Sentences with phrase «american education needed»

Shortly after you took office, you said that American education needed «transformational» change, not incremental change.

The last thing American education needs — and a potentially mortal wound to other reform efforts — is to further cheapen the meaning of «college - educated.»

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Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

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.

Mr. Gardner argued that a broader definition of American competitiveness is needed that includes not only the tax system, but also the business infrastructure that the tax system supports — bridges and roads, health care, education and research and development.

We don't need these kind of headlines just at a time when the American education system needs more people to pursue the field of science.

You sir, as do most Americans, need an education.

American atheists need literacy education.

The American Christian missionaries brought education to all to the world we non-Western women knew we no longer need to be slaves to men ot to anyone.

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

What kind of basic revision is needed in American education?

Au advertisement there reads, «This dictionary is needed to Restore an American Christian Education in the Home, Church, and School.»

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.

Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.

Americans, these days, give some $ 300 billion a year to charitable organizations, including religious institutions that fund vast networks of education, health care, and social service serving people in real need.

The American Pregnancy Association is honored to have the support from EHS making our job easier in delivering health and wellness education and support to families in need.

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We spoke to Tough about his new book, his thoughts on the state of American education, and how we need to change our thinking about how kids learn.

Families need more education about choking hazards, say the researchers, who presented their findings at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco.

There really just needs to be education all around, because the misperceptions about breastfeeding in the African American community are abundant, and they lead to misguided «advice» that can really harm the nursing relationship if you're not vigilant.

The theory of autonomous education (similar to American «unschooling») is that children learn all they need to learn, when they're ready to do so, in their own way.

The UFT will work with its national unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association (NEA), to fight against tax cuts that unfairly target those who need help the most including senior citizens, those who earn the least, children, the poor and the destitute.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Instead, students need to learn and practice a range of safety skills, according to guidelines for undergraduate education issued last year by the American Chemical Society (ACS).

The findings remind Rena Subotnik, director of the Center for Psychology in Schools and Education for the American Psychological Association, of a recent effort in New Jersey to put a medical clinic in the neighborhood with the greatest need for services.

SHANGHAI — When President Obama last year proposed a «historic commitment» to empower Americans with a clean energy education program, his speech appeared to have reminded Chinese leaders of their own educational needs.

«We need to have solutions for some new steady - state model» that will make scientific careers once again attractive to the ablest young Americans by providing an appealing and reliable return on the investment of time, money and opportunity that they make in their education.

«Our findings underscore the need for increased awareness and education about prevention and early detection and treatment of CVD in African American women and younger adults of low socioeconomic status,» said Samson Y. Gebreab, Ph.D., M.Sc., lead study author and research scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

«If we want a community that moves forward, and takes the physicists that are coming to us, and helps their careers, we need to include LGBT physicists,» said Barthelemy, an astrophysicist currently serving as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, sponsored by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, at the U.S. Department of Education.

The Association of American Universities» (AAU's) Committee on Postdoctoral Education made a similar recommendation in its 1998 report, suggesting that periodic surveys be conducted by each institution «in order to assure that the legitimate educational needs and career interests of [its] postdocs are being fully met.»

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

This publication establishes the need for better education on this topic,» commented Dr. Margery Gass, executive director of The North American Menopause Society.

Responsive to the needs of the community, the AAS reviews and issues small research and travel grants (sponsored by the AAS, NASA, and the NSF), holds town meetings with agency representatives, and has recently demonstrated its leadership in preparing The American Astronomical Society's Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy (funded by the NSF; AAS, 1997).

Even if pain patients do need to participate more actively in their care, Penney Cowan, executive director of the American Chronic Pain Association, says a big piece of the puzzle is still missing: physician education.

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.

One thing American education reform definitely does not need is more pilot programs that are not held accountable for the results they generate.

My purpose here is to provide a simple overview of the pivotal roles that teacher unions actually play in public education - and to suggest why, if Americans want to improve their schools, something needs to be done about the unions and their extraordinary power.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (April 21) about whether American kids need a longer school day, a longer school year, more time on task, or more customized learning experiences.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

Bold change is needed in American K — 12 education, but Education Matters partakes of no program, campaign, or education, but Education Matters partakes of no program, campaign, or Education Matters partakes of no program, campaign, or ideology.

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.

These are not all the questions that need be posed, but they are essential ones if we are to begin to move American education governance to a place where democracy can reassert itself.

«Despite the urgent need for science literacy, the... results provide alarming evidence that most of our students are not being prepared for the challenges ahead,» George D. Nelson, the director of science education for the American Association for the Advancement...

«John Diamond's research and teaching interests are ideally suited to the current needs of HGSE,» comments Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Administration's proposal, broadcast on national television, was followed by a «response» from Democratic party leaders that also placed heavy emphasis on the need for «a new dedication to excellence in American education.»

As the United States falls behind many other nations in high school and college graduation rates, the American education system needs a major overhaul, according to Pathways to Prosperity Director William Symonds.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the Department of Education also announced the «Hurricane Help for Schools» link on its Web site to serve as a connection between Americans willing to give and the needs of the affected children and schools districts serving displaced students.