Sentences with phrase «united nations school»

White House spokesman Josh Earnest, addressing concerns that Israeli artillery hit a United Nations school in Gaza.

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He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

Recent new customers include United Nations International schools and 1 World Trade Center Observatory in New York City, its first corporate security customer.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme Collaborating Centre report, commissioned by the Frankfurt School, renewable energy achieved record levels in 2015 in terms of dollar investment.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

The Archbishop's comments come as the United Nations says Israeli artillery fire has struck a UN school sheltering Palestinians from the fighting in Gaza.

The United Nations has also made a passionate plea for Israel and Hamas to end their conflict, after the shelling of a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip.

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Once an icon of the Jewish community, Skokie since the 1980s has become something of a north - suburban United Nations, where 80 languages are spoken in the homes of its public school students.

His Excellency Mr Ban Ki - moon, current Secretary - General of the United Nations, gave this year's Cyril Foster Lecture on «Human Protection and the 21st Century United Nations» on 2 February at Oxford's Examination Schools, hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations.

For instance, Nick Clegg has made a great deal of his proposal of free school meals, shouted his pro-European credentials and is now showing his vigorous support for a private member's bill that seeks to enshrine in law the United Nations overseas aid spending target.

Mrs. Mahama said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), report in the year 2015, indicated that sub-Saharan Africaremains the home to the largest out of school population of children in the world and although Ghana continue to face its our own challenges, it had achieved universal enrolment of children in primary school.

Addressing the ambassadors of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, Former President Mahama indicated, that he launched the «Progressively Free SHS Education» Project and also commissioned the first school — Prof Evans Atta Mills SHS at Otuam in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region.

8:30 a.m. Visit to the United Nations and Address to the United Nations General Assembly 11:30 a.m. Multi-religious service at 9/11 Memorial and Museum, World Trade Center 4:00 p.m. Visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School, East Harlem 6:00 p.m. Mass at Madison Square Garden

The United Nations Agency, UNESCO, says sexist attitudes are «rife» in school textbooks used in developing countries.

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The President of the state's largest teachers union, New York United Teachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nation.»

The Executive Director of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), Mrs. Henrietta Holsman Fore, has commended the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, for the decision taken in September 2017 to introduce the Free Senior High School Policy.

The 35 authors of the United Nations Environmental Programme report — including the University's Professor Elaine Baker in the School of Geosciences — say as the world's surface reefs are being threatened, part of the ecosystem may survive in these barely known deeper environments, known as mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs).

That flexibility saves a lot of money,» according to Robert Repetto, economist emeritus of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation.

The program is based on a successful series of WCF field schools for African cacao farmers, themselves modeled on similar United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization farmer field schools.

The Intel Science Talent Search, one of the nation's most prestigious competitions for science - savvy high school students in the United States, is losing its title sponsor, The New York Times (NYT) reports.

In October 2017 Joy Bishara recounted to United Nations Security Council members her experience of being one of nearly 300 girls abducted in 2014 from a boarding school in Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

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.

Consistent with statements by Oxford University, the USDA, the United Nations, the Harvard School of Public Health, the True Health Initiative and others, the public needs to be taught to eat less meat, butter and cheese and find replacements like beans, vegetable oil spreads free of trans fats, and nut based cheeses.

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As always, though, there is a simpler and more powerful explanation of why there has been no similar school shooting in Germany since 2009; or in Canada since 2016; none in the United Kingdom since 1996 — while conversely, more young Americans have died in school shootings in 2018 than in all the nation's combat operations all over the world.

Surrounded by an entire United Nations of musical prodigies, Cody must pass himself off as a clarinet virtuoso, although his only experience with the instrument consists of three years of faking it in his high school's marching band.

JDO: You helped unite a variety of charter groups in California when you founded the California Charter Schools Association, which grew to become the nation's most powerful state charter association.

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.»

China has some strong programs when it comes to using the native languages of minority groups for school instruction, according to a report published in 2005 and released online in July by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

If the United States is ever to pay off its vast and rising public debt, as well as the growing deficits in its teacher pension accounts, it will have to fix not only the nation's schools but local ones, too.

Innovation Fund grant to support work on a School Happiness Index, a new metric that schools and districts could use that is conceptually modeled after the Global Happiness Index now being used by the United Nations.

Elizabeth B. Kozleski, 55, an associate dean for research at the University of Colorado at Denver's school of education and human development, was appointed the chairwoman of inclusive - education research for the Paris - based United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

According to the United Nations, 76 developing countries have enough schools to educate all primary school - age children, but only one - third (27) keep their pupils for the duration of the course, and, some countries have seen declines in completion rates.

Of the 75 million children worldwide who are out of school, more than half are living in situations of conflict and millions more live in areas affected by natural disasters, according to Faryal Khan, Ed.D.» 05, who leads the education program for the Gulf states and Yemen for the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) located in Doha, Qatar.

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My hopes and vision may seem utopic to some, however I believe with a united vision and the key goal to see science be a prominent force in everything from the student to schools, homes, community, states and our great nation, anything is possible.

In Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, UNESCO runs the education programme of the United Nations Reliefand Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), operating nearly 700 schools and three teacher training institutions.

Since the nation's first charter - school law was passed in 1991, charter schools throughout the United States have enjoyed steady and relatively rapid growth.

After a unit on human rights and the United Nations, a group of students came to school on a Monday exclaiming that they had raised enough money from a bake sale they held on the sidewalk that weekend to purchase a few animals for families in need through Heifer International.

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).

Schools should be at the center of efforts to combat obesity in the United States, former President Bill Clinton told the nation's governors last week.

Providing all of the world's children with a free, high - quality primary education by 2015 and giving girls the same access to schooling as boys by 2005 were among the targets expected to be endorsed late last week at the United Nations» Special Session on Children.

Compared with current efforts in the United States, the British movement is more unified, more extensive, and further along, though both nations are seeking to change schools in similar ways.

The United States is among the leaders in the world in providing access to school computers, but it lags behind some other nations in frequency of school computer use and Internet availability at school, an Education Week report set for release this week concludes.

Her account of her own schooling reminds us of a time when even referring to the United Nations was suspect, when a crude right - wing McCarthyism dominated the teaching of history and public affairs.