings and high level of debt among Americans has raised concerns among national leaders about the need for more financial education, and the U.S. Congress has designated April Financial Literacy Month.

Between 1870 and 1950, the average American's level of education rose by almost one year per decade.

A study published in the Fall 2015 issue of Education Next looked closely at how American students from families with high levels of education compared with similar students from other cEducation Next looked closely at how American students from families with high levels of education compared with similar students from other ceducation compared with similar students from other countries.

Given the rampant grade inflation at all levels of American education, grades earned by students in even the most elite traditional private schools can not be trusted.

The charter movement, though well launched, Hill argues, is not likely to become a much larger factor in American public education without serious efforts to level the playing field.

But it's the only reliable inventory of whether outcomes in American education are strengthening or weakening at the jurisdictional levels that matter most.

Ultimately, I suspect the primary contribution of CCSS will be not to fix what ails American education, but to reveal a disquieting lack of capacity at all levels of the nation's K — 12 system.

The two major teachers unions issued critical statements, with the National Education Association claiming «the Trump administration has demonstrated just how out of touch it is with what works best for students, parents, educators and communities,» and the American Federation of Teachers describing DeVos as «the most ideological, anti-public education nominee put forward since President Carter created a Cabinet - level Department of EducatioEducation Association claiming «the Trump administration has demonstrated just how out of touch it is with what works best for students, parents, educators and communities,» and the American Federation of Teachers describing DeVos as «the most ideological, anti-public education nominee put forward since President Carter created a Cabinet - level Department of Educatioeducation nominee put forward since President Carter created a Cabinet - level Department of EducationEducation.»

Discovering thousands of high schools with graduation rates under 60 percent threw his beliefs about American education into sharp relief — our current system is failing to support all students to learn at the levels they need and deserve.

And, with evidence mounting that the challenges facing American education reach beyond the K — 12 level, we will strategically expand our coverage of higher education as well.

Americans May Know More than You Think about Science Science, 8/9/16» «We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

Indeed, we have ample evidence of the limits of such school and classroom - level trial and error, given the historical record of American education.

Little did he know he was on the brink of being hired for a top - level administrator role at the American University of Iraq (AUIS), a nonprofit institution that provides a student - centered, American - style education embodying the...

But even as Dickens was writing, a rapidly expanding public education system, staffed by young, unmarried women with talents that far exceeded their level of compensation, altered the American schoolteacher's public image.

Total enrollment: 860 Grade levels: Pre-k to 8 Ethnic breakdown: — 80 percent African - American — 20 percent Hispanic Title 1 School: Yes Free and reduced priced lunch: 96 percent Special education: 14 percent