Sentences with phrase «education nation took»

The New York Times» Schools for Tomorrow conference and NBC's Education Nation took place within...

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Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Gradually the nation state took over such services as education and care for the sick and indigent that had previously been the responsibility of the church.

By the time Jesus was born civility, education, love of family and nation beginning to take hold.

Angie: from the volume of Dhimmi noise you're making, I suggest you take a trip to an Islamic nation and «get yourself an education» about life under Islam.

As DeVos takes on leadership of our nation's education department this year, states will be rolling out their individual plans to support the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

Note that, when last this nation's primary and secondary education system were admired by other nations, primary kids went home for lunch and secondary students took their lunches to school.

Two days ago, New York Times national education correspondent Sam Dillon had a front page story on the sharp increase in the number of formerly middle class households now taking advantage of free or reduced price school lunches for their children, a stark indicator of the nation's current economic woes.

I asked his spokeswoman, Rachel Noerdlinger, who told me that Sharpton was taking part in the Education Nation summit and that given his involvement in education issues, it posed a Education Nation summit and that given his involvement in education issues, it posed a education issues, it posed a conflict.

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

«We believe that rigorous, highly valued qualifications should exist in engineering and technology areas that will be vital to the nation's future and that all education policy makers should seek to maximise the take up of these qualifications.»

With the expected cuts to the Department of Education's budget, Wilson said targeted funding, especially for teacher training, is crucial to make sure computer science takes root in the nation's classrooms.

However, Americans take a dim view of our nation's performance in K - 12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education; most believe other countries are doing a better job.

The President's budget offers hope that the nation will continue to make science and education investments a top national priority while taking serious steps to reduce budget deficits.

When you think about the breadth of her reach to students all across the nation, the innovative educational programs she has developed and her pioneering of the education programs for both the NRAO and GBO, it is no wonder that the ASP took notice.

Education World takes a look at the progress the nation's schools have made toward each goal.

Clinton Challenges Nation to Improve Math and Science Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math andEducation On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math andeducation community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

Said the authors of that now infamous report on the quality of education in the United States, «We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well - being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.»

A school - by - school breakdown of scores on Massachusetts» first - ever exam for licensing new teachers is forcing some education schools to take a hard look at their curricula, even as state officials propose creating one of the nation's most intensive programs of teacher recruitment and training.

For more updates from around the nation as events take place, take a look at ASCD's Core Connection Newsletter and Education Week's ongoing Common Standards coverage.

The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union, has asked U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and members of Congress to waive accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act for schools hit by the hurricane as well as those taking in large numbers...

Ms Bokova, Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Mitzie Hunter, Minister of Education (Ontario Provincial Parliament), Ambassador Dessima Williams, Special Adviser to the President of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and Fred van Leeuwen, Secretary - General of Education International, will take the floor on 8 March, when the two fora come together.

A sharply worded report released June 23 takes states to task for calculating graduation rates in ways that it contends yield artificially low estimates of the nation's dropout problem — and it upbraids federal education officials for letting them do it.

I am pleased that this strategy is already moving forward in many, many states; that our nation's governors and state legislators of both parties are choosing to make a solid commitment to boost education, to advocate high standards, and to take advantage of this era of budget surpluses and good times to make our schools better so that we'll have even better times in the future.

Even as it faces a multimillion - dollar financial crisis and scrambles to meet new federal education requirements, the nation's second largest district is taking on a new challenge: restroom reform.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website

The New York City school board took the first step last week toward overhauling special education in the nation's largest school system.

Alternative Routes to Teaching; When Mayors Take Charge; From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind; Inside Urban Charter Schools; The Role and Impact of Public - Private Partnerships in Education; The Latino Education Crisis

This annual effort focuses on improving education across America and takes place during the months of August through October when students around the nation head back to the classrooms.

Los Angeles — In a speech to Hispanic school - board members here this month, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell criticized the nation's school boards for paying too little attention to instructional issues and called on them to take a leadership role in upgrading educational standards.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

Officials from purveyors of the nation's two most widely used admissions tests linked lagging scores in different sections of the exams to high school students» failure to take enough of the core classes needed to prepare them for higher education.

To isolate the effects of an SFJ on districts within each poverty quartile, we focus on changes in spending over time within specific school districts after taking into account changes from year to year in average education spending across all of the nation's school districts.

As the education industry grows, some of the nation's business schools — prompted by their own students — are taking note.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

The NGO «Education for Life» has been invited to the International Conference of United Nations on Sustainable Development Rio +20, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in June 2012.

This has taken the eastern European nation from below to above the OECD average, as noted in the Education Policy Outlook: Poland report.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing cEducation Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing ceducation, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Motor City On a Mission: Taking the Driver's Seat in Education — In the last two years, Detroit has stunned the nation with the auto industry's historic turnaround.

ukactive Kids will work closely with Ofsted, the Department for Education and the broad range of stakeholders with an interest in this agenda because it will take our collective effort to raise awareness of children's inactivity and plant the seeds of change to improve the health of this nation's children.

This Education Week special report is all about the concrete — and equally crucial — topic of school facilities and what it takes to assure that the nation's 56 million schoolchildren have a modern, fully - equipped, well - maintained school to attend, and a place where all that theory and educator experience can be put into practice.

The speech to the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, offered the most detailed picture yet of the direction that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee would take federal K - 12 education policy if he is elected to the...

But when Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews took a close look at the study to see which school district had the smallest black - white achievement gap, he was surprised to find that it was Detroit, which he calls «our nation's worst school district, or close to it.

He is author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Education System That's Leaving Them Behind (Amacom, 2010); The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District (Jossey - Bass, 2011); and The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools with Gaston Caperton (The College Board, 2012).

Dismantling our nation's public education system while investing in unproven schemes to incentivize private school vouchers that have no evidence of improving student achievement could have devastating consequences for students that could take decades to fix.

The approval, along with the ouster last November of two of the Adelanto Unified School District board members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the families from taking over the school, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they should be.

The nation's capital is perhaps an unlikely place for education reform to take such firm hold.

Meanwhile, public education in Wisconsin has suffered some of the largest budget cuts in the nation, with the LFB reporting that K - 12 public school funding has been cut by just over $ 1 billion when compared to funding levels in the 2010 - 11 school year, before Walker and Republicans took control of state government.