Sentences with phrase «nation at risk first»

Some people criticize international education comparisons, such as PISA, pointing out that the United States has had mediocre performance on international tests since A Nation at Risk first issued its warning in 1983 — but that the country has still prospered economically.

Not exact matches

(He also actively pursues issues relating to immigration policies, food security, safe water for First Nations, species at risk, the plastics problem, healthy living — the list goes on.)

The Premier has been putting potentially important projects at risk by antagonizing First Nation communities, rather than making them partners in BC's potential.

Mikhail Gorbachev warned his own people that by the beginning of the twenty - first century the Soviet Union was at risk of becoming a third world nation (at about the level of India).

That is the conclusion reached in one of the first attempts to estimate the overall cost for schools of implementing the recommendations of the excellence commission, whose report — «A Nation at Risk» — was the first of a handful of major analyses of public education...

It is the first school in the nation designed explicitly to focus on the specific needs of children in the child welfare system; 49 percent of its students are in the foster care system or considered at risk of placement in foster care.

The reality is that integration is a key improvement strategy for our nation's most at risk students, and national policy has largely abandoned it in favor of first the standards based accountability policies of the late 1980s and the 1990s and then the test and punish policies of the NCLB era.

The easiest way to state it is that you can't deflect an asteroid without putting temporarily at risk other nations and people who were not initially threatened... that international complexity says there has to be some ultimately we may watch ourselves get hit with the first one that threatens, hopefully in the ocean, while everybody is still debating at the U.N..

The auction will raise funds needed to complete the construction of Emerald Village Eugene, the nation's first affordable housing village of tiny homes for people who have been homeless or are at risk of homelessness.

For the first time, researchers have assessed which nations and which groups of people are most at risk from climate volatility.

Other priorities focus on populations that are considered to be at high risk, such as women, newcomers, refugees, racialized people, people in the LGBT community, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and the elderly.

While it's not surprising that foreign intelligence groups or criminal actors would be cell - snooping in the nation's capital, the DHS statement is the first US government acknowledgement that sensitive political communications, not to mention those of anyone in DC, are at risk of interception by devices that are currently unaccounted for.