Sentences with phrase «nations schools because»
Principals felt part of something «bigger»; the course reinforced their belief that they have a role to play in improving the outcomes of First Nations Schools because «principals are the knowledge keepers of First Nations education.»
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Then, because his interpretation of the Bible is always colored by his reading of the situation, FaIwell notes that God could use any nation for this, but «we have the churches, the schools, the young people, the media, the money and the means...» (Listen America!
We will also fight to make sure that real, honest science is taught in our school, because ignorance like yours is bad for children and for the nation as a whole.
This is what Bill Nye is going on about: we have a nation full of knee - jerk reactionaries quick to dismiss what they don't even posess a high - school level understanding of, simply because it doesn't fit perfectly with the mindlessly repeated dogma they've been indoctrinated with since birth.
Imagine that, telling a catholic nation to take their crosses out of there schools because atheists find it offensive
The resolution goes on to defend voluntary prayer in schools and religious displays on public property because they reveal «the positive role that Christianity has played in this great nation of ours.
He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!
Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.
I consider him to be one of the best athletic directors in the nation, in part because of the respect he has earned from the entire sports community at his schools, not just athletes, but coaches, and parents.
«It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.»
See, I trust Hillary to lead this country because I've seen her lifelong devotion to our nation's children, not just her own daughter, who she has raised to perfection, but every child who needs a champion, kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how they'll ever afford college, kids whose parents don't speak a word of English, but dream of a better life, kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be.
This is just as he assured the people that his administration would revamp the nation's educational system from the primary school to the tertiary levels even as he promised to ensure that more Nigerians are sent into Iran on scholarship because of the level of discipline and orderliness of that country.
It is difficult to tell what a «one nation» Labour approach to religious discrimination in our schools system would be, because the current leadership has not alluded to what its position is.
Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth.»
Grace Kipesa, a local resident who plans to supply biomass to the plant, told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper last year that the onetime nuisance species has become «a blessing» because «it is now enabling us to pay school fees and settle bills with ease, while our villages get lit up.»
So anyway, we headed down the canyon, and I should say that the reason we did this particular trip was because it was put together by the National Center for Science Education, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's public schools.
Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.
The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.
Despite the rhetoric dominating the national media, which gives the impression that our schools are struggling and that educator quality is to blame, 71 percent of parents give the school their oldest child attends an «A» or «B» (these numbers drop substantially when it comes to the national level, perhaps because of the media's rhetoric — a mere 18 percent give the nation's schools as a whole an «A» or a «B»).
On average, participating low - income students are performing better in reading because the federal government decided to launch an experimental school choice program in our nation's capital.
Colorado loses points, though, because data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey show that the average class size in its elementary schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the Schools and Staffing Survey show that the average class size in its elementary schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the nation.
In time, local parents also began to enroll their children in international schools because they provide English - language immersion and prepare their children to go to universities in foreign nations (the main destinations being the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada).
California's extraordinarily liberal charter - school law, which gave birth to the nation's first charter - management organization (Aspire), differs from those of other states, partly because it does not require a focus on poor and minority students.
Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.
Even for veteran education watchers, however, this is difficult, not only because the Trump administration's budget and policy proposals are more skeletal than those put forward by previous administrations, but because the Department of Education does not directly oversee the nation's 100,000 public schools.
Green Dot founder Steve Barr made the case that schools can't simply expect to teach at - risk students to be patriotic, because these kids haven't seen much from their nation that would incline them to love it — and that these kids need to build trust in the U.S. system before they can be expected to feel attached to it.
Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.
Humanities education in the nation's schools is «under siege,» primarily because many of those entrusted to defend these disciplines have «lost their nerve, forgotten their mission, clouded their vision, or, in some instances, defected altogether,» according to Challenges to the Humanities, a new volume of essays edited by Chester E. Finn Jr., Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts.
Similarly, national standards will fail because it is not possible to have a centrally determined set of meaningful standards that can accommodate the legitimate diversity of needs, goals, and values of all of our nation's school children.
As the snow continues to fall this winter and children delight in their days off, let's not forget how important those school buildings and educators are for the nation's families — and not just because of the important academics they impart.
Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.
My stay was brief because the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown — and the companion decision in Bolling v. Sharpe, which applied to D.C. — outlawed public - school segregation in the nation's capital and across the country in May 1954.
Currently, about one - third of all public schools in the nation — more than 30,000 — have been stigmatized as failing because they did not make what the law calls «adequate yearly progress.»
I feel the need to write this because I fear that the bad news about DCPS is drowning out what continues to be a remarkable story of charter school success in our nation's capital.
Then came the 1980s, with a stern warning in 1983 from the National Commission on Excellence in Education that we were «a nation at risk» because of the low standards and low expectations in our schools.
Because the social and political trends of our nation are increasingly egalitarian, we will want the school in the year 2000 to provide for all children the kind of education that is available today only to those in the best private and public schools.»
I suspect that's because they're deeply accustomed to the ideological homogeneity of the nation's education schools.
We exclude high schools when analyzing the data for the nation as a whole because proficiency data are unavailable for many of them, and when available, typically reflect the performance of only a single cohort of students.
What's more, because private management could be introduced directly into any of the nation's 80,000 public schools, private management might improve the quality of schools more rapidly than would vouchers for private schools, which must change the public schools indirectly through competition.
Beginning with the New York Times's front - page splash about an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) study in August of 2004 («Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal»), it seems that every study, no matter how problematic, has spawned a headline, simply because it talks about charters» effects on test scores.
Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.
We believe that these comparisons may well generate misleading conclusions because charter schools are not sprinkled across the nation randomly.
Because of Glenn, we started the first public Montessori school in the nation, the first arts magnet going from elementary through high school, and the first foreign language immersion magnets beginning in the primary grades.
Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.
As reported yesterday in Dropout Nation, the civil rights collection's data on whether districts are providing comprehensive college - preparatory education to all of its students is flawed because it focuses on proportionality of course participation compared to overall district enrollment; this doesn't fully reveal the extent of how few kids — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — are not getting the preparation they need to do well in traditional colleges, technical schools, and apprenticeships (and ultimately, in the adult world).
«It's no surprise that more New York City parents are choosing charters for their children because the city has one of the nation's best collection of charter schools,» Phillips said, citing the respected CREDO at Stanford study issued earlier this year.
And he walks because childhood matters, because children come first and we have to tell our nation's leaders that our children, their teachers and local public schools are more than test scores.